Add -maploadinfo to the end of your target for the GW2 shortcut ie: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -maploadinfo and you can actually see where it’s getting hung up. 99% of the time it’s loading models or map info and your connection speed (ping) has a lot to do with it.
I also have a tinfoil hat theory that it actually speeds it up if you keep an eye on it but my wife says i’m crazy.
I’m as livid about the kittencrap that’s happened to this game recently and the direction it’s gone towards but you can’t take one websites information and use it to crucify Mike O’Brien because a few unconfirmed employees are mad at him.
Trending business models for gaming nowdays in every company are evolving to meet shorter attention spans and quicker games. GW2 and similar MMO’s are being changed to meet that demand over time and regardless of whether employees, managers or customers like it, if it increases the bottom line it’s going to happen.
A veteran of this game can turn the table on “that guy” fairly easily by just grabbing every mob nearby and fighting them right on top of him, once he’s downed just run away
Anet has been fostering this elitist atmosphere since the launch of HoT with everything from Metas that are 99% going to fail all the way to requiring events to fail to appease the highest ranks of the new entitled crowd they have created.
I’m hoping that once their forums have filled with this type of complaint they will have an epiphany and see they are killing their own game. Eventually the loss in income from people leaving will wake them up but by then it will be too late.
Just the fact that this thread has gone to a second page and continues to receive debate indicates the OP might have a valid point. It’s another post in the long line of “Unhappy” vs. “Anti Unhappy” threads which seem to be piling up.
The comical ones are the people complaining about people complaining though, this sort of thread is becoming old hat very quick.
Anet knows whats going on in their game guys, my issue is with how they intend to fix the unintended.
That kind of ticks me off that their solution to funnel people into content they enjoy was to destroy the unique experiences they themselves worked hard to create. I mean if that’s the reward for dungeons, just get rid of Explorable mode then. kitten .
Just wait until you Craft one of the new precursors and then have to go get 500 tokens to buy the dungeon gift. Plan on doing a LOT of pvp tracks because unless it’s AC (which is tied to the new legendaries) you aren’t going to find a group.
@OP You can’t have a game for 3 years that’s ezmode and then gate any new progression behind insanely difficult content without having complaints. A lot of players who are in GW2 came here because they were tired of years of “raid mentality” in another MMO and liked the relaxed atmosphere so don’t be so outraged when they resist it.
The challenge event in Westwatch where you have to wave a paddle to place a bid bugs out, if you zone out of the event before it kicks you then you are stuck with the paddle on until you log or zone out (both of which result in loss of map particiapation).
GW2 is too big to worry about the stuff you can’t do…focus on the stuff you can do and enjoy.
I disagree.
When it comes to Mastery points there is a finite amount of them and i can guarantee you that earning enough to gain all of your abilities means you ARE going to spend quite a bit of time doing things you would never do if given the choice of an alternative.
Specialization weapons in particular are an example of this. If you have ANY kind of motor skill impairments and JP’s are difficult for you then you will never see Glint’s Bastion unless you have someone log into your account. Another example is the Drone Race which is pretty much a gimme gold but is another classes requirement for the equal weapon.
Limiting this kind of item in this way is catering to the LTP crowd who will banter back that “nothing should be given it should be earned” with a sense of superiority derived from seeing others fail.
Some of the challenges that are required to obtain the Specialization weapons are ridiculous and some are beyond brainless. To get the fixer-upper update it took me 5 minutes to get gold on my 2nd try of the drone race while I have been trying for a month every day to get Sanctum scramble for Glint’s Bastion. A lot of these challenges need to be adjusted or the collections need to have alternatives to the (ONE) challenge, possibly adding an alternative challenge or other means to obtain that collection update.
Before the LTP crowd begins to flame here please understand that in my case it isn’t a matter of learning, it’s coping with motor skills due to health issues. I do just fine where AWSD+mouse click is required however when I have to use the keyboard to click the combat abilities it removes my movement control for a moment making skills like the ones used in Sanctum almost impossible. I avoided Dry Top like the plague because of this.
DPS is situational and relies heavily on how a player designs their toon to their abilities and then uses their awareness during the fight to maximize output.
The best DPS however is a well organized TEAM working together to compliment each other.
The class you are most comfortable playing will usually be the one that will do the most damage for you. Instead of looking for a different class sometimes it’s better to look for players who will compliment your skills while doing the same for them. (A.K.A. guildies)
My wife and I have ran this event at least 20 times, we have duoed it a few times also and I just got credit 2 days ago. She hasn’t gotten credit yet and it’s getting frustrating.
Any group of people adopt the attitudes of each other, and it creates a culture. People generally try to get along for the greater good and our own mental health, and Anet helps foster that with some really bizarre and borderline stupid rules, like the “kitten” filter on this forum that ruins completely innocent sentences .And in game too, verbal abuse is even a reportable offense.
Contrast to someplace like 4chan/reddit/youtube where anything goes with no repercussions at all, and a culture of the trolling evolves. It’s literally in the culture to be cruel and vulgar under the pretension that it’s funny. It’s learned behavior.
Well said. It’s human nature so it can’t be stopped however it can be redirected with some creative “bizarre and borderline” methods and a little diligence.
Being able to openly exclude or humiliate people in GW2 isn’t easy so the elitist element up until now has grown bored with this game and left. All thats left are the actual players who would rather work with other people towards goals and rewards. By game design rude and sadistic players are the only ones who are limited.
Unfortunately now with raids the exclusion part of that equation has been removed so the game is a little more toxic but still a far cry from some of the really bad ones who attract the 13 year olds in droves.
This hero point is supposed to be gated behind Adrenal Mushroom Mastery (a little box pops up talking about the mastery and what it does when you start it), but people are using mesmers and regen food to circumvent that.
My guess is they want to fix it so there’s no way to get the point without using Adrenal Mushrooms Mastery.
I’ve done it on 8 toons so far and it didn’t require any mesmer or food. Just had to wait 5s after eating it and then spam the 6 key and the heal got you through it with about 10 health left. I’m hoping they aren’t going to change it to make it harder after so many have already gotten it as it was. HoT zones definitely don’t need more difficulty added :/
I dont understand the OPs post.
If the game was so much fun prior to HOT, and now playing HOT isnt fun , then just dont play HOT.
Play the part of the game that was fun before HOT.
Dungeons are nerfed and empty, PvP is a joke and WvW is a empty confused maze now. Besides the fact that the OP paid the same hundred bucks that you did for the new content he’s SOL on the old stuff too.
While I personally like running through the new zones i’m sure soon I will grow tired of the instagib trash mobs so I can understand why players don’t want to play the new coontent. It’s like the OP said, “It’s not fun” but he should have added “it’s more like a chore than a game”.
@Skyline – pretty sure you missed my post (the one directly above yours). HoT changed core elements for people who never even planned to buy the expansion.
Okay, list exactly what changed.
I answered a few of the things that changed above. There’s nothing that can be done about it the OP was just making the point that the game isn’t fun for them anymore.
Whenever I attempt to log into the game once I get past character selection the map splash screen appears and it takes between 2 and 10 minutes to load into the zone. I have no background apps running and GW2 has full permissions to my router but it just hangs there.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? My family member is running the same exact computer and usually only has to wait 10-30 seconds to load in even though we have identical settings.
From what me and my friend noticed farming the mushroom spores together is that it wasn’t random, but instead alphabetical. We both got the mushrooms in this exact order apart from my friends, which skipped the Druid and Chronomancer due to to him not having those collections unlocked yet.
It only skips a specializaion alphabetically if it isn’t unlocked yet in the collection window of the achievements.
I tried to put some order to the chaos and considered alphabetical but I was using the name of the weapons ie. Bo, Ydlair. After going back and looking at the completed ones this is the Exact order they have dropped in for me so thanks for the heads up.
Was helping a fellow guildie earlier today on Auric Basin map and I really feel sorry for people coming into the game at this stage. Not nearly enough people to bring the walls down so everything was gated. Not nearly enough to go for hero challenges, let alone the meta… What was a lot of fun the first few times through weeks ago but today was truly a horrible experience because of lack of players.
Use lfg.
We do this all the time.
It doesn’t always work out.
That’s understandable since lfg is largely player driven. It’s up to people to decide when they want to taxi or not taxi. Sometimes players are more willing to do it than other players. So there are maps that are filled with people but no one advertises, so other players stay on less populated maps until more load in.
And to add to this mess the LFG tool is insanely cluttered with every kind of group, there’s even a guild that advertises in LFG as some kind of Tarir specialists that are always in Verdant Brink lol.
Sorry if this has been posted before but the fact that the invisible mushroom spores seem to add themselves to whatever collection they decide is beyond frustrating.
I can see maybe having to hunt down and kill 3 or 4 of them to get a semi-rare drop that we get to decide which collection it goes into, or even maybe a legendary mushroom that drops all of them and takes a large effort to kill.
But having every class with their specialization weapons unlocked should not be something we are penalized for.
I started last Monday in AC to get the gift for NightFury. By Saturday night I had the Gift of Ascalon and forged the gift of Darkness.
Unfortunately i have the luck of needing Arah. I can imagine Ac is a little more populated still for leveling alts and players making the halloween item.
Why do some people spend $10,000+ on a boat and tackle so they can go out and catch $5 worth of fish? Why do they spend $60,000 on a luxury car when a $500 used car would provide the same transportation?
Some say it’s all about the journey, I think it’s all about having fun setting goals and finishing them.
BTW unless you’re into pvp tracks good luck finding groups to gather the 500 tokens for the gift. Since no one runs dungeons anymore it’s proving to be the hardest part of making a legendary nowdays.
My buddy is 3 months from finishing his last tour overseas and is going to have a nice surprise when he gets back considering a friend of his has logged his account every day for him since the change Last count on laurels was well over 500 i think.
I just want it off my UI. I don’t give a rip about watching people play video games on streams. If I want anything to do with a video game, I play it, I don’t watch other people play it.
Seconded. I couldn’t give a Skritt’s backside about PvP or watching it on some ego inflated live stream. Please allow us to uncheck the spam at the top of our screens.
First it was the Spider farmers, now it’s the raiders… what excuse will be next for the low participation in the meta events that players are avoiding because of poor rewards?
Raise the rewards and the organization and participation will increase drastically in the LFG tool.
Well now people can do the DS meta which was as good, if not better, than the spider farm.
DS is a close second to what the spider farm was, but you need a 3-4 players and you have to avoid the meta. I’m betting within a week you’ll see a “please nerf the xxxx farm in DS” from the same crowd that pushed this thread so hard.
I’m choosing the option to never check the box now.
When I donate to my guild I send my donations to an officer so that it is known I am a contributing member who supports the guild and their current direction of leadership.
Would you allow a check box along side of your paycheck to send a percentage of your earnings to your Bowling Team or Softball Team?
Anet’s lack of response to most of the complaints simply promotes more complaints.
They’ve addressed only one of the major complaints about HOT (the 400 HPs to unlock Elite completely) and have remained silent on everything else, is it any wonder people keep complaining?
Fact is, HOT changed GW2 A LOT, it was as much a game-mechanic re-implementation (group-or-die world content, guild perks taken away and gated behind HOT, etc) and many people like me who loved GW2 had it replaced by something which is more like a an MMO from the 1990s where you either ‘group up’ or go play something else as you’ll not progress in core content.
BTW, on the subject of the 400->250 change, THAT only happened due to COMPLAINTS!
^^^THIS^^^
The almost total lack of communication on many if the most complained about issues is unbelieveable considering the radical changes that HoT has made.
Complaining on forums is our only outlet to be heard and sometimes that’s all the players want to know…… that their concerns have been heard and whether or not they are being addressed.
Congratulations to all the players who like to tell other players how they should play their game. Now that spider farm is nerfed do you actually think the people who were doing it are going to join the unrewarding events or are they just going to move on to the next mob farm?
warrior is kitten i can confirm that after 3k hours on it
I second this. Warrior is pure crap now and mine is stripped and parked at a node farm. Guess it’s Anet’s way of payback for being the OP class for so long.
I’m sorry that happened, Ranlares. I’m focusing on other threads and not the merged bug thread, but it seems to me that your adding a note there would be every helpful. If it’s a bug, that’s a way to get it noted, so please consider posting in that thread.
So your solution to making a sucessful Meta is to force all players into participating regardless of how many times they get disconnected or stuck in a failed zoned with no rewards? Good luck with that, I’ll stick to rewards in hand because even IF they increased the rewards for the Meta I still wouldn’t do them regularly because client stability is horrible.
And it does come down to how I want to play my game. I’ll help friends/guildies with things whenever asked to but when it comes to whether or not a Meta is successful I couldn’t give a kitten because those players didn’t pay for my game and won’t dictate how I play it.
Absolutely false. Mobs during events do give XP unless it’s during events where there are infinite spawns.
Name me one event that doesn’t have infinite spawns and I’ll bet it doesn’t involve killing more than 1 or 2 mobs. Show me one event that rewards 1/10th the XP of farming trash for the same amount of time.
They are working as intented, Coztics have stealth, evades, stuns, roots, poisons, and high damage ranged and melee attacks, they are supposed to be theives and rangers with super op stats. Basically it comes down to you need to git gud.
The whole LTP or in your case “git gud” crowd that you so proudly belong to needs a serious reality check. There’s nothing positive in telling a player that their problems are because they are a bad player other than some warped sense of superiority you derive from saying it.
Absolutely false. Mobs during events do not give XP unless it’s nearby trash that gets pulled into the fray. All you get is the token xp at the end which is the equivalent of farming about 10 trash mobs.
Unfortunately yet another thread has been posted by someone who feels the need to influence how others play their game. If you don’t like a particular farm thats happening then just don’t participate. Why ask that it be nerfed for the other players when it has no effect on you?
What does that leave me.. leave us, the non-expansion players.. it leaves us questioning if we should be playing this mmo.
It’s kind of like going to see a movie. You buy a ticket and go enjoy it but when the sequel comes out would you complain that the old movie is boring because you didn’t want to buy tickets to the new one?
I’ll still play here/there if I’m bored enough, but why play if it’s not fun?
If it’s not fun for you playing the old content then it wasn’t fun before HOT came out. It’s all still there and in many ways it’s improved the only thing missing is the new skills that make it somewhat trivial (excluding a few fights).
I highly recommend scraping together the coin for the xpac, you’ll get what is basically a new game and then you can come on forums and complain about how broken it is with the rest of us!
No. I maxed out all of my masteries late last week.
There is no way you maxed out your masteries last week unless you took advantage of some of the xp farming spots that have been changed, period.
Your posts seem to be nothing more than an attempt to look down your nose at players who chose to actually play the content and are now complaining because the rewards are reduced.
As of right now if you want loot/xp the best way is to intermittently hit events and spent the majority of your time on non-event mobs which I doubt is was the intent of the zone designers.
Why does it bother some players so much when other decide to buy items earned by other players with gold? Do they feel less of a person or player because someone else has the same decorations as they do?
If you’re playing the game so you can stand around in LA an look down on players who don’t have the same armor/weapons that you do then maybe you’re playing the wrong game.
Mini’s also please! Or at the very least when we block someone it also prevents us from hearing the annoying noises they intentionally make to bother others.
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