Guild Wars 2

Got a nice mix I’m satisfied with at the moment. It’s a mix of Invoker, Whisperer, Dry Bones and Magician. Finding nice light armor for a charr is a challenge to say the least; long skirts, headgear and chest pieces all tend to look incredibly bad on them.

To add another point: your server color changes every other week. You can get 100% literally without doing any wvw at all by simply having patience one step above severe ADD. Checking wvw regularly from the start of the character will almost guarantee you 100% of the wvw maps long before the pve ones.

My hobo Charr necro. <3

Angelwood.7652:

First of all thanks indeed for working on this during holiday periods, and ofcourse Merry Christmas! I’m sending an e-mail with my log as we speak, but thought to post here as well.

Belgium (East-Flanders)
10:30am GMT+1
Piken Square – (Stomp for Piken!)

I’m experiencing no fps drops whatsoever, running a steady 80 as always, however when I try to run, walk, dodge, I’m almost completely stuck in place, moving forward only very slightly and in a very strange way, as if I’m stuck in an invisible wall or something. Problem happened when I took five steps out of the Citadel Waypoint in Homeborder WvW btw, if that helps

Thanks again!

That sounds like the hilarious underwater waypoint glitch where after you waypoint from being underwater you either get stuck floating on the WP, or you get some seriously messed up physics applied to your character, fitting your description.

Telia user here, routing through the dreaded NCSoft-Telia server. I’m not having issues with anything but GW during the problems. I am, too, fairly sure it’s a throttle kicking in by this point. It’s too precise and reoccuring to be an unintended “issue” at any end of the connection.

Am I the only one who thinks this is looking more and more like a sudden throttling issue affecting not all, but much of Europe? The issues all pop up around internet traffic primetimes. So which ISP are we gonna hunt down with our pitchforks and beat some sense into? That NCSoft-Telia server point pops up the most, so my vote goes to Telia.

Been playing today just fine. Wait, what’s that? Oh it’s 8 pm, the new “You’re-not-allowed-to-play” event begins again! What a surprise!

sirsquishy.8531:

No, the max FPS at the character select screen is 63.

Well sure, but I was speaking about the game in general. No one spends enough time on the character screen for the fps amount to matter in any case. Interesting that it’s acting like the limiter is on, though. I suppose they might have done that to stop the client from entering warp speed and burning down things.

Leaa.2943:

If it was Telia that was causing this issues, then it would not be possible to play any other game without those lags, this is not the case at all, i have no issue with any other game, or any other internet related situation and i am connected to the net pretty much always.

Which is why I ignored my own links with Telia since I have no other internet issues and it’s definitely GW that’s acting up, and only included the link between NCSoft and Telia.

EDIT: Looking through the other thread, this very server pops up in a lot of the pathping logs, even by people who don’t actually have Telia as a provider. Telia’s just the one responsible for a lot of EU connections to NCSoft.

Cross-referencing with a friend who doesnt have issues showed that the only GW-related link we don’t share is this one:

ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net [62.115.43.74] (Located a bit outside Bern, Switzerland according to Google)
Just throwing that out there. Our other links to NCSoft (206.127.157.86/102 and 64.25.47.120) are identical but I cannot connect while my friend can.

Nick.8256:

Probably because its doing 200fps in the character page. If you don’t use vsync or a frame limiter the video card will render as many fps as it can and in low load situations like game menus they could possibly hit 1000fps

This. I recommend people with powerful PC’s to set the framelimiter on. It keeps the GPU from going bananas and your power bill from making you suicidal without affecting the gameplay in anyway.

Volmarg.4310:

I wonder.

I got the spike lags as well but.. I’ve noticed that it happens on specific hours for me.
Anyone else got it at specific time as well?

Yup. Third reset friday in a row where between 7 and 8 pm my time I dc and then cannot login for around 60-90 minutes. I have no network issues otherwise, no lag or anything either before or after this “event”. It’s the login server I connect to that simply dies during this time. EDIT: Which strongly suggests it’s getting overloaded – probably because of WvW reset – to the point of crapping out.

It’s the A10 slowing you down. It’s not a good processor for a game as cpu-heavy as GW2. There’s really nothing you can do, short of buying a new machine, to improve your experience.

EDIT: If you wonder why, skimming through a few reviews online seems to indicate that the A10 got about 50% of the horsepower of a 4 year-old stock i5-2500k in gaming. A 2500k isn’t gonna give you anywhere near great fps in heavy situations in GW2, which I can attest to by virtue of having one myself, so I assume an A10 isn’t gonna perform very well at all.

splatticus.1278:

Issue: Login server is down (currently going on an hour at the time of this post). This, along with periods of major lag and dc’s, has been going on since the Echoes of the Past release.
Location: Sweden, Europe.
Server: Far Shiverpeaks.

Interesting. My issue yesterday resolved itself after about 90 minutes. Today, the same issues came back at the same exact time, just after 19:00 my time. Login server has been down for 50 minutes now. Error: 42:0:9001:4409.

64.25.47.xxx — This is the IP range I am consistently getting routed through when trying to log in, all either not connecting or giving me such a slow connection I can’t do anything but restart the client to get a new IP.

206.127.159.xxx are the additional servers I connect to whenever the login attempts are successful.

Hope that info helps somewhat at least. It’s kinda annoying being forced to play an MMO like a single-player game because the servers are down during primetime when there’s actually people to play with.

Issue: Login server is down (currently going on an hour at the time of this post). This, along with periods of major lag and dc’s, has been going on since the Echoes of the Past release.
Location: Sweden, Europe.
Server: Far Shiverpeaks.

It’s only a grind as long as you go in with the mentality that it IS a grind.

I’m a WvW:er. I haven’t done a single dungeon since launch and only tried out fractals during one odd evening; basically, I don’t PvE outside sporadic map completetion while waiting for queues and whatnot. I got my full ascended armor and weapons by enjoying the game and leaving the crafting to when I either had enough money to buy materials, or simply had gathered enough from the game. Never at any point did I have to stop my regular playing to grind somewhere to get any of it.

For me, endgame is WvW. It’s the only area of the game that has an ongoing purpose – to see your server win the matchups and fight other people for the fun of it. It’s the same type of thing that keeps standard deathmatch games going; it’s not about some physical reward in the game itself — Hell, WvW rewards don’t exactly have the best track record — it’s simply about having a good time.

No, I can’t get those fancy collections, achievement points and whatever else there is with my current playstyle, but do I have to? Nope. Do I want to? Not really, they serve me no purpose but to waste my time doing something I don’t like.

I really see no need to have 100% of the game, but if I did, I would be stupid to not expect a grind – nothing is 100% fun in life and games are not an exception.

TL,DR: Why are you doing something you don’t like and complain that it’s boring? Find the fun parts, stick to it and ignore the rest. A game is supposed to be fun, something to escape reality for a second. Don’t make it into a job.

Here’s how my situation’s been looking for the past two days. Massive network lag no matter where I am and disconnects every five minutes. Currently unplayable.

3. 4ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% s-b5-link.telia.net [62.115.143.36]
4. 4ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% s-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.141.202]
5. 39ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ffm-bb1-link.telia.net [62.115.143.132]
6. 27ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ffm-b11-link.telia.net [62.115.137.121]
7. 50ms 85/ 100 = 85% 85/ 100 = 85% ncsoft-ic-306349-ffm-b11.c.telia.net [62.115.43.74]
8. —- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% 206-127-157-86.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.86]
9. —- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100% 206-127-157-102.ncsoft.com [206.127.157.102]
10. 38ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 206-127-159-182.ncsoft.com [206.127.159.182]

Deso being classy as always.

Anza is really sought out around these parts!