Guild Wars 2

I Played initially for 6 months, then took a long break to play eso and wildstar, then came back for HOT, and I’m loving it, here’s my take:

New zones – nice challenge, can solo everything apart from champs, Meta events in later zones fail a lot, and that’s how it should be – I don’t need to win all the time.

Masteries is great fun, its really nice having multiple avenues for progression, and its actually pulled me in to old zones to build my fractal masteries, really looking forward to getting ley-lines later.

Precursers – Not for me, but its going to drive the economy and I get we all benefit from that, also those that don’t need to get a legendary x weeks and just gather as they go may well like the option. It doesn’t affect me so its all good.

Story telling, MUCH improved, reminds me in some ways of GW1 story telling.

Raids, looking forward to doing it at some point once people relax a bit about it, again its a nice option in there, doesn’t affect me that I’m not getting value out of that content just now.

‘Grind’ is only a grind if you do something you don’t want to do, if your doing something and your not enjoying it then your being your own worst enemy and a fool.

graphics @ music – totally gorgeous.

Crafting – quite satisfying, really difficult to achieve max level, gives me long term goals (and I’m not aiming for a legendary yet)

Cost – I happily treat myself to £8 a month, and I get 40 hours a month out of that easy – very nice and I’m in control.

Guild – I’m in a big family friendly guild, and it’s pleasant and helpful with regular events – something you don’t see anymore in other mmorpg.

- earning gold – 2-5 a day without trying to hard, seems fine.

The negative – WVW, needs work, I’m looking forward to the changes. I played wvw in ESO and that gives perspective on what is good and bad, and GW" just needs a bit of design work to engage the masses.

You see its all about perspective, if you enjoy a game, play it, if you don’t enjoy a game don’t. Much like a party, the worst kind of party goer is the one that stand in the middle and moans about everything ‘they’ don’t enjoy – be a man and take responsibility for your own gaming choices, and enjoy what you do select.

i get 60 fps in zergs with my modest amd athalon @ 3.7 system, game is gorgeous. that’s pretty kitten good for any mmorpg.

Hi, long term mmorpg player here, been playing games since 80’s, going from 5 day a week raiding for a couple years in WOW, to a more balanced style with GW1 & LOTR.

Proposal Overview

Large instances much as GW1 that has a 10 man and a 15 man format. No difference in rewards, 2 sizes are simply for flexibility while allowing decent balancing. The instances should take 1- 2 hours, and it should be easy to find replacements for people to drop out through LFR. Rewards are skins, rare materials, rare pets and a little more gold. There should be a good storyline associated with the instance, and perhaps 3 paths much like 5 mans.

Goal of Proposal

- Think of as a blend of GW2 Fractal difficulty and GW1 raids, but longer and with more people for the added atmosphere in raid and most importantly an opportunity for a Guild to do larger events together.

- RE Difficulty, it should be achievable by a random group where players in the group understand the tactics. the tactics should not be unforgiving and allow for downed state (Downed state in raids offers a genuinly different approach to typical raiding imo)

- A real opportunity to create bonds with GW1 history – tie storylines with Abaddon etc.

Proposal Functionality

Same as Fractal, LFG support etc, a new Agony like affect perhaps with the same increase in Agony resistance gear as per 5 man fractal.

Potential Issues.

The new raids have to compliment existing game play features. If the new Raids were seen as the only ‘end-game’ then that is a slippery road to a instance/skin cycle trap that is well covered in other well known games. Future Raids should compliment existing raid content – although perhaps introducing a new Agony type per Raid along with new skins etc would offer a good progression model that is repeatable.

My personal Experience of 20 man plus starts to introduce management issues in raid, especially for random groups.
Re Difficulty, again new raids should be no more difficult that old raids – Horizontal progression, where a player is aiming for multiple Raids Achievements side by side would be pretty awesome long term play/goals.

try deleting contents of roaming folder and restart

C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2

Im getting an unrelated issue but i noticed my music started up when i done the above while loading.

you have similar error to many including texture issue. -repair,-verify, move, admin/xp mode/ lower gfx settings/resolution/firewall do nothing – same crash after clicking on char and zone is loading.

lol what’s a 6 year old doing playing computer games, its a sign!

tried following from c:\games, and firewall off

1. in admin mode
2. As above in xp compat mode

in addition to above error:
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f2e
Texture missing mip chain: 0×011f30
Texture ‘0×03539b’ dimensions too small
Loading ‘0’ texture failed
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00f980
Texture missing mip chain: 0×00f982
Texture missing mip chain: 0×0bd634
Texture missing mip chain: 0×063d44
Texture missing mip chain: 0×066f6c
Debug token ‘0×266fa’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.

Hi there, i am already running from C:\games\Gw2.exe and tried shutting down firewall. Will try admin mode next

same, windows 8 64 bit :

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: tierDenominator > 0
  File: ..\..\..\Game\Ui\Widgets\ObjectiveList\OblAchievements.cpp(1758)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 23436
  Cmdline: -repair
  BaseAddr: 00380000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 38569
  When: 2014-09-09T20:07:09Z 2014-09-09T21:07:09+01:00
  Uptime: 0 days 0:13:28
  Flags: 0

oops wrong thread, pls ignore ^^

Tried brand new char after repair – same issue:

• Crash <—*
  Assertion: tierDenominator > 0
  File: ..\..\..\Game\Ui\Widgets\ObjectiveList\OblAchievements.cpp(1758)
  App: Gw2.exe
  Pid: 23436
  Cmdline: -repair
  BaseAddr: 00380000
  ProgramId: 101
  Build: 38569
  When: 2014-09-09T20:07:09Z 2014-09-09T21:07:09+01:00
  Uptime: 0 days 0:13:28
  Flags: 0

-repair triggers ‘repairing data archive’

aha i’m getting the exact same exception. Tried repairing, different characters, -repair.