Asumir.1978

When guild halls were first granted, we could teleport/waypoint to them upon death from practically anywhere (except instances), repair, take a breath, recover supplies, then continue where we left off. Now we have to WP back to wherever is nearest, and crawl back to where we were.

With the crazy cost of guild halls in time and resources, at least let us do this from Open World, if nowhere else.

Ideally, would be great from anywhere else, as well.

Do you agree?

> @"Raymond Lukes.6305" said:

>

When is this fantasy coming true?

I want something better for its face. Less ugly, more cat.

In Chinese and Korean historical dramas, it is shown how there is such a thing as a 'complaint drum' guarded outside the seat of authority of any given city or town.

If this thread was it, I'd have beaten it open.

The guards would have dragged me away, and I would have been beaten bloody by the authorities, eyes still burning as I look them all right back in theirs.

You may have done what you will, but there will be a way.

There _always_ is a way.

Well done, ye craven eaters and drinkers of others' misery. May your five senses fail you before you witness your greatest creation.

You've awakened the Morrígan in me.

No mercy, no ruth, for you.

Technical: My Thief is running far too slowly as compared to other parts of the game. Thief, mind you.

Tale:

When I had first begun my travels here years ago, I had pored over the map, and wondered whether we will get to see all the areas that are still names, or simply misted over. I had wished to see Cantha, and Deldrimor.

It was my reason for buying the GW1 series. Also, to see 'Glorious Orr!' as my guildie puts it, intact.

Now, we finally get to see Deldrimor!

Beautiful, marred by the Crystal Dragon, but beautiful.

The story?

Well done, minus a few unnecessarily light conversation in the third quarter, but..

> @"michelada.2947" said:

> i can't go below 100 ping :(

You have my sincerest sympathies. Join the club.

Come to think of it, if Anet could come up with a Traceroute information pooling interface where traceroutes are input by players willing to do this, then maybe we can map the world connectivity of Anet at peak and off-peak times. Statistics, yes, but may aid in diagnostics as well.

Edit: The connection bandwidth required for this is yet another burden. Urgh.

At least make an ongoing forum post for it? What is the best solution to tabulate the input data?

> @"Azure The Heartless.3261" said:

> I need to read more.

Here, lots of reading material. Will edit as I get the numbers. If anyone wants to add raid instances and other zones to this list, feel free to do so, citing your own device specs:

>! Screen resolution at:

>! 2048 x 1152 with a puny graphics card at 1GB.

>! In-game graphics down to absolute minimum except Native sampling till switch to Subsample in EBG below.

>!

>! **EU** (Using time bracket 21:00 - 01:00 CET as Peak Time. )

>! **Off-Peak, Weekday**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! 1.167 ms 1.040 ms 1.096 ms

>! 46.441 ms 39.374 ms 80.061 ms

>! 40.082 ms 39.563 ms 39.834 ms

>! 37.217 ms 41.177 ms 39.940 ms

>! 65.232 ms 57.952 ms 39.925 ms

>!

>! LA

>! 57.266 ms 59.606 ms 39.951 ms

>! 48.267 ms 49.704 ms 60.018 ms

>! 69.259 ms 39.702 ms 59.935 ms

>!

>! Trading Post XD

>! 78.088 ms 52.050 ms 80.109 ms

>! 99.967 ms 89.810 ms 89.954 ms

>! 89.975 ms 97.292 ms 92.403 ms

>! 89.987 ms 89.649 ms 89.993 ms

>! 90.044 ms 88.815 ms 89.943 ms

>! 100.019 ms 89.713 ms 99.966 ms

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>! 1.191 ms 1.003 ms 0.874 ms

>! 42.626 ms 49.679 ms 59.735 ms

>! 81.041 ms 57.557 ms 51.465 ms

>! 46.617 ms 49.742 ms 39.881 ms

>!

>! WvW EBG

>! 98.531 ms 69.294 ms 59.960 ms

>! 138.857 ms 98.267 ms 82.468 ms

>! 89.832 ms 89.721 ms 89.998 ms

>! 89.863 ms 90.285 ms 90.034 ms

>! 98.022 ms 89.806 ms 89.698 ms

>! 97.751 ms 101.964 ms 102.289 ms

>!

>! Crash after 20 minutes of running around LA at full graphics XDDD

>!

>! **Peak Time Weekday**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

>!

>! **Off-Peak & Peak, Weekends**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

>!

>! **Peak Time, Weekends**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

>!

>! **NA** (Peak Time according to wvw population surge times. Edits welcome)

>! **Off-Peak, Weekday**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

>!

>! **Peak Time , Weekday**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

>!

>! **Off-Peak & Peak, Weekends**

>! Aerodrome

>!

>! LA

>!

>! Trading Post

>!

>! WvW Home BL (Alpine)

>!

>! WvW EBG

> @"Oldirtbeard.9834" said:

> Fact is you're playing an online game, and I've yet to play an MMO where there isn't some server issues around a ton of people, GW2 tends to be better than most, Rift turns into a complete Slide Show after a Zone Boss pops, ESO has inconsistent performance with only a small handful of people around. I used to blame this on me running a Wireless 4g/LTE connection how ever now that I'm back on Cable Internet at 200 download speeds it's just a server bottleneck, some are better than others, just be glad you fell in love with GW2s Open World instead.

I see. Hmm. So there is no point in buying an internet upgrade.

Machine upgrade, then, when possible.

ESO is impossible to run for me. Could only download it when BDO hit the market, and the first episode was like a black-and-white horror movie.

BDO also took a lot of pressure off of WvW when it launched :D

Will work on what I can, on my end.

Submitting ticket since public complaints are a _faux pas_, apparently.

Need to sort out basic connectivity issues before Euromerge and Amerimerge hit the fan.

> @"derd.6413" said:

> > @"Asumir.1978" said:

> > > @"derd.6413" said:

> > > laughed of reddit go to the forums

> >

> > Nope. Parallel posting. And learn to spell.

>

> what's the spelling error?

off of.

or

off

> @"Obtena.7952" said:

> > @"Asumir.1978" said:

> > > @"Obtena.7952" said:

> > > Oh, and making your post readable is a good start too.

> > So is responding to what is written instead of who wrote it.

> chopped up, sarcastic manner

Raw reaction. Argh as it came out. Go elsewhere on the forums to read something you like instead of sticking to what you don't.

> The only thing I got from your thread is that you aren't happy. /shrug

Thank the Six.

Extant imagination upgrade pending.

> @"Gaile Gray.6029" said:

> > @"Mandragorin.5978" said:

> > There is no way for it to be equal for everybody, much less think it's all in anets hands to get it done.

> So yes, we do what we can, and each player should do what they can to ensure the best game performance possible. In cases where there are issues, reach out to Technical Support and they'll do their best to figure out what's happening and how the situation might be addressed.

>

> OP -- I am assuming you're tried adjusting your settings? Done some route tracing, and so forth? Don't hesitate to see if the TS folks can help or advise you!

Minimised system graphics, minimised game graphics, am going around the most beautiful game I have seen in a pixellated blur and still crash.

The rest: fine, I will take myself to TS but my soul medicine is a good machine.

> @"nativity.3057" said:

> > @"Gaile Gray.6029" said:

> > > @"Mandragorin.5978" said:

> > > Arenanet servers are only part of that equation. Your personal setup specs, internet carrier, and distance from anet servers are all critical when determining your overall "connection". There is no way for it to be equal for everybody, much less think it's all in anets hands to get it done.

> >

> > Well put! It's not rare to be pointed to as the be-all and end-all of latency problems. We have been involved in a lengthy discussion with one player who has accused us of reaching out and strangling their bandwidth -- their personal bandwidth -- because certainly their lag programs are not on their end! And yet, data shows and investigation *proves* that they have problems on their end -- ISP, system, router, modem, whatever -- and that beyond their home, everything is working just fine. Unfortunately, they won't be convinced, even with careful and detailed explanations.

> >

> > So yes, we do what we can, and each player should do what they can to ensure the best game performance possible. In cases where there are issues, reach out to Technical Support and they'll do their best to figure out what's happening and how the situation might be addressed.

> >

> > OP -- I am assuming you're tried adjusting your settings? Done some route tracing, and so forth? Don't hesitate to see if the TS folks can help or advise you!

>

> While true that people can mix up FPS drops/personal lag as server issues, the zerg issue is very prominent.

>

> Is it a feature that in WvW I can feel a zerg is near before I see it because of the insane stuttering? It does help me avoid getting run over, but I have not followed a pugmander since I got back to the game for this very reason.

A frequent commentary of mine during prime time WvW is,

"I am lagging. If I am lagging, there are enemies. _Many_ enemies."

way before the orange crossed swords ever show up on the map.

I usually get ignored.

Then we come across the enemy zerg, and the screen and game freeze and I crash out.

It's become a prophecy.

Should have my Norn go around WvW in Kodan gear with Shaman stats for RP reasons.

> @"ShiningSquirrel.3751" said:

> I have a 950 Mbps connection and my connection to the game servers is excellent. I have no bandwidth issues at all. When a large number of players are on the screen all using skills like you would see on a champ bounty or a world boss, my game will stutter. At times it almost looks like single frames. I know what the issue is, it's my computer. I need a better video card and more memory which I can't do until I upgrade the MB. It would be easy to blame anet because my computer "works fine for everything else" but in fact I know that it is my computer because I see the same issue on locally played games that are "high end". Now if I was playing on a brand new gaming computer with current gaming video card with the connection and bandwidth I have, then I would say it's the game but as it is I know it's on my end and that's the first step to getting it resolved.

Wow. Looks like I've got to grind the dollars if I want out of crashes. All right. About time I started getting a good machine.

> @"artemis.6781" said:

> > @"Asumir.1978" said:

> > Well, at least let them do what they can and we what we can.

> > I would rather have myself to blame than the people I paid.

>

> The people you paid? Do you own Anet and are they on your payroll?

The same people you and the rest of us pay for the permission to access this game we are all playing, and in order for them to afford to set up and maintain it, and this forum we are posting in among many other things.

I wish I was rich enough to afford Anet. Direct access to the game, 24/7.

*sigh*

> @"derd.6413" said:

> laughed of reddit go to the forums

Nope. Parallel posting. And learn to spell.

> As a WvW player I stopped reading here. It's obvious that you don't fight other players at all. WvW players need damage to be reduced on an unprecedented scale.

I don't. I pick daisies while everyone bleeds it out on the field.

I make sure our fighters stay alive.

Healing and stability are my bread and butter. If they nerf healing, I don't know how to respond to this. Except maybe sense a tepid satisfaction that the damage nerf thus counterbalances the heal nerf.

>People are being one-shotted left, right and centre.

Takes me five shots to go down, and that is in a sea of AoEs and CC with 10 people carpeting me. Unless you are talking about roaming fights in glassy builds, which I have not touched in a while. Please Elaborate.

Again, I go back to my original point:

Anet touts new expansions with a new elite spec each xpac. Everyone jumps on the OP bandwagon till it gets axed by demands of fair play.

Fine.

Balance, counterbalance, nerf because necessary, all fine.

**_Just don't take our money for it if it is not going to last._**

Let them find another reason to get paid.

Otherwise this is just an eternal gear grind, with a cycle of 5-6 months per craze.

What do we do now?

Well, at least let them do what they can and we what we can.

I would rather have myself to blame than the people I paid.

How much more lag or bugging will this cause?

I am going to so love going through a match while in a chair.

WvW chair fights. Musical chairs. Would be hilarious!

..

Fix the base code.

Warcraft Tradition of sitting in every boss' throne at the end of the raid. Yes. Definitely will enjoy this.

Also..

*eyes Queen Jennah's Throne*

Ah, Minister Caudecus.

What you could not do with the aid of the White Mantle, I can now do by waltzing in.

> @"ScottBroChill.3254" said:

> I agree. I feel like anet is really trying to appeal to those of us who play rit in GW1, at first with engi turrets and guardian spirit weapons, and now with kalla and her spirits, but it isn't the same or satisfying. People miss the theme, they don't just want little bits and parts from it. bring it backkkkkk

Now I understand why they are so diligently trying to upgrade those skills that I never use. Hmm.

I have never managed to finish GW1, nor try Ritualist. Now I will. Feels a bit like a Necro with a Guardian attitude.

Lesson from this situation:

Player: Look Before You Leap

Coder: Put a doorstop or at least cautionary message before a full HoT holder spends their Hero Points for naught on Maguuma scrolls.

Question:

Can we collect hero points for the next expac's new elite spec?

What are you brewing, next?

Dear ArenaNet,

Thank you for beautiful Tyria.

To enjoy beautiful Tyria at maximum speed and capacity, I suggest you take a fixed percentage _**of every penny that goes in, from gems to xpac purchases**_ towards maintaining 'carrying' capacity for your _**servers**_.

Scale?

At the level where six 50-man zergs (this never happens, there are usually 2, max 3 in any given map at any given time) in full glowy glossy armour (not a requisite for fights, but to make things extreme) use their elite skills all at once without lagging, regardless of their local conditions.

At the level where you can have 2-3 50-man zergs on any given map in Tyria doing whatever it is they want.

Leave no room for connection complaints by using what we give you is what I am saying.

Especially since you are considering the Euromerger and Amerimerger for World vs. World.

Hugs.

Change is better than no change, and with all the skills and their requisite calculation and programming, I still say thank you, Team ArenaNet.

I sincerely wish you make this one work, because if this will be the pattern, then I will break the cycle by not participating in it.

But, here's the thing: if everyone is _equal_, then nobody wins. 'Equal' and 'balanced' are two different things entirely.

Unless it is the player that is playing, and not his build.

This is the only justification for a nerf: to bring the player ahead of the mechanism.

The question that remains is the economic sustainability of this situation: how are you going to convince the Accounting Department that a game which offers balanced playability from free-to-play till PoF max stats will still sell? Why should I, as a player, pay for what I can get for free?

Perhaps the balance itself, if attained, will be the attraction factor.

What would _**really**_ make this game sexy is strong, fast servers. Yum. I'd pay for seamless coding and connection where a 50-man zerg can rush into another at full graphics and not hiccup despite all their skills going off at once.