Neverender.9381

Confirmed, easily reproduced this crash myself and with another player at least 10x within a 10min span of time. Crash occurs with 100% frequency when the player is mousing over the skill description for [Med Blaster] when viewed within (and only within) chat log msgs that originate from the combat log. Simply attempting to hover over and view the skill description tooltip in a player-communicated chat msg or over the skill itself on the skill bar never appears to cause the crash. No other Med Kit-related ability appears to cause a crash when hovering over any of their respective skill description tooltips in the combat log, only the Med Blaster.

I don't WvW very often, but the times I do the instances of skill lag/server latency are seemingly ever-present and incredibly frustrating to watch play out when every second counts in a fight. I can also say with certainty that such hiccups/full-on-chokes are only becoming more commonplace in PvE environments as well, and, as others have said, this is not exclusively an issue in the maps with larger-scale metas.

It's been said many, many times throughout the ~40+ pages of comments before mine here, but really... it's hard to imagine a (realistic) scenario where this could have come off looking more surprisingly greedy and manipulative (at least for Anet, obviously other developers have taken the loot craze and RNG much further). You've consistently tested the willing within your playerbase with various gem store items and bundles over the years, slowly but surely upping the ante, but (as is apparent from the mass outcry) even if many were readily expecting the continuing of such trends, boy did you surprise the vast majority of folks with all of... this. Dropping a bomb of 30 new skins the player is forced to gamble for, skin-by-skin? With zero new skins currently earnable through in-game content? $25 for a SINGLE mount skin is plain laughable (even if it's more than just a re-skin and there are some updates to the model). I find it hard to believe that all of this was imagined to play out well... My wife and I have dropped our fair share of time and money into the game the past 5 years, and as veteran players just want you to know how shameless these practices and prices appear. This will definitely be a hard hit to the community's goodwill.