Get MasterEffect, ReShade, SweetFX or GemFX to enhance your graphics even more. WoodenPotatoes has good videos about some of these effects and how to install them.
You will still experience massive FPS drop in big fights because the game mainly utilize single thread on your CPU. About your setting, go wild, GTX1070 is way overkill for GW2.. Just need maybe a 20GHz CPU for the game not to be bottlenecked by your CPU maybe lol
Just as said by others (also in a different thread), or by quoting Xegrilt above me, the game would probably run smooth by a single core CPU with 30 GHz rather than any multicore. I turned off Anti Alias because I enjoy the crispness, also, on my GTX970, disabling certain reflections boosted my performance somehwat, I just forgot the exact setting. It also can help a lot if you play with certain “lower” settings and find out you won’t realize the missing effects much. If you switch back and forth on a static situation and you get a clean 1:1 comparison, you often feel the desire to stay with the “better” setting but sacrifice FPS. For example: I use just environmental mapping instead of real reflections on water. That saved me in Core Tyria easily 15 frames when in Orr or places with water (duh). Now I do not even realize it anymore and the looks are still decent.
I am running a GTX1080 and Ryzen 7 1700X – an Octacore CPU with a comparable lower core clock than the average intel CPU. While literally everything outside of GW2 profits from the 8 cores (or 16 threads to be more precise), GW2 shows really what Xegrilt said: I gained no real performance compared to my previous i7-3770 (same clock, but “only” 4 cores). I know the Ryzen is more tilting towards “work than gaming”, but as said, every other game is fine, just GW2 loves to punish my poor, slower CPU cores, no matter how many I got ^^
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