Guild Wars 2

Looking to upgrade my system but would love to know what is best system, not minimum required. I would like to get the art work with out lowering settings. What systems are you demos on at PAX East Etc.

Try posting in Players helping Players, with a budget, what you have now and what you want from a new PC. This is rather vague and probably won’t get you any useful answers.

Red Queen.7915:

Try posting in Players helping Players, with a budget, what you have now and what you want from a new PC. This is rather vague and probably won’t get you any useful answers.

I am interested in what the expansion requirements will be. I would like to understand if it is cpu or video card intensive.

So far GW2 has been rather CPU intensive, and I wouldn’t expect the expansion to work differently, except of course the new technology they’ve been putting in, which sounds to me like it will be all improvements. Though from what I’ve read, due to continued reliance on DirectX 9, it’s going to be difficult to get flawless performance no matter how good your build is.

Ohlookshiney.2605:

I am interested in what the expansion requirements will be. I would like to understand if it is cpu or video card intensive.

In one of the demo vids (sorry, can’t remember which one) they mentioned it didn’t play as smoothly as they were used to and the FPS was subpar. It could be HoT is more graphically intensive and the recommended specs are going to increase. Or it could just be the expansion hasn’t been fully optimized yet and nothing will change.

Only the devs would really know.

IMO too soon to worry about. When they announce a release date I’m sure they’d say if the recommended specs are increasing.