Guild Wars 2

My daughter is going away to college, and she loves this game. I want to get her a an ok computer that can run this game at a nice steady 30 FPS. No need for super performance, just kinda need to know the processor, ram, and video card. Lesser the cost the better.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

I’d personally get something like a Pentium G3258, MSI H81M-E33, 8 GB of the cheapest 9 CAS 1600 MHz ram you can find, and a used 260x for ~$55-60.

A minimum of 30 FPS may be difficult depending on your game mode. PVE at world bosses or large WvW battles may prove difficult.
I have a laptop with an i7 and GTX970 video card and it generally does 70-90 FPS. But that will drop to about 15 in area’s with lots of effects going of.
When selecting you hardware keep in mind that GW makes more use of the CPU than the GPU. So a faster CPU is a good choice. Multiple cores does not add much, from what I have seen GW 2 main threads account for the majority of the CPU usage. So getting a six or eight core CPU is not very usefull.

My system runs the game at 60 no problem, and it didn’t cost the earth. But as others have said, the game will never run at 30 permanently, the game is just not built well.enough to do it.

My spec is in my sig.

Cpu: i3 4130 or similar.
Motherboard: H81/B85 (Check for compatibility).
RAM: 4GB.
Gpu: r7 260x/r7 370/gtx 750ti…
HDD: 500gb WD blue.

Thanks for the replies everyone, gives me a good starting point, wondering if i can save a few bucks by going with pre-built systems or just piecing it all together myself.

Get a prebuilt @$250 ish & upgrade it probably the best $ move atm. Just make sure the wattages all line up!

Frozen Maw (With the over 80 players) will cause the FPS to drop dramatically almost regardless of system. I have an i5-4670K and an AMD Radeon HD 7950 with 16 GB of RAM (And the game is patched to see more than 3 GB of RAM using the 4gb patcher. But it seems like the developers thought of that, and it doesn’t work.)