Guild Wars 2

I bought Guild Wars 2 not long ago and the game ran quite well on my hardware.
Though I have a question about the performance.

So, I am currently in the Asura’s starting area, and whenever I approach the reactor near Muridian Waypoint, I get some lag (FPS), I also get some lag when approaching the forest that has a small town, I believe it’s called the Michotl Grounds, so I wanted to ask if this was normal, as it is really bugging me, and it’s limiting my enjoyment of this game.

By the way, I play on a retina macbook pro, but because of my system’s irrelevance to my question, I posted this here. I use a GeForce GT 650m that has a memory clock of 2500 and core clock of 900.

Thank you for reading and for any future responses

Some area happens like that, Anet knows since they have heatmap of Framerates from world wide players.

Hopefully they will optimize it.

I can likely explain the Michotl Grounds problem you are running into. My system just can’t handle the swamp fractal due to the swamp-like effects (and the name of the place makes it sound Hylek swampy), mainly reflections. Turn your reflections down a notch and your FPS should revert back to normal in that area. If the reactor near Muridian Waypoint has the same swamp-like quality then the reflections turn-down might help there as well. Sorry, I don’t play much in those areas anymore.

Thanks guys, I’ll go with your tips and report back!