Guild Wars 2

If I wanted to play this game on the highest settings in WvW and maintain 60+ fps in the largest zerg battles @ just 1080p, what system would I need? Is it even possible?

Not possible.

The game engine does not utilise enough cores/threads for its main processes. Currnetly it has its main processing on 1 to 3 thread(s) which can quikly overwhelm any CPU out now.
Theres a reason CPU’s have more than 1 core nowerdays, a single one just cant handle modern software onits own.
GW2 unfortunatly just doesnt have a game engine that can utilise all the cores efficiently enough to run at high FPS.
The best u can hope for is FPS in the 20’s in big zergs. And for that u need a OverClocked Intel CPU.

That’s what I figured. Thanks.

As SolarNova said, GW2 does not make full use of the CPU by any stretch of the imagination. The usage actually drops when you enter WvW when it should do the opposite assuming the graphics card is up to the job.
As far as optimisation goes, GW2 is in very early stages. In the future will we definitely see improvements, but akittens current stage, nothing at the moment will get anywhere close to 60fps in large zergs, so if you’re building for GW2 alone, wait a bit.

I just want to point out that threads and cores are different things and 3 threads on a CPU is nothing, your word processor uses more than that.

By threads i meant CPU core threads ( ie 4 core 8 threads with HT)
I know what threads ur on about. And GW2 iirc uses about 50, but only about 3 of those are its main process threads

I try to keep things simple otherwise i end up writing paragraphs explainign everything everytime :P

OP the best FPS u can ask for in WvW atm in big zergs is 25fps + and thats with a overclocked desktop and culing settings set to highest on character limit and medium on texture limit. You can up the FPS a tad by going to lowest on textures, but it then looks like crap with every1 running around as green stock models/textures.