Guild Wars 2

This is a big middle finger to those who like PvE but hate the raid content.

Please bring back the Golden Feather Wings. I’ve been waiting for months and have collected some gold dyes that may coordinate well with them. I really want these wings.

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That’s the nature of MMOs. You have so many people around you that you’re bound to hit FPS drops. I have a GTX 1080 and a 4960x (No, I did not spend a thousand dollars on a CPU. My brother did and he sent it to me thinking it was fried, a thousand is way too much to spend). I also have 16GB of RAM on an ASUS Rampage Extreme IV Black Edition. In some areas my FPS is 150+ in other areas it can dip as low as 30, spiking probably even worse in super dense zerg moments.

I don’t really think we have enough hardware to throw at the game to completely stabilize the FPS, that’s the downside to a big open world game.

Enabling VSYNC helps to alleviate the spiking, I have to use it anyway. The GPU pumps out too many frames and the screen tearing is horrible.

I’m having this issue as well. I recorded a minute long video of how it acts. I don’t think a picture does this issue justice.

I found another rune that needs whitelisting: Rune of Exuberance (65237).

Thanks,

Mark.

Here’s another screenie for anyone interested.

I just went in there today, nothing fancy..

Hi, I’ve currently been dabbling in PHP to create my own guild “armory”. I’m storing the API keys back-end and the website is being used as “man in the middle” to expose character equipment to guild members.

Is there a way to accurately store character information on the back-end? /v2/characters seems to only return their names and names can be changed in this game. There’s no way for me to update changes on my site.

I’d like to also retrieve the stats on a character and so far I’ve pretty much iterated through all equipment and added up the stats (keeping in mind not to add up the aqua breather, underwater weapons and unequipped weapons; A1/A2 or B1/B2)

I’ve iterated through all infusions, runes and upgrades but I can’t help but feel the API is a bit difficult to dabble with. When querying the API for my ascended ring I can see that it returns.. among other things.. an array like this:

I made the mistake of relying solely on the “attributes” array and ended up with incorrect stats on the accessories because of this.

“infix_upgrade” contains an array named “buff” which has its own attributes in it… It looks like in order to get the stats on the site to match up to this, I’ll have to add those two arrays together… It looks as though I’ll have to write something to parse this out..

Because it’s one string I’ll have to split it by the newline character, then split only the first space (since some stats contain spaces like “Agony Resistance”) and then I’ll have to add these together to calculate their stat totals. Just a lot of stuff involved…

The API does not seem to return the stats on back pieces. I have limited data, does this maybe have to do with the “double click to choose stats” items? /v2/characters feels as though it covers most personalized equipment information while /v2/items covers the “base” equipment. It’d be great to see /v2/characters also return chosen stat numbers.

As it currently stands I have to query /v2/characters, retrieve the equipment.. build a query string to return /v2/items and then build another query string to return /v2/skins. It’d be cool to see an API addition that takes some of the steps out.

I’m loving the work you guys have put into the API so far.

That’s life. If we had to mourn for every catastrophe we would be in constant mourning. Just try to imagine what doesn’t make the news.

Richard.7564:

I have been pleased with Arenanet in the past but I want you to know that I find it in bad taste and lacking sensitivity with the current animation of the in game character airplane function because of the recent plane crash in the French Alps. I knew someone on that plane and I’m not happy with the lack of sensitivity for people eho lost someone on that flight.

I’m not happy because of your oversensitivity.

These things happen, it really does suck. It is truly horrible that these things happen.

That’s life. If we had to mourn for every catastrophe we would be in constant mourning. Just try to imagine what doesn’t make the news.

My condolences for your loss.

It used to be a problem for me, but then I started going to Silverwastes.

Anyways, a method I did use to farm Empyreal was through world chests, if you follow this map you can make a good chunk of them, especially in Harathi Hinterlands.

I believe there should be an option to disable miniatures, I for one do not use them and think they are a horrible idea for any game.

It has done the same thing to me about a week ago, a friend of mine (earlier the very same day it happened to me) experienced the sound of a dagger being thrown constantly looping, we were in toypocalypse and his frame rate slowly dropped to 5. He tried to close the game out and it instead crashed.

My personal experience: My sound cut out and my frame rate slowly dropped to about 13 before I logged out to character screen (which didn’t fix the issue, the background was black instead). Upon closing the game, the game crashed.

Raise the loot quality for certain events (like world bosses)
It seems at though most chests are linked to the same RNG system, giving us the same odd crap (no offense) for doing things like jump puzzles. World bosses give better loot, but usually not by much.

Make dyes account-wide
You guys did this with the wallets, and it was brilliant! I don’t believe this would hurt the game in any way. It certainly wouldn’t be hard to do. I have a celestial and abyss on my first 80, would be nice to not have to buy it again.

Dynamic weather
This is something I would LOVE to see come to life! You guys are already capable of fluid weather transitions, I’ve witnessed it.

I think this is very personal to me, but I like the ideas of mounts, and the removal of waypoints. (I would leave that out of this list because I’m sure ALOT of people won’t agree with me.. but I felt like adding it anyways. I like traveling and seeing the nice environment.)
If mounts aren’t a good idea here, then how about WvW?

Nerf some of the bosses/mobs, or add a difficulty level
I know alot of people here probably won’t agree with me, but since I started playing this game (about a year ago now), the biggest tactic I see is stacking. The spider in AC for example, everyone does this to bug the AI out so it doesn’t spit poison, this is not good gameplay mechanics. Some parties ask for warrior/guardian only, which I also think is really bad, the stacking that people do also serves as a disadvantage to light/medium wearers who can no longer range. Get with the program or get kicked from the group.

Add more unique models to the game
There’s a lot of gear in the game (even 80 gear) that makes use of the level 1 models and textures.

Add an addon/modding system
We still don’t have the power to do small things like have custom GUI skins, or custom sounds.

Add a slider for special light effects
The game has so many effects overlapping that playing as a medium armor Thief (where dodging is critical) against many bosses makes it impossible to even see when they are charging up for an attack.

Further optimize the game
My system will still drop to 13fps in world boss events when there’s a lot of players. (Adding the slider for special effects would also help out here). I know I’m probably a lot better off than most people in this category, but it seems my system should do better with this game.
My system specs (if you’re interested)

CPU: i7 2700K @ 4.7Ghz
RAM: 8GB @ 2133Mhz DDR3 RAM (Mushkin Enhanced Redline)
GPU: NVIDIA (EVGA) GTX 680 Ti (It’s very overclocked)
MB: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution
It’s also running on an SSD: Crucial M4 (128GB), happens to be ~60% full.

Further stabilize the game
I swear it seems like you guys are making improvements here, but just a couple of days ago I did my first CoF run, and the part where you have to get rid of all the bombs we ended up failing, then when we talked to the NPC to start it over… the event started but then he froze. (so we had to wait for the whole countdown to hit 0 to restart it, which actually didn’t work… needless to say, the party broke up and I had to find another group to do CoF.

Ascended gear infusion slot
Make the ascended gear use any infusion (atleast the gear from the laurel merchant), or perhaps make an option for buyback.
I made the stupid mistake (and I’m sure I’m probably one of the few) of buying the wrong ascended (wrong infusion) twice on two different level 80s, and couldn’t sell it back, I’m stuck with it, and that’s my fault.

Hire me
Seriously, do it.