Guild Wars 2

Yep, I’m having the same issue as of today!

There’s a button in the options menu called “Move Inventory Compact Option”, go click it.

gloflop.3510:

You cruised through to diamond, just one easy win by easy win by win. What have you achieved through it? Right, nothing! You had no competition. .

By no means was it easy, but at no point did I feel I was fighting a losing battle. Most games ended with both teams reaching at least 300 to 350 points, even when I was on the losing side, so they were by no means one sided cake walks.
The matchmaking has been pretty fair from my perspective, no solo queue vs premades, no crazy unbalanced teams (yes lots of Necros, but it was never like 5 of one class on one team and 5 of another class on another team).
To say I didn’t learn anything is also wrong, I learned plenty during season one that has made me a better player, season 2 I just applied what I had learned and again from my perspective a lot of other players have too.
In Ruby I found that the majority of players knew how to rotate, they knew when to leave a losing fight and as I said, when to switch classes to better improve the odd’s of winning, lower divisions I found everyone just wanted to stick with whatever they came into the match with.

More importantly, I haven’t rushed this season, I played an hour or 2 at a time and took breaks for days to do other things, I haven’t gotten caught in this “I must get to Legendary ASAP” mentality, I’ve had fun with it and not taken it too seriously.

While I guess not everyone will have had the same experience this season as myself it could just mean players need to try something else. Switch class, change up the builds to suit yourself, running meta doesnt work for everyone. If you get on a losing streak, stop playing for a while, let the divisions players balance out a little more and then try again, rushing early on at the start of the season is going to be when the games are most chaotic as everyone is thrown in at the start all together.

I dont know what else I can say, I have enjoyed this season, I feel like I could probably still push my way up a bit through Diamond, I doubt I can make it to Legendary but getting more experience from playing games against others who are at a higher level than me is only ever going to make me a better player.

Found this season pretty enjoyable tbh!
Last season I stuck at it and got to Ruby but it was frustrating at times, this season I’ve just cruised through to Diamond. The win streak bonus has made things really easy once you get in a good groove. Only a few times have I been on teams that have been super bad with people running round like idiots but once I hit Ruby things went pretty well!
I’ve made it a habit this season to not get stuck using one class and refusing to change, if I needed to I hopped to another class depending on the competition and have found other team mates have done the same if needed.
I have played through on my own without teaming up and have rarely come across more than 2 members teamed up on either side.
Quite honestly, this season has made me feel much better about the GW2 PVP scene!

Unless you’re a roamer looking specifically for small fights I’d quite honestly just ignore mesmers and thiefs. Its rarely worth while trying to engage them as they tend to be set up for lots of stealth and even if you are able to get the better of them they will just reset the fight by stealthing and getting some distance. It just isnt worth the time unless your out to test your 1v1 skill.

That being said, if you get jumped on your way to an objective, try to dodge as much of the initial burst as you can, pop your stab, use any source of swiftness and just bail for the nearest tower or group of friendlies you can find. They will soon get bored and move onto their next target.
Mesmers and Thieves just tend to pick off unsuspecting people because they know most people aren’t set up build/gear wise for proper solo fights, it makes them feel skilled even though they aren’t. Anyone can spec for max damage and just gank people, only true duels determine skill.

I main Mesmer but also have an Ele and love both tbh, unfortunately both can feel a little underpowered early on while leveling and quite often cause people to give up, but if you get either or both to level 80 you wont be disappointed! Both classes are capable of high damage out put and both have a lot of useful utilities and support abilities. Most importantly, both are incredibly fun to play!

If you’re moving alone though Gandara is super pug friendly and always speaks English. I’m not part of any WvW guild other than the community one but I always feel a part of the community and get involved with everything!
I came from AG last year and they we’re also English speakers and a fun server to be on.

Hotjoin is super casual mode now. The only people really playing hotjoin are those doing it for dailies, which means they are after specific class wins, once a team starts losing they will jump out and go look for another matchup they can jump into and try to join the winning team.
Unfortunately while ever the daily requires a win and not just a match played people will just keep jumping between games until they can get on a winning team. Matches always tend to just snowball from there which is why you will always see one sided scores when you join a game.

Your best bet is to practice in hotjoin and don’t worry about winning, just get used to your class again, then go to unranked queue, its much different to hotjoin, no team selecting, just thrown in with 4 other players for a full match-up.
If you can get into a pvp guild you can usually get some fun matches joining as a team or better practice still if they have their own private server for playing together.

You can also check out http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki for all the latest builds used in the competitive scene. Just click on the Ranked Arena tab and select a build if you’re not up on what’s changed in the current “meta”.

Other than that, don’t get too serious over hotjoin matches, its a terrible place to look for actual games but a good place to just jump in with a random class and have a bit of fun trying to figure out new builds and such.

Welcome back to the game!
I think you probably need to understand that while clocking up 103 hours on any character may feel like a lot, it really isnt. Things have probably changed quite a bit from the last time you played, especially considering your running D/D on a thief, no one has run that in PvP for quite a while.

Thiefs are in a pretty great place in PvP at the moment but you need to be playing specific meta builds and even then, you need time getting good at it. You might think its bad being beaten by pre-level 10’s but chances are they are just characters created specifically for PvP and are probably quite good players.
We now have PvP dailies which encourage you to try different characters, its certainly advisable to do so as you will not only be able to try out new classes, but also see how they work and better understand how you can counter them on your thief.

WvW is a different story, while you can certainly go around ganking people, perhaps killing dollys and taking sentries/camps, you wont be much help on a thief in large fights. Most thiefs in WvW that I encounter are usually accompanied by other theifs or DPS Guards, a lone thief is rarely a threat on its own anymore, Thiefs arent the power house they used to be and you def wont be hitting a 15k backstab even in full zerker gear on anyone set up for Zerg fights.

Head over to this site http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki to find which builds currently work the best in various game modes.
I think you’ll probably find PvP and WvW favour the Panic strike Dagger/Pistol builds these days. which is this build = http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_Dagger/Pistol

Luckily in PvP you can try different things out relatively easy, just buy a bunch of cheap white weps from the vendor and click on the build tab at the top while in Heart of the Mists and try some of the builds on the site.

At the moment PvP really favours Celestial builds like the D/D Elementalist and Celestial rifle Engi, it might be worth having a try of those and seeing if you get into the game more before jumping back into thief.

Plus, follow GW2 on twitch and watch the weekly tournaments, you can learn so much just from watching how the top teams play as most of them have at least 1 thief in their line ups these days!

I run Dire on my Necro in WvW, Toughness/Vitality/Condi. I find I can be pretty much any position with this gear, frontline or backline and survive really well. Playing Wells/Marks. I’m sure with Rabid you’d be fine too, as long as your competent at the class you’ll be fine.
I usually run with the zerg but I’ve found I’m very capable of solo roaming too.

Its a great concept but it really doesn’t require much skill to win. I tend to find the team that sticks together and focuses single targets wins easy without power ups or anything. roll around in groups of 3 or more and just pick on those lone roamers and they go down before they can really do anything.
The map is amazing though, I kind of feel like its wasted on dragon ball, it would be great as an actual PvP map.

Level 80 straight away as long as they don’t stop you using tomes.
Those people saying we wont be as well versed in the class as those that do it the traditional way obviously haven’t leveled a character in a while. Your skills/traits are severely limited as you level up, you wont be learning anything as you play with no traits and basic skills. The rest of us who hit 80 a.s.a.p will already be testing out skills/traits/utilities while you’re spamming 1 and 2!
Recently leveled a second ele and it was seriously tedious not having access to anything at all!

Replaying some of the episodes to do the hard achievements for the luminescent parts I have realised there is a distinct lack of any reset nodes for the challenges.
I am currently aiming for Dodgy Crowd on the No Refuge story and have been at it about 2 hours due to having to log out to reset the challenge every single time I fail. Not only that but then having to go through the whole thing and watch every single cut scene is extremely frustrating.
Each instance needs reset nodes for the challenges and since we have already played through the story once why are we not able to skip cut scenes on the replays?

For most people, WvW is what you’d call end game content. Once you’re done with all the usual PvE junk and dont have much else left to do, WvW is one of the few things that you can jump into day after day and feel like you’re still accomplishing something.
Its much different to PvP, while there is skill involved, you dont need to be amazing at your class to contribute to the score.
If you do want the PvP aspect you can solo roam or roam in small groups and duel.
You can run with your severs zerg behind the commander and have fun fights that way, as long as your character is geared right, surviving and killing is fairly easy.
Theres also scouting, upgrading, camp taking etc to do if you get bored of running with the big groups.
As for loot, its not what you’d call great, you’ll make far more doing dungeons or PvE content but if you can get on a good server with lots of big group fights you will soon find yourself making enough money to make it worth while.

Personally WvW is the one thing that keeps me playing, I’ve leveled up every class pretty much in WvW/EOTM and its what keeps me rotating through my characters to learn them better.

Also, I got the axe precursor during a big wvw fight last week so that has pretty much covered all my gameplay for life now xD

Kreejaffa.3682:

My average key farm time went from 20-30 minutes solo to an hour and a half solo.

It’s not gone, just annoyingly long now.

You’re not doing it right then D=
Even crafting a character to level 10 and doing the key run can be done in less than 20mins if you’re well equipped.

Yep the crazy stretched textures is usually down to bad ram, like I say, I had to RMA 2 cards before I got one that worked, the new R series cards have major issues with them unfortunately. No fix for it from what I understand, you could try downloading some benchmarking programs and see if you can replicate it on them.

Faulty ram is usually the cause on these new R series cards, I’m on my third card which seems fine now. My suggestion would be to RMA it back to where you got it from if it does it in multiple games and get an exchange/refund/fix.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

AkiraZero.8514:

You haven’t transferred servers or anything have you? Guild unlocks dont carry over.

Since the mega server system this does not apply anymore.

If he moved before the MS it would though.

You haven’t transferred servers or anything have you? Guild unlocks dont carry over.

If you have an organized blob running in EOTM an organized guild is nothing more than a minor annoyance. Playing as green yesterday we kept coming up against quite a large organized guild and we wiped them a bunch of times, admittedly we lost more people than if we’d have come up against a pug zerg, but it didn’t really slow us down.

And in fairness, EOTM is the best place for guilds looking for fights, instead of taking up spots in the borderlands or EB without actually contributing to the server in terms of points and objectives.

Its nice to come up against a challenge and be forced to fight instead of just PvDing with no defending and such, it’s EOTM that could do with a overhaul to stop all the karma trains and give EOTM an actual purpose instead of free WXP.

Figured as much. The new AMD cards seem to have so many faults with them! Possibly down to the memory on them. I haven’t managed to find anything that can fix it completely, but down-clocking the memory did reduce how often it happens. Quite honestly, if it annoys you as much as it annoys me I’d RMA it back to where you bought it from.

It’s not a new AMD card by any chance is it? Artifacting is extremely rife among the new series. It is usually down to bad memory on a card or unstable overclocks. I myself have a R9 280x Toxic edition, it has a high overclock out of the factory and is a nuisance for artifacting. Currently about to RMA my second Toxic edition back as both give me crazy artifacts. You can try different drivers or down clocking the memory to see if that helps. Do you get it in other games too?

I get varying degree’s of artifacting on a regular basis in GW2, on my second R9 280x Toxic Edition, thinking its time to send this one back too and try something else! Have no problems when I put my old HD7750 in.

Ideally there should be an in game report button for hackers that immediately brings attention to a developer or some kind of in game moderator in order for them to jump right into game and fix it.

Right now even if you get the attention of someone on FB or Twitter your directed to send in a report ticket, which doesn’t solve the problem we are all having to put up with.

More excuses man, you can easily dodge the majority of attacks, soak up some others and switch to range for a bit. People refuse to adapt and accept you cant just stand still hitting 1 all day long.
And while yes I do use mixtures of Knights/Clerics/Soldiers on my characters for WvW this only further proves that people still wont budge from the so called Zerker Warrior Meta they have become so used to.

+1 to this for sure. I recently spent 3mill karma on Orrian boxes, must have been sat there for what felt like an eternity opening them all and then using up all the karma that came out of them!

Nothing anti-melee about these bosses, I find its more the unwillingness of melee characters to learn to dodge and/or use stability. In pretty much every Knight encounter I’ve been in, I tell people that dodging right after the giant AOE circle of doom disappears allows you to evade the pull and knock-down attack. Does anyone listen?.. nope! They spend most of the fight on the floor because they dont want to hit an extra key every minute or so.

I think most people who play melee classes are so used to facerolling everything without any effort that when a challenge is finally put in front of them they complain about it.

By the way, I do most of these encounters on either my Warrior or Guardian with ease, while I can play Mesmer and just afk spam 1 from miles away its not quite as fun as putting actual effort into an event.

You only need 15 of the 18 achis to complete the meta anyway, most of the hard coordinated stuff can be skipped for easy stuff you can do on your own. I completed this meta and the last one by myself within 2 days of release. Its much too easy tbh.

Having the same issues and Im running a 64bit system with 16gb ram and a r9 280x toxic with 3gb of gddr5 ram, only started getting the errors recently though.

Looks like there are a few of these threads up now, glad its not just me having a problem, thought my PC might be dying on me!

Having the same error even after repairing the game and it seems to be happening quite frequently at the moment!

• Error Logs <—*
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  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Texture missing mip chain: 0×010140
  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’

Yep I’m getting the same thing on a regular basis while WvWing! Super annoying and making the game pretty unplayable! Tried repairing the client but its still doing it!

• Error Logs <—*
  not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Texture missing mip chain: 0×010140
  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×00d35f’
  Couldn’t find projectile effect for skill ‘KIWQR.f0qXr’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×082244’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’

Had the same thing happening on my 280x toxic version, ended up sending it back and getting it changed, new one seems ok so far! Think that last one had issues with the memory/ overclock speeds on it.

Max settings in LA. TBH, you’ll never get super high FPS in zerg scenarios, the game just isnt optimized very well for large encounters! I for one rarely have any trouble in game though with my fx8350. It is certainly far cheaper than intel and much better for multi use like I use such as editing and design programs etc.
But if your going for a pure power gaming machine, intel is what you want to be looking at really.

Having the same issues with the R9 280x Toxic edition I bought, Tried old drivers, new drivers, reinstalled GW2 and kept getting them so I’m going to send mine back for testing/replacement. Was always at random, could be when I just booted up the PC or randomly after an hour or 2 of play

Been told it could be bad memory or an unstable clock speed on it but as I’m not particularly experienced with OC’ing/UC’ing I figured Id just send it back for the retailer to decide!

AG hasn’t been THAT blobby this week. Yes we’ve had mass amounts of players on every border, its been taking me like an hour just to get onto any BL map but when I have we haven’t had and real organized zerg’s, its mostly PvE’rs running round the ruins and doing easy achi’s. The few times I’ve ran with our “blob” the commander has been yelling out to the PvE’rs to come join as as we usually had less than 40 people running with us.
MS and GH have both managed to match our blob numbers with equal numbers every time I’ve been on EB this week and have often driven us back as we’ve tried to cap a tower etc. Its been a really close match up in terms of players and skill and style of play, we’ve probably just got a better overall coverage this match up which is something I have not seen on AG since The first few months of launch.

While I have seen our whole zerg jump on strays I have also been caught by guilds/zergs/blobs while solo roaming and had what seems the whole of the opponents server jump on me. No one has done any stupid emotes though from what I’ve seen though so at least there’s some mutual respect going on for a change!

Quite honestly, if the awful lag was fixed and the ques weren’t so bad I would happily face GH and MS all the time, it’s been a great matchup!

I rest my thumb on the rear side button and it feels fine, barely notice it and its fairly sturdy so you don’t find yourself accidentally pressing it. If I’m not gaming and just browsing the web etc, I tend to just rest my thumb on the curved part under the buttons. Had quite a few mice, some a lot more expensive than the Anker one but this does exactly what I want it to and its still holding up well!

I have the Anker 8000 DPI mouse and I really like it, I have rather small hands too but my hand sits quite well on it. My Thumb doesn’t quite reach the front button on the side unless I re position my whole hand to sit right on top of the mouse but I rarely need that many buttons. I just have heal on the middle side button and F on the rear side button. you can add or remove weights in the mouse to get the feel you want and there’s plenty of customization on the mouse.

I’d rather see the clone completely removed from the 3rd auto attack and replaced with a stack of confusion or something a little more useful, right now those crappy clones just over write anything decent you’ve already got out.
I also thought #3 would be nice in more of a cone shape spread that can hit 3-5 people in front of you like the guardian staff attack does, maybe toned down to 3 stacks of confusion and a shorter cooldown just to give us a little more AOE capability. Seeing as how Confusion has been pretty much nerfed into the ground I dont think it would be too OP to be able to hit 3-5 people with 3 stacks of confusion every say 7-9 seconds?
I’d very much like to see Mesmer being able to attack multiple targets without having to run Sword all the time.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Gotta admit. When you see a Mesmer in PvP now, you’re seeing a person who either truly loves the class or didn’t get the message.

I still use Mes in PvP, just like you say, its purely because I love the class and regardless of how much of a liability I may be, I wouldn’t want to reroll like everyone else!
Tend to stick to hot join as I find solo que very unfriendly to Mesmers.
In hotjoin I can be a little selfish and not take any of the team play utilities. I instead run with Null Field, Arcane Thievery and Mirror Images as well as Moa. I dropped Sword/x in favor of GS/Staff so I can keep as far away from condi spammers as allowable.

I found a pretty good strat of throwing down a null field and a choas storm on point and then jumping into it, it strips condis off me while the choas storm puts them on the enemy and the null filed is also stripping boons from them. Arcane thievery as a backup in case I get any nasty condis on me, throw them right back! I can then either put up some staff clones for more condi out put or punish the player with Phants from the staff and GS!

While this isnt really effective in high end team play as you pretty much have to use everything you’ve got all at once, it certainly seems to be working in hotjoin. (minus everyone zerging you to death).

WvW I still run Mes over anything because it still brings the best team support you can get in game, no amount of buffing other classes is going to change how valuble our utilities are!

And lets face it, everyone still wants our Time Warp in dungeons so we are still fine there too.

We could certainly do with a bit of TLC in the scepter/torch department to bring it upto par with our other weps though! Confusion should be put back to what it was as well, I dont see why they totally nerfed our one condition and then find it acceptable to give necros stupid amounts of every condi ever thought of! lol

We are only really suffering in PvP at the moment, not because we aren’t able to do anything still, but purely because of this current condi meta.
I’d love to see Mantras reworked and some traits having condi removal included in them more. More access to torment to keep all those condi spammers from focusing us.

I personally went for a corsair h60 closed loop water cooler for my CPU cooling needs, I didn’t plan on over clocking so it was enough to keep it cool. However, any aftermarket CPU cooler will be better than the stock, you don’t need to invest into a really high end one, just ones that’s better than a stock cooler.

woutterr.5974:

I could go for a 7770 as well it is still a lot better than my 5450 righ? A 7750 could save me another 70 euros which I could reinvest in CPU and maybe motherboard and ram?

Trying to work slowly towards my final build

Yeh I think I had a 5450 in my old dell system before I upgraded to the 7750 and it was a lot better so a 7750/70 should do the trick as well!
Like I say, my 7750 runs GW2 just fine, I’d like to eventually upgrade it but as long as it can run GW2 on pretty high settings then I’ll just keep holding off until the price of a 7970 comes down or something similar.
If you’re wanting to run on medium-high settings a 7770 should do just fine if you set shadows and anti-aliasing to None like I have done.
Not to mention the next patch will have an option to reduce some of GW2’s effects which should help FPS a lot for us too!
The rest of the stuff you just need to have a proper good look around and see where has the lowest prices to get you the best deal!
Certainly a good idea to invest it into a better CPU and then think about upgrading to a better GPU and an SSD later on down the line if you ever want to upgrade. I bought a basic 500gb HD when I built my machine and it was great, saved me enough money to get some extra RAM and then I invested in an SSD a few months later when I’d saved up a bit more money, love the loading time of the SSD but I could have certainly lived without it.

You should post where about’s you live, maybe someone from the same place knows of places that sell pre-made gaming rigs of a decent quality and price.
You can certainly live without the SSD, it speeds up boot/load times but wont make enough of a difference to justify the price, especially when you could use the money for something else.
I recently bought myself a new pc, couldnt afford a new Graphics card at the time so I’m still running a HD7750 and tbh it plays pretty well, although my fx8350 CPU could be carrying it a bit.
I can reach 40-50 frames in wvw just solo roaming and I tend to dip to 25-30 FPS in a average size zerg. Blobs drop FPS a lot but I’m sure that’s the same for even high end cards. I’m running everything on high and just have shadows and Anti-aliasing turned to none and keep pretty steady FPS. Can get 60+fps in PVE easily enough although boss events on AG are super crowded so effects can kill FPS completely.

GW2 is pretty heavy on the CPU so even if you get a high end Graphics card, your CPU could bottleneck your performance if it cant keep up so keep that in mind.

Definitely worth looking around. I built my rig for about £750 which is probably a bit more than your budget but I got a high end Gigabyte mother board and an fx8350 CPU as well as 16gb of Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz RAM, a closed loop water cooler for the CPU and 750watt Corsair PSU. I had it made for me so the parts cost me a little more than they would have if Id have built it myself but it shows you can definitely get a better deal if you look around.

Worked, thanks

A friend of mine has recently come back to the game and decided to create a few new characters to test them out. I sent him 15g through the post to help get him equipped on the new characters he makes so that he can get a feel for them. Unfortunately after speaking to him at work today he has not actually received anything.
Is this a case of the “gold seller system” blocking it or something?
His account name is – The Northern King.7845
It was some time after Sunday the 7th that I sent him the mail as that was the last time I had spoken to him at work and convinced him to try new professions.
I’ve had him added to the friends list for ages and hes been in previous guilds and stuff so its not like hes a total stranger that I’ve sent gold to.

Its not a bug, all ASC gear has “unique” written on it, meaning you can only equip one of those items at once. Unfortunetly its not very clear so Im not sure how people are supposed to know that.
If you want to equip both, you have to infuse just 1 of them. If you infuse both though you’ll be stuck in the same situation again and only able to equip one.

I can finally stop opening them now, I think from 8-9k Normal Coffers I managed to get enough tickets to buy each unique weapon a warrior can use.
Sword
Axe
Mace
Hammer
Shield
Greatsword
Longbow
Rifle
Warhorn

Just a shame there wasn’t underwater wep skins too, would have liked to have had a full set for my warrior!

While I know RNG can be super horrible at best, I feel like I’ve gotten my monies worth out of these coffers, I certainly couldn’t have gotten 9 unique weapons of a set off of the TP for 100g!

Happened to me before with a page, I looked at my sold items list, there was over 100gs worth of stuff sold between logging out the night before and coming back on, in which time there was a patch. When I logged in there was only 5g to pick up. Emailed support and after a few hours of sending them screenshots and stuff they told me it was listing fees…. haha. Gave up after that, ridiculous!

Zenith.7301:

AkiraZero.8514:

I’ve gotten 7 tickets in about 7-8k coffers, Id say I’ve probably been luckier than most but when it comes down to it, RNG has been better in this that some of the other boxes we’ve had.
Coffers are pretty cheap now so I probably haven’t even broken the 100g mark yet, which is pretty good for 7 unique weapons. On my Mesmer I’ve been collecting the pink glowing weapons and have like 5 so far all valued at 100g+ each and they are pretty common to see now. I’d say the RNG on coffers isn’t so bad, they are get-table if you put the money in, but not so easy that everyone will have them.

The pink weapons stay the same price for everyone.

The Jade Ticket Weapons can cost somebody 5 silver, 5 gold, 20 gold, or even 50 gold. They may even cost him 100g and not end up with tickets.

RNG does not value all players’ efforts equally. Some will have to do less to get it, while some will have to do a lot and not get it still.

Jade Tickets are also limited by holiday. The mats for mystic forge weapons don’t cease to be available at all. You don’t have to fear the month being over and not being able to get the weapons you wanted.

My point was that the pink glowing weapons cost 100g+ each and are pretty common (the majority of Mesmers I see these days have at least 1), while the jade weapons “can” be obtained for far far less than 100g (with some luck). While it may be entirely based on being lucky with the RNG gods, the fact I have managed to get 7 unique weapons for far less than 1 of my glowy pink weapons is pretty good!

You’re essentially gambling for something rare and unique, to make this so readily available to everyone and anyone takes away from its uniqueness.

I’ve used about 7k normal coffers so far. Had probably 50+ mini pets, 7 weapon tickets but 0 Wings so I don’t know if they are just super rare or not in coffers at all. I know you can get the holo wings as a monster drop though, I got one from a random mob near Fire Shaman event, wasn’t even a holo mob.

I’ve gotten 7 tickets in about 7-8k coffers, Id say I’ve probably been luckier than most but when it comes down to it, RNG has been better in this that some of the other boxes we’ve had.
Coffers are pretty cheap now so I probably haven’t even broken the 100g mark yet, which is pretty good for 7 unique weapons. On my Mesmer I’ve been collecting the pink glowing weapons and have like 5 so far all valued at 100g+ each and they are pretty common to see now. I’d say the RNG on coffers isn’t so bad, they are get-table if you put the money in, but not so easy that everyone will have them.