Guild Wars 2

I have searched a lot, but almost all the threads of people asking are from mid to early 2016 or even earlier. I also tried searching on these forums, but couldn’t find any up to date information.

For PVE, I only like soloing. However, I do love to group for PvP and I do that any time my real life friends are on (which is pretty often). They already have one of each class, so I can be pretty much anything as none of the classes are actually “needed” in our group.

However for PVE, since I solo a lot…I’m unsure of what is a good class these days. I know its also partly what I find fun, and that is different than everyone.

I was looking at maybe a Druid, or possibly Reaper or the Revenant? Any thoughts on those?

Thanks

So, I now get 40+ fps outside cities
Turned character limit to lowest, character quality highest
I also turned on windowed fullscreen which gave me 10 extra FPS

Still only 27-30 FPS in charr city though.

It seems its the amount of NPCs/players. In Charr city it goes down to 18 FPS on highest settings. In Ashford outside, its at 30-31 FPS but anytime a group of players is on the screen it drops to 20-23

My character settings are highest, cause its too lame to see invisible or low-res characters…very very immersion breaking. Though when I drop the two character settings, even in charr city, my fps goes past 30…but I refuse to play with low-res or invisible characters with lame nameplates with nothing under them. I’d rather not play at all.

None of the other settings do anything with FPS though, just 1-3 at most…but the two character settings rise FPS a lot.

(edit: even lowering resolution from 1920×1080 to 1680×1050, I only get 3-5 FPS more…lower more FPS, but looks really bad on my monitor and hurts my eyes at too low resolutions. My FPS issues come from amount of npcs/players, and the two character settings at lowest I get 35-40 FPS…but looks SO bad seeing nameplates floating around like some kinda horror movie lol)

The temperature seems fine, I did it yesterday and it was in the low 30s.

It might be because my CPU is a i5 660 and its a really old one. But every other game plays fine…which is weird.

Windows is already at performance. And I used driver booster and it found outdated drivers, so now my PC is 100% fully up to date.

Skyrim gets 50 FPS average with tropical mod installed (TONS of plants), with enb at Ambient Occulsion+Depth of field on

Witcher 2 I can play at max settings with ENB on

Elder Scrolls Online I can play max settings

Oblivion fully modded and looks better than vanilla skyrim (not as good as modded skyrim) I get 40-50 FPS

EVE Online I get max FPS

I also doing downsampling (think that is it)…at 3200×1900 on Witcher 2, EVE, Oblivion (not skyrim)

Every single game plays at max settings with some being downsampled with good FPS.

Only Guild Wars 2 out of all my games is at poor FPS no matter the graphic presets I do. The lowest possible settings give me 35 fps max in charr city.

So it isn’t my PC, I’m doing far higher end games and MMOs…even Age of Conan plays at 60 FPS at max settings with ENB+downsampling.

Why is GW2 the ONLY game with such poor fps for me? I really want to play, but the FPS is so poor.

Here is my DXdiag

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It isn’t my internet connection either. Even though I live in a mountain city, I have a 1tb internet connection (its the google one) and its always really fast in every online game, multiplayer or MMO . We have good internet here.

And my FPS/framerate is uncapped in settings btw, I can look at the ground and it goes to 43 FPS…

But I get LESS FPS than my super modded high graphics Skyrim which I get 30-40 FPS with ENB and high-end textures. Dunno why its so low in this game.

On highest settings, I get 18 to 20 FPS in charr city
On performance settings, I get 28-30 FPS in charr city

On lowest everything, I still only get 31-32 FPS in charr city.

I play 1920×1080, and this is a brand NEW install as I just recently re-installed my PC. Everything is fully up to date for drivers and windows updates.

When I played at release (I had to buy GW2 again, I lost my old account, cd key, email and username/password…not a big deal)…I also got VERY low FPS. No matter the settings, from highest quality to performance my FPS was always low in this game.

I use CCleaner and everything is cleaned. Hard drives aren’t fragmented at all.

I have Geforce 660GTX 2GB
i5 CPU (its the really old oldest generation of i5 and it was rather crappy as I got an off-brand non-intel one…could this be why GW2 FPS is so low?)
no SSD drive
8GB DDR3 ram
Windows 7 64bit

Anyway I can make better FPS? I can’t buy a new CPU or any new hardware, because I’m really poor in real life and I lost my job a year ago. Haven’t been able to find another one yet, no one in my area is hiring at all. Once the medical laws from the president went through, everyone stopped hiring where I live. Can’t even get a fast food job (no mcdonalds/burger king here, its all family businesses where I live)…so I have no way to upgrade my PC at all since I can’t afford it.

On performance the game looks so ugly, and my FPS is still really low, so I just set it to highest quality for low fps but it looks nice.

Is there anything I can do to increase my FPS? I’d greatly appreciate any help Being stuck with a max of 30 FPS on lowest settings is really sad

Paulus magintie.7432:

You can get elemental pets…..only the are skills and don’t last long lol

Most people use Dagger/dagger I used to use dagger/sceptre but changed to D/D as well.

I would suggest having a Staff, Sceptre,focus and 2 daggers on you so you can switch it up if you get bored. All my characters have all available weapons at hand just incase.

Oh, you are right. They do, except they look to be on cooldown (120s up, 180s down…is that still correct?) more than they are up and I get a feeling they are more useless than ranger pets lol (my ranger pet died super fast, was really lame).

Well, I think I’d like elementalists more if they had elemental pets. If they had those, I’d have a lot more fun. I mean, as a class itself, its definitely the most involved. I just don’t have too much fun with non-pet classes.

But, maybe I should try them too as an alt since I don’t like ranger that much like I thought I would. I have played necromancer, and that is fun. But elementalist as an alt character may work…seems a lot of people recommend them.

Would you recommend staff on an elementalist? Or what is usually the typical weapons? I saw some use dagger/dagger, but dunno how suitable that is for grouping.

But I just like pets. Ranger pets are awesome cause they are animals. But I went with necromancer cause they get a ton of pet variety and seem like they have a more versatile playstyle. I like bows a lot, but it seems I’d need to use melee as a ranger and that doesn’t really interest me too much. Didn’t know necromancer pets were broken though lol.

I ended up making a Necromancer, and going to go minion master. I do always like Necromancers in games, and while not as cool as minion master in GW1…I think it fits me most. But I just like having pets that are good.

Seems like it could be exploited, cause if you were doing PvE and it became stuck…the AI would go for your pet and not hit it.

okay, thanks its just in other games, when class is most popular or really popular, its a lot harder to compete and find groups. Like in WoW, I liked hunter, but because I’m not that great at a hunter in that game …it was too hard to compete with other hunters that played better (I was pretty bad) and I couldn’t find a group at all. No one wanted to recruit me for raids. I switched to a shaman, still sucked (and was worse), but far easier to find a group and groups wanted me in.

So when I play a class not too popular, its a lot easier to group. I don’t compete with others that are better at games than I am. WoW shaman is a good example like I said, I sucked so bad at it, but far easier to get groups than when I was a hunter.

Maybe I try ranger anyway, but if its really popular, I might not find groups cause I really bad at games. Don’t play call of duty with me lol, I really try and I get 6 kills if I’m really lucky and end up with 40+ deaths on an average game.

I did play at my friends house ages ago, but I couldn’t choose a class I could stick with and so I never bought the game. But it was on sale, so I got it. Though I’ll be waiting for the double XP to be over, I don’t want to rush through the game and I don’t think you can remove the double XP so I’ll have to wait for it to be done. So lame double XP is forced upon you, wish it was removeable.

Unless I missed a button or something to remove that lame thing. Levels me far too fast to enjoy the game. I like leveling slower.

Anyway…

When I played (this was near release mind you, about 3 months after release)

I tried Necromancer, but it wasn’t very fun. I like Torchlight 2 and Diablo necros far more…and early GW1 necros were amazing till they got nerfed…tons of pets But pet AI is really bad in GW2

I tried Ranger, and I loved it, except pet AI was bad. But I LOVE animals and the wilderness. At release it was the worst class. Sadly it seems a lot of people play this class. And the pet AI is still bad supposedly.

Elementalist is boring too popular and not very unique
Warrior same
Guardian I didn’t like

Engineer was highest I got, but after level 20 I wanted to do a different class. The main feature I liked were turrets, but those were kitten…didn’t like grenades at all. I thought it be like the technician from asheron’s call 2 (if anyone played that)…where you get awesome turrets/walls and stuff.

Mesmer I never really tried, I did get a few levels but I never gave them a serious try.

So it seems I only really liked Ranger, sorta Engineer (only if turrets are fixed) and dunno about Mesmer.

In games, I only play pet classes (I kinda include turrets)…no other class. Mesmer sorta gets pets I guess…sorta…I’ll just include it cause they have phantoms. My favorite thing are pets, so I spec for pets only. Like diablo necromancer, I didn’t get any skills that didn’t have to do with pets. And any game with pets, I 100% focus on them. I really like pets

I just need help finding a class like that. In GW1 it was necromancer (early on), but Necro pet AI and ranger pet ai at release for GW2 was so bad and annoying.

I guess I’m mostly looking to see what the best pet class is. No other class for me except pets hope I can find a good one.

Thanks for any help