Guild Wars 2

It’s your bank tab that you can increase by X with gems. Your bank is account bound, not character bound.

That’s amazing that ANet is going to be dishing out a lot of expanded content for free. I’m quite amazed by the sheer value that GW2 is presenting for me.
I never really had an issue with paying a subscription fee on MMO’s (read WoW) as I was comfortable that I had a stable server and generally good gaming experience.

The fact that ANet has thus far been able to provide quite stable servers, a gaming experience that is far more geared towards my play style (not wanting to invest endless hours for the next great gear) and will be offering expanded content with no additional fees is amazing.

I know some have different opinions, but so far GW2 has been much more fun for me to play than WoW was. I hope that it continues to hold me for the foreseeable future, and even if for some reason it doesn’t, it has already been a much better value for me.

If money is at play, you can bump down to the i5 3.4 which is great for gaming and apply the savings to the video card.

One of the best bang for the buck cards right now is the HD 7870 which can be found in the $250 range. I’ve also read that a 7850 can be overclocked to pretty much 7870 performance fairly easily too.

I just upgraded, but it would seem that it may be something with your video card? Or are your settings too high? I was running a Core2Duo E6600 2.4, oc’d it to 3.0 with a 1GB HD5770 and would run around 30-40 fps for the most part. I kept most other things not running on my pc at the time and cpu usage was frequently over 60-70%.

What kind of motherboard are you running on and is it running a PCI-E 8-16X slot?

Your system should be more than sufficient, but I would probably make a couple of changes.

CPU:
I went with the i5 3570K (3.4Ghz) – Everything I’ve seen points to this actually being a better processor for gaming

Mobo:
Is there a reason for going Micro ATX? I swear by asus myself, but I also understand that ASRock is supposed to be very good and they have a couple of boards at ATX size for similar price point. (I went with an ASUS Sabertooth Z77 myself)

RAM
8GB is good, but I’d bump to 1600MHz RAM. It’s price point is fairly similar and most times you can find good stuff on sale for about $40 for 8GB.

Graphics looks good too, I run a 5770 and with my cpu etc upgrade I achieve 60-70fps at mid-high settings at 1920×1080. so the 7870 should be able to handle high pretty good.

Hellz Wind Staff.8603:

So which is it? Spamming or scamming? Now we have report buttons on the emails as well; What is the recommended report title?

I’ve been sticking with Spamming myself, but I’m unaware of any ‘Standard’ method.

Personally I just report the user under either Spamming or Scamming.

kiingzz.3058:

Wow can’t believe your CPU can handle it, I don’t use auto detect I have max in animations, texture, environment and override for the best texture appearance and have stuff like depth blur and vert sync and AA off and shaders on low and that basically get me 55-60 fps n average.

Yeah, I was fairly surprised at it too. I think the auto detect has most of the settings at their lowest though. Still, it allows me to play at an enjoyable framerate.

This poor computer owes me nothing anymore it has served me well since the fall of 2006. Goes to show you what a little research and choosing quality components can do for your PC!

EDIT: Also goes to show what a good job ArenaNet did at making the game playable across a wide variety of hardware.

Mine is an older machine (considering an upgrade soon)
Core2Duo 2.4 E6600 (o.c. to 3.0)
1GB ASUS Radeon HD 5770
3 GB RAM
Windows 7
I run on ‘Auto Detect’ settings at 1920×1080 and probably average around 40 fps or so with some slowdown in areas.
However, my CPU is routinely at 60%+ capacity just running the game.

Skipjack.6730:

Are you using heart seeker as a gap closer? I thought it did more damage the less health the target had so I always save it for last. I agree that you cant stack damage, glass cannons i find are useless in this game

Yes, I have been using heartseeker as a gap closer. You are correct that it does more damage the lower health, so I could probably do something different, but so far it seems to have been working for me.

I’m finding my survivability to be pretty decent, but two+ mobs can present a challenge.
My main points:
-don’t go all power. I have at least 1/2 my gear with toughness/vitality
-I use dual daggers.
-I start with Heartseeker, follow up with Death blossom and then a dodge
-Heartseeker and if needed pop a dancing dagger to slow the second mob.
-Keep dodging and interchanging heartseeker with deathblossom usually finishes them for me.
-Popping Hide in shadows when low on health is a nice reprieve with a bonus backstab.

I also have majority of my trait points evenly in Deadly arts and Shadow arts, with 10 in critical strikes (currently level 48)

I find that if I don’t have the +toughness and vitality though, I get facestomped pretty quick.

I’ve been looking at a new PC also.
Personally I ‘m leaning towards the i5-3570K @ 3.4ghz. it’s usually about the same price as the 2550K from what I’ve seen. I also really like the Sabertooth motherboard. I’ve always had good luck with Asus and a friend has a previous Sabertooth and is happy with it.
I’d stick with a Power supply of 750+ though from a reputable builder (Personally prefer Corsair Seasonic XFX).

Helpful website if you haven’t seen it yet: www.pcpartpicker.com helps you find the best prices on the gear you want. Not sure if it will have your local prices though.