Guild Wars 2

I thought pvp and pve were finally split.

/s

Wtf, I haven’t gotten a mail for ages.

Same

Pm me your steam!

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Dub.1273:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Dub.1273:

LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcwgEJZFu_Q

Am I doing it right?

are you global yet

Stuck between LEM and Supreme due to – take a guess – russians (my team) and hackers (other team).

4 matches today, each with 3 russians scoring 15 kills together in 28-30 rounds. Literally 5/0/25 kd’s.

o that sucks

I got global and just quit cause I didn’t have anything to work towards but obviously I’m on OCE that has no russians B]

Y u no play anymore? Let’s work on becoming silver 1 together!

Element Two.7316:

Dub.1273:

and hackers

The hackers are always without a shadow of a doubt German :P

The hackers are always without a shadow of a doubt unable to speak English.

So yeah, probably._.

Cheezy.2039:

Dub.1273:

LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcwgEJZFu_Q

Am I doing it right?

What kind of silvers are you playing against, holy kitten

Russians, if I had to take a guess. Got two knife and a taser kill in one round on LEM elo, tho. Sometimes you get lucky.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Dub.1273:

LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcwgEJZFu_Q

Am I doing it right?

are you global yet

Stuck between LEM and Supreme due to – take a guess – russians (my team) and hackers (other team).

4 matches today, each with 3 russians scoring 15 kills together in 28-30 rounds. Literally 5/0/25 kd’s.

Ran out of quaggans to penetrate, nova? -.-

LOL

Am I doing it right?

This looks familiar.

maha.7902:

PadreNike.1803:

http://gw2dungeons.net/Records
Monopoly or not, [DnT] is registered for a single record only (Arah P2) …
I’d love to see the Americas giving some proper competition

my impression was EU was full of college/university students who had masses of time to kill versus NA who has more older people with full time jobs.

Yeah, #almost3khoursswag.

HoT finally launched? Must not have been so disappointing that the media reports of it, but disappoiting enough no positive feedback got up.

Edit: Lmao, nevermind. Just heard it’s revenant weekend or something.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Look at the vocabulary:

“Challenging group content” when we ask for dungeons

“Competitive scene” when we ask for Esports

“Guild Wars 2” When we ask for a sequel to Guild Wars

Actually.. yeah, how does gw2 have anything to do with “Guild Wars”? I don’t see correlation to neither the name nor the first game.

Behellagh.1468:

[tech stuff]
HT is simply smoke and mirrors to con the OS into assigning addition and hopefully unrelated “threads” of code to each core to improve each core’s efficiency. In the end it’s has the same average results as modest (20%) overclocking except HT improvement is variable and sometimes has a negative impact in a cores’s overall performance.
[/tech stuff]

You should have gone a bit more into detail on that. Depending on the application hyperthreading can show improvement of way over 30% – up to a 100% actually. When cpu instructions of a thread are executed, there’s usually not the whole core used and parts of it stay inactive. The second thread that the core executes simultaneously might (in the best case scenario) use the remaining parts. But yes, HT improvement is highly variable, that it hurts performance is rarely the case, though.

A pentium g3258 would need to be clocked at just over 4.8ghz to roughly equal the performance of an i3 4170 on average.

Not yet. I’ll look into it the next days but anet starts kittening me off so much with all these updates lately…

Not saying your playstyle is wrong, bad, inferior or whatever else, just making clear that regarding efficiency ranged weapons have no use in gw2’s pve.

The “sudden teleport” (which has an obvious 1 second tell where she aims at you) does target the player furthest away from her. If you got shot by that in melee range, your understanding of meleeing is quite strange.

It still is in melee. So I don’t see that as a valid argument. I can’t think of a single encounter in gw2 that you’re better off ranging, except for a very few encounters like mai trin, but you’re still using melee weapons there. “Ranging” as in staying out of melee range unless currently attacking.

spoj.9672:

Well the thread title isnt exactly wrong. A full nomads team that stacks might is pretty strong.

The rest of the post doesnt really make much sense.

Not if they’re all necros. Or 0/0/10/30/30, for that matter.

I remember one time trying out my dpsmeter, being in a zerg of ~25-30 people and xaffie, muffin and me being the only one melee’ing some boss. Personal dps was around 6k (before the warrior nerfs) for me, probably around the same for them. All together dps was barely scratching at 35k. That means that ~25 people ranging deal the damage of three people meleeing. Which becomes quite accurate considering most of them were probably running builds as good as their weapon choice.

Needless to say, I don’t see where meleeing gets punished in silverwastes, but then again I only did it for two or three hours.

Uhm…

..calls out baddies…
…for meleeing..
..calls dungeons easy…
…calls silverwastes..
..challenging?

10/10 would read again.

Lol, ranged weapons in PvE.

#updated

Thanks for the info, I’ll look it up in a few days.

Just camp long range with a crystal spotsch.

Let it spawn a dredge clowncar if a player fails to dodge!

This cracks me up.

I can kill all of them without getting path reward, too. :/

The .exe is nothing but an injector that looks for “gw2dps.dll” and injects it into “Gw2.exe” using CreateRemoteThread(). So if manually injecting works, just stay with that. However, as mentioned in my last post the d3d9 hook doesn’t seem to work correctly at the moment.

EcoRI.9273:

Personally I would love for Anet to allow us to have build templates where traits/armor/weapon/sigil/runes stats are all switched with the press of a button.

GW2ESP has you covered.

Edit: Well, only ele templates for my screen setup are currently saved, but you can easily do more. I’ve built easy-to-use clicking/mouse moving functions, together with the checks of your character and open windows, it’s easy to expand that for all professions and all possible builds, tailored to your ui size.

Acotje.5689:

NikeEU.7690:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Phadde.7362:

One crude suggestion: What would be the result if there was a hard limit of 1 profession per ‘raid’? (Total groupsize of 9, or perhaps with room for a double of one profession.)

It would become very hard to form groups.

What kind of raid is it if you can pug it easily?

An Anet raid.

A gw2-Anet raid, to be exact. UW in gw1 wasn’t exactly pug friendly with ~80% of all runs failing.

Seems some time ago the drawing broke, I have no time or interest in fixing it though (if I were even able to) and therefore you’ll probably have to wait for rafi to “fix” gw2lib. Internally, everything seems to work. I get values properly written into a console window.

Iris Ng.9845:

spoj.9672:

The better question is why was intricacy iV? Where did the V come from?

Speaking of tag, there is a K missing somewhere in rT, too :O

Where?

That too, I’m confused.

Have I missed how Invicta is spelled with C?

GW2 needs enchantments and hexes. Especially necros do.

Trice.4598:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Waiting at a safe range from a boss while he is stuck in combat with you and can’t hit you or reset his hp looks kinda fishy to me. Unless it is arah where designers forgot to replace placeholders with actual bosses that fight back.

Chris commented on this, he said, as long as you can’t attack the boss while being safe, it is not an exploit, he said it was bad design if the boss doesn’t reset.

However, if you are able to hit the boss from a range while the boss can’t hit you and doesn’t reset, it is an exploit.

This basically makes all traited longbow rangers exploiting at some time.

Axelwarrior.9084:

First of all, I’m not here to hate or anything like that, just curious. So let’s keep everything peaceful, mmk?

Why does everyone consider the infamous WoR “tactic” to be an inexcusable exploit? In general, how do you define the line between “bad design” and “exploit”? (“bad design” as in “it’s okay to take advantage of it”).

I don’t. It doesn’t even seem like an exploit to me, more like clever use of game mechanics that are working as intended.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

There is a conversation going on about this, but no decisions have been made.

Must be a kitten intense discussion if it’s ongoing for over a month.

Tree.3916:

Why would a developer say anything when you(forumites) will take it word for word then crucify Anet when it turns out differently?

Not even needed and probably overkill for a 2 minute fix.

Dub.1273:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I have never had to change my build for any boss in GW2.

I was able to run everything kitten with Sabway/Discord Heroes and never really had the need to change my build, or those of my heroes for that matter. Does that mean it’s always the most effective setup for a situation? No. You can always make minor tweaks to get through faster, like using EoE in GW1 if you knew there were many mobs of the same type.

I’d like to see that happen. So much, that I’d pay 200g to see discordway pits, plains and wastes quest (underworld).

I’d actually like to do a hero uw clear just right now. Anyone up for it?

Nike:

Depends. Does switching a trait or two count? Does switching a utility skill count? I’ll bet you say no, but I’ll also bet many of your GW1 builds are just minor variations of each other too.

Not really, somewhat efficient teambuilds differed completely for different use cases.

Deep: 12 mixed professions, usually 2-3 necros, tank and 100b warriors, a mesmer, monks and ee bots.

Urgoz: Once again 12 mixed professions eith different builds, more mesmers but completely different to DoA.

UW: R/A, R/A, R/A or E/A, E/Me or Me/E, R/A or E/Me or D/R or D/W or Rt/R or Rt/Me or Me/R or W/R or R/Rt or N/R, D/R or D/W or Rt/R, Me/A or A/Me or Me/E or R/A, Mo/Me or E/Mo or E/Me.

FoW: D/A, D/A, D/A or D/R, A/E, A/E, A/E or E/A or R/A, R/A and I don’t know.

DoA: Mesmer overload, completely different, not sure what kind of variations there were lately.

Dungeons: Strange as kitten builds, different for most.

And these are only record run team compositions.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I have never had to change my build for any boss in GW2.

I was able to run everything kitten with Sabway/Discord Heroes and never really had the need to change my build, or those of my heroes for that matter. Does that mean it’s always the most effective setup for a situation? No. You can always make minor tweaks to get through faster, like using EoE in GW1 if you knew there were many mobs of the same type.

I’d like to see that happen. So much, that I’d pay 200g to see discordway pits, plains and wastes quest (underworld).

Obtena.7952:

Having a Inspect Gear option would do NOTHING to force players into min-maxing … except making those players LEAVE GW2.

Seems like a great thing to happen.

Behellagh.1468:

The FX-8350 has slower individual core performance relative to the last few generations of Intel cores. The game doesn’t generate enough work to keep 8 cores, even 4 cores busy.

Slower is good, roughly 60% less actually. While 6 cores might be mildly (or even heavily) used, the thing holding performance back is one core running at it’s limits. If that happens, additional cores are simply not going to help. Therefore you see i5 (and i7’s) constantly above fx chips and usually even current i3’s tieing or beating them. In some games, such as battlefield 4, that’s not a big deal. Gw2 on the other hand happens to require strong individual cores, which is why it isn’t working very well on the fx series.

With my old q6600 I was getting about what the OP does, slightly less actually. After upgrading to an i7, I’m now at above 100 fps average in dungeons and still ~30 in the largest zergs I’ve seen. Previously, I’d drop down to 5 fps in such situations.

So judging from that, an upgrade of your cpu would have been better in gw2. You’d surely get about 120 fps average, which should suffice for a nice experience on even 120hz monitors (not like gw2 is all that action heavy though). A friend of mine did the upgrade with a HD 7970 (moving from an athlon x6 @ 4ghz to an i7 4770k), his fps went from 40-70’ish to >120 and the gtx 770 is even (slightly) superior to that.

Aside of various posts I’m reading that say gw2 doesn’t work very well with sli/cf.
The upgrade wasn’t bad though, in the majority of games gtx 770 sli + fx 8350 would beat an i5 4590 (which is strong enough to get you a flawless playing experience in all existing games, given they’re not just screwed up) with one gtx 770. Gw2 just doesn’t happen to be one of them.

It’s the cpu that holding you back, not the gpu.

Iris Ng.9845:

The fun comes after being effective at a certain role in team fight. Pulling one’s own weight is what makes a build viable. In comparison, if the ele isn’t either damage or sustain, they become a liability in the competitive scene. It is much much worse in PvE.

Yeah, poor elementalists only deal about twice as much damage as warriors.

And for the first part, there is always only one optimum. For warrior, when choosing something else, you only lose one foot. The ele loses a whole leg. Makes both unsuited for a running competition, though.

Denying the truth doesn’t help though. The only thing you may do is overclocking the hell out of your fx, that will better your performance a lot. That however requires a strong motherboard as well as potent cooling, so in the end you might be better off just getting an I5 4460 on a cheap motherboard.

Alt f4.

Iris Ng.9845:

For ele, you either spec heavily in the first 2 lines or the last 2 lines. That’s where it gets boring – in 3 game modes.

I have yet to figure out how having many different “viable” builds translates into fun.

Not that any profession has more than one viable build per circumstance, though.