Guild Wars 2

I’m running an FX-6300 (Edit: OC’d to 4.3 Ghz) and an R9 290X at 1080P and I average about 25-30 FPS in Lion’s Arch or chaotic zone events, or a silky smooth 60 FPS if I’m in a less crowded area. You have a better CPU than I do and our GPUs are on par with each other so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be seeing better FPS. GW2 is a funny game in that if you crank all the settings to max it will bring even a GTX 980 to its knees. Honestly it’s all about your graphics settings. In the graphics menu, try the following:

Frame Limiter: Set this to 60 unless you have a monitor that’s rated above 60hz. What this does is limit your FPS to max of 61 which conserves power and reduces heat on your GPU. Unless you have a monitor that’s higher than 60hz you literally cannot see above 60 FPS anyway.
Animation: High
Antialiasing: FXAA
Environment: High
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: turn this off entirely! (this will really kill your FPS)
Textures: High
Render Sampling: Supersample
Shadows: Low
Shaders and Postprocessing: High
Character Model Limit/Character Model Quality: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: leave this checked
Best Texture Filtering: leave this checked
Depth Blur: leave this checked
Effect LOD: leave this unchecked or turned off
High Res Character Textures: leave this unchecked or checked depending on if you’re willing to sacrifice a few FPS for better-looking sprites
Light Adaptation: Leave this checked
Vsync: Up to you, I personally recommend it

If you set your graphics the way I’ve told you, the game will still look absolutely stunning and phenomenal and your FPS will be nice and silky smooth. Also, do NOT buy into the AMD < Intel hype. Yes Intel has better CPUs however even if you were to get an Intel i5 or an i7 you wouldn’t see too much more of an increase. Take a look at this thread here, one user in particular has an Intel i7 3770K and an GTX 980 and is getting LESS than 30 FPS because he has all the settings cranked up.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Perf-on-i5-6600k-i7-6700k-i5-4690k-i7-4790k/first#post5586725

Same here, sitting at 5KB/s. Guess I won’t be playing GW2 until this is fixed.

Just wanna add my voice here too. I’m looking at a download speed of 5Kb/sec right now, and will take literally hours for me to download the latest update. Sorry Anet but I guess I won’t be playing GW2 until this issue is resolved /sigh.

Skyhammer once again is the most kitten level ever designed. Seriously, the hammer is OP. So ridiculous, I refuse to play Skyhammer anymore. Take down the stupid level.

Just died like 5 times on Skyhammer. 3 enemy mesmers, I was getting knocked off left and right. Skyhammer has to be the most kitten map ever. Seriously ANET ARE YOU LISTENING? YOU’RE KITTENING YOUR FANS OFF WITH THIS STUPID MAP. It needs to be removed from Solo Queue or just banished to the void altogether.

So I’m a Mesmer and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous how a channel skill can still follow you even though you go invisible. I was doing sPVP last night and got torn apart by longbow rangers. Every time they would do Longbow skill #2 (Rapid Fire) I would use Decoy and run away. Problem is, as I’m running away invisible (not just straight back but diagonally away from where I was standing), I’M STILL GETTING SHOT. Ok maybe I’m just a crybaby. Second example, Ranger greatsword skill #3 (Swoop). I was attacked by 2 rangers, both opened with Rapid Shot. I have 18K HP, I lost about 16.5K HP in the initial onslaught. Fair enough, at least I was still alive. I pop my elite skill, Mass Invisibility, and start running away. As I’m running, once again not even in the same direction as I was before, one of the rangers behind me uses Swoop and pounds me into the floor! Needless to say I died. Sorry but last time I checked, Invisibility should mean that you’re, um, invisible. Rangers shouldn’t be able to still follow you with their channel skills. Not sure if this is a bug or intentional but it should be fixed.

Like my post states, I think Skyhammer is a cheap and horrible level. Call me a baby or whatever but it shouldn’t be in single queue sPVP. The hammer only adds a level of cheapness and stupidity to the encounter. Also, I think we should be able to at least vote on what map we get stuck with, sorta like in Halo matchmaking or whatnot. Here’s some honest feedback Anet.

Anet please heed us fans! Linux should be one of the top priorities right now. 4A Games just released a Linux version of Metro Last Light to huge success. I personally bought that game because it was released for Linux. This is something that needs serious consideration. The Linux userbase isn’t something to be taken lightly anymore. It might be true that the overall number of users is insanely small compared to Windows or Mac however understand that just by having a Linux client you are giving that much more opportunity to win over the Linux gamers from other MMOs like WoW. I can promise it will only result in a more popular game with an increased fanbase.