Guild Wars 2

I would say so.

I did it three years ago, and I suspect prices are a tad lower, now. The trick is finding the “point of diminishing returns”, and getting parts that are just below that point. I’m pretty sure that still means the top i5, a GTX 960, 8G of RAM, a Bronze power supply, probably the Samsung 850 EVO…. if I were to splurge, it would be on a GTX 970. I haven’t been following boards, lately, but something in the middle of the price range is usually more then enough. When picking brands, focus on reliability over performance, as paperweights and doorstops don’t run any games well.

I have poor eyesight. Bigger fonts, please.

BTW, FWIW, I vote for Ranger as well.

And, if you do take screenshots, be sure to push the ‘zoom’ slider all the way to the left, so your shots don’t look like some tourist with an iPhone took them.

There’s a keybinding option that will remove the user interface for prettier pictures.

I bound it to “Insert”, right below “Print Screen”.

Thanks for posting this. I picked up a few things to add to my own kitten nal of keybindings. And I totally agree on your philosophy. The right “tools” do you no good if you can’t use them in a timely fashion.

I just checked out the BnS forums. Be glad you play GW2!

Then again, all those that love to complain and dis the devs may find it attractive. :P

FWIW, I done a bit of drawing in my life. I use the method outlined in Donari’s second paragraph. Tedious, but worth it, given you may be looking at the toon for years. You can stand facing a wall, and use the wall to push your camera in for a closer view to examine details, but what really matters is how she looks with your normal camera position. Due to changes in LoD, these are not the same thing.

The actual daylight in the game is much harsher than that in creation (although the light in creation seems to change randomly), so beware the lighter skin tones and lighter blonde hairs. The next to last spot on the top row of skin tones still looks Caucasian in the game. More than 4 steps to the left starts to burn out badly in daylight.

As to head size, all the way to the right is still too small. But these things are relative, and you might feel you have a “big head” when looking at those around you. Donari is right in that the head scales with the height, so far to the right is the right choice for any height, but you might want to go a little smaller with a wider head, as that affects our perception more than head height does (head height is all the art books care about, but they’re just parroting classic painters). And, the “proper” width is somewhere far into the left half of the scale, depending on which face you choose.

BTW, you are correct that ‘B’ is the hottest human figure. The breasts protrude forward more than any of the others, and she does look slimmer in the hips with armor on.

You might try a Ranger. Your pet will tank for you, and it’s fun collecting pets. Getting one that lives in a place ‘you don’t belong, yet’ is a diverting, self-inflicted challenge.

The longbow is the ranged weapon you want when doing events, otherwise you run from skirmish to skirmish trying to use your skills only to have the fight end just as you get there, thanks to others that do have ranged weapons. And events, really, are the way to level without grinding solo mobs. This is why I can’t get anywhere with a Warrior, as for solo play, you really need some kind of ranged weapon.

For true berserking bliss, try the sword / dagger combo. The anims are amazing, and if you keep your armor up to date you’ll be jumping into heavy frays, wiping out 4 and 5 mobs at a time.

But yeh, it’s up to your style, as they all can do it with the right tactics. Just try a few and see what feels best.

Seems to me it’s a waste of time to be killing stuff unless there’s an event timer up in the corner. While you can only do the hearts and heroes once, the others you can do as much as you want, and you don’t have to hang around for the whole thing, you only need to get one shot in to get the experience.

Now, I like exploring, it’s an amazing world, and the XP is a nice bonus. And I like killing things, plus I need the practice. But to a newbie that feels compelled to level, my advice would be, “Go for the events!”

Oh, yeah… to make things go faster, buy your gear on the TP. Get all “mighty” stuff, and check the levels below you; sometimes there’s a piece at level 5 that’s not matched until level 9, for instance. Don’t try to depend on drops and prizes.

Note that this applies to under level 20, things may change as you progress. But I’ve started and deleted at least 50 chars, so I have some experience, here.

You can bind a key to “Hide User Interface”, I used the “Insert” key, since it’s handy to the “PrintScreen” key.

And while you’re there, scroll back up and find “Walk”. More people should walk along with caravans and such.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

eureeka.5368:

Did you have a better explanation?? or are you just playing the logical card to be aloof?

Maybe they can’t think of everything that at least one person among all the players can stumble across and then spread the information to everyone else? Maybe it’s literally impossible to have all professions and combinations of professions be completely equal no matter how hard you try to make them? Not with people trying out all sorts of traits and weapons and profession combinations that your team didn’t think of.

Yeh, this. So much this.

Mind you, I only spent ten years trying to balance a MUD, a much smaller game than this. But the fact is, everything interacts, and there’s just not enough time to test all the possibilities, so you do your best, open, and see what the players come up with.

As to deliberately giving players something to complain about, yes. Definitely. It’s called “Opening a game online.”

I was going to make some suggestions, but I’ll just second beefjus’s choices.

Pretty much right on the mark for cost/performance without going into ‘diminishing returns’. I have basically the same system from three years ago, and it’s still going strong. (i5-3570, 8 Gigs, GTX660)