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Right now have an older laptop and it dips < 10 FPS in WvW zergs. This is on absolute lowest settings. Which I understand an old laptop and am OK with it.
The issue is by reading this board it seems impossible for probably 4-5 years to build a consumer PC for WvW zergs that hits 60+ FPS.
So what I’m wondering is people with something around i5-3570k + GTX 670. Is WvW playable for large zerg battles? I’m fine with some culling but the settings I run on now everyone wears the same purple armor. Terrible.
I’m not sure if I should stop WvW. Building something like Haswell (i5-3570k equivalent) + GTX 670 or stick with the laptop until the technology improves. Any thoughts are appreciated. I wouldn’t be building a new PC for 4 years after this one.
I should add the game outside of WvW zergs runs awesome at medium settings and 60 FPS.
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I ended up transferring to SoR. JQ holds a special place in my heart for being my first, but I felt SoR was the better choice right now. Mainly because SoR has an amazing NA presence and JQ seems overcrowded. I don’t think the top server needs another player.
Some thoughts, from one day of WvW. The zergs are a bit larger and a bit more organized but the huge difference from T2 is the number of zergs. T1 has much more zergs per map it seems.
Overall I am happy with my choice. I wish everyone the best of luck on FA. I am looking forward to see what SoR holds.
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Played during NA primetime today. It is very weird as EB has 0 or 1 commander but there was a nice group of four running in FA BL. I’m also sub 80 so maybe at 80 I can solo more stuff during off hours. Not sure, but I hate queues so much I rather be T2/T3 than sitting in a queue.
Thanks for the reply Mesmo. VK is definitely a quality group and is great fun during primetime running with some of your commanders. The queue thing really really bothered me during release. We were talking at least 30 minute queues up to hours. That is why I picked FA b/c I played on it in beta and knew the queues were less.
I’m still interested if anyone has more helpful info but I’m going to stick it out on FA for another week and see how it fairs. I will try map hopping more to find a map with a few commanders running on it during the non-peak hours. Again, I have no intention of leaving FA for a different T2 server.
I may be incorrectly under the impression that during most hours T2 would have a decent (20-30 man group or two) on EB and one or two BL’s. Maybe this does not even exist on T1. I really don’t know as it’s been months since I played T1 (and I dont see many streaming on T1 NA in the NA morning).
I have no desire to flip to TC who has better coverage than FA but I’m sure does a lot PvD. I’m pretty sure TC will win T2 for quite a while but I’m not considering switching because FA is in 2nd. I like FA for T2 and would stay over going to TC or KN.
A lot of people are defending or inviting me to their T2 server. I didn’t mean my post to come off as FA or T2 “sucks” – because that is far far from the truth. It is really a great server and I may end up staying. Depending how much more coverage T1 has.
I guess my main question is how do the T1 servers stack up for SEA/EU primetime play? What are queue times like during NA primetime? I don’t really care about the overall winning server. I don’t care about PPT when I play. I do care about being in a good group and controlling the map I’m on during my play sessions.
Slightly unrelated note – I know JQ is rated #1 but during NA primetime, SoR seems to be topdog. I’m slightly partial to JQ because I started there but overall strength (with equal numbers) I think SoR has it covered. What concerns me about SoR is meeting JQ head on during non-NA primetime and it being 300 vs 100. I also missed a lot of the WvW drama of guild movings and don’t understand why/how SoR is #2 now and it concerns me slightly that guilds might jump the ship to another “FOTM” server.
Hi all,
I started on JQ at launch. Played GW2 for about a month before moving onto other games. I got a bit fed up with the queue times for WvW on JQ so I switched to FA probably a week before I left the game.
Now that I have returned they seemed to have upped populations caps and/or less are queueing for WvW. I am looking to return to a T1 server because of the good covergage it provides.
I sometimes play NA primetime, which I think all T1 servers have covered. I also play NA mornings and afternoons sometimes. I think this is where FA and other non-T1 servers are a bit weak. There is often one or 0 commanders on a map during this time period.
I know JQ has the best overall coverage, by them winning weekly, but how are the other servers fairing? I wouldn’t want to join SoR/BG and find it is 100 vs 5. I also like stability. The falling of SoS, NS, HoD, etc. is just terrible.
I know JQ seems like the clear cut winner (and may be) but the fact that JQ is so strong gives me pause onto maybe for the spirit of competition it would be better to join a different server, if the server is competitive in taking/defending against JQ.