If I had known it would only be usable for a couple of weeks I would not have bought it. And ArenaNet gave zero indication that that would be the case. And strongly hinted that there would be a lot more SAB content.
The problem is that the presentation of SAB was very misleading – because the “map” (attached) indicated that several “worlds” had already been designed/built – but now it seems like only worlds 1 and 2 were ever ready. Maybe that is why the wiki has a big empty space where the “interactive map” used to be…
That’s what fooled me – I thought SAB would be available for at least one month per year – but it never was. And when the Infinite Continue Coin was being sold, there was no indication that SAB would only be available for that one release (Back To School) and would be removed with the next patch.
The EU has better protections regarding digital goods and if I looked into it, they might be able to force ArenaNet to honour a refund – but I haven’t been playing GW2 for the last year and HoT seems to mean the death of the core game anyway.
Another decent free option that doesn’t reduce FPS and works on both Nvidia/AMD is Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
If you want absolute zero impact on FPS you can use Intel QuickSync, if your CPU supports it. QuickSync can be used by Afterburner and OBS. It can be slightly more confusing to setup though.
Hmm you might like to take a look around the new Lion’s Arch, then go to farm the Silverwastes until you can’t take it anymore.
For ascended stuff you will need to level some crafting professions to 500. And then to make an ascended item will cost around 200 gold.
Ascended loot chests can drop anywhere that ascended materials can drop. Best place to get ascended armour loot chests is from Fractals.
Ascended weapon loot chest drops are quite rare. I’ve found two so far – a Cavalier weapon from the Dredge Commander and a Celestial weapon from a Lost Bandit chest in the Silverwastes.
It’s best to get ascended rings from fractals, otherwise you have to spend laurels/ectos/gold.
But you will probably have to craft your own weapons/armour:
/dnd
Ignores all whispers and party requests. Whoever sent the whisper/request is informed that I do not want to be disturbed and that I have not seen their message.
/afk
Sets an automatic response to be sent to anyone who whispers me e.g. “/afk BRB phone call”
Also, the /block and /ignore commands need to stop all communications from a player, including emotes and party requests.
The game is 3-years old; I expect it to have 2012 graphics, not 2015.
DirectX 11 was released in 2009. I expect a 2012 game (Guild Wars 2) to have at least 2012 graphics :p
There are many DX 11 games that were released years earlier than Guild Wars 2. Here is a small selection, including some other MMOs:
Aliens vs. Predator (2010)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 (2010)
Battle Forge (2009)
Civilization V (2010)
Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (2009)
Dungeons and Dragons Online (released 2006, DX11 support added 2010)
Lord of The Rings Online (released 2007, DX 11 support added 2010)
Star Trek Online (released 2010, DX 11 support added 2012)
The Secret World (2012)
It’s perfectly possible for a DX 11 game to be backwards-compatible and also support DX 9 and/or DX 10.
DX 10 is not much better than DX 9. but DX 11 features a lot of real improvements such as tessellation.
DX12 is amazing because it drastically reduces the amount of draw calls, but it will only work on Windows 10. Although Microsoft are offering Windows 10 for free to current owners of Windows 7.
I noticed in my combat log that Shattered Aegis can crit, so sometimes the damage can be much higher. The log said something like “You critcally hit mob with Shattered Aegis for 2500”. That’s in PVE, full ascended zerker.
45fps is only playable if you like tearing, which I don’t :p I’m almost considering limiting the frame rate to 30fps, to avoid these sudden drops.
It’s known that the engine is CPU-bound and not well-optimized for GPUs e.g. I just upgraded to a 970 from a 680 but it made virtually no difference to GW2 frame rate.
Redesigning Lion’s Arch was a good opportunity to minimise performance issues, but it seems to be worse now, in that respect.
It looks nice but the performance is very bad in some places.
I get over 60fps most of the time – but some areas of the new Lion’s Arch completely cripple my framerate. The Mystic Plaza drops me to 45fps and the Grand Plaza drops me to 30fps. Not sure it’s worth such a massive drop.
And the city doesn’t really feel like a lived-in city anymore – there aren’t many places with ordinary peasant housing. Just a lot of wide open spaces.
It seems quite terrible so far. The traits they had pre-selected for me were not at all matching what I had before. So I’ve rechecked them and tried to fix it.
I seem to have lost quite a bit:
Virtue Recharge: Before = 25% Now = 15%
Condition Damage: Before = 150 After = 0
Condition Duration: Before = 20% After = 0
Boon Duration: Before = 20% After = 0
Healing Power: Before = 100 After = 0
Boon Duration: Before = 25% After = 0
The only good thing is that I can still have both Justice Blind and Renewed Justice. In the patch notes, it’s stated that those are both minor traits that we can only pick one of – but luckily it seems that the patch notes are incorrect.
I believe my current build is destroyed (PVE), and I don’t think HoT is worth buying so looks like game over for me. I only play one character – don’t play alts.
Guardian
4-3-0-2-5
I logged in yesterday and recorded a little video of my current traits and stats so I can remember.
I could pick up the chicken feed but couldn’t seem to feed any animals with it. It also said to give something to some lionguard sergeant but I couldn’t find one (the heart NPC was a lieutenant but they wouldnt take anything either). The only task that seemed to contribute to the heart was killing bandits on the docks – but they spawned quite slowly. And there weren’t any fires to put out with the water buckets.
There were also a few other hearts wih similar problems.
Double-clicking 25 Essences of Nightmare fails to create a Greater Key of Nightmare but still consumes a Bandit Key when your inventory is full (when there are no spare inventory spaces). The essences are not consumed though.
In “The Defense of Fort Salma” Story Journal instance, arrow cart kills count as staff kills.
I only realised because I got to the next tier of my Staff Master achievement (500 kills) whilst I was using the arrow cart. I didn’t even have a staff equipped in either weapon slot.
I ran the instance again to make sure.
I was playing as a level 80 Guardian. My home server is Aurora Glade (EU).
On a separate note, regarding HTML, please add a “maxlength=‘45’” attribute to the “Topic title” input text field. It would be even more helpful if there was a realtime indication (via Javascript) of how many characters have been typed into the “Topic title” text field.
I ended up having to copy/paste my titles into a third-party online string length checker because my titles kept being too long and I got fed up of constantly having to count how many characters there were.
45 characters is too short for a descriptive title – please consider increasing it to at least 60 characters.
Whoever is in responsible for the website has really messed up with this.
It’s great that they automatically send the user to their desired language forum by detecting the browser’s language priority…. However, it makes no sense to send the user to an URL that does not actually exist.
You can get around the error by setting “English (en)” as the first language in your browser settings – but we shouldn’t need to do that! I shouldn’t be sent to a non-existant URL just because I’ve told my browser that I prefer a certain language.
It seems like they are directly using the preferred language shortcode in the redirect – that could be a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
My browser language preference is set to “Engish/UK (en-gb)” as my first choice and “English (en)” as my second choice.
When I click on the “forums” link at the top of the guildwars2.com website, it tries to redirect me to “forum-en-gb.guildwars2.com” and I get this error page:
Page not found
Host
forum-en-gb.guildwars2.com
URL
/
Remote Address
*******
TacoProxy/302.4060203 Instance/2.423451775
I can only access the forum by typing the correct URL in manually: forum-en.guildwars2.com
There are two hi res. images (5760×3537) of the Brisban swamp in the GW2 asset kit (“Basic” version). First image is the one in the OP (titled “Caithe”) and there is another similar image titled “Denravi”.
Virtues have been said to help balance the guardian; for example, they have a lower base health than the warrior profession but compensate for this with their higher health regeneration granted by Virtue of Resolve
And check the original reference from an AreneNet employee:
The guardian has way less health than a warrior, but he has a fast hit point regeneration. So deciding when to grant the “Resolve” virtue to your allies becomes a very tactical decision.
I have Sunrise and I recently found Dusk but haven’t decided what to do with it yet. Although I have not logged in for weeks because the game is KUBAR. Too many fundamental flaws
“As soon as I get in on Monday, I’ll post the damage #s on this and the power scaling. I think a meaningful discussion about this change is going to require that.”
That’s the only conversation I was thinking of, but seems he forgot.
For any specific character that you want to maximize damage, you can apply the data as follows:
(1) look at your critical strike damage level
(2) refer to the golden ratio for the closest level
(3) calculate your power-to-precision ratio by dividing power by precision
(4) compare the 2 ratios. If your current ratio is below the golden ratio, take points out of precision and put them into power (if possible) until you get to the golden ratio. If your current ratio is above the golden ratio, take points out of power and put them into precision (if possible) until you get to the golden ratio.
You will need to re-evaluate this whenever your critical strike damage changes if you want to remain at optimal direct damage output.
I think you can buy the recipe from Marjory Delaqua after you’ve given her 50 pristine toxin samples. I believe the recipe costs 250 pristine samples and 5 gold.
I would prefer if the whole “downed” concept was removed entirely. Sometimes when downed, you are unable to res yourself and then you have to wait for ages until you die just so you can respawn – sitting, waiting, not able to do anything is boring and frustrating. It would help if there was a suicide option when downed.
Also, finishing is basically cold-blooded murder, and I don’t want to always kill my enemies in cold-blood (I’m a merciful guardian of light!).
This often annoys me too – and it doesn’t only affect reviving and looting. Sometimes you need to interact with an object or pick up a bundle, but you can’t because there is loot or revivable bodies in the way (e.g. hammer in Cliffside fractal). The targeting in this game doesnt help.
Those are all fine examples of real world two handed swords but the great swords in this game aren’t 4-4.5 feet long with 2-3 inch wide blades but 5-6 feet long with some blades 9-12 inches across like swords seen in FF series
Apparently the largest Scottish claymore sword ever found on record is 7 feet 6 inches (2.24 m) and weighs 23 pounds (10 kg).
The average claymore ran about 140 cm (55 in) in overall length with a weight of approximately 5.5 lb (2.5 kg).
You have to craft a Vision Crystal with 500 Dragonite Ore, 500 Empyreal Fragments and 500 Bloodstone Dust.
Dragonite ore is from temple chests in Orr, Megabosses, and Keeps and Castles in WvW.
Empyreal fragments are from dungeons, mini-dungeons, jumping puzzles and camps/towers in WvW.
Bloodstone Dust is from champ loot bags.
