Guild Wars 2

Vayne.8563:

dukefx.9730:

Unfortunately Arena.net’s priority =/= the player’s priority. Instead of new skills and traits, new armor sets, craftable precursors, new legendaries they are busy with the Living Story which 80% of the commnity is sick and tired of.

I love how people pull numbers out of their….imagination to try to make a point. You have no clue how many people by percentage are sick of the Living World stuff. It’s probably less than you think is my guess.

By the same token, not everyone is barracking for more skills. Some people certainly are, but many people are not build-a-holics and are happy just to throw stuff together that works Those people aren’t hurting for build options, because they don’t follow any sort of meta.

I’d wager there are far more people who don’t even know a meta exists than there are those who pay attention to it.

Almost my entire guild is tired of it and we are an active PvX guild. All my friends are tired of it. A gazillion people here on the forums are tired of it. All those people who left because of the living story are tired of it. I’ll correct my statement then: make it ~90%! The living story is just a cheap way to satisfy achievement hunters.

lordkrall.7241:

Suddenly knowing something that only two people “alive” would know can however not be explained.

Sure it can.

“A new chapter has appeared within the pages of the Mad Memories, revealing to you a past that up to now has been known only to the Bloody Prince and the Mad King.”

And then they tie that together by releasing a new scavenger hunt that leads to yet another upgraded Mad Memories.

Look at that, justification for putting it in game and I thought it up in under a minute.

I agree, the lore is already hard enough to come around as it is without requiring to come on the website on top of that, no wonder why most of the player base has absolutely no idea/don’t care about what’s going on in game. Adding a tab in the hero pannel or adding it to the personnal story would be a BIG step forward, or heck even books in a library or something like said by OP.

nottsgman.8206:

completely agree, the story should be in-game, if it isn’t it doesn’t exist. not having it in-game is just lazy.

Agree with the lazy factor. Most of what we get every two weeks is lazy content there are exceptions but this is specifically true in the form of to-do lists and the story part of LS

Maybe lazy isn’t the right word though, i think a better word might be Rushed.

completely agree, the story should be in-game, if it isn’t it doesn’t exist. not having it in-game is just lazy.

Bailey.6892:

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey Sevelniumus,

Good catch. I forwarded this to the team.

Thanks!

Maybe pass on getting a qa department, and a testing server.

+1

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey Sevelniumus,

Good catch. I forwarded this to the team.

Thanks!

Maybe pass on getting a qa department, and a testing server.

Anyone remember this lovely tidbit when Dusk was under 300 gold

LinseyMurdock.4165:

We have been watching the prices climbing on Legendary precursors and share your concerns about some of them becoming too expensive. We will continue to monitor the situation and will make any adjustments we feel are necessary.

Obviously you didnt share those concerns or we wouldnt be staring down 800+ gold precursors.

There is nothing to discuss. Its fact, a game cannot suddenly MAKE hardware overheat. It can put on higher loads in different ways to different parts of the, in this case, GPU. BUT the game is not the route cause.
If your overheating whilst playing GW2, you honestly should be thanking GW2 for letting you know you have an issue, otherwise it could go unnoticed for long periods.

So in this example the GPU went to 110c, and it was only noticed becouse it shut down, which only happens at extreme temps.
Now say another game comes along and puts a high load on it, not as much as GW2 but still a high load, and the GPU runs constantly at 95c. It doesnt shut down, so you go obliviose of the heat …thats not good for the GPU and will shorten its lifespan.

Why is there so many people flooding the ofrums with the issue?. The same reason the same questions get asked again and again when it comes to computers.
Things like “will this run GW2?” , “is X a good component?” , “what settings should i was?” , " why is my FPS so low in WvW?" (this one is usualy incorrectly worded as “why and i laging in wvw?” .

The reason for all these questions is simply lack of knowledge about computers and how they work. Same goes for this issue, many people buy prebuilt, or use stock items that come with purchases, or simply only know the absolute basics about putting a rig together, they dont know that stock coolers suck, that laptops, unless they cost megabucks, will likely run hot and overheat, that certain generations of CPU and GPU run hotter than others etc etc.

A perfectly setup and running PC will not overheat no matter the program its running.
There are certain bench/stress programs that push things to the limit, but they are designed to do so and the user is expected to have configured their rig accordingly.
A ‘proper’ gaming laptop will run hot but not dangerosly so.

Do feel free to remain ignorant about this though, its no skin of my nose.

note: no insult is intended in any of my posts here

Sorry if I scared you in your other thread. It’s not that the FX-6300 is bad, it’s just that a true Intel quad core is better but if you can’t afford it’s no big thing. It’s as good or better than a Phenom II X4 965 or Phenom II X6 1100T.

On one hand of course the i5-3470 should perform better, it costs 65% more than an FX-6300 . AMD and Intel do try to price their CPUs on relative performance.

By posing the question in your other thread you knew, at least subconsciously what the answer would be. Deep down you want to be talked into the i5 but if your budget for a new system was already at it’s max and we are talking food on the table or rent paid on time or prescriptions refilled then it’s not worth it, we’re talking about a computer to play games on. It’s a luxury item.

Your system will not play GW2 in any meaningful way. That x1250 (onboard) GPU, is about 400% slower than the HD2000 onboard from Intel and the minimum suggested for GW2 is the HD3000. Also keep in mind that is minimum, that just means it will run the game, not that it will be playable.

Yamori.9781:

Can’t see any reason not to help other people get their titles, at least not one that makes any sense. Thank you to all the people helping out others get their titles and points. If you don’t feel like helping out that’s your choice. Don’t really see how it makes you a better person by showing other people up in a mini-game but so be it.

My reasoning follows an ends justify the means form of justification.

An old saying states: “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”

Let’s analyze this into the situation at hand now. I can give someone a free win and they can have their title, I’ve essentially just given them a fish. But the next event that has a title earned by a similar criteria, they’ll have no idea what to do and require another handout.

I can also beat them and hinder their progress in hopes that in order to get what they want, they’ll look towards accepting trial and error, and the principle of failure leading to success. The odds of this are very rare however, most people nowadays will just ragequit and find the handout somewhere else. But that’s not an issue I induce, that’s more of a personality flaw on their part if they’re not willing to put in the effort to kick it up a notch when it’s necessary and would rather find the easier road.

However, some times, and it does happen, you get that one guy who you spark the fire inside of them and they take each failure as a lesson and eventually beat you and earn their title. Actually happened to me about four hours before I went to work today. I had raced a guy eight times in a row, he eventually beat me and sent me a whisper saying pretty much he just wanted to beat me so bad he looked for every shortcut and made sure to win sooner or later. It happened and I was actually happy for him.

The above paragraph is a factual account and an example of teaching a man to fish. He earned his title, and now with the next title he seeks, I’m more than certain he’s going to apply himself to finding every trick he can to secure his goal.

In the event it works, the end result definitely justifies my means. In the event they get upset and quit and view me as one of the world’s biggest pricks, ohh well. Like I care what a bunch of internet people think about me or my strange way of teaching people to push themselves on a game.

Chase.8415:

This is a community event, I think it should be less competitive. A lot of people don’t enjoy having to fight other players to earn achievements. I completely respect that because there is no reason why someone should have to do this for a pve centric event.

If you want a title that is competitive, then play in PvP. Don’t sit here and complain on how win trading has destroyed your accomplishment.

How is the Sprint not PvP?

Exactly. I played three games and figured out the game and now place anywhere from first to third in 7+ player races. The mini game isn’t hard at all sadly no reason people can’t earn it. This isn’t World of Warcraft. Earn your stuff by trying instead of having it given.

I agree with VinylScratch. People need to work to earn their achievement points. If they can’t get on their own then they just need to keep trying. It’s not that hard to get if you work at it for a bit.

This is making the title meaningless to those of us who actually earned it.

Hate to be -that guy- and break the chain but I feel that it’s stupid to let someone just have something given to them, maybe I’m old fashioned but I feel if you yourself do not earn the achievement without having someone basically spoon feed it to you, you don’t deserve it. If they wanted everyone to have it then they’d award the achievement after finishing the race.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I see no reason to go for an i7 over an i5 for a mid range gaming rig (especially a laptop). That difference alone should allow for a better video or an SSD within budget (or both).

You are paying a LOT of money for less than a 10% performance gain with the i7.

In the world of Intel laptop CPUs, i7s are quad or dual cores, i5s are only dual core. This isn’t desktops CPUs where gaming performance isn’t affected a great deal between an i5 quad and an i7 quad. And in GW2, quad cores are favored which is why you choose a mobile i7 quad.

You did what you should have done. You reported and blocked the person making the offensive comments. Having done this, you must now rely on others to also report and block this individual making offensive comments in chat; the more reports there are, the more likely punishment will be placed on them for their actions. Whether the person learns from this punishment and no longer makes such comments in chat is something we can only hope that they will take away from this situation.

Regarding your forum thread, it is actually against forum rules to name a player’s account name on the forums and all this will get you is possibly an infraction for breaking this rule. I recommend you remove the player’s name from your post.

Probably your cooling pad doesnt do its job and you are experiencing over heating issues. Even desktops overheats running GW2. I’d start monitoring the temps get something like HW monitor or that sort of program to monitor Gpu and Cpu temps realtime. ?f you are going close to 100 on cpu its time to clean the laptop and re-apply thermal compound on both cpu and gpu.

Thanks everyone, here’s an update. Was having a few stability issues with running at 4ghz (cooling), but have since gotten it to stabilize right under 3.5ghz.

That being said, with the new Zotac 660ti I picked up….the game looks completely different. I went from running everything on absolutely bare minimum to running with every setting on complete maximum. It has gone from 10-30FPS to rarely dipping under 40 in the major city I was in, and out in the world it’s always 60+ (rarely dipping to 50ish). These results are with my CPU still running at 2.66ghz, I had put it back to default settings for a while.

As for settings, I tried absolutely everything under the sun before I replaced that video card (game settings, Catalyst version etc, full screen/windowed, game optimizers). I have put that 5770 through hell since the day I bought it, and used to not clean my case very often so maybe it was just ready to die? Core parking looks interesting, but as my issue now is mainly heat and I am getting great results without I may not have to attempt it.

Either way, I am very pleased with my purchase. Ended up spending around $230 CAD and scooped a free copy of the new Metro which was a nice little bonus. The overclocking advice was fantastic, because I feel like I’ve gotten much more power out of something I already owned…so it doesn’t even really feel like a patch job. It was also kind of fun to tinker with while finding how far I can go, I’m sure that’s quite basic for a lot of people but it made me feel like I was doing something…hehe.

The game looks absolutely stunning in the few areas I’ve seen so far, and look forward to actually getting to sit down and play more once I’m done tinkering with everything. Also, shout out to the people at http://ninite.com , quite the neat little tool for reinstalls (I also upgraded my HDD, been overwriting the same old Seagate workhorse since 2006.)

Many thanks again to everyone here that has posted, and a special thanks to Ilithis who pointed me down the OC road. For under $250 I feel like I have a brand new computer. Time to go play some GW2!

This is an excellent Technical Support inquiry.

Well done! 100 life with 85 regen working from food :-/= Impossible to kill and if both teams have members using if 1 hour arena games.

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well that and windows >_>; it’s not that odd really, people buy $300.00 video cards to have better looking grass, $400.00 tablets to check mail & play angry birds, and $50,000.00+ vehicles so they can have heated seats & lower mileage :P

Coolcat.1398:

TinkTinkPOOF.9201:

Coolcat.1398:

CPU and GPU temps are good.

Screen doesn’t freeze, monitor loses signal, gets one back, and all I get is a black screen. I can still hear sound (game’s sound effects and anything else my comp was doing (which there usually isn’t anything else when I’m running Gw2).

No BSOD.

The only time it actually RESTARTED was the first time, never did that ever again. Main issue is this black screen with sound going on.

Saying good does us trying to help no good, we need info, and sorry to say we can’t just take your word for it. Please DL IBT and coretemp, run it for 10 passes and post max temps, then DL MSI afterburner and kombustor, run it for at least 10-15mins and post max temps. The black screen is a freeze, in the form of a video driver crash or not responding, which is why you still hear things.

But why would it not happen in other games? What is it about this game that makes the driver not respond/crash on my system?

How a game stresses a system or interacts with a driver are all going to be different, just like some games play great on a new driver, but completely breaks another game. You always start with the basics and work your way up.

This should go under Account support, not tech support.

And you expect a response from whom?

Have you somehow missed all the discussions about how large events utterly destroy the frame rate of the game? Yours just happens to be one of many so why chime in here when there are larger threads discussing this topic that have been around since launch?