Guild Wars 2

I took a bit of a break from GW2 for about 4 months or so. Had a few questions about ascended armor.

1)When I left the cost required to get 500 in armorsmithing was something like 200-300 g. Has this changed? Is there a guide to optimal armorsmith leveling? Im currently 465.

2)What is the approx cost to get a full set of ascended armor after I hit 500.

3)The pvp ascended rewards look promising! Any rough estimates of drop % of ascended armor boxes?

Ive pretty much given up on getting my precursor. I’ve instead taken up getting ascended armor/weapons with great stats that look like crap. Afterall its the stats that matter the most. I tried making money by flipping items on TP quite successfully for a bit. But that requires time, something that I cannot spend holding a full time job.
Atleast im grateful that anet has easy ways of getting good stat gear with relatively minimal effort so that you can be competetive in wvw and dungeons!

This issue is preventing me from updating the client to the newest release. Basically the game updates for a short while and then hangs. Im unable to close the updater. The updater splash window is covered with a black box when this happens. Is this a known Issue. Ive never had a problem with updating or playing the game since beta. How do I workaround this.

Attached a screenshot what the hang looks like.
Ive also tried repair option which did not help.

She’s not real. She’s a video game NPC

Perfect guild! Exactly what I’m looking for. I have a warrior and thief both at 80. Twilight almost done on warrior. Add me please.

Planning to shift from my current US server . I play from SEA and the timings dont match up with the time I logon. I have a lvl 80 warrior farming twilight and a lvl 80 thief. I love doing PVE, dungeons and WvW. Prefer a guild with an active teamspeak.

Packets going the long way round has nothing to do with GW2. Its the routing that your ISP uses. I connect from SEA. There was an undersea cable issue recently after which traffic to Australia was routed via the US. So if you see unusual routing patterns try asking your ISP about it.

This is an issue I have noticed from the last 2 days. Every so often (maybe 2-3 times ever 15 mins). The client crashes with the error.. I have attached an image of the crash message. This is making the game unplayable. I have been running gw2 since the beta stages and not had this issue. I play on Sanctum of Rall server. Also note that the issue is specific to guildwars 2 only. I play many other online games and there is no connectivity issues reported there.

This is super annoying. Anyone had similar issues? Never had a connectivity issue before. And I havent changed anything on my comp/network/firewall etc.

Felblade.8701:

TBH it only seems they optimized this game for the i5 and i7 range because everything else seems to just bottleneck. In times when it matters most like zerg fights and such the load suddenly goes onto the CPU and bottlenecks the GPU shouldn’t it be the opposite?

That all depends on how they coded it. And theories where people say ohh theres like 50 ppl, u need to compute their movement etc is crap. That view is naive and doesnt even come close to an estimation of a modern processor. I friggin used to play wow on my p4 with same size zergs and never had an issue.

The i5 and amd does have a difference in instruction sets even though both are x86_64. This can happen if they built something optimal ONLY for the i5 instruction set. Which , unless deliberately done is kinda hard to do. I really dont like the looks of it.

Milkboat.6910 how large u talking? IM talking like 30-40 man zergs.. never dipped below 50..

Well i had created a thread earlier abt low fps with WvW. Like < 10 fps.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/What-is-being-done-about-AMD-CPU-performance/first#post300262

My config etc is there. So ive finally solved the issue. wanna know how? by shifting to intel core i5 3550.. Yup.. finally shifted from amd to intel. And boy, even in the most crowded zergs I get 50 ish fps at the best appearance settings @1200p. So this proves that Arenanet have totally ignored/sabotaged optimization for amd cpus. Nothing changed apart from the proccy and mobo.

Hope this helps someone building a pc..

To all the people who are trying to convert this into an Intel vs AMD flamewar :

We do not expect ANet to fix AMDs CPUS. We do not expect performance at par with SB/IB proccesors. We know that AMD processors suck and that was a bad buy. The I am trying to make is that it shouldnt suck SO MUCH. I mean < 15 fps ? This is 15 fps on systems which are probably highest end systems minus the processor.

Also remember that while AMD’s suck compared to Intel by a mile, they are still a modern processor. DO not underestimate the power of a modern proccy atleast as far as games are concerned.

Like I said. I am not expecting performance even close to Intel processors. I just want something playable and better than the disgrace that is 15 fps!

Ive created https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/What-is-being-done-about-AMD-CPU-performance/ .. I think its time they announce something about this

I’d like to add that the performance stays same irrespective of the video settings. Lowest quality at the 800X600 resolution ALSO runs at < 15 fps.

So it is a known fact that AMD proccys + GW2 WvW = powerpoint presentation. However considering how awesome the game is I gave it some time.It sucks that over a month after the release nothing has changed.

Here is my config :

AMD 1090t @ 4Ghz
Asus DCU2 7850 Oced to 1.1Ghz
8 GB corsair Domainator
Antec TPN 650W
Win 7 catalyst 12.8 with latest CAP

I get 60 fps easy in PvE at best settings. However WvW with over 10 ppl on the screen and the FPS dips to <15.

I would like to mention that I have no trouble whatsoever with any other games(MMOs included).

It is obvious that the AMDs suck compared to SB or IB. But it shouldnt suck so much. The game has clearly been optimized only for intel platforms. I’ve tried contacting support but they have stop accepting tickets for perf issues. I had assumed that this was because they were working on a solution. Yet we havent heard of anything.

Im not saying a magical solution should come out within a day. All im asking for is for AN to acknowledge they are aware of an AMD CPU issue in WvW and make it clear when we can expect a patch.