Guild Wars 2

Hoshinohi.1896:

NeedCoffee.1402:

WUROCKET.5182:

Spellbreaker isn’t very good in pvp

Your guys thoughts?

LOL

signed I wonder if those who complain have any idea of using a class other than in melee combat one vs one. Allready had a noob that complained about deadeye is to weak……. some people really do not understand why warrior and deadeye are completely op.

Yes sir. Spellbreaker Warrior is the anti condi in a world FULL of condi.
I was 1v1’ing a condi necro today. I had full health almost the whole time.

WUROCKET.5182:

Spellbreaker isn’t very good in pvp

Your guys thoughts?

LOL

The op is right Spellbreaker is awesome (in pvp). Firebrand is garbage (in pvp) (or at least the 4-5 build I tried were)
It counters all kinds of stuff, and had good survivablity.
I’m not playing d/d though, I’m using dagger/shield and greatsword (no specific reason for greatsword)
and to the poster that wasnt impressed with wining 4 hot joins? Do you really think all the good players are not in hot join looking to take advantage of players just wanting to “test builds”? If your answer is no, then you don’t know the pvp community very well.

Ahlen.7591:

It might be ok in PVP, but it’ll be useless garbage in PVE.

I’m ok with that.

What build are y’all on to play POF elite specs in pvp ?
I’m on 81072. I don’t have demo characters in my character screen.

Have a look at vaanss videos on YouTube. He uses GS/ax, shield power build. But you won’t find his build on metabattle.

https://youtu.be/y6mW_FWGVZA

His build is in the description.

Hot Boy.7138:

NeedCoffee.1402:

Hot Boy.7138:

To be honest, I will throw a match when teamchat has become very toxic. I’ll just afk in the base. That’s my personal protest against harassment because anet doesn’t seem to be taking a stance against it.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day. No one cares about your protest/message.
Your not a victim, nor are you any more special than any other player.

I didn’t say I was special. I actually wish it would become more common. I wish everyone who were being harassed in a match would just go idle. Maybe the toxic culture would change. people would think twice about harassing other players cause it would certainly guarantee a loss being down a player. And if i saw someone sitting out a game cause they were being harassed, i wouldn’t knock them for it. I don’t think anyone should have to finish a match with people that are being nasty toward them.

I’m not sure you understand your enemy. manipulators, cheaters, whatever you want to call them takes pleasure in your misery. Not playing both makes your opponents win and frustrates your team mates (causing more enjoyment for your enemy). Its like a win, win, win for manipulators.

Hot Boy.7138:

To be honest, I will throw a match when teamchat has become very toxic. I’ll just afk in the base. That’s my personal protest against harassment because anet doesn’t seem to be taking a stance against it.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day. No one cares about your protest/message.
Your not a victim, nor are you any more special than any other player.

I like any idea that attempts to fix the cancerous manipulators.
I think your idea might fix the lazy manipulators, but if a bunch of them are on vent/teamspeak/Discord it wont do much.

They did just give us a big update to pvp. We cant expect them to babysit us 24/7.

It helped for like a day. Now manipulators are just playing bad on purpose. Rushing 1v3, x2 players cap far, leaving a cap half way before its capped. there has been a crazy amount of complaints in mapchat about bad players this weekend…..wonder why.

Thank you for the good news Gaile. I was considering playing MxM for a while until the manipulation died down.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

NeedCoffee.1402:

If combat mod still works then why doesn’t anyone tell the OP that it does exactly what he wants it to do?

Because players have gotten smacked with the ban hammer for using it.

It wasn’t an overlay, it actually gives an advantage to a player that can use it well and is therefore considered cheating and against the ToS.

how is does it give an advantage?

Tru Reptile.6058:

NeedCoffee.1402:

NTDK is correct. this is what you want. Toggle action cam. Its just not released yet.

It should be available on HotT release October 23.

a long time ago there was a mod that did this but it was very buggy. It no longer works with the current game.

The OP wants to re-bind his mouse buttons, example: scroll wheel up is swap weapons, scroll wheel down is F1, right mouse button is dodge, etc.

The mod you’re likely referring to is Combat Mode which does indeed still work. I use it all the time.

the OP doesn’t care about weapon swap rebinds. Im sure he knows how to do that. What he cant do is unbind R & L mouse buttons to skill 1 and dodge.

If combat mod still works then why doesn’t anyone tell the OP that it does exactly what he wants it to do?

NTDK is correct. this is what you want. Toggle action cam. Its just not released yet.

It should be available on HotT release October 23.

a long time ago there was a mod that did this but it was very buggy. It no longer works with the current game.

@conski
Why do you need someone to know you acquired said item first?
That mentality is part of the problem.
Self gratification should be enough.

@Timmy
Yes, sure that would be better. But that would never do that because they want to be able to spring stuff like that on us when it’s more advantageous for them.

timmyf.1490:

I have an alternate question for people opposed to limited-time items: should ArenaNet say “this item is available during the course of this event only” and then bring it back later?

I think my main concern is that we were told items had limited availability, so I moved around my schedule and made time to get items that I wanted… now they’re back and very easy to get.

I’m glad for players who might have missed out, but if I had known they’d be released again later, I certainly would have done other things with my life/game balance.

I guess you could nitpick at the wording and say that the items were always listed as “limited availability” and not “one-time only.”

To answer you question, yes they should.
In your scenario your not realizing because of your sacrifice of time to acquire the items you wanted you got to enjoy them before others.

@conski
Working hard and being rewarded is good as long that player doesn’t think he/she now has the right to bully others with his/her new found item.
But that’s not what this thread is about.
The op expects anet to never rerelease items so the players that have said item can be part of some silly minority.
All players (new and old) should have the same opportunities as everyone else.

Latinkuro.9420:

NeedCoffee.1402:

Gw2 has never had any kind of elitist player mentality.

Are we playing the same game at all ?

Can I play it to ? :P

On topic,

gw2 is all about cosmetics, there is no perpetual vertical progression aka the hunt for better stats.

as such those LS skins were valuable as prestige items for this very reason, now that is all gone ! thank you very much a.net.

I also feel cheated because the one item I don’t have is nowhere to be found, the mad king memories yet all my other LS skins are now easily acquirable !!! not cool !!!

I assure you were all playing the same game. It may seem different to you because your turning it into something else.

Anet is the only company to realize you need to separate pvp and pvp in an mmo in order to have equal level and stats in pvp. Heck they even got rid of the small amount of elitism via outfits in pvp. Does that sound like a company that supports your star bellied sneetch mentality?

I can’t believe this is even a topic.
Gw2 isn’t some “my rares are better than your rares” game 8 year olds play.
Gw2 has never had any kind of elitist player mentality.
Gw2 Has always leaned toward ideals like socialism and equality.
Everything should come back at some point.
No one should try to feel special lording rate items.

Thanks for all the responses. There were alot of things that happen to SoR that I wasnt sure about.
I started on SoR back when it was a T3 server. I only play on weekends but I knew some of the Choo crew. I lost interest in the game when SoR finally made it to T1 and stated playing smite. I came back to GW2 few months ago and it didn’t feel like the same server.
I feel like i’m forced to jump ship in order to keep playing. I don’t care much about Tx I just want to play on a server that cares about wvw.

SoR was once a proud server that climbed up the tiers, got stuck at tier 2 for a long time, but then finally made it to tier 1. Now its a sinking ship, like IoJ or SBI was in the past.
What happened?

what ver. of chrome are you using? And.what plugins do you have installed for it?

do you play any browser games? ones that require the unity plugin?

off-topic: a laptop with sli? that’s awesome. how hot does it get?

this is an interesting post.

maybe chrome is set to run at high performance power setting, and anything else that is running at the same time will also be in high performance.

what ver. of chrome are you running? I’ll play with it when I get home.

What graphic settings are you using to get that 35-38 in LA?

with a 4770k you should be seeing at least 60 fps in LA, depending on your settings.

flying bee is right save a few bucks and get the i5 haswell. you wont see any difference in GW2 between the i5 and the i7.
the Asus hero is my favorite z87 motherboard. it only cost $200 and it has almost everything its $500 big brother the maximus has. But you can certainly find a decent z87 mobo for less.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131989

Not(always?) true.
I had my performance profile set to 100/100% min/max and you could tell the difference in responsiveness,loading times and FPS between 100% constant and software managed speed. But after downloading and running this the difference again is night and day.

I’ve used that one before. It does the job just fine. I’m not sure about running 100% unparked 100% of the time. core parking is a power saving feature. if your not gaming (or some other processor intense operation) you shouldn’t need to be 100% unparked.
But to each there own

the reason I prefer gamebooster is because it does a bunch of different fun things.

Avelos.6798:

Unparking your CPU cores doesn’t need editing of the registry library. Just set your computer to High Performance power profile. You can also easily tweak the other settings in advanced settings in Processor Power Management. “Minimum Processor State” to 100%. Problem solved. Be sure Maximum is 100%. But basically, because of that, I’ve never had any ‘parked core’ issues.

this is true. you don’t need extra software to unpack cores. But… some users aren’t comfortable editing power settings, and I have seen version of Windows where some settings in power settings in control panel were locked. Plus just choosing a high power setting won’t un park cores. lastly both programs listed offer a lot more than a few tweeks you could do yourself.

OP: download a free program called gamebooster.
http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

install it.

Then download a free program called process lasso.
http://bitsum.com/processlasso/

install it. Then run gw2. minimize gw2 and open process lasso. find gw2 in the process lasso window. right click on it and assign it both default high priority, and the gamers power setting gamebooster gave you.

what overlay is that?

while I love to read a good AMD vs Intel argument, it’s not helping the op.

OP: have you tried to unpark your cores? that alone should help allot.
personally I like to install gamebooster and use its game performance power setting to unpark cores while gaming. Then use process lasso to force gw2 to use that power setting + give it high priority.

Avelos.6798:

Hey look. Another topic Turning into a Mantle discussion. Why not everyone just go make a thread titled “MANTLE”

Seriously. Mantle is not going to happen anytime soon for Guild Wars 2, if at all. Even if it did, it’ll probably be ‘optimized’ by then to run 30 fps everywhere on even Toaster specs. WVW might even have 60 FPS on a high clocked intel i3 by then.

Mantle wont happen at all, just look at CUDA. It came out 7 years ago and we have yet to see a game engine programed entirely in CUDA.

Well the thing is that I have 2x Gtx 680 so they cant both use 16x slots, They automatically lower to 8x when you hook up in sli.

Is this causing fps issues? Shouldnt it still technically increase fps? I know it increases fps on 3d Mark 11 substantially

opps i didn’t realize you already had x2 680’s. you should be fine for video ram.
To answer your question yes, and no. Yes you should see a slight increase in fps. but It wont be much over 1%. x2 cards in sli out renders our CPU and creates a bottle neck.
we would need cpu’s clocked to something insane like 8ghz to keep up with the crazy GPU possibilities of today.

KlaviersPsilocybinVein.4821:

XFlyingBeeX.2836:

Avelos.6798:

“How to achieve 60 fps min In WvW Zergs”

Answer:
Intel i7 4960X @ 7 Ghz.
Single Graphics card unit with high enough clock rate to keep the FPS at that number with all of the particle effects going on. Say, GTX 670 at least.

this one is better
“How to achieve 60 fps min In WvW Zergs”
With MAntle

Lol whats Mantle?

And would that processor really achieve the proper fps I need? Heard their was nothing on the market to get the fps going.

mantle is a new AMD/Raidon only ver. of direct x…..kinda……

it has tons of promise but software developers will never support it.

Based on quick googling I had hard time finding any results with 680 1 GB lol, I think he’s good to go.
Sure it increases at some points. My 660 gets capped at 120-150 fps in the open world at 99% usage. If we’re talking about fps in LA for example I’d put my money on that the increase is 1 fps with 2 cards over 1, especially on this current 1 monitor build.

I worded it that way in case he didn’t want /couldn’t afford a 680.

yeah, thats about what i was thinking, maybe +3-5 fps if both slots are x16. Not worth $300 plus, but i may try it at some point out of boredom. Right now the upgrade i want is the G-sync module for my monitor.

locx.6412:

Right on what Behellagh said. It’s currently impossible. How you can get better rate on the other hand is buying a CPU with better single core performance, those would be 3570K, 3770K, 4670K and 4770K perhaps some i7-E processors too. That’d require a new motherboard too tho and those typically wont bring even 30 fps in the biggest zerg clash. As for running 3 monitors your performance shouldn’t decrease since that’s dependent on GPU power. Someone recently said 680 SLI is surely adequate for 1200p tri-monitor.

dual and triple monitor setups eat up your video ram. If you want to run multiple monitor make sure whatever cards you go with have 2GB each on sli . There also seems to be a trend in other games these days to use more video ram lately so more video ram is good future proofing.
If GW2 is the only game you play it probably doesn’t matter as much.

Personally, I have to believe 2 decent cards on sli both running x16 pcie-3.0 has to increase fps, but I also feel like the gain would be so small it wouldn’t be worth the cost of an extra card.

I tried it one more time last night before bed.
It logged me out, and gave me a login screen.
I logged in and immediately got the error again.
my guess is eotm is still on a test server and not fully integrated with wvw.

me too, me too. I was excited to see EotM

I’m pretty obsessed with fps and I haven’t seen a difference in windowed mode or not
I use windowed mode for combat mod.
nor did the last patch make things worse.
what kind of fps are you currently getting?

yea, dont troll with your system. That system costs well over 5k. Not everyone is going to be able to afford it. The common Price point around here is about 1k~

hes a fun troll though, he originally posted: “asus x79 mobo” as his motherboard in another thread and i told him to say “RIVE BE” instead since the BE was designed for the ivy-e (but he forgot to add BE on his troll rig)

Would setting priority to high under task manager have any affect on it?

yes, it does. not so much in direct FPS but i have seen it create smoother gameplay.
better yet download process lasso and use that to take control for your processes.

My rig has similar stats while GW2 in running. I didn’t see it as a problem though.

what kind of FPS are you getting?

optimization tips:
you need to unpark your cores and use process lasso to help optimize everything running on your rig.
also my special win7 registry tweak helps too:
https://mega.co.nz/#!gQc0ybQY!ae6QRSxmNit2OnMzmWnQZGF2CPEQsLppCrCRId6ZjV8

yeah, obviously a troll. But I like his moxie.

Does said troll have a real, underlining reason for posting? or was this just all in silly fun?

oh, and why say “ASUS X79 Chipset Motherboard” There isn’t enough attitude there. Instead, why not say: Rampage IV Extreme Black Edition?

XFlyingBeeX.2836:

Get fixs for win 7(bulldozer)

This is an interesting post. I wasn’t aware there was an issue with win7 not being optimized for AMD’s FX-8150. And apparently there is a fix for it?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-hotfix-bulldozer-performance,3119.html

anyone with a FX-8150 use this and saw results? If so how much?

your motherboard supports PCI-E 3.0, force it, and you should see a little boost in fps.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375347

it’s enough info to start with, the problem is we need to know more info on your actual problem.

what is happening that makes you think your bottle necking?

Behellagh.1468:

Is that an 840 EVO Samsung? They will use you system RAM as cache to bench reads that high.

it’s not the evo. it’s the older pro. I purchased it 2ish years ago.

Whether or not you have gains from the cache is irrelevant, I want to know what your SSD’s raw benches are using your testing tool.

yeah, no I get that too. what I don’t understand is why?

I mean what’s the point?

sirsquishy.8531:

NeedCoffee.1402:

performance gain is performance gain. there is no point in benching naked.
those numbers aren’t any kind of placebo, they are real.
instead of learning all those iometer bools, and variables I’ll let the developer show you.
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/demo-benchmark-iometer-1-defer-write.html

You dont understand the Tech. RamDISKs are Cache. Used mainly for Reads. Benching with Cache Enabled skews the numbers and shows NO REAL performance of what you are benching

If the bench only uses the Cache you are not even touching your HDD/SSD in the test, as it never leaves the RAM.

And the Topic here is GW2 on kitten, not GW2 On a RAM DISK.

*Edit, lol they Kittened SSD.

no, I understand. I’ve been using similar programs for years. what I’m saying is it doesn’t matter if I’m getting those speeds in cache or not. as long as I’m getting those speeds.

I think I tried caching to HDDs a long time ago and I didn’t get the same gains I got caching SSDs.

sobe.4157:

NeedCoffee.1402:

just because it doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean its not possible.

theses are my actual benches, i can do the same on my cheap mushkin SSD’s.

I have mentioned on this forum 20 times how to do it, but no one listens to me.

~futrureman

Oooooh, I didn’t realize you were caching it… That makes any bench test pointless with that enabled. That makes sense now though, so your 500MB/s cached is closer to 9GB/s, but only in cache. Seriously, I saw that pic and was so confused lol. I thought you came from the future with new product wanting to be heralded as the next Bill Gates

Not to worry, you will forever be my Mr. Future Man!

lol, thanks :-)

I’m starting to think we come from 2 different world’s. benching just for pure stats alone like it has some kind of meaning or is some kind of sport is silly to me. I just want the fastest computer I can afford and its fun tweak stuff to make it faster.

performance gain is performance gain. there is no point in benching naked.
those numbers aren’t any kind of placebo, they are real.
instead of learning all those iometer bools, and variables I’ll let the developer show you.
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/demo-benchmark-iometer-1-defer-write.html

just because it doesn’t make sense to you doesn’t mean its not possible.

theses are my actual benches, i can do the same on my cheap mushkin SSD’s.

I have mentioned on this forum 20 times how to do it, but no one listens to me.

~futrureman

Here is the kitten bench.