Guild Wars 2

“A character can always equip two sigils at a time (either one sigil each on a main-hand and off-hand weapon, or two sigils on a two-handed weapon). In general, the two sigils will both provide their effects independently as long as the base sigil is different. The exceptions to this are the attribute increasing stacking sigils: only one stack effect can be active at a time. Additionally, sigils with the same base sigil will share cooldowns between weapon sets”

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

The wxp gain from killing enemy players scales depending on the length of time that individual has been alive; so an enemy that dies repeatedly will be worth 1-2 wxp and one that dies less frequently can be worth up to 60.

Reminds me of the days when any class with any weapons could punt…

PVP and WvW success is about knowing and using your skills effectively and knowing and negating your enemies skills effectively as well.
Use your combat log after you’re down/dead to see what skills were used, understand the way that those skills work and counter for them.

Stealth =/= invulnerability; with some builds it does offer reduced damage but that doesn’t mean you can stand in cleave without dropping.

If you are consistently getting one or two shotted while out then its a fair indication that you should tank up your gear, and/or tweak your build for more survivability; until you have a better understanding of the ways to handle what is giving you problems.

The class specific forums here can often be helpful in “how do I deal with x(class)” type of questions.

Even a P4F has workarounds as the salvage components (ore, leather, cloth) and low level fine crafting mats are salable.

Try it out and see if you’re going to enjoy the gameplay. Most of the open world pve content in the expansion is post level 80, if you’re going to be into PVP it may be a different story.

Take your time; find a class that you enjoy playing. After you have at least one class at 80 then you can decide if you enjoy the game enough to try out the HOT content, or possibly the next expansion will be out by then (which will also include HOT).

Gameplay wise; learn to dodge; sell everything you get that you can while leveling on the trading post; buy larger bags asap; everything grants xp (killing mobs, ressing allies, gathering, exploring); you can access the wiki in game by typing /wiki (search term).

Welcome (back) to GW2, and most importantly; Have Fun.

Look up the locations of the permanent rich nodes and station your characters there, maybe swapping maps to the easiest to hit locations. Quite a few are conveniently located close to waypoints and you can gather any trees that pop up on the way to those nodes.
If you had longer to play you could hit all or most of the rich iron/plat once per day and pick up quite a few trees just “on the way” to the next node in 30 ish minutes per character.

It does, with no directional input you still roll backwards; while moving forward or strafing to the side you roll in those directions.

I like the fast cast with range indicator ground targetting, and lock ground target at maximum range. After some practice its quicker to hold a button down, line up the target and let it up to activate the skill. Again it is down to personal preference.

Double tap to evade seems like a good idea but makes it too easy to accidentally waste your dodges or to go in the wrong direction; I find a dedicated dodge button overall easier to use, since just a single key press can be pressed faster and more reliably than a double tap; provided it is also in a location that you don’t need to use your movement key fingers for.

+1 to personal taste

I use WASD for movement, strafe left and right. Weapon and F skills at default. Heal, and dodge on mouse side buttons. Utilty 1 on mouse middle (usually stunbreak) utilty 2 and 3 on Q and E, elite skill on X. Misc other keybinds on Z, C, R, T with modifiers (about face, stow weapon, toggle walk, call target, take target)

RX 470 or 480 offer very good price/performance atm.

Redragon Perdition has served me well for the last 2 years.

Danikat.8537:

On top of all that are you aware that if you do this the only thing you will be left with is the Sunrise skin in your wardrobe and 1000g? Forging Eternity doesn’t unlock the skin for it or for Twilight, that only happens when you bind it to your account, which you can’t do if you’re going to sell it.

Putting skins into the forge unlocks the skins that are destroyed, not however the new ones created.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wardrobe

“Removing from the economy: salvaging, right-clicking to choose “Store in Wardrobe”, deleting, or using in the Mystic Forge."

Find a guild that is friendly to newer players.

Log in every day for the laurels, do your dailies for the 2 gold.

Combat here is more about managing active defenses to actively avoid damage than using armor to sink it. Dodges, blocks, blinds, invulns used appropriately are your friend.
More offensive stats will help you kill things more quickly; play around with build, gear options to figure out if a power based build or a condition based build will suit your playstyle better.

To gain mastery xp more quickly always run food/utility buffs, and boosters if available.

Find something that you enjoy doing, because that is likely what you will be doing after you’ve unlocked your scrapper.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2, and have fun.

Save the gw2.dat and .exe files and you won’t need any additional downloads (barring new patches).
The game can run with just those two files in the same folder.

For a more “typical” installation; you can run the installer until it gets to the point where it is downloading the data files, close it, navigate to where it is installed and copy over your .dat file.

Switch to the 64 bit client if you haven’t already; with 8 gigs ram my load times even off of a 5400 rpm external drive are almost as fast as the 32 bit client off of an ssd.

What are your temps at while gaming (gpu and cpu)?

It is obviously a fairly old system and over time dust and crud accumulating on heatsinks diminishes their effectiveness to the point where excessive heat can cause instability and crashes.

Has the system been physically moved recently?

The gtx 580 is a fairly heavy card and may have shifted in the socket.
Reseating it and the power connector(s) may be worth a shot.

Is this an oem system or a custom build and what is your psu? (brand, model, watts)

The cat room.
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Another plus one for the 212 evo.
As to what you can do to avoid overheating; make it a routine to inspect and clean whatever cpu heatsink you have, and also look over and clean your gpu heatsink and any case fans while you’re at it; from at minimum once a year to as frequently as once a month depending on your inside environment (more dusty = more frequently needed)

EvilTwin.4125:

Heart of Thorns is a rip for some of us. I paid $60 for the game back when it was buy-to-play, now new players can come in w/o paying, buy Heart of Thorns, and get stuff I can’t even though I’ve already paid. Why on earth would ArenaNet do that to people who’ve already bought the game? Shouldn’t we get HoT (at least the $50 version)? I feel like I’ve been cheated. Again.

The f2p game is not the same as the one that you paid $60 for. New players that start f2p also buy HOT to get a lot of the conveniences that you already enjoy as a paid player; more bag/character slots; no messaging/mail restrictions; full access to the trading post and quite a few other restrictions lifted that probably have more of an impact on the feel of the game then the new things in HOT.

All of that not even considering all the time that you spent playing before the f2p was even an option. Did you feel the same way when the core game went on sale for $10 after the game was out for 2 years? Break it down, type /age, divide your investment by hours played and tell me how else can you entertain yourself for that little investment?

As to the OP, you still have the core game, so hop in and play it. If you find you’re having a tough time against elite specs in pvp and want to become one of them then jump on HOT.

Teleniel.1809:

I may be way off on my times. I was under the impression that dual monitors was not a standard feature. If that is the case, i very likely would have opted for the lower cost, as I didn’t have any intentional plans for dual monitor.

My current computer desk is… about 2’ square end table. I have a small lap desk that I use for my mouse, and play from my couch. I don’t really have the space to do dual monitors without stacking them on top of one another, although if it sticks out the sides of the table that shouldn’t cause any problems.

Support for dual or more monitors is pretty much standard these days, even the internal gpu’s on modern mobos support at least dual monitor outputs.

There are a myriad of creative mounting options available for limited desk space installations, from a single stand clamped or mounted to a desk or wall with multiple arms to support monitors, to flat wall mount solutions provided you have enough wall space.

1. It scales from the stats of the person providing the finisher.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

2. It is as many as can be completed within the duration of the field.

Coolermaster 212 evo is another good budget cooler, easier access to clean it than the stocker and a more secure mounting solution. Also with your case you shouldn’t need to pull the mobo to mount the backplate although an additional hand may be needed.

The stock one is fine if you’re not overclocking but I was never satisfied with the connection of the plastic push pins and finally broke one removing it to clean it, and always feel more comfortable running cooler than warmer.

Imperator.3475:

2) I’ve read that the Intel i7-4790K was the best processor for awhile, but I also saw someone write that one of the i5’s was almost as good for a much cheaper price (this was probably a year ago or so I think). Then I saw people recommending i5 processors when I was looking on the builds here. So my question is, what is the difference between i5 and i7, and if they can be very similar, how can I tell which are the best ones for the money?

3) Same question for graphics cards. Nvidia has treated me well so I’ll probably stick with them, but all the different ones can be confusing. 760, 860, 960, 970, etc. What is the best and most up-to-date way to figure out “what is the best GPU for the least amount of money?”

For right or wrong, I’ve found the passmark website useful for both of these; they have performance rankings and price/performance for both cpu’s as well as gpus; so you can look up how your current hardware compares to “the best” and narrow down what to research further.

Mushkin has been around a good while, but I’ve had good luck with the Samsung SSD mentioned above and less than 1/3’d the price.
If map loading times are the only reason you’re considering an SSD, I’d use the 64 bit beta client first; running the 64 bit client off of both a 5400 rpm usb 3.0 external drive and a 7200 rpm internal drive map load times are almost as fast as with an SSD ime (and with 8 gigs of ram). You will notice faster boot times, and programs generally launch faster.

You are running an older driver; might try updating that.

What cpu and which 7800 card are you running?

GW2 is not fallout 4, so performance there is irrelevant.

Generally speaking; you’re not going to “max” GW2 at playable frames with a 78xx card.

The easiest and cheapest way to get more frames is to simply lower some settings.

Happy new gear!

If you want to run it from the ssd, yes copy or move the folder there.

For the 64 bit, go to “my account” at the top of the screen “game content” tab and its listed under “other clients” just download that and place it in the same folder with the gw2.dat file, create shortcuts and you’re good to go.

Yes, just move the guild wars 2 folder from program files or wherever it is to wherever you’d like it. All you really need to run the game from any location (drive) is the .dat file and the .exe in the same folder. Make new shortcuts to the new location and you should be good to go.

Verify that your video card is running @ x16 (run gpu-z while the game is open)

Reseat your gpu if it is not running at x16.

First two, not at all.

The third will run it but not well; depending on your definition of “ok”
Likely a max of 25 fps at the absolute lowest settings.

1 gold and 1 laurel or 2 fractal relics per inventory/bank slot.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_Salvage_Tool

Moondancer.3874:

I am still not able to use the Trading post to buy and sell things even after buying the game i am not sure what i am doing wrong but i can’t buy anything other then basic crafting materials.

I think it takes up to 4 days to unlock the tp

If running it without the side panel results in significantly cooler temps, then you need to turn up your case fans, clean the case dust filters (if you haven’t already), add fans, or generally just get more airflow inside the case.
If it doesn’t substantially lower temps, then you’re most likely looking at a loose cooler or lack of (or too much) thermal compound.

Did you remove the coolers from the cpu and/or vid card?
Is your computer next to or in the blast of a heater?
Is your psu fan facing upward? That would compete with your video card for cooling air.

I would run it without the side panel and see if that drastically drops temperatures first.
Yours are way too high. It sounds like it might be an airflow issue.

How far apart did you take it to clean it?

+1 Fermi, but I would start with GPU/PSU if budget prohibits getting it all at once.

Not intending to say that that will magically get you huge frame rates, but you could turn the pretty up while lagging along until you can get the better mobo/processor/ram, at which point you’ll already have the psu/gpu to swap in.

Try the 64 bit beta client if you’re not already; in my experimentation that made loading the game from a sata 3 spinny drive nearly as fast as an ssd
Loading into LA traders forum from ssd 18.4 seconds, 15.13 on the 64 bit.
For a sata 3 seagate 7200 rpm 60.5 seconds, 16.65 on 64 bit.

Hopping around the world to a bunch of waypoints (20) my average load times came out to 7.0525 from ssd vs. 7.57 from the seagate on the 64 bit client.
The same circuit on the 32 bit client on ssd yielded 8.6 vs 11.4 for the spinner.

Do the clovers first, since you need them anyways and should get some t6 from “failed” attempts.

Its in keybindings, under camera “enable action camera” or something similar.

I was curious what this meant as well, so I made a free account to see.
It seems to be only common crafting materials (wood, metal, ore, cloth, plants, and blood, bones, venom sacks, totems etc ) and craftable weapons and armor.

They can’t buy or (presuming) sell; food, oil, dyes (except unidentified), minis, weapons/armor/trinkets that drop, loot bags, runes and sigils, lodestones or parts thereof (fragments,slivers, shards, cores) recipes

autotargetting on

Look through or post in the “Looking For” section towards the bottom of the main page.
What time(s) would you and your friends typically be looking to play?

Salvage change will likely lower gold gains from silverwastes as well; even though not a direct “nerf” to that particular content.

4670k (stock) HD 7850 (also stock)

The good news is that from a system that old there are lots of upgrade paths.
The bad news is to really get the most from a cpu upgrade would require a new motherboard and RAM as well.
If it were me and budget were tight, I would toss in a reasonably current gpu (gtx 750, 750ti maybe) and aftermarket cpu cooler and overclock the cpu while saving for a current cpu/mobo/ram combo that you could use the same graphics card in down the road.

There shouldn’t be any problem running the game with the case open, just be mindful of the fans spinning in there.
The box type thing over the cpu is a heatsink, there is also a heatsink under the plastic casing of your graphics card, which from your descriptions still needs a good cleaning.
As long as the fan for your graphics card is still spinning, I would try to clean it again and this time at least remove the cover of the graphics card to fully inspect/clean the heatsink (dust between the fins)

I would think you would want a little bit larger psu for that build, 500 is the minimum recommended for the 7970, the Newegg psu calc puts the wattage used for that system at 581 watts (and doesn’t include fans etc). Overclocking, will use more power, and aging will degrade its output also. 650- 750 watt seasonic, xfx, or corsair.

+1 what Death said.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f255/tsf-hardware-teams-recommended-new-builds-2012-a-668661.html
$1000 and up intel builds.
Also a helpful forum for building, troubleshooting, OC’sing etc.

Doomdesire.9365:

Feels like I’m missing a class, but whatever
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Elementalist – self explanatory