Hit the nail on the head about returning players. I haven’t played in over a year for many reasons (some which you listed), biggest one is they just do not care. Heard there is an expansion coming so I’m here browsing, but doesn’t look like anything has changed.
Between 50-60 with 4930k @ 4.6 and gtx 970 sli @ 1500/8002 with dsr at 5120×2880 and sweetfx maxed settings with supersampling. Reflections on terrain and no post processing
It is sad it got nerfed. Unfortunately though it was a positive change in the games current state. Before it wasn’t a problem and no one cared because there was no condition meta. ANET created the condition meta themselves and this trait basically became OP because that’s all everyone was running. With enough QQ and this condi meta this trait was screwed. It’s just sad to me how much condition cleanse and utility we have lost over time and got nothing on par in return. Flamethrower cleanses, KIt refinement, swapping kits in elixir S, elixir S nerf, P/S 5 nerf, stun breaker nerfs, transmute nerf, AR nerf, IP nerf, could actually go on for a while but you get the idea
Do you play with surround or eyefinity? I recently started having this problem when trying to launch the game in surround. I can launch it just fine on a single screen, anyone have any ideas of what to do?
Hey John, don’t you think healing sig signet is over the top? I don’t think it has been mentioned, but besides stunlock and healing signet I think wars would be fine (for the most part). I know your looking at stunlock, but that healing signet is insane. I had a similar taste of power last year that was fixed in the November balance patch. super elixir bugged and pulse heal actually healed for the initial heal amount. It’s insane healing at 400 was way too much I could easily 1-3/4 people mainly through raw healing and grenades, not to mention I could double stack them.
It’s only for active 3d aka 3d vision. Although you can use a edid override to trick the game into thinking your passive is active, and then the button becomes clickable in game
Depends on the game settings u want to run. if ur like me and u would want max settings then nothing less than a Single 780/Titan or SLI 770’s/680’s would do.
Xfire is ..well…suposedly since the Xfire driver fix its much better but its still not on par with SLI in terms of ACTUAL visual FPS. You will have to read up on Xfire framedrops/runt frames and how the indicated FPS is not the same as the percieved FPS.
I stil lsay if ur thinking of a double GPU system then go NVidia.
Since ur thinking of going multi monitor, then ur ether gunan need SLI or a 780/Titan or maybe one of AMD’s upcoming top end single GPU cards.
Honestly at this point in time, i would not advise multi monitor setups if ur currently runnign a single monitor. Simply becouse 4kHD is right around the corner.
3840×2160 vs 5760×1200/1080, i would go with a 4kHD monitor.
Infact i am, im getting the Asus 39" 4kHD monitor as soon as it arrive which should be early next year, and ‘should’ cost under $1000/£1000 if the panel cost is anything to go by. The picture quality u will get, the desktop space, and the screen size will be hands down better than any triple monitor setup imo, the best bit ..no bezels
Anyway dont underestimate the GPU requirments for multimonitor / high resolution + high setitngs gaming.
I say people overestimate what you really need to play surround/eyefinity (on 1080p screens). After having multi monitor for over a year on a myriad of gpu solutions the OP will be fine with a 770 or 7970. Only games along the lines of crisis and what not need the added horsepower. Plus he can sli or xfire whenever
OP you’ll end up with roughly the same performance between those cards for this game. You’ll get 50+ fps maxxed out stock and if you can oc far enough 60fps in uncrowded areas. I prefer nvidia for things like custom resolution (don’t like radeon pro), adaptive vsync, gpu boost 2.0, etc. And depending on what monitors you get custom resolution can come really in handy. This game is also supported by 3d vision. Amd released a frame pacing patch for crossfire but that did not include eyefinity. So right now xfire is good for single screen but still crap for eyefinity
Oh and amazon has the 31.5 inch version of that same 39" 4k monitor slated for next year at $3500
But if you do still want to go with the 7770 at least grab the 7790. Also forgot to add OP if you live near microcenter or fry’s you can really save a ton or do a lot more.
Then I’ll forget about the disk drive. Would the 650ti be able to play the game in 3d?
I highly doubt it, 3d cuts your framer ate in half this is why I recommend the 7870. Always get the best you can get with your money because you never know what you will want to do with your pc later. Believe me, my first build had a 6870 and now I have a gtx 690. I decided that same year i want a 3d vision and surround setup and you gotta pay to play
I wouldn’t have said it, if it wasn’t true. 3 month trial
I don’t suggest cheaping out on the gpu if you don’t have to
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EQuake would still have to pay $100 90 days from now and likely need to reformat his drive.
@Fermi, yes the cooler isn’t necessary but there is little harm and no cost saving right now between the CX430 and the CX500. It’s not like he’s getting an 850 watt PSU that’s $50 more. So unless you are part of the shaft Microsoft totally or postpone getting Windows by misrepresenting yourself to Microsoft crowd then you still will have to pull $25-30 out of thin air for that GPU upgrade after getting rid of the cooler.
All of us technocrati could suggest better options with another $50-100 in the budget.
Doesn’t make a difference. You don’t give any credit card info to download just agree to user agreement and download. After 90 days buy whatever version you want and use that. Me and a friend used that on our first builds to beef up our systems a little more and neither of us are certified it professional. Nothing wrong with using this bett alternative than offering him a cracked version. I could download the iso myself and send it to him, how would he get charged? Enterprise is just made for businesses it’s got everything Professional does, but with a few additions like BitLocker full-disk encryption and direct access capability, so you don’t have go through a VPN for remote access.
The one you quoted from frostyrulez is good with the 3 month trial. It’s a budget build but you don’t want to cheap out so much that you regret it later. Windows 8 has been received horribly OP (made for touch screens), you’ll want to look into whether you want 7 or 8 for yourself. You don’t have to buy the same thing other people do, get the best parts you can for the money your spending
After the whole uproar about Dhuumfire for necro’s, I Always expected Incendiary Powder to move up the trait line.
So far it remained an easy to reach 10 point trait in a line that every condition grenadier puts points in anyhow.
Now imagine if Incendiary ammo was a 30 point grandmaster trait in Explosives?
That would be argued to be equal to Dhuumfire… yet totally break HGH grenade builds!
It would also severly limit any other HGH option that uses a kit, since after spending 30 points for incendiary, and 30 points for HGH itself… you’re left with either bombs or no kit to trait for at all.
That’s all the doomsaying and negative thinking it would take to shake everything up: simply bring incendiary Powder ‘in line’ with Dhuumfire…
A harsh and over-the-top ‘fix’ but yes: it’s one I been fearing for a while now.
Maybe if dhuunfire was in the game since day 1. But to nerf us based on a ability they created for no reason not long ago? Even though it sounds like they wouldn’t do it, this is engineer were talking about so maybe
Been playing engi since day 1. If the past tells us anything then we are definitely not safe, and most likely will be nerfed. People seem to forget how hard we were nerfed every single patch until a few months ago. No one gets nerfed like we get nerfed, when it comes to engi nerfs, they really sit down and go all the way in. We’re not even a shadow of what we were a year ago
That would give you MUCH better bang for your buck. Not to mention no worries about vram, and you get 2 free games instead of one. 7870 is twice as powerful than a 7770. That build will guarantee you 60 fps maxed out graphics basically everywhere but wvw
Would a better cpu be necessary? I primarily do PvE with some PvP occasionally. I haven’t tried WvW yet as this laptop couldn’t hope to handle the slightest bit of it, but I’m not a keep sieging fellow, so I’d peobably stick to a small unit/gank squad.
This game is heavily CPU bound, you want the best CPU you can get (especially if you plan on wvw). The build above me looks fine. I would still drop the OS and get the free 3 month windows 7 trial and put that money towards a better CPU or gpu and get the OS after it expires. I would also really consider the fact that 1gb isn’t really enough for 1080p these days. Gw2 it works but what if you wanted to play the new final fantasy xiv (for example), that uses over 1gb vram at 1080p all day. Another rule of thumb is never blindly buy your parts from 1 site, there’s always a site with a better price. Use pcpartpicker when doing something like this (automatically tells you the site with lowest price)
As for why you can’t install the game, I do not know.
Low… fps…. LOL… i have a a6 5400k… overclocked a bit with 8gd ddr3 mem and i get at 1366×768 54fps.. in most area’s in huge zerg’s around 29-30 witch is not that bad.
you need to relay read up on the APU series they beat most… low to mid range Nvidia / Intel combo’s … and don’t get out powered by amd till the 6670 witch is very.. low improvement
money wise for the price.. it is the best way to build a budget.. pc.. i can play anything even elder scrolls online beta.. just fine.. it will be totally fine in the aspect most game will now be coded for THE apu as the xbox will have one.. and not a very good one at that. nothing like the A-10 is now.
my settings are texture on high check for better texture quality Anti Alias enabled, shadows disabled, water on Terrain reflection’s only, medium environment and low other character. and low post FX witch with them setting it beats. out most game’s in graphic quality
Console games will be coded for x86 architecture not specifically for amd apu, you realize a gtx 670 is a midrange gpu right
I would download a free 3 month trial of windows 7 enterprise. Then the OS money towards a better gpu, save up over 3 months and get OS after that. On the CPU you want a minimum of i5-2500k (I don’t recommend an amd CPU). I would also get a 2gb card unless gw2 is the only game you ever plan on playing
Posts like these really need to be made on an enthusiast forum, like hardforum or something.
This trait comes into effect only when you are below 25% health and you get hit by something. When that happens, no new conditions are applied to you. The conditions you had on you before continue to deal damage. Even if your opponent has +100% duration, you’ll be immune to new conditions for as long as you stay below 25% health.
So basically, it could read: “No new conditions will be applied to you when you are below 25% health.”
This sounds like the pre nerfed automated response…I’m not so sure it works like that anymore. But I could be wrong I havnt played since like may or something
Guys … accept the fact that the emphasis of this game is PvE (and WvW). As you have already mentioned the PvP player-base is quite small compared to PvE (maybe that’s precisely because PvP doesn’t get much attention). This makes it reasonable to focus on PvE (though Anet will never admit that). Also you can make much more money out of PvE than out of PvP (PvP will never work when it becomes pay2win – also PvPers are interested on challenge and skill and not on how sparkling their armor is) and Anet has to finance their developement somehow since the game has no monthly fees. So PvE gets all the love while for example class-balancing-issues are dealt with rather sloppily (just look at how new balancing problems arise after each patch). Also the fact that PvE gets huge new stuff every two weeks while PvP gets attention only every two months makes it clear that Anet may see PvP only as a small side-aspect of the game and turns their back at players who only want to PvP in GW (again Anet will never admit that, though it’s rather obvious). Anet creates new jumping-puzzles, pve-items, huge events and dungeons, new pve-zones, and so on but is it really that difficult to create a new game-mode in PvP at least after a whole year?
just my 2 cents (sry for my bad english ..)
Hit the nail on the head, this was evident as early as the mad king event.
Honestly the next best thing you can do is wvw roaming, solo or on a small team. It actually looks more fun than spvp if you can get a constant flow of enemies.
And I also agree with OP, basically if all the stuff they added in the last year disappeared I wouldn’t even notice it lol (except for solo que I guess). To me it seems more like they were adding features to try and become esports instead of what we really wanted.
If you are having trouble with an engi running auto-immune, don’t fight him. He’s near worthless anyways.
Wrong… holding a 4v1 for about 2-3 min is far from worthless. Just sayin.
Now whose fault is that? Either that’s pure hyperbole or you done goofed
Not hyperbole at all… Maybe the time is an exaggeration but my engi has sat against extreme odds for quite a time in a match. Now if my d/d ele friend is there between fields and blast finishers its quite ridiculous.
Think he means the 4 people trying to kill you are just morons.
It’s already been nerfed once, sounds like a l2p issue to me
A lot of the time it’s not really Player vs. Player, more like Player vs. Player + AI.
In fact, it’s not too dissimilar to PvE – only with another player attacking you as well. I personally feel there are too many “non-human” players in PvP and yes, it gives a massive advantage to certain classes. I realize that pets, minions, etc. are intrinsic to some classes but really, I’d just like to fight other people and not enemy mobs and other people at the same time.
Agree 100%, way too much ai/pets in this game
I still feel like with mesmers you fight the game more then the actual player
Yea there seems to be a Mesmer bias within the dev team
Mesmers? no way!!! just because they get a leap/stun-breaker/teleport/immobalize/invul on a 10s cd or 20% recharge on all their strongest skills for 5 points doesn’t mean there is a bias…
You know now that you put it like that……..I guess your right =p
Razer nostromo/orb weaver and razer naga is the best thing I could hope for. I know not of these movement issues of which you speak
I do use one and the ground targeting still causes the problems. Nice try tho.
You need to be more specific. What issues? Only issue I have is my hand definitely feels strained when I’m done playing, but it doesn’t hurt. There were a lot of issues mentioned in this thread, mainly about movement and trying to target/throw nades with a keyboard. Doesn’t mean that the other problems with nades aren’t relevant. All I mentioned was I don’t have these movement issues….because I don’t. My thumb moves the character while my other fingers on the same hand thrown the nades and use all other abilities. Only time I even touch the keyboard is to type
