Guild Wars 2

Some people just wanna unlock the specs go WvW kill kitten with them, enjoy the classes we spent money on, instead of doing specific PVE for weeks before we can do that. Same with fractals and other PVE content. Some people just do not enjoy exploring and stuff. It is pretty sad ANET is so unconfident with their product they gotta to force the players to into specific content, instead actually making enjoyable.

+1 Why didnt the advertise this nonsense before is what i ask, during the beta events and whatnot so people woould not feel this disapointing about wasting money. I am pretty sure they will nerf this nonsense at some point alongside with offrening cheaper vesion of the game, so we could just have waited for that to happen.

Colin i want my 100$ back doe. At least make it retroactive so the WvW ranks we already have become scrolls (or whatever the name is), automatically. It is ridiculous you have the specs automatically unlocked for the PvP comunity but not for the WvW comunity which btw is way bigger Or just make the 6 or so hero challenges in WvW to be worth 50 each and whatnot. Or simply make just as PvP, specs and skills get unlocked automatically when u get to lvl 80 and enter WvW (still locked for PVE).

Easy fix for those crying about getting bloobled down and PPK not being effective:

1.Outnumbered buff= 1/2- ratio make sure the enemy see the outnumbered buff so they can go to a different map or something when they are bloobing down the enemy.

2.Outnumbered buff=enemy cannot PPK on your server on that map, while you still can get points from killing them. This will encourage small teams/skill groups trying to run and fight agains the odds. I think PPK is the only way they can (kinda) fix nightcapping honestly. It will reward people fighting people instead of people fighting gates. Not saying that PPT should be gone completelly, but maybe having PPK=PPT for the final score would be nice and enocurage/reward fights.

Bring PPK back please, give us a reasson to fight in WvW. This will encourage people to actually learn how to fight/become a better player, and FTP players who wanna be competitive in WvW to buy the game.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Rampage.7145:

That depends on how you define support tho. Necromancer can AOE condi clense pretty effectivelly, AOE heal lots aswell, provide AOE protection, AOE blinds, soft and hard CC. The problem is the game itself, only support u really need is to blast firefieds and provide DPS modiffiers. Necromancer is not the problem, the game content desing is just a failure.

Hopefully that will change in the future when they actually decide to make less kittened PVE content. Honestly at this point after 3 years if you play this game for the PVE u are doing it wrong.

The problem with everything you listed is other classes can do that as well, but still output good DPS, or at least boost the groups DPS or bring unique utilities.

Really our life siphons should just be a flat percentage, why they are designed the way they are only healing messily amounts makes no sense to me.

Necro is designed heavy arround big AOE DPS tho, like is the kind of DPS the class does best, other than staff ele nothing can match necro on that, it is also pretty strong on single target DPS, necro AOE healing skills scale pretty well on healing power contrary other classes. Necro provides the best all AOE CC in game with the best AOE boon stripping. Obviously those things are not really important currently with the limited PVE content this game has but, who knows maybe sometime in the future they will create content where necros can shine as they do in PvP.

That depends on how you define support tho. Necromancer can AOE condi clense pretty effectivelly, AOE heal lots aswell, provide AOE protection, AOE blinds, soft and hard CC. The problem is the game itself, only support u really need is to blast firefieds and provide DPS modiffiers. Necromancer is not the problem, the game content desing is just a failure.

Hopefully that will change in the future when they actually decide to make less kittened PVE content. Honestly at this point after 3 years if you play this game for the PVE u are doing it wrong.

All stunbreaks are big kitten cooldowns anyways, also most of the time u go DS u already popped them. I don’t see how this can possibly be a big balance issue honestly. Reaper has pulsing stability on DS anyways, and i don´t see how can normal necro possibly benefit a whole lot from this. You are better off saving sunbreaks for when you are out of life force anyway in order to survive burst damage, while you build up life force again.

I mean i understand stuff like lich of plague or rampage or tornado could potentially become problematic cuz those transformations give you extra stats and stuff, but that is not the case with shroud.

I really don´t see how could this possibly afftect balance too badly like, u cannot heal while on DS so using heal would be stupid, u cannot use lich or plague any different than u would do it anyways. Power well necro does not benefit from it DPS wise, it is the same to drop wells and go into DS than being already onn DS while droping your wells, condi necro does not benefit a whole lot from staying on DS for long periods since you loose DPS if you do so, only thing that can probably benefit from it is having your signets pasive bonuses (which you should anyway) while on DS.

Druid can do it, can even use utilities while transformed, why wouldn’t necro be on par with that?

Ok, lag has nothing to do with this experiments, are you guys kittening kittened o wat? Blame you ISP for any lag you guys are getting unless is something every single person on the server is experiencing.

I play WvW a lot arround 100 ping, i play guardian as main class (melee) and i do feel i can connect better with my gretasowrd autos on a moving zerg than before, also the animation looks way more responsive aswell (faster response key stroke/animation). The only negative thing i have noticed (and i am nor sure if this is related to the changes u made) is that i do get stucked in place sometimes mid fight (completlelly unable to move like i had immobilize on me), i reccord my gameplay most of the time and even checking the recordings i can see i have stability and no immobilize on me, and my character still wsn’t able to move from that spot. It is a rare issue, really sporadic, and really don’t think it has something to do with your tests, but stuff like this never happened back when the game was new (i have played WvW since launch, i rarelly do something else). So at some point you changed something that created what we WvWers call “the stuck bug”.
Anyway the game feels great responsive now, specially compared to other MMOs like TERA or archage, this game just feels great for melee combat, mainly the reasson i still play it after all this time (even while u kittened up WvW mechanics in general, but that is a different issue).

Sorry to say this mate but the only solution to your issue is to get a new mobo (try find the same model so u dont have driver issues with the OS), i am pretty sure u can find a cheap one on Ebay. GW2 is extremly bandwith sensitive unlike other games, as you describe metro, W3, BF4, or whatever will work just fine on low bandwith but GW2 just wont. Anything below PCIe 2.0@8x or PCIe 3.0@4x will bottleneck GW2 big time produccing massive FPS loss. It has nothing to do with win 10 or the drivers, it is just the game for some reasson.

I am pretty sure they can help you. Go to support directly not to forums. They will totally review your case at some point (it may take some time). Ther are different types of support tickets u can submit there, one of them specifically related to in-game items, that is the one u want.

Ok, no it will run in low settings and pretty mediocre, if you wanna buy a notebook for GW2 to run on High at a decent framerate u are looking at 1600/2000$ Usd at minimum. You can build a decent desktop pc for like 700$ that will run in high serttings too at the same or better framerate thatn a high end laptop.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP9753.html

Something like that is what u want to run the game on high/ultra settings on the go. Don’t even bother buying a 800$- or less laptop to try play this game on it cuz the experience will not be good. You need to go all the way to the high/ultra high end laptops because to keep up with this game laptops need to be extremly well cooled to start with, not to mention a really fast processor, this game simply makes your laptop go HOOOOT no matter what, it punishes the CPU really hard, and laptop GPUs run very hot on default.

I would highlly recomend to go Desktop for this game, hands down. But if you absolutelly need the portability of a notebook, u need to start looking at the high end spectum, the faster the clockspeed of the processor the better, any graphics card above a Gtx870m should be able to run thiis game at high/ultra fairly ok.

Good job anet trying to give kitten casual players (they consider true wvw players) like DocGotGame some gimmick so he can actually win a fight.

Tyaen.5148:

Rampage.7145:

Fight comunity avoid siege as much as posible like, we don’t build ACs unless necesary; extremly outnumbered defense of an upgraded structure for example, other than that we prefer to fight straight up, siege is AIDS. Getting shot by cannons or ACs while trying to fight an enemy zerg is what we try avoid at all costs. No respectable guild or commader will ever build siege in order to win a fight. Most people/guilds/commanders in T3 thinks the same way, there are a couple siege monkeys on SBI but that is to be expected from not fight oriented pugs and stuff.

lawl.

Maguuma doesn’t hide behind their tower walls with siege even when they outnumber the opponent.

:rollseyes:

Sure some random pugs do, but you will not see a commander doing that unless he is outnumbered really bad.

Fight comunity avoid siege as much as posible like, we don’t build ACs unless necesary; extremly outnumbered defense of an upgraded structure for example, other than that we prefer to fight straight up, siege is AIDS. Getting shot by cannons or ACs while trying to fight an enemy zerg is what we try avoid at all costs. No respectable guild or commader will ever build siege in order to win a fight. Most people/guilds/commanders in T3 thinks the same way, there are a couple siege monkeys on SBI but that is to be expected from not fight oriented pugs and stuff.

Contrary to what most people thing, a lot of GvGers, do play WvW during their free (non raiding) time, is the only reasson why the GvG tier is a high tier instead T8 for example. GvG playerts tag along with the commanders and roam arround capping small stuff camps, killing yaks, sentrys and what not, that influences server score. PPL who thinks arenas will take all the GvGers out WvW are completelly wrong. You may stop see them running arround so often, but players from those guilds will still impact the server performance. Also Openfield fighting is fun, no rules just killing kitten is just fun as long you are not fighting enemy siege.

Please Maguuma is a honorbale server nobody would ever do something like that.

That guardian is culcutter i recognize him!

Maze.3825:

There is no way any said video card will max this game out in any serious outside world combat. That being said, I do believe that that the Nvidia 960 + a decent quad core WOULD with all maximum settings inside a dungeon/ game instance! I really think that Open World Combat starting at HD resolution + max settings. would suffer greatly with any setup in this game. 15-20fps is to me not a doable/playable option for maximum settings.

An example of one of those people who post on this forums and don’t know kitten

People don´t know kitten on this forums LOL. a 960 will max out this game up to 1440p no problem without braking a sweat. This game graphics are kitten even a 750 will max out this game no problems.
What is holding you back is the CPU. get the new intel i5 6600k with a decent mobo for like 150$ paired along with the GTX 960 it will be a really good upgrade. The drawback of buying the new CPU+MOBO is that you will need to buy some expensive DDR4 memory too, but it is all worth it towards future gaming.
If you mostly PVE maybe the new 960 will be enough of an upgrade just make sure u keep the shadows at medium and reflections disabled (those are CPU intensive settings), u can max out everything else no problems with that card.
Also make sure u disable vsync. Use MSI afterburner to lock your FPS at your monitor refresh rate. Hit me up when u have the card and i will teach you how to do this, it will greatly improve the game smoothness, and will keep your videocard running cool not rendering unecesary frames.

Behellagh.1468:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/9

Scroll down to the section OVERALL: CPU IPC. Those 7 benchmarks, some single core/multicore, are run on Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake CPUs running at 3GHz, so all underclocked, with DDR3 memory. You can clearly see the improvement between CPU generations.

There is a 20% improvement between Sandy Bridge and Skylake in CineBench. Same with PovRay, another CPU intensive benchmark. No “new instructions” or advantage from DDR4 here. No better thermals so Turbo kicks up the speed, no faster default clock speed. Skylake IS a faster CPU at the same speed against existing software.

You are right, this doesn’t necessarily translates into an equal performance gain in games. But if you already OCing, getting another 20% above what you already have is a virtual impossibility unless you are barely OCing.

Ok if you think Cinebench is equal to real world performance, ehm…. There is nothing else to say. I do invite you to check out the GAMING benches on that very same review and see what real worl gaming performance means. And as i said, at best it is 10% faster in 1 game GTA 5. That is about it, some other CPU intensive games like atila perform exactly equal. Gaming is not equal to sytnthetic CPU benches cuz every game is different they basically move massive ammounts of data from CPU to memory to GPU, during this process there are many things that affect the performance, not only raw CPU performance.

All these ¨review¨ websites are paid by intel and such to speak marvels about their new releases but lets face it. Intel has not released a decent CPU since the sandy days, people should just kittening boycot every single of these garbage releases. How is it kittening possible that a 2011 CPU made in 32nm is virtually as good as a 2015 CPU made in 14nm, they even comsume about the same kittening power. They should at least be giving you 8 cores at this point at the same price to barelly justify their inneptitude. This is completelly unacceptable and people should just not buy these producs cuz they are garbage, plain and simple it is like we had 560ti videocards still. Hell no any 100$ videocard in 2015 will destroy a 300$ 2011 videocard, that is how CPU market should kittening work. Compare a kittening iphone 3 to an iphone 5 for god sake, the x64 CPU industry is a technology embarasment.

Rerards like you who read these biased reviews and believe what they say without stopping for a second and actually thinking for yourself are the reasson why the industry is not moving forward, cuz nobody has the balls to tell intel they are a piece of kitten.

Ehm definitelly CPU throteling, check you gaming temps. I would advice you to take off the overclock on you GPU cuz this game is not particularly GPU heavy. Leave you GPU at stock, limit the FPS arround 45 using MSI afterburner (so you don’t stress your GPU uneccesarially, this allows u to have better temps) and tone down the graphics a bit. This way your GPU will be generating less heat inside your laptop which will allow your CPU to cool off more efficiently.

Definitelly a heat issue, there are many things u can do to fix this, like changing the termal paste on your chips, dusting off the vents, buying a cooling pad for your laptop. Try to research a bit arround the net u will find lots of guides that will help you with this issue.

Ansau.7326:

Rampage.7145:

Ok no this is not true most of those becnhmarks use newer instruction sets, which makes new processors better, faster and efficient (due having new instruction sets compared to old ones), When games start taking advantage of this then yes u will see better performnce. Old games (like gw2) will hardly use these so basically they will perform the same on an old i7 2600k than on a new i7 6700k. Notice these benches are also made at stock clock speeds and the new i7 has a base clock of 4.2ghz compared to 3.8ghz from the old one. When u overclock both the new will get to 4.7 or close to that as maximum Oc while the old one will get 4.8-4.9.

U can see all the gaming benches and even on CPU starved games like atila total war u will see indentical performance on both CPUs. The reasson for this is Intel hvn’t improved IPC since sandy days, they only added tricks and gimmicks to their new procesors but they hvn’t done anything groundbreaking yet to make em really faster. Sure the new i7 will feel a bit faster during general usage, but for gaming, hell no untill the games start taking advantage of newer technologies.

I would advice you to just keep your i7 2600k untill it dies or they release faster processors (for real). If you use you PC for video editing, rendering or other professional stuff where u can take advantage of new instruction sets to do things faster, then definitelly go get the new i7 6700k right away cuz DDR4 PCIe 4.0 M.2 USB 3.0 are worthly platform upgrades u wanna have to be more productive. If you only game then u will notice no difference whatsoever between the old i7 2600k and newer processors (at least on current games it may change for future games).

How wrong you are here. Reviews show a good improvement in CPU based games, you need to check again those reviews.
Newer cpus not only have more instructions sets, but also more ipc, more fpu or faster ones, faster memory, pcie 3.0… Over sandy bridge.

Yesterday did a small test and in karka queen I was getting 22-30fps with everything maxed, and in jormag it didn’t fall below 30fps with a bit less people.
I5 4690k oc to 4.4ghz, 8gb ram 2400mhz cl10 and r9 285.

Sorry but no, most reviews are done at STOCK clocks speeds the new processor has a way higher stock speed than the old one, when u overclock em both u realize the performance difference becomes minimal. Unless u take advantage of the DDR4 memory or the PCIe 3.0 or new insturction sets processors performs basically identically, 10% difference on performance means nothing takes you from 30 FPS to 33 (at best), which is essentially the same on a CPU bottlenecked scenario.

Please stop this kittenness, you dont need a new 4 core i7 if you own a 4 core sandy already. Maybe if you had an old i5 getting a new i7 would make sense for multithreaded performance in some games but 4c/8t i7 to 4c/8t i7 makes no sense at all. Unless u plan on taking advantage of the platform upgrades. But for this game hell no u will see no improvment at all.

If you wanna waste money on a platform upgrade at least go Haswell-e, a 6 core processor with a masive ammount of DDR4 memory and more PCI lanes is sweet upgrade in horsepower over what u have atm but nontheless for this particular game u will see no improvment at all.

Ansau.7326:

- The 6700k OC to 4.6 or 4.7 (which seems to be easy) will be around 30% more powerful than your overclocked 2600k.
- Z170 has pcie 3.0 while yours has 2.0. This will add around 5fps more.
- Your ddr3 ram will probably be 1333 or 1600 at most. ddr4 will start at 2133, but I suggest to get 2666, 2800 or 3000. This will add another 5fps more.

For gw2 it is a good upgrade.

Ok no this is not true most of those becnhmarks use newer instruction sets, which makes new processors better, faster and efficient (due having new instruction sets compared to old ones), When games start taking advantage of this then yes u will see better performnce. Old games (like gw2) will hardly use these so basically they will perform the same on an old i7 2600k than on a new i7 6700k. Notice these benches are also made at stock clock speeds and the new i7 has a base clock of 4.2ghz compared to 3.8ghz from the old one. When u overclock both the new will get to 4.7 or close to that as maximum Oc while the old one will get 4.8-4.9.

U can see all the gaming benches and even on CPU starved games like atila total war u will see indentical performance on both CPUs. The reasson for this is Intel hvn’t improved IPC since sandy days, they only added tricks and gimmicks to their new procesors but they hvn’t done anything groundbreaking yet to make em really faster. Sure the new i7 will feel a bit faster during general usage, but for gaming, hell no untill the games start taking advantage of newer technologies.

I would advice you to just keep your i7 2600k untill it dies or they release faster processors (for real). If you use you PC for video editing, rendering or other professional stuff where u can take advantage of new instruction sets to do things faster, then definitelly go get the new i7 6700k right away cuz DDR4 PCIe 4.0 M.2 USB 3.0 are worthly platform upgrades u wanna have to be more productive. If you only game then u will notice no difference whatsoever between the old i7 2600k and newer processors (at least on current games it may change for future games).

NOBODY likes this new map make a freaking public pol and see it by yourselfl, if you feel like you really need to add this garbage to the game just make it optional like EoTM. Do not force WvW players to play on this map since we all dislike it please.

Unlike you may think there are actual players who ONLY DO WvW and we do not care about karma training we want to fights and kill people. Do not ruin this game mode, if we want to PVE we will just go to the silverwastes please, listen to your players.

We want maps that force you to fight insteand just hiding on walls, we want points per kill, we do not want more siege please. LISTEN to your players.

Title says everything, get rid of this kitten, we already knew u guys didnt not give a kitten about WvW, so please dont do this kittening kitten in here, do it on PVE where kittens actually like this kind of crap.

Now that would be a good reasson to buy a 100$ expansion, having the game on Dx12 running efficiently along all CPU cores, not the mini Rytlock.

same issue since a few days ago, maguuma server

Game engine is old trash, nothing else to say about it but get a new better PC.

Anet needs to raise the server caps is the only real solution for this problem, otherwise u can try transfer during the offhours

Exactly the same issue, started this week and only arround NA prime

LOL right, specially when we were so bored this week, we only raided in the EOTM. VR will always engage on up to x2 our numbers. The fact you pushed back a couple of our roamers witt your blob do not mean kitten, btw we did 7 vs 20+ the other day random roaming. DH is a joke.

Good Luck trying to find a video where we ran from a single guild like your guilds did last night lol.

Videocard will not help, since the CPU is bottlenecking you, not GPU so basically running 4 cards will not grant you a single extra frame rate on this game, i would suggest running Gw2 on a single card unless u have a 4k or a triple monitor setup u will see better performance running it on a single card, since you will not have to deal with CF frame latency, the whole system will use less power run cooler.

P.S: OC you CPU to 4.5 ghz u will notice a huge bump on performance

Same problem here from south america, Lag is completely umplayable for me 2-10 secs delay ping from 300-1k for GW2 server my usual ping is at 100ms, TP unusable. Please fix this

Jim Hunter.6821:

Rampage.7145:

All that it takes for the necro is to run plague signet wait for the range to put 12 bleeds and fire on you pop it, use fear+necro condi burst GG ranger. not very hard to tell when the ranger is evading sword is very telegraphted. That assuming u are runnnig a condi burst ranger spec with axe and stuff, if you are just running a self heal spec, well u should not be playing wvw at all.

You are kidding right? A regen condi ranger is pretty much unlikable in a 1v1. High toughness, kitten near immune to conditions and still able to condi burst most things into the ground. In small group fights where the ranger is pretty much always targeted first you can evade around, out healing any damage you take while your friends rip them apart. I’m guessing you run in the zerg.

Just as u don’t take any damage u don’t do any damage either… Playing condi regen in WvW is kittened, if you go on a team u do no support, no damage, so basilly u are just a punching bag, what is gonna happen is that any near decent enemy team will kill all your friends first (since they have 1 useless condi/regen ranger on the team it should not be a problem) and then they will kill you, not even all the regen in the world will save you from a 2 v 1 vs 2 decent players. If you decide u wanna roam alone what is gonna happen is u will get rofstomped in any outnumbered situation since u lack mobility, this is also bad when u try to chase somebody runnig away from you to get into a tower or to NPCs. Nobody plays or should play this kind of build other than dueling in the OS, but then again that is not WvW.

T2 has way more action than T1 just check out the scores http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups (more points in T2 with less stacked servers, means more kills despite being lower populated), i’d recomend FA if you like guild groups and fights, or Yaks bend if you like PPT play, scout, upgrade stuff and such, overtaking enemy positions. T2 ques are short 10-15 mins tops and u get to play in a different map and have fun while waiting since T2 offers you small scale and big scale wvw gameplay on the same server which means u can blob or 2-3 man solo roam no problem if you feel like.

I didn’t recomend SoS cuz they are the weakest server, even tho they have strong guilds, or DB since they have the worst guilds, all they do is mindlesly blob T1 style but with less people which means they get farmed a lot by T2 experienced fight guilds (they get rekt).

All that it takes for the necro is to run plague signet wait for the range to put 12 bleeds and fire on you pop it, use fear+necro condi burst GG ranger. not very hard to tell when the ranger is evading sword is very telegraphted. That assuming u are runnnig a condi burst ranger spec with axe and stuff, if you are just running a self heal spec, well u should not be playing wvw at all.

U can also, condi or power run spectral armor as stunbreaker, if he uses pointblanshot as oppening to go for RF just pop it, protection is extremly powerfull vs power classes then just try to outburst him. If you see him popping his stability elite just try LOS and kite until that fades off, after that chills fears and just damage u should be able to easy deal with the ranger, just make sure u run +40% condi duration for roaming power or condi chills, fears, crippples are a kitten for a power ranger or any other class with poor condi removal.

U can also, condi or power run spectral armor as stunbreaker, if he uses pointblanshot as oppening to go for RF just pop it, protection is extremly powerfull vs power classes then just try to outburst him. If you see him popping his stability elite just try LOS and kite until that fades off, after that chills fears and just damage u should be able to easy deal with the ranger, just make sure u run +40% condi duration for roaming power or condi chills, fears, crippples are a kitten for a power ranger or any other class with poor condi removal.

That is assuming u play power necro right? cuz if you play condi there is no way in hell a ranger power or condi ranger can beat you.

I tried that already, and reinstalling the game too, maybe faulty nvidia drivers? i have no idea what the problem maybe but is really annoying and it is happening to a lot of people in WVW, i dont do massive PVE so i can’t tell.

The video is not mine btw is from some random person in the GW2wvw forums i just found it by accident thile readin a post but is perfect example about the current issue.

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So idk how old this problem is but, i tried to do WVW reset yesterday and i realized u can’t see all the AOE animations anymore, like static fields, necro wells, meteors, mesmer fields only thing i see is red circles not matter which skill it is is a red fieds making it imposible for me drive, since i can’t distinguish between a nacro well and guardian symbol. IDK if this is a roblem for everyone or just me, i play the game maxed out in options and have a high end PC (i7 4770k 4.8ghz dual gtx970, SLI off for GW2 tho), before some forum genius recomend me to upgrade my rig.

I also saw some people on map chat complaining about it, so it is not just me. I also notice this happens on large scale fights lets say 30 v30 but not on small scale 5 v 5 for example.

I’ve found this on youtube that helps me show you the problem, u only see red circles no skill animations anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaufA1_23Y8&feature=youtu.be

Hey Zoose, big fan here (even tho i don’t even play ele lol), There are not good GvG guilds in T2 anymore, we used to have all the bests here in maguuma, KH, EP, Ark, Pyro, TG, but the all either left the game or went to T1. Saddly enoug Maguuma is a server of Roamers and Militia atm, u will not find a good competitive GvG experience in T2 anymore.

You really need to fix this, is kittened, 2+ weeks allready with this problem, which is a gamebreaker for many players and no fix, game is unplayable like this…. Stop releasing PVE content full of bugs like this.

NeXeD.3042:

Alot of this depends on what server your doing this on. I dare you to try large group fights in zerker on a t1-2 server.

LOOOOL zerker necro is the way to go for zerg fights, i play in maguuma, and even using full zerker i never die, using 6/2/0/0/6 full glass cannon, just need to learn how to properly range DPS enemies and you will be fine, remember, even using full zerker u have 40k+ HP if you combine you HP pool and DS.
Necro has the highest AOE damage potential for zerg fights, localized damage+ soft CC, so not using zerker would be a waste in my opinion, just learn how to dodge, using you healing skill properly and you will never die.

This video is not mine, but it is a perfect example of what a full zerker necro can and should do on zerg fights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSgjUk0JCs

rjtavares.1548:

I dowloaded the HWMonitor and it looked like my CPUs were a bit hot. Opened it up and cleaned up the fans and the temp dropped. Here’s the CPU core temps with GW2 running
Value Min Max
49 C 47C 63C Core 1
48C 42 C 58C Core 2
49C 47 C 62 C Core 3
47 C 45C 59 C Core 4

Radeon
Value Min Max
69C 53 C 69C
70C 53C 70C

FPS is now at 9.

I appreciate the suggestions and the help.

I am running Windows 7 and do have the Adobe Flash player.

That is way too hot for a AMD CPU, those phenoms are rated at a max temp of 65c, so most likelly ur CPU is throtling down to keep up with that kind of heat. The normal CPU temp at full load, and i mean during a stress test, not gaming, should be arround 50c, during gaming u should never see ur CPU going over 40c. I had a phenomIIx6 overclocked to 4ghz and it did never ever went over 35c during gaming.
I would sugest u to remove the CPU heatsink, and re apply the thermal compuond, if that dosen’t work, just do ur CPU a favor and buy a coolermaster 212EVO CPU cooler it is arround 30$ and it will keep that CPU running at at 30c.

Notice u won’t see this issue reflected in other games cuz they don’t push ur CPU as hard as GW2 does.

Crawford.4135:

Intel i5 processors are not high-end CPUs. They are budget / business CPUs for general use. You should honestly go for an i7 as they will lend you more CACHE than i5 processors. CACHE is critical for a gaming system.

It saddens me that to this day you still see players/people say i5’s are better or not that much different than i7 processors. They are in fact much better over an i5 due to the CACHE. CACHE is an essential part for a gaming system and help in the performance area greatly.

So not true, cache is necesary for multithreaded tasks, games won’t really notice if u have 6 or 20mb cache since they won’t full utilize the 6mb anyway, u only need cache for workstation and server (Xeon grade CPUs) workloads, for gaming an i5 or a regular 1150 socket i7 will do as well if not better than any 1000$ socket 2011 CPU. Also u don’t need a motherboard with 40 PCIe lanes, a regular z87 motherboard will be just fine for single and double GPU configurations, even if u have 2 GTX titans.