Guild Wars 2

Be like me.
Take 1 day to compelte all achivements, and just leave that map alone xD Nothing esle to do.

I’m not sure how and when they spawn, but I made all the achivements for that new little map in 1 day. Just go and play that map for fun and achivements will come to you. I wouldn’t just rush for them from the begining like I did.
1 day of fun and grinding and then 2 months waiting for something new?

That Bloodstone map did bring so much fun into game, but sadly just for short period of time. More maps and achivements like this should be added monthly and it would be great!

And achivements could take a bit longer. Right now you have to kill like 200 mobs or something? I would just increase that to 2500, so we have to waste some time there :P

Free to play seems okay for me.
I did pay 45€ for game and after 4 months HoT came out so I had to pay another 45€. But it wasn’t any problem because I like the game.

Free users are limited to Kyrta only with bunch of restrictions.
I think free users can’t even glide.

So F2P is meant for players to try it out and decide if they wanna buy full game

Well I just want to get those 60fps at all times …
I did try to overclock my i7 4790k to 4,9GHz, but that was under 1,5V voltage and not raly safe for daily use. It did improve FPS a bit, but still not 60fps at WvW battles.
I just wish that GW2 could use all my PC power before it starts delivering lower fps.

I’m kinda new player here, and I noticed that there used to be monthly achivements also.
Can we ever expect them to come back?

It would be great if we coul have daily/weekly/monthly achivements all at the same time, so new players can get more AP a bit faster

So I’m using i7 4790k and I notice that GW2 won’t ever use more than 50% of my CPU power.
If I get something like i7 6800k with 6 cores or maybe i7 6900k with 8 cores, would GW2 also use 50% of CPU?
50% of i7 6900k is much more than from i7 4790k

I’m asking because in WvWvW, I get FPS lagg, and it’s not because of GPU. Using GTX 1070 and it’s chilling under 40% usage all the time at 1440p.

Anyone using 6 or 8 core intel CPU?

I don’t think Tyria have enough mastery points already …
HOT on the other hand … tons of them xD

Can we expect more mastery points for Tyria map maybe?
Right now, everyone is only playing HoT maps and Tyria is not populated as it used to be.
Adding more mastery points in Tyria region would bring back more players.

So, can we expect some more masteries in central Tyria?

It was great episode, just too short.
They will release new episode every 2-3 months, and it takes only 1 day to complete story + all achivements.
It kinda sux that we have to wait 2-3 months just for 1 day of fun

Are there any news when can we expect new expansion?
HOT was all fun and that, untill you complete all the achivements and masteries in 1 month.
Can we expect new expansion this year?

It also makes me sad that we will get next chapter after 2-3 months …
Spent like 2 hours on story and another 2 hours for achivements … already got 5 masteris and 14/18 achivements done.
So just few more hours and it’s done.

Achivements are too easy if you ask me.

Uhm guys?
This game is running on 10 years old engine paired with DX9c.
I’m not sure how great this game scale on 4K in general.

UI can be fixed failry easy, devs just need to take 1 hours time to push update for it.

But GW2 at 4K … I can already see lagg xD

The problem is, that ping isn’t even that horrible.
I get max 200 ping during massive battles and that’s still kinda okay.

But skills not working … that annoying AF.

I belive that problem is heer since the beggining and I don’t know why they don’t do something about that.
Someone said that it’s because there are so many calculations with skill casting and making dammage … yeah well there is intel CPU with 22 cores and can be used in dual config.
Don’t tell me that CPU power like that couldn’t calculate verything in real time.
I guess problem is also with 10mbit ports that they are using on servers … there are special king of NIC devices for those tasks.

Can we expect new server merges in the future?
First month after server merges, all borders and EB were full of people. So many bloobs and everything.
Now it’s borring again, and only EB have kittenrom karma trainers.

I just want to get home after work and participate in 100vs100 groups.

There is skill lagg every time we try to fight massive groups.
Might be able to fix that?

All good and great, but I’m kinda new player, and still waiting for Living World Season 1 to get back, so I can do that before LWs3.

That’s something I would like to see also.
I started playing Guild Wars 2 last year, and didn’t even know much then. But now it would be great if I could play Living season 1 also.

I hope to see that back in game, so new players and those who werent able to play at this time, can also do that and get achivements.

aaaand another bump!
Any news?
We need that optimisation for 60fps at all sicuation
Use more GPU and less CPU.

thanks in advance

Probbably necro because of shroud that will extend your life and make you durable.
2nd would be ranger since it has pet that will tank your mobs, while you are killing them from distance.

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ShinyDay.5349:

This thread keep getting more replies, even if developers said that GW2 won’t ever support multithreading or DX upgrades or any kind of new engine.
They even crushed our hopes for GW3 to come out with better graphic and overall optimisation.

Note from futue: It’s 2025, we still have DX9c, game is still CPU heavy, it can’t utilize GPU or CPU to max performance.

If GW3 uses the same crap engine that GW2 uses, I will not buy it. its not 2004 anymore, its time to retire old technology.

There won’t be GW3.
They will just keep updating GW2 with new expansions like HoT for example.
There won’t be GW 2.5 or anything … just more updates to GW2.

And to update engine of game, they would need to rewrite almost all codes, so we can just forget about it.
I sometimes dream about GW2 running with Unreal Engine 4. Many orgasms.

Okay, so we all agree that depositing gold somewhere safe would be awesome feature.

Interest and profit from it – NOPE :P

This thread keep getting more replies, even if developers said that GW2 won’t ever support multithreading or DX upgrades or any kind of new engine.
They even crushed our hopes for GW3 to come out with better graphic and overall optimisation.

Note from futue: It’s 2025, we still have DX9c, game is still CPU heavy, it can’t utilize GPU or CPU to max performance.

I recently had interesting experience with purchasing The Legend by mistake. Got a bit lagg, and double clicked on TP, causing to instantly buy it xD
100% my mistake, and I then crafted Bifrost to sell on TP and get profit out of it, so all fine.

But I would realy like to have some system in game to deposit gold in bank or something.
So if nothing else, I would avoid purchasing wrong items on TP in future.

But we can go further with this idea. Some kind of banking and profits.
For example: You can deposit 1000g and if you leave it in the bank for 7 or 30 days, you get 5% worth, so after 30d, you can withdraw 1050g.
But if you withdar after 29days, you don’t get any profit.
That 5% is just a random number pulled out from the sky. So just an idea.

Some might say that it would make rich players even richer, so I wouldn’t mind if we don’t get any profit from puting gold in bank.
The main reason is, to put gold somewhere safe, so I can’t buy something expencive by mistake, while I’m just looking at prices of items

In my opinion, exactly that lack of optimisation will cause the end to GW2.
And then developers will be like: “Why you don’t want to play anymore. We have great updates and much new content”.

We even had server merges recently. Meaning? Well we have less players than before. Players are loosing interest in this game, and don’t tell me that game performnace have nothing to do with it. Sure it’s not just that, but fair amount of players quited this game because of that FPS drop. We are in 2016, and if game can’t deliver us at least those 60fps … well that’s just sad.

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Jon Olson.8439:

Our recent response regarding rendering api changes.

Sad.

Guild Wars 2 is destined to end up like Lineage 2 in terms of performance. No matter what hardware people get, the performance will always be bad.

My performance has been great the last four years. If I were to upgrade it would be even better. The same goes for other people. As they upgrade their computers, they will eventually be able to play on higher graphics settings. The graphics on the highest settings look infinitely better than WoW and that game has been out for over a decade.

I don’t belive that.
Put all your settings on high and try to get 60 fps at WvW or any populated events like boss kills etc.
It’s just not possible.

About 144 FPS … big NOPE.

If game can acctually utilize hardware ressources before it brings us FPS lagg, that great optimisation.

But what you see in GW2? CPU usage at 40%, GPU usage at 30%, but FPS are dropping. Ehem why you no use 100% CPU and GPU GW2? Why?

We don’t acctually need DX12. We just need this game to be better optimised and acctually use Hyper Threading and utilize 100% of GPU and CPU if it needs to.
Sadly this 10 years old engine can’t do that, and won’t ever be able to do so.

Endless gathering tools for discount price please

I agree … DX 12 would be great.
Even DX 11 would be nice.

It would be also nice if we had Unreal Engine 4 implemented in this game for better performance and optimisation.

Sadly any kind of upgrades like that would require way too much man hours to acctually implement it.
My hope was that we would see those features in GW3, but they also crushed this dream, since there won’t be GW3, but rather some kind of update like HOT was.

So we are stuck at DX9c and GW1 engine. Like 10 years old technology.
You will probbably get respond like: it doesn’t matter performance of the game, if story is great etc.

if it makes you feel any better, not even 20 core CPU with quad titan x SLI won’t get you stable 60 fps at WvW massive battles

pay to win … did you notice gem store?
Did you notice system for buying gems with real money and converting them into gold?

So that additional gathering material is nothing compared to gem store “pay to win”.

Was just an idea what I would personally like to see.

As necro reaper I feel immortal mate!

Legendary crafting cost around 1100g +exotic wep.
100-1200g … depends on your luck with mystic clovers, and how long time do you have to make low offers and acctually get something for it.

I crafted 5 legendary weapons so far, and I always sold them on TP, just because I don’t wanna pay so much money for simple skin. That way I got around 1,2-1,5k gold profit for each one of them that I crafted … more than enough to get myself all ascend gear + weapons etc.

It depends on what you like.
Some players acctually like to grind and make 10x exploration to craft 20 legendary wepons, sell them and become rich af.

Others like to enjoy PvP.

And there is bunch of players who will play WvW all the time just because it’s crouded and always fun (at least if you are on WvW active/populated server).

Or do more PvE … get all 166 masteries, all stories and achivements … will take you years to get them done all lol
Create all possible characters and make them level 80 + unlock all skills.

Just go to achivement tab and see what you haven’t done yet.

Google “Guild wars 2 boss timer”, and kill every possible boss there is.

Oh and did I mention achivements? There doesn’t seem to be the end of them xD

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Mortifer.2946:

Would make a huge impact on TP.
Would be pay to win.

It means we woul?d gather 25% more than normally. But not all players have that .. only like 20% of players.
So acctuall effect on TP would be like max 5% volume increase of some materials.

Either source about 20% and max 5%, or don’t make up numbers and try to pass them off as real.

You don’t know how many have these tools and you don’t know what the impact would be so don’t pull numbers out of body orifices and use them to make an argument for what you want.

It’s true, those numbers were pulled out of my dark hole.
And yes I would like to have that for my personal gain.

But if you think that would bring, as you said, HUGE impact on TP, you are fooling yourself.

Mortifer.2946:

Would make a huge impact on TP.
Would be pay to win.

It means we woul?d gather 25% more than normally. But not all players have that .. only like 20% of players.
So acctuall effect on TP would be like max 5% volume increase of some materials.

Since they cost so much, it would be nice to get extra materials when gathering or something.
So instead of getting 3 soft wood logs, you would get like 4 or 5 all the time with this endless gathering tools.
That wouldn’t make any huge difference to TP market or anything, but would be just another way to make people interested in those tools —> more money for Anet :P

One can only hope for this.
Isn’t it fun when you are in battle, pressing numbers but nothing realy happens?
But to be fair … 450 players are on that map, so lagg is expected. FPS lag, ping lag, and skill lag.

The only problem here is ping and nothing else.
Unless they put some server in the midle of the ocean, either NA or EU will have huge ping delay compared to the other team.
As much as I would like to see that happen, it probbably never will.

Well ESO have DX12 in progress, so that’s hude advantage in my personal opinion.

But you can also play GW2 from your bed/couch or whatever … just get wireless keyboard and mouse + connect your PC to TV. Problem solved!
Or just buy USB extenders and you don’t have to waste more than 10$.

Focusing on DX9 allows us to do this, as it’s a much wider supported graphics API than DX11 is and we wanted our game to reach as many of our fans as possible.

I’m sorry but I don’t belive that with DX11 you can’t make same things that they are doing with DX9c.

I was hoping on DX11/12 also, and I was sure that it would help improve FPS, but someone said that even DX11 wouldn’t help. This game is porly opimised and even with DX11/12 it wouldn’t support multithreading.
DX11 and above does support multithreading, but core game doesn’t, so it wouldn’t have any effect about that.

DX11/12 would improve performance a bit, but not much.

I can only hope they will use DX12 for GW3, with some public engine like Unreal Engine 3/4. At least there is full database of tricks with those engines, unlike the one we are using now (from GW1 … like 10 years old code).

And from what Anet said, they either don’t know how to optimise that game to acctually use all of CPU and GPU power, or they just refuse to spend money on it’s development.

However you turn this, it’s bad news for everyone who was hoping to get 60fps at WvW battles and other populated events. There just won’t be such luxury here. Probbably the only down side of Guild Wars 2.

I would love to see endless gathering/mining/logging items all together in budle for 2200 gems or something like that.
We had discount that was 800 gems for each == total of 2400 gems for all 3 differend types.
But all 3 together for even a bit lower price would be cool

I got that achivement in like 2 days.
Just go to spot where legendary spawn and keep watching for it.

Simple solution: buy HOT. It doesn’t cost much and by now you should know how good this game is, and you won’t ever regret spending those 40$ on it.

Same thing is happening in doungeons. You have to link your gear, and if you don’t have ascend armor set + weapon with specific stats, they will just kick you.
In doungeons they also ask of you to have 5000 AP or above. SOmetimes they even request 7k AP or more.
And also if you are low level, noone will want to have you in party.

I have crafted 6 legendary weapons, and I never used more than 200 of each to get all clovers.
I use that recepie for 10 of them, and I usually get like 3 or 4 in row, then some skips and again few in a row.
Seems like you are just unlucky xD

Any kind of reward would be better than nothing at all.
After you get those 166 masteries + discover all maps, that’s pretty much the end of PvE.

Sure WvW and PvP are fun, but this is still MMORPG, and there should be always something interesting in PvE

So After you are level 80, you can get exp for masteries.
But once you are done with that, all exp you get will just go to waste.

It would be great if we could have some kind of reward track for normal PvE exp also. So after you grind enough experience, you get some kind of reward or anything.

Can someone verify if cpucores program acctually increase performance of this game?

I’m asking on this forum for some time now if we can expect some game optimisation and maybe some DX update, but it seems like GW2 will stay on DX9c till the end.
So I can only hope that GW3 will have DX11 or 12 in it.

But for now I would like to ask you guys what’s your FPS during WvW battles, yoyur PC specs and GW2 settings. My PC specs are in my signature if anyone is interested.
I’m attaching photo of my GW2 settings. Playing at 2560×1440, and my FPS will drop to like 15 with those settings.
Not to mention that having character model limit on lowest, I won’t be able to see a lot of players. Only like 10 players around me will be displayed, and from everyone else I will just see floating name on my screen, so that’s realy destroying game experience here.

I just don’t know what else to do, to increase my FPS.
I was wondering about FX 8370/9370, if that CPU would increase FPS during WvW battles. We all know that GW2 won’t be ever able to use hypertreading, so i7 and Xeon CPUs will never go above 50% load.
I know that i7 4790 is better than 8370/9370 by a lot, but would this game acctually use all 8 cores of AMD CPU, and perform better than on i7 CPUs? As I know this game is CPU heavy, so I don’t need to concider buying anything better than my current R9 390 since it’s running on like half frequency and only half load … so it’s using 25-30% of my GPU power.

I just wanna play WvW at decent FPS. If not 60 at al times, at least like kitten stable or something.

Enlarge WvW capacity? You crazy man?
Even now FPS will drop from decent 120 to like 30 at massive fights.
If they increase to 200 per server, we will perform at around 15 fps -.-

First get DX11/12 for this game and tons of optimisation before they make step like this.

No to mention connection laggs.

It’s great to see quee at 7am in the morning xD

Connection speed doesn’t have to do anything with FPS.

It’s probbably just bad engine optimisation.

I will blame GW2 for using DX9, just so they might upgrade to DX11 some day.

Get i7 CPU or Xeon.
GW2 isn’t capable of using multithreading, so with CPU like that you won’t ever go over 50% of usage xD
I wish GW2 would acctually be able to use 100% of my CPU instead of FPS droping at huge events.