Guild Wars 2

Im here because I also just got a password request just now. Not to worried cause I have an authenticator. But yea, looks like someones cycling an email list.

Bread, I have a bachelors in CS and have gotten my A++ long ago, I am not saying I’m not missing something here, but I do know my way around a computer or 2.

Avelos, I think I’ve still got the i3 beat. I was also able to clock my 6300 at 4.1g (its turbo speed) without even touching the voltage. I could push for more but didn’t see enough of a performance jump in 600mhz to warrant messing around with more heat and voltage settings to push another 600. I’m too impatient to sit around for a couple hours and stare at prime screens. -_-

Fermi, going to the i5 would have costed about $140 more ($440 vs $300), I probably wouldn’t have gotten as nice a motherboard and put out of budget.

As sobe was so expertly wrong, I am quit happy with my 6300, it is a significant jump from my q6600 which started to become unplayable in GW2 (lowest player model for any zerg fight) and AC4 really WAS unplayable at 1080p. I am just confused cause in the past… a bottleneck was when either your gpu was either to overwhelmed and couldn’t keep up, texture memory was over flowing, not enough memory, or your cpu (or main thread in this case) pegs the core at %100 limiting what the program can do any further. With guild wars 2 thread sitting comfortably at %80 with no spiking, it seemed like it wasn’t the issue.

Tink, thanks, I’ll take a look at those closer.

Ah, well now I know what that amd patch does. Didn’t think the order of the pods mattered, they share resources and the FP unit but other then that they were equal. I’m still not sure how you guys consider %80 a bottleneck when I can easily peg both pods at %100 which means I have %20 of the CPU sitting idle that no one can answer.

Sir squishy, don’t confuse fx cores as hyper threading, each core executes commands, they just share the floating point processor. We know that per core the and is slightly behind Intel, but no ones really demonstrated how much a shared FP unit effects things. Now a bottleneck is when one piece of hardware is maxed out allowing no further gains in performance across the board. Please tell me how you came to the conclusion that %80 is maxed out.

Uhhhh,

1. gw2 has active threads on all 6 cores, that is pretty far from a single threaded game.

1. math fail, %80 =\= %100, gw2 is not topping out on any cores.

So I just got done with a nice budget upgrade overhaul, kicking out my aging intel q6600 for a FX6300 with 8 gigs of 1866 memory running at 936mhz. It is joining some previous upgrades I had done in the past which were a nvidia 460GTX (EVGA SC) and Samsung’s more recent EVO SSD drive.

Now while I saw a lot of performance increases, esp in gw2, lions arch still caused my system to bow down in submission, forcing me to keep video settings low and still handing me under 30 FPS. At this point I figured I may have reached the limit of my gtx 460. Since model details contributed the largest fps increase I figured I was either peaking the number of polygons or my texture memory. So when monitoring my cpu and gpu loads I was left scratching my head as I was seeing plenty of performance to spare. Here is a nice snap shot of what was happening when looking out of the bank in LA.

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GW2 is awesomely utilizing all 6 of my cores and not a single one is peaking. GPU load is a mear %46 and video memory usage is 600 megs and slowly rising, but is no where near the 1 gig limit.

So I am stumped… why am I sitting here looking at 20fps? (It isn’t always 20fps when moving around.. just some angles in LA).

Id like to see an HP bar nerf. It seems like people, at least guilds are working together on defending points and keeping adds at bay, managing that and the dps requirement for teq with PUGS is just stupid.

I always hated it when bosses didn’t move. Even worse when they don’t even bother to rotate.

teq is broken. All other bosses can be done in the time limit. There are better things to complain about.

I have been and still melee on my guard. 2h sword is best for damage but especially now I use my shield and mace to help counter damage done by the electric field. It does alot more damage now (cant stand in it) but I have seen far more unforgiving AOE fields in the game.

nobody does fire shaman? who isn’t around for fireshaman? it is super ez mode.

elemental on the other hand, since you need to do the disturbance pre events, you may end up finding that it isn’t ready to start yet when the timer is up.

only ready the title…. but THIS. This game does not support any type of a raid environment, so don’t make bosses that require raid level tactics.

Guild wars 2 will always do a UAC prompt if the exe needs updating OR the running executable wants to run another executable (ie when a program senses an update and wants to run a separate update program). ALL programs are required to do this. I guess if you aren’t running an admin account you will need to enter a password as well.

Game does not need mounts with its port system, and you would never be able to have flying mounts.

Is scarlets play house still available? I have the 3 crystals and now after the patch, I can no longer locate vorpp to turn them in.

I’ll get downed, esp on my guardian cause I try to bite off more than I can chew despite using a tanky build, but deaths are rare. I have an elementalist too and I have a good idea if a situation is gonna turn bad and run before I let anything kill me.

I think simply looking at the store will tell you. Considering that they are being pretty selective of throwing new items in and not going bonkers, it seems to be payin the bills as is. I would love to see more skins in it personally.

In the level 24+ areas, you will be hard pressed to find people to help with events. What you need to do is find someone who also wants to do events and just go event hunting.

Well after a small break from gw2 I come back to try out the chaos event.. only to find all through prime time there isn’t enough good people to win the event. Even when it seemed like commanders were all going to the right spot event, just not enough dps, to many people dieing.

Although from some of the chat I read, it looks like alot of people this far out are alts leveling too.

Its a good thing I don’t pay anything for this game, these types of bull$^@! events would never pass on a subscription.

Anet seems to have been cheapening out on cinematic lately by pre rendering them. The noir cinematic is the same way. Unfortunately if your like me and you run 1080p on a 32 inch display, you notice the bad artifacts and low quality from badly compressed 720p video streams vs the games realtime scenes.

Seriously? sure fine I’ll just roll an alt to do your silly jumping puzzle cause every fall is a DEATH.

Oh and add me to the list of people who hate jumping puzzles. The body collisions and camera in this game are awful.

For a defensive guardian in pve..I find jumping in with greatsword to dish out damage. and then switch to mace and shield if you start losing hp and getting conditions.

what event is this? harathi hinterlands is not an event name.

Find someone to run with. Things go much easier with 2.

Gonna kitten in a few cereal bowls here but been a long time owner of gw1 with all its expansions and have been a long time MMOrpg lover since everquest first came out. I really see no comparison, GW2 beats GW1 in all aspects. It is worlds more sociable, and you are way more free to do what you want then you were in gw1. Even if you want to sit around and do nothing, doing it in a persistent world is just more fun.

My first was in orr, killing trash mobs while waiting for an event to unbug. My second drop was on a lvl 4 mob while starting a new character (so yea, any noob can get it as a drop too).

You are not given any items for attending aside from perhaps the helm.

I think the wings are handled just fine. Instead you should be glad that they are not a one use item, but that there are mechanics in the game that allow it to be re-used on new pieces of armor. Maybe not as easily or cheaply handled as warcrafts system (which can’t be used across characters), but you just need to remember you can’t bounce the item between items like you are changing underwear.

/inb4 I don’t change/have underwear.

58:11:5:512 here too. NA EST location.

There are quest in this game?

Anyways, unless you want this deleted for uselessness, post details about which “quest” and which npc and where he stumbles.

Another 1k coffers hunter here… 4 knights, no tickets. No longer going to farm em, this is just stupid. Grats anet, more artwork that no one will ever see.

Cornel, well I can already tell how bad you are with economics. The price will raise, maybe not quickly, but if you sell them in the fall or winter I am sure you can get a good price for them. You see, a lot of people are running around with wings now and so a lot of other people are like “meh, everyone has em”. Down the road when most have switches back slot effects, wings won’t be so prominent and more people will attempt to aquire them for a unique look. Also new armor skins may be released that make the wings look better.

Btw, I’ve had 2 wings drop, none gotten from candy. You would need to spend an incredible amount of time farming holo mobs just for one. I spent quite a bit of time just to get the holo and candy achievements, no where near enough for buying a set of wings.

What you SHOULD be asking is why an achievement is tied to something that requires lots of money!

Cause there arn’t any!! Spawn more pls.. I shouldn’t really have to look this hard to pick a fight. I couldn’t walk 5 feet without tripping over a present.. cant walk 5 miles to find a holo projector.

No game I know of has offered refunds just because a new purchase method was implemented that some people thought was a better deal. Clearly you were more then fine with dropping 30 lurals at the time.

GW2 is a very graphic intensive game.. and many dragon events can bring even the strongest of machines down. The problem is because guild wars 2 uses many many effects, ranging from high polygon models, to shader effects, to high resolution textures, there are a ton of possibilities as to why frame rates tumble.

As much as most of the graphic effects can be toggled without a reload, it is not an effective testing platform to tweak one setting and spend 15 minutes to hours if none are scheduled, for a boss event to test out your changed setting. Instead I ask that guild wars 2 implement a toggleable debug window that shows things like amount of texture memory requested (to determine how much time you are spending with an overflowing texture buffer), polygons displayed, and maybe other things like physics and sound processing (and if its being done on hardware or using the cpu). Just things that would be useful in figuring out where a system is being bottlenecked.

Given time, they will probably implement a timer system for mistaken purchases. Just as WoW did purely to help alleviate customer service request. Obviously how ever they will never buy back extended purchases. It is a purchase after all, not a rental.

Mother boards can shut down a computer if something overheats, but it usually has a way of indicating it has done so. So if you don’t see or hear anything from the mother board then it is probably the power supply. If hardware being maxed out takes to much from a power supply, it will shut off. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have a video card to big for your PSU. I often warn people looking to upgrade to a performance video card that they need to ditch there craptastic 350 watt PSU too.

I’ll have you know the FIRST DAY the forced titles was implemented.. I disabled all names except my target. The titles are to god kitten big. They should be a part of the target health box, NOT the name on top of character heads!!!!!!!

I am wondering why its a different yet duplicated item.

How about this, tell us the location of the one you think you should be seeing/missing? I had no problem collecting all 12 today.

well when I said some gold to spend..i ment for purchasing crafted armors too. But for most people the easiest and first exotic armors they will see are karma.. so looking for some good guardian builds that synergize well with the stats available to us on karma/craft armors.

Every end game build I see uses some or all dungeon armors, which is completely useless if you don’t have a build yet for dungeon running! Would like to see some armor builds specifically tailored to those hitting 80 with just karma and some gold to spend.

Gaile, maybe you can’t answer this, but why is the ability to teleport given to the client of normal players? The only reason they can do this is because they can relay coordinates on where to place the player to the server and the server complies. Why?

“n. a. z” is censored? good lord what for? .. urban dictionary … meh slang for ganster? I must be getting to old.

anyways that is supposed to say “in. a. zone”

It is not guesting, but clearly the population on everyones server did not double.. anet dropped the cap of players ikittenone down considerably without announcing it.

berk ,that isnt the issue. the issue is he is not scaling his health pool to match the number of people attacking him.

For the past week or so I have seen a significant problem with event mobs not being leveled up enough compared to the number of people fighting, and kill credit not being given for those doing any/enough damage.

To start with, the Maw event, I have a lvl 80 in full exotics, he can do the damage. Yet he consistently never gets ANY credits when AOE’ing one of the guardian packs that accompany the shaman boss at the same time the portals comes up. Some times I aoe but half the time I also just try and burn the veteran down cause I know I can get many hits on it. Still no credit given. I have also had similar failures with a ranger doing rain of arrows. Just now with the Defeat the great jungle wurm event, the 3 vets that you fight before the worm, I laid into one of them doing a couple thousand (level 15 area) damage and DID NOT GET CREDIT!

Then there is the worst part, when the great jungle wurm spawned.. he spawned DEAD!! We had 20+ people in the area and he spawned with the health pool as if ONE PERSON was in the area! He was dead so fast that many of us didn’t even see him pop up on the event status window. He just bursted out of the ground and keeled over.

I have also noticed maw events getting shorter and shorter, not because of high dps but because mob hp pools are small, as well as the shaman totem and shaman himself. The code that scales boss difficulty if completely broken.

I was going from a finished shatter to jormag, they just touched each other.

Oh yea.. and F- THAT! This isn’t a trip to the mall, or driving to work. There is no such thing as “oh well if you left early, you wouldn’t get there late.” Its a game, a game in which there should be no such thing as over flow. You know what overflow is right? It is an additional feature implimented to handle the times when the servers cannot handle the amount of data they are given. THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN! EVER! Its a temporary solution and is fine for extreme cases, like christmas. christmas offers up extreme crowding. Not in the middle of freaking march.

Looks like Mitt Romney is getting a guild wars addiction.

Quick mouse, that does not work. Did that tonight with jormag, when I tried to join the zone as my group mate it said the world was full. even spamming it didn’t help.

Lucky freaking me, about 10 minutes later the overflow jormag was up, hilarious.