Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I only ever really looked at mine when first playing on a computer to see what I was getting, but when it’s this bad, gotta look to see what’s up.. Unfortunately, at 10FPS, the game is unplayable and not making getting the expansion desirable.

Hey all. So, after having not played much in a while, I’ve booted up GW2 again and get greeted with! low FPS.. 10FPS on autodetect settings, 30 FPS on best performance. Previously with this computer, using autodetect settings, I was averaging 60-70, down to 40ish in large fights, and as high as 140-150 staring at a wall. Was there some sort of graphics overhaul or something that isn’t working right?

For specs info, running a 3570k i5 OC’d at 4.0ghz, GTX 650 Ti Boost, and 8GB ram.

There’s always going to be elitist groups. But there’s also plenty of groups that aren’t looking at AP and even welcoming to new players.

How about we just start giving away legendaries? All you have to do to get a precursor is buy it off the trading post. Yes, it’s expensive, but that’s because they’re supposed to be rare. And making it out of bloodstone? Yeah, just start giving them away.

The last crystal is plenty enough time to get to the diving platform, the trickiest part is just being able to land on the sail to get up to the platform. Getting to the water isn’t terribly difficult if you watch the dulfy video and think to put swiftness on.

What exactly is so hard about getting around the map? I just ran through to the first quest inside to try to figure out what “entrance jp” there is that’s so hard.. First you hit 2 to move forward through a sand-waterfall. No harder than hitting w to go forward. Then you jump twice using 3 and clicking where you want to go. No different than using any ground targetting skill. Then you one 1 to jump up to a high cliff.. No different then any jumping at all.. Run around a cliff and make 2 short jumps, then another high one no harder than the first, and then you’re there.. Please, explain which part is so hard.

Also playing on a laptop, noticed absolutely zero difference in performance.

That’s a typo on the thread. PST and UTC are off by 7 hours, but for that time slot and the one after, they’re off by 8. It’s supposed to read 19:00 UTC.

As far as skill go, the 1000+ skills was too hard to balance, and most got ignored anyways.

Time gating was implemented to slow down the players who would intentionally grind stuff as fast as they could and then complain that the game is too grindy.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

SvenskNavi.9378:

So you know that there’s several posts, but have you read them to understand what’s going on?

Yes. That’s why I said help/attention. I understand that it’s possibly a DDoS attack but that hasn’t been proven. So until further notice I’ll assume the cause of this to be open to debate. I’m not going to let ANet or NCSoft off the hook until I see solid evidence that this isn’t their fault. Not that I’m blaming them right now, I understand it may not be something they can fix. Still, I would like some sort of attention for this.

Neither NCSoft or ANet are specifically targeted, the attackers are targeting the company that hosts their servers.

So you know that there’s several posts, but have you read them to understand what’s going on?

I can’t say for the Sylvari armor, but the T3 Asura armor overwrites the shoulder item shoulder skin. Sylvari probably does the same. Looking on my asura my shoulders say in the tooltip “Obscured by another item.”, namely my T3 chest armor.

urdriel.8496:

SvenskNavi.9378:

urdriel.8496:

Contiguous.1345:

The ability to run through your opponent(s) is a useful tactic

oh yes, a real tactic, run TROUGH your opponent……

i know how to play WvW, but blob VS blob / zerg VS zerg is boring, i have 80 you have 20, your towers/keeps are mine, we can run TROUGH you, you cant defend your gates because we can run TROUGH you, you cant hold a place because we can runTROUGH you.

I think that might be why some of us use crowd control skills..

with or without CC, you can run TROUGH your enemies, ofc i know that blob/zerg players never will accept Body Block, run like a crazy spamming 1 is better.

So they start to run through the front line, myself and the other staff eles take turns putting down static fields, and the melee go to town.

Alts aren’t meant to be a free class change.

urdriel.8496:

Contiguous.1345:

The ability to run through your opponent(s) is a useful tactic

oh yes, a real tactic, run TROUGH your opponent……

i know how to play WvW, but blob VS blob / zerg VS zerg is boring, i have 80 you have 20, your towers/keeps are mine, we can run TROUGH you, you cant defend your gates because we can run TROUGH you, you cant hold a place because we can runTROUGH you.

I think that might be why some of us use crowd control skills..

Hey guys, just coming back from a couple month break, so now I’m wanting to decide on a primary prof. to play, and need some info to help in the decision. I currently main a staff elementalist, but I’m finding him a little hard to enjoy because, well, I can’t really tell if I’m making any difference in battle, or just following along and picking up bags. So my question is, for the different professions, what are some of their primary roles in the current state of WvW, and how difficult is it for the player to fulfill that role well?

Why not just transmute them onto new armor with different stats? If someone can afford expensive skins, it shouldn’t be an issue to retransmute.

I think part of the problem is they’re wanting to map all of the WvW maps in 1 day. It’s not hard to do if you let your WvW mapping spread out over the whole duration of your legendary farming.

So I was just looking at the wiki page for the WvW achievements.. As many of us probably already know, a lot of the numbers for those seem really, really high.. But just how high are they?

1 million kills for Yakslapper. Going with the rate someone suggested in the discussion for the page, let’s assume 2 mins between kills for dolyaks (which also suggests you’re really doing nothing else.) That’s 2 million minutes. 2,000,000 * 1hr/60min * 1 day/24hr * 1yr / 365.24 days = 3.8 years of doing absolutely nothing but killing dolyaks, 24/7.

11.4 years at 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. 88 years if you do it for 1 hour a day, every single day.

Lifetime indeed. -.-

As title suggests, it would be nice to be able to prevent certain achievements from appear in the nearly completed area of the achievements panel – most notably the HoM achievements. I really like the idea of the nearly completed panel, but now I’ve got the achievement for 35 HoM points in there.. Which was never an achievement I planned on getting, especially considering how low the population has gotten for doing the 8 and 12 man stuff, and it’d be really nice to be able to keep using it as a way to see what what achievements I could be doing, and not have it eventually be just loaded up with the HoM ones I don’t plan on doing.

I would say it adds a new skill you can use when using the catapult, like a lot of the other siege mastery skills do.

Nileth.9670:

SvenskNavi.9378:

This is a pointless thread. Having 500 achievement points that you can’t get isn’t something to complain about. The rewards aren’t great enough for it to be a huge deal. so they might get one more weapon skin and some gold before you. Who cares!? No one is taking anything away from you.

Read before you speak, will make you look less dumb.

It’s not about them getting rewarded, give them a legendary and a house on the moon i do not care, but this is messing up my precious leaderboard (YES some people actually care about it).

Is it really necessary to start off a reply with an insult? Can’t you think of any better way of correcting someone if they’re incorrect?

And how about defending Stonemist Keep 100,000 times, or getting 5 legendaries? How are those achievements coming for you?

This is a pointless thread. Having 500 achievement points that you can’t get isn’t something to complain about. The rewards aren’t great enough for it to be a huge deal. so they might get one more weapon skin and some gold before you. Who cares!? No one is taking anything away from you.

Is it really that big of deal to miss one achievement? It’s doubtful that you’re going to get them all anyways, especially if your server can’t get through the JP in WvW (seeing as the WvW achievements alone are very time consuming even for the good servers)

Krosslite.1950:

no comments on that fact that new professions is on the back-burner but new weapons is going to happen first?

Colin already commented enough on it: “We feel at this time that all the archtypes are covered.”

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Things like this have been happening forever. I was threatened with being kicked if I did not give a gold to each of the other party members (all in the same guild) as a fee for their services. I left instead. I wish they had a system where you could vote on a players reputation so others could see who to avoid.

But then in this case there would be 4 people that would down-rep OP if they tried to down-rep them, so then s/he gets 4x the rep loss they do.

Honestly, I’ve seen more people complaining about people that want to get all the achievements than I’ve seen people complain about missing achievements.

Orion Templar.4589:

It sounds like you want to add a bit of “reality” to the mix, correct? I see what you mean but it might be tough to implement in a game like this. If it applied to player races for example, a Norn should be able to run faster, hit harder, and generally be a better fighter than any Asura.

Please, oh please don’t let them add Asura punting.

So far these suggestions for loots are a little too hopeful.. You guys realize the world bosses only drop a guaranteed rare right? And if you look at how often people are killing champions in Queensdale, you can quickly see how getting those kinds of drops that often is way too much.. I’d vote for maybe an increased chance at getting a rare (not 100% obviously, but maybe 30% chance), but anything more would make champions way too good of a way to make money.

First the put the loot bags at your feet.. Then they give you AoE looting because running up to each one wasn’t fast enough.. Now you want automated looting? Let’s get rid of loot altogether since people can’t be grateful.

Long story short, you don’t buy gems in hopes of getting a free gift. It’s called a random act okittendness.

Abraxius.6429:

hey i was just wondering if i could get a answer from anybody really(devs hopefully but unlikely i know). nothin bad im just curious as to why there is no lances or greataxes in this game most traditional RPG’s and in most adventure lore such as this game those are one of the standard weapons that most offer and i only ask cause i was just chatting up some friends and maining a heavy class (Guardian) a lance would be so kitten amazing. Same with a two-handed great axe these are very popular weapon choices at least from my experiences in gaming since childhood.

Because this game doesn’t follow everything other games do.

Dyes: They already mentioned that they decided to make dyes character bound because it represents the progression of your character.
Map coverage: Same thing. It’s a role-playing game, the characters are separate entities.
Gold: You want gold more restricted? O.o
Ascended Item: Ascended equipment is easy enough to get, and isn’t enough of a stat increase to be fretting about whether you have it or not anyways.
Legendary: Maybe not a bad idea, ans has been talked about
Runes & Sigils: Maybe, as long as the going in items aren’t also soulbound on acquire, since MF doesn’t really require that particular character to be at a certain progression.

4203, playing since Jan.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement_rewards#Achievement_rewards

Vol.5241:

what’s wrong with t3 asura on male asura? hideous?

I have it on mine, and I love it. Only complaint is it makes you bald.

Yeah, I love my ranger. I just felt like a quick poke at them was fitting.

I made a ranger, does that count?

Outnumbered is a bit more clear. You get the buff when the enemy has more numbers. Outmanned can mean more than just that.

That’s the third chest, not the second.

Ya know, I think they were already nice enough to separate PvP builds from PvE builds.. Don’t you think asking to have them separate PvE from WvW builds is a bit much? I dunno about anyone else, but most games I’ve played don’t just let me change my character every time I switch what aspect of the game. I usually have to use the same thing for both PvP and PvE.

ArchonWing.9480:

DaG.5103:

ArchonWing.9480:

There’s no grinding? So there’s no large amount of repeating the same trivial tasks over and over again to acquire bigger numbers? Any method of acquiring earrings currently is both a time sink and a grind.

Then again, I don’t see the difference between the two. I just see it as a unnecessary waste of time.

You’re right, it is still an MMO. Let’s try to still see the forest for the trees, eh?

Are you not aware of the manifesto for this particular game? Perhaps you’re ignoring the trees.

Colin Johanson: “When you look at the art in our game, you say ‘Wow, that’s visually stunning. I’ve never seen anything like that before,’ and then when you play the combat in our game, you say ‘Wow, that’s incredible. I’ve never seen anything like that.’ In most games, you go out, and you have really fun tasks, occasionally, that you get to do, and the rest of the game is this boring grind to get to the fun stuff. ‘I swung a sword. I swung a sword again. Hey! I swung it again.’ That’s great. We just don’t want players to grind in Guild Wars 2. No one enjoys that. No one finds it fun. We want to change the way that people view combat.”

A massively multiplayer online game does not in anyone dictate that gear progression, grind, and general time wasting be a vital part of the game. But fine, I’ll stop being a jerk. The RPG part might actaully lend itself to a credible argument.

And please don’t say every other MMO does it. That doesn’t mean it’s any less good or bad.

SvenskNavi.9378:

ArchonWing.9480:

Amadan.9451:

there is no grinding associated with the current ascended gears, only time sinks. and some of those trinkets can be acquired by different means… so i don’t know what you are talking about.

one think i could be against of is the costant time sinking, like the new weapons and armors, a full set will require a month and a half if you want one

There’s no grinding? So there’s no large amount of repeating the same trivial tasks over and over again to acquire bigger numbers? Any method of acquiring earrings currently is both a time sink and a grind.

My point is with the infusions and what not that the OCD folks that absolutely must spend forever already have enough to do. I don’t wish for more vertical progression.

Then again, I don’t see the difference between the two. I just see it as a unnecessary waste of time.

What are you doing to get your earrings? I have a full set of ascended trinkets and the only time I’ve spent specifically on getting them was walking to the laurel or commendation vendors and clicking buy.

Really? Did the laurels and guild commendations magically materialize in your inventory? I’m sure you had to do more than that.

I got one with Guild commendations and will get the next one with laurels and ectos. It’s my fault for having 2 toons, but yea.

No.

I got the laurels from doing the daily and monthly stuff that I was already doing before laurels were even introduced. No time added there.

The guild commendations were rewarded to me for participating in guild missions. Since these I also did not do exclusively for commendations but also to do stuff with the guild and get us merits, it’s also not going out of my way. Besides, at 6 a week, and an hour to do a full set of missions, that’s only 2 hours of play for ascended earrings, several rares, plenty of silver, and a chance at a free ascended item, that’s barely a grind. Sounds more like normal gameplay.

Marijan.4175:

VOLKON.1290:

So… you’re hung up on the magic find alone then? 18% total MF across all six pieces which will take months to craft… that’s the issue?

Magic Find?

Well… ok then.

I don’t give a crap about magic find. I don’t give a crap about condition damage for example either. What grinds my gears is that they randomly add new gear, which is imbalanced and simply better than other, previously existing gear, which is basically like slapping everyone who invested in gear, which is now simply outshined by the new one, directly in the face. I don’t even own a set of magic find, but even as someone who is using a normal set of armor – now there is something equal, which has magic find in addition to that.

As opposed to the celestial stats available in PvP? Where balance is more important than PvE? Here we have a game where people will go for a single weapon worth 500g just for the skin, but heaven forbid they introduce new armor that you can switch to for very little cost. Let’s put this back into perspective: You already bought your existing armor. Even if they didn’t implement celestial armor, you already spent your money. Having new armor doesn’t negate that. You can still keep and use your armor. Or you can use new armor. The choice is yours. You aren’t losing anything, but gaining an option.

I’m going to guess half the people here are also those people that will complain to customer service when they buy an item at the store and then a few days later it goes on sale. You need to learn what the norm is. Don’t set your expectations of what you should spend something on the absolutely minimum that you can get it for, but what it should normally cost you. It’ll save you a lot of disappointment and others a lot of time listening to complaints.

Correct. Just 5 more hours.

If you don’t like them, don’t use them. Problem solved.

The days reset based on GMT. It’s still the same day according to GMT as when you got your 500 point chest.

Aren’t they trying to find ways to allow players to stack magic find without gimping their stats anyways? It makes no sense to be complaining about this.. It’s either you keep your current set and ignore that there’s a new set out, or you say to yourself “Hey, now I can get the same magic find without losing as many stats.” You didn’t lose anything, so quit complaining.

The reward for 3,000 is an armor skin, not a weapon. It was not intended to a choice. If you don’t like it, take the rest of the reward and destroy the skin. The same complaint can be made about every single chest. “Oh, I don’t want extra 1% MF at this tier, I want more gold. Why can’t we have a choice.” How about they just remove the rewards from the game again? You obviously don’t like that they gave you something without taking something. (And this is why kids these days are so spoiled. :/)