Guild Wars 2

So after a month or so of playing other games I wanted to come back to GW2 and play sPvP. I own HoT and I like some of the elite specs like reaper and scrapper. When HoT came out I had access to them in sPvP and nowhere else, because of my lack of interest in the living world and PvE crap. I don’t care about much else than competitive games beating down mobs isn’t fun to me. Why am I punished for that?

ok thanks, i will try out these settings first and adjust from there.

it should be noted that i have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 1024 MB DDR5 graphics card, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 6MB L3 cache i use an app to permanently turboboost my mac, and finally a 250GB flash storage unit. with these settings i can effectively hit medium all settings while removing shadows and refections because those destroy my fps.

i play on mac and i am setting myself up for GW2 competitive pvp to get better and hopefully build up a pro team. My peripherals are a razer deathadder chroma logitech g13, and the apple magic keyboard incase i need to type. i am setting up a discord server and using a separate laptop for communication because of my limited hardware. i still need to prioritize certain game settings. which in sPvP are the main settings to go for.

While my characters are low levels and I don’t play as much as I would like particularly because I have no friends to play with. Although i had one of my friends try the game with the free to play model. He likes the game, but he also plays WoW. while i have told him that GW2 doesn’t have a subscription fee, he has pointed out that WoW has the ability to pay for his subscription with gold using special tokens someone else buys and sells on the auction house.

While we have no sub fee I feel that to benefit both the developers and people who love the game but can’t pay for it easily should allow the gold to gem exchange to Free players at a restricted level of 300 gems may be bought per day. Also allow players to pay for the game and expansions using gems. The upgrade path is as follows free to play, then you you buy the core game first. After this you would buy each Expansion individually.

This benefits players who really want the expansion but may not have the means to upgrade. Also it benefits new free players that if they like the game they can pay for it with gold but it will take awhile also. It benefits you, arena net, as you will grow your community further and you shouldn’t loose money because people will always have to purchase gems to exchange.

This is my idea for furthering the community, and making the game more accessible to more people. Feel free to discuss with me your thoughts and opinions.

they have a couple running in January for Europe players, while looking back into the past they didn’t seem to have any placed for north America, in their recent cups atleast.

first off do they exist? secondly, do they give the weekly prize of $400 if your team placed first? i just got a friend into the game and we want to do 2v2 cups eventually just curious if they pay and if they are also available to N/A users.

i bought a logitech G13 gamepad, i am looking for a good mouse to use, . i use the action cammera or should i use the normal one for structured if there is a major diffrence. i am not looking for what mouse to get, i just want to know what is a good average dpi to use. i have looked into a 1200 dpi but would that be too little.

Can we get metal api support for the macs that can support it maybe? this would give macs a much needed performance boost by moving a lot of the graphical processing directly to GPUs or dedicated GPUs if the mac supports one.

-bump- this needs to happen please

I own an iMac and have updated to El Capitan. This release updated the gaming capabilities of macs after 2012 that update to the OS. In this version they added a new shader system called metal. This is essentially a better OpenGL with less overhang allowing direct gpu control. Currently majority of my graphics are either low, lowest, or off to get about 64 fps. i would like the game to be updated to this new system, obviously add it as a toggle option. I think it will be a very good idea to draw in more mac gamers.

It would bring in more because it would be performance wise better than it is now. Also Activision-Blizzard is updating WoW, Starcraft, and Heroes of the Storm to run on metal. this will provide your current major competitor’s games to run smoother. This is not a major deal with how low the Mac gaming scene is in population. I just think Guild wars 2 is a better and more fun alternative to their current titles.

What do you guys think any mac gamers here agree?

if you want to know my specs and tell me its my hardware is outdated or something here:

• 2.9GHz Intel Core i5
• 8Gbs 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM
• Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 1024MBs video Ram
• 251 GBs flash storage