Guild Wars 2

This happens when you trait Grenadier, the increased blast radius is per grenade.
They probably made it work that way since we are not receiving CD reduction on the kit.

BUT Grenade Barrage is definitely bugged, It hits 13 times with grenadier, and only 6 times without. It probably doubles the amount because the grenadier trait makes 2 Grenade barrage skills, 1st instance is 6 hits and the other is 7 hits. I noticed this when I was experimenting with my traits, the CD suddenly reset when I traited back to grenadier.

I’m still new to the class and, I honestly have no idea which stat benefits us the most.

I’m also interested in joining, returning player… I’m on Eredon’s Terrace though.

Thanks for the answers guys, I might not buy it after all, I’m not really a fan of the spinal blades back piece, and I’m currently saving to craft my ascended armor.

I haven’t played the game for almost 1 1/2 years and only started playing again around this week. My only question is how much content am I missing? (e.g maps that are needed for world completion, crafting materials, etc.)

Thanks for the replys guys! great help!

Thank you very much for the very helpful info! Btw I OC’d my CPU and I’m running at 3.6Ghz now.

Sagramor.7395:

600W PSU should be fine.

Stepping up the GPU and RAM should fix your issues. I was running a GT240 and 4gb on an older core 2 duo processor (E6xxx I believe) with slightly lower FPS than you’re getting now last year. i5 3570, gtx660, 8gb (on a 450W PSU) is now almost double the FPS.

Do you have an idea if that GPU would bottleneck on my 1st gen? I’ve read about that card it seems more powerful than a 650ti.

DrixTrix.7168:

well i have a much worse PC than you at 7 years and bought a GTX650ti 2gb DDR5 for £90 (was on offer usually £120-150 range) i play on high settings with 30-35fps in towns and 30-60 in the world depending on how busy, WvW in mass zergs can send me down to around 10-15fps but still fine, of course if i swallow my high settings in the culling option i can run it all without a hitch, but im vein

what i can say: GW2 uses CPU more than GPU so you will get a performance increase but the only way to really get the bets of the best is to buy a new CPU, no way around that unfortunately you could try putting bigger RAM sticks in however GW2 doesnt use more than 4gb’s so even with spare RAM you wont see a big increae. secondly this card can play fallout3, Skyrim, Crysis all on ultra settings at 30+ FPS without any problems.

as for bottle-necking your processor being a first generation (and old these days) will bottleneck newer cards and you can’t do much short of replacing the unit IF the board fits the newer ones.

note: its a big card, check to see if you have the space – i run my comp with the side off to fit in the budget card and works a treat (you can expose components they wont break)

as for your current card: GPU: Nvdia GeForce GT240 1GB DDR5 – its absolutely terrible even 5years ago, did you buy this machine as an advertised gaming rig ?

sorry one more thing: your Power supply is fine for this card i talked about and the previous one however if this is just from your spec sheet i would open your case and check, sometimes odd things happen in building machines at mass production.

Awesome, Thanks! so If I’m changing my CPU or even my MoBo ( I guess?) which CPU and boards would be good at a price range of $100-200 each.

I searched the card online and it is pretty big, but I think it would fit my tower case.

It wasn’t an advertised gaming rig, I asked my uncle to build this PC, I had no idea about building my own rig back then so.. I just asked him to build one for me within my specified budget, I guess that’s why he got this card. It worked pretty well with WoW and other large MMOs.

Behellagh.1468:

Bottlenecking the GPU with GW2 isn’t really a problem with most newer cards.

How much are you willing to spend and can your setup’s power supply provide the power needed. The GT 240 is only a 70 watt card. A GTX 650 is rated at 68 watts and has 3x the shakitten ower, 2x the texture and 4x the pixel fillrate. Also about 50% more graphics memory bandwidth. And that’s the “safe” choice since it fits into the same power envelope as the GT 240.

Cool, thanks for the helpful info. I can spend around $100-200 for a new GPU. The GTX 650 was one of my choices, along with a HD7750.

Contiguous.1345:

OTOH a new PSU is not expensive and is easy to fit.

OCZ 850W ZX Series was £142 last time I looked

Btw my PSU is a Thermaltake LP-600AL2NH – 600W is that good enough?

This is my setup:

CPU: i5 – 760 @ 2.80Ghz – stock (1st gen quadcore)
GPU: Nvdia GeForce GT240 1GB DDR5
MoBo: ASUS P7H55 – M
Memory: 4 GB Ram
OS: Windows 7
(*almost 5 year old PC, no aftermarket Fans)

I run at low settings, with 20-40 fps in towns, 35-60 in fields / dungeons and 10-25 fps in WvW. My GPU is pretty low and I’ve been planning to replace it, but I don’t know which card to get that won’t bottleneck. If i need to replace any other parts in my setup,your suggestions would be great.