Guild Wars 2

Wait, this is a serious topic?

ANet doesnt even have a phone number you can call, you have to wait forever for an email response and then pray like hell you got someone who actually understands your question the first time, cause otherwise you have to reply and wait even longer.

Took 3 days to find someone to answer my email cause each person kept derping and flat ignoring everything I was saying.

So…no, I called blizzard to unlock my wife’s account for WoW cause it had been hacked into while deactivated, took all of 10 minutes to unlock it and put an authenticator on it.

Blizzard has really good customer service, ANet is decent but they need actual phone support to meet demand and solve problems in a timely manner, or at the very least live chat support like other companies that lack phone support.

Gaming
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Pick two.

Hmm, I may give it a shot then.

Whats a stat spread I should be looking for? If I remember right condition damage doesnt crit so precision is pointless unless I want my non-condition damage skills to add a little burst.

So would it be…power/condition damage/toughness?

How viable is it in ALL stages of leveling? It seems like it would be almost impossible to really get started till level 25+ or so due to the lack of specific skills and traits.

But does it start to ramp up at any specific level range?

Long story short I like DoT builds and unfortunately eng requires too much dedication to unlock alot of the skills necessary to build for condition damage, I dont have the patience to get that far, and necros just seem weak and drawn out to level as a conditionmancer (Even if they are pretty good in PvP).

So what should I expect when trying such a build on a thief? And what weapon combo compliments it really well, D/S, P/D or SB?

I agree, I play a Toughness/Conditionmancer which generally does pretty well at holding points, but when a thief can pop-in and kill me with THREE moves before his stealth officially wears off, thats going a bit too far.

No amount of tanky building can mitigate that much of a severe imbalance, things need to be scaled down so there isnt one person steamrolling the whole team, it should take cordination with the WHOLE team and should take a team to take a point, not one thief or swiftness stacked warrior with 100 blades.

No changes, Nor will there be until ANet optimizes the game.

I originally had ZERO interest in ever using a mesmer prior to watching your guide, you sir have sold me on at least trying it over my warrior main.

It sounds like a very skill orientated class and very creative, I love the idea behind it.

Awesome job man!

For what its worth I found a temporary solution, this doesnt usually work with other games but I find that running it in “Windowed” rather than full screen evens out the FPS drops.

Because prior when it would drop from 75 FPS to 60-50 it would get really jumpy, but now in windowed mode I dont notice the drops at all, its alot smoother overall.

So if anyone else is having issues and happens to be reading this, dont take the “You rig stinks you should upgrade” comments to heart, try everything you can to make it work with what you have.

This worked for me, perhaps it will for you?

GTX 660 Ti is an additional $200, And I already know it would be better, but I dont see the point of paying that much just to run a casual game like GW2 when everything else I play (Borderlands 2, X-com,BF3,Skyrim, WoW,Diablo 3, Torchlight 2) all run at max settings, yet GW2 doesnt “Look” graphically superior to any of those games and yet runs worse.

I asked for helpful information, not ego stroking from someone who pays more for their computer than I do on a car payment.

The game shouldnt REQUIRE a $300-$400 GPU to be playable and if it did then it should be listed as a requirement so people know ahead of time, my card is still the middleground of most GPUs and should be able to run low-medium at a steady rate.

I played during beta/headstart (I didnt buy the game at release because of FPS issues) and I recently upgraded my RAM and GPU, so I figured I’d give the game another shot.

My specs currently are:

i7 2600k 3.40GHz
8GB RAM (DDR3 1600) (Upgraded from 6GB)
GTX 550 Ti (Upgraded from a GTS 450, Drivers up to date with the october 10th update)

And my performance isnt any higher with my upgrades than before, I still get 75FPS in most zones but the instant I set foot in Black citadel my FPS takes a severe nosedive whenever I rotate the camera, regardless of what settings I have, once I sit still or run in one direction without moving the camera it remains stable.

That said I have NO FPS LAG in PvP or WvWvW even during large scale zergfests, its just specific locations like the one previously listed, its done the same thing on both GPUs.

Aside from buying another 550 Ti to SLI with my other one or buy a even higher quality GPU, what can I do?

Usually when you test multiple hardware setups and in-game graphical settings and it bears no results it tends to point to either a bug in the area or something wrong with the client, I’m hoping thats the case here.

Like I said, regardless of settings theres no change, everything on high and everything on low, the only thing I never change is sampling with I leave on native, supersampling kills my FPS regardless of the other settings so I dont mess with it.

If other people experience the same problem I’d appreciate hearing it.