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LOD problems

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If your target is so far beyond LOD that you can’t target them anymore, there’s a good chance your bow will not be able to hit them anyway.

Candidate Trials T4

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There’s a separate entrance for each candidate’s trial. You do not need to be representing them. Kiel’s entrance is next to her by the edge railing. Gnash’s entrance is behind him next to a house.

Issues With Candidate trials

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There’s a separate entrance for each candidate trials. Gnash’s is behind him by a house. Kiel’s is next to her by the edge railing. You don’t need to be representing anyone.

WoW to GW2

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And some events tend to run in a chain. Once you finish one, the NPCs may sometimes talk a little bit and then start another event. The best way to tell if an event doesn’t lead to more is when the NPC turns into a merchant vendor.

Zerg trains in Queensdale

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I don’t know how it is on other servers, but on SBI zerg trains are running in circles day and night farming the champs.

So I’m wandering around doing stuff for my dailies and head into the troll cave to do the grub event. I finish that and see the troll runestone has spawned. I start the event and nearby players help kill the troll. Then the zerg train comes in and starts calling me kitten names for inconveniencing them and that I should be telling them whenever I start a champ event. I tell them that they are inconveniencing me and whoever else is around the area for having to wait for them and they say that there’s more of them and that they are leveling up the fastest way so I should be listening to them. Now I don’t usually care about what other players do to level or farm gold until they started harassing me with whispers.

Candidate Trials Solo: Anyone?

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The trials seem to all about bursty dps. As a condition engineer, I can’t keep up with the amount of enemies spawning. I’ve been able to finish T3 solo, but that involved a lot of luck and kiting,

WoW to GW2

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And never be afraid of staying in one zone too long and overlevelling. I know in WoW, after you outlevel something you stop getting xp and there’s no point in really doing stuff in low level areas. This game has an auto leveling system that will always keep you at the area’s level+1 so that you still get xp and money from doing everything, but you won’t be one shotting everything.

Solo Viable?

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This game is a single player rpg with a chat box if you feel like socializing.

I tihnk you’re describing swtor and the chatbox is actually for talking to yourself.

What exactly counts as a "condition"?

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It’s based on each different condition, not stacks.

1g = 28 Gems, an Overview of the Gem Market

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The gold > gem convertion rate is not nececarily wrong. Whats wrong is like what the OP initially mentioned. Stuff like bank slot expansions, new character slots and even the infinite harvesting tools are worth that kind of money, wich cause the gems to reach that convertion rate.

The problem is that smaller scale items, like boosters and kite fortunes for example, are ridiculously expensive now and simply not even close to worth buying.

The issue is not the gold > gem convertion rate, wich is controlled by players. The issue is the pricetags on certain items, wich is controlled by arenanet/ncsoft.

The price tags set by ANet is in terms of gems. But the gem prices have never changed and the primary market of gems is real money->gems. This is the only money they ever see. The price of gems in the secondary market is completely irrelevant to their pricing decisions because that is determined between players trading their gems.

This is like complaining to Apple that the stock market is valuing their stocks too high. It has nothing to do with them other than they are releasing products make their stocks more valuable. Let’s pretend everytime they issue new stocks, they sell them for 100 dollars. On the stock market, they are trading at $1000. Apple only ever receives $100 on the sale of each stock and whatever price it is traded at after the sale is irrelevant.

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Cliff notes version of the living story?

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Real life lacks cohesion. Things just “happen”.

Or maybe that butterfly flapping its wings outisde my window will cause the hurricane on the other side of the world a few story arcs later.

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DPS mech question

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Here’s my 2 cents on the matter. Critical chance is a huge parameter that you have to account for.

Using the effective power formula:

Build A=5424.44
Build B=5413.5

They aren’t stastically different so my answer is that both will pretty much do the same damage.

Problems with early levelling

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It sounds like you are going from heart to heart and not doing a lot of dynamic events. Hearts are designed to act as a sign to tell you there are nearby events. Usually completing nearby events will also count for the heart as well and you will gain more xp. In addition, some events occur in a chain. You will usually know an event or chain is over when the NPC involved turns into a merchant after the event ends.

Which gathering tools for leveling via WvW?

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The level of materials in the borderlands are lower than the eternal battlegrounds. You only need steel tools(level 20) to gather everything there.

HELP! Where Is everyone?

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Tarnished Coast is a world name. In the character selection screen, you can click on world selection. Select Tarnished Coast and then click on guest. It will allow you to play on that server, but you will not be allowed to participate in that server’s WvW.

DPS mech question

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The value of 1% crit damage changes based on current power and crit chance.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/articles/calculator-faq/#effective-power

GW2buildcraft has an effective power formula, which is good for comparing different stat builds of the same class and weapons. The traits aren’t updated but you can still use the calculator.

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Which gathering tools for leveling via WvW?

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The mithril line of tools is the best choice for gathering in WvW. It will allow you to gather almost everything without having the hassle of switching back and forth on tools. There are only a few rare nodes in eternal battlegrounds that require orichalcum tools like orrian sapling/orichalcum mineral/ghost peppers/orrian truffle.

The achievements will skew results

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Most players will be spending the about same amount of tokens on each side to get their support achievements done. This cancels itself out. You can then support who you want with your leftovers.

Speedy Reader Achievement Bug

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I completed this a few days ago. I never left the zone or logged out. I was reading them in order and halfway through ported to another part of the zone to help someone fight a champion. Came back to ebonhawke and read the rest just fine.

Torn between two new systems (I5 vs 6300)

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WvW will drop below 10FPS if you crank the culling settings to highest/highest. Seeing every player is more important than seeing every player in their fancy armor since you won’t even notice it in a fight with that many players. Keeping the culling settings at highest quantity and low to medium quality will keep your FPS between 15-25. You will be able to see the detailed armor of the nearest 20-30+ players which is really all that matters for you to fight effectively.

sPvP-Why is it Unpopular?

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I’ve been playing for 8 months and have only gone into sPvP to check out the lobby. There’s no incentive for me to go in. Anything I do there does not carry over into PVE/WvW. The only thing I’m missing so far in PvE/WvW is the ability to 1v1 duel. I want to be able to teach my casual friend to do better in WvW using the gear he is actually wearing rather than the premade gear he’s given in sPvP. I finally entered an arena the other day to try my hand at 1v1 duels against other players. It seems like all the maps are the same conquest points type and small. Players are just using these conquest maps to duel rather than there being a dedicated arena. Reminds me of shooter fragfest maps that I used to play in UT and Q3, which is not really what I want in an MMO. There seems to be room for arenas in the PvE world since I know there is one in Black Citadel and there’s a disabled gate for one in Rata Sum.

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Do Engineers get more accepted into groups?

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I’ve never had any problems with groups with regards to being an engineer. Anytime I’ve had problems was because of my unfamiliarity with a particular dungeon causing wipes. For living story dungeons, I tend to learn them very fast on my own in pugs and start leading my own pugs on achievement runs.

i want to improve framerate in WVW

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You spend all that money on your rig and you’re using autodetect on graphic settings? Learn to adjust it. You can keep everything at max, turn off reflections, shadows, and all the checkboxes at the bottom. For WvW setting, start at medium/medium and tweak it to however you like. I find it more important to see everyone rather than what they are wearing so I go highest/low. This lets me see everyone and their actual armor around me.

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Server full?

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I see tarnished coast as very high all the time. You just have to try on offhours like late night/early morning.

What would be a good CPU upgrade for me?

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Your CPU appears to be a dual core with hyperthreading and your motherboard is a LGA1156. If you can’t change the motherboard, then here’s a list of supported CPUs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1156
It might be hard to find them because they are 3+ years old, but they should be pretty cheap if you do. Your best options are the i5 or i7 lynnfield quad cores. Only difference between the two are higher clockspeeds on i7s and hyperthreading which doesn’t do much in games. If you are experienced with overclocking and have good cooling, then you can just get the i5 and overclock to get the same performance as the i7s.

I’m running a i5 760 with a radeon 5850 and I get 50-70FPS with all settings maxed with reflections and shadows turned off and rendering at native. There’s nothing you can do about WvW and I get around 15-20FPS on highest quantity/low quality culling settings only when there’s a super large zerg on screen. It’s still very playable.

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Torn between two new systems (I5 vs 6300)

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You really need to avoid buying an i5 for a gaming system.

i5’s are business PCs as they are cheaper for companies to purchase in bulk vs i7’s.

More L2/L3 CACHE means better performance for gaming. Yes it really does make a difference, and has for over a decade.

What are you talking about? i5s are great for gaming. The only thing i7s have over i5s are the extra raw clock speeds because hyperthreading is not generally used in most games. Businesses would generally go for a celeron or at most an i3.

As for the OP’s question. I’m sure both would do well on most single player games or other MMOs. For GW2 specifically, it is very dependent on the power of individual CPU cores and that is where the i5 will beat the 6300.

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General gearing questions

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As said above, found what works for you. Starting more tanky and then mixing in more damage dealing stats as you become more experienced and focus on a certain build. I feel condition damage isn’t worth going for unless you plan to focus primarily on conditions for damage. Otherwise, the base condition amount is fine and going power and crit stuff seems to be more worth it.

The LS achievements should happen naturally

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The guide is 100% optional when you actually give the LS a chance.

Yeah, I love it when people grab a guide/spoiler before even trying the content, barrel through all the stuff, get a mesmer to port them up if there’s a JP, then leave and complain, “Man, that was only like 10 minutes of content.”

Or the “I read threads where people say it’s too hard or RNGed so I’m not going to try until ANet makes it easier”

Kite in the night. Bug ?

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The gate is on a cooldown after the event finishes. Once the gate is interactable, you read the inscription and then go talk to NPC and read his 3 books and quest starts.

My engineer is slow, why?

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Speedy Kits. Also @OP: Thieves don’t wear light armor.

Color Banding / Texture Issue - Need help

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I get banding in games sometimes as well. It’s usually a corona-like effect around sources of light. I just assumed it’s because of the whole 6bit vs 8bit color depth issue with LCD monitors.

Dealing With Control Effects

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Toolbelt skill on elixir gun is also a stunbreaker.

what to do with duplicate pvp armor?

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Darn, I was destroying them as well since I’ve never heard of PvP salvage kits.

Trait points costing 2/3 per selection?

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You have to explain a little bit more.

1g = 28 Gems, an Overview of the Gem Market

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It was the molten alliance mining pick that came out April 13-15.

Unlimited Access to Previous Rewards

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I suggested this as well in an earlier post. Just to clarify on these withdrawable rewards/skins. They would only apply to meta-rewards that you have actually completed and also to skins you have redeemed from tickets.

I need help finding this feauture

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If you’re talking about the items you loot being listed on the right side, then it is what happens when you have autoloot enabled.

New player, few questions

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^Everything they just said. Every classes’ forum says their class is weak and needs buffs, even thieves. While many try to equate best/viable builds=highest DPS, this game is all about survivability.

WvW rank reset for new abilities?

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How about a monthly reset of WvW points? It’s long enough to make you pick your points carefully, but short enough to allow you to experiment.

Moderately annoyed asking advice from players

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I’ve never been in a group that has done gear checks nor would I ever stay in one that did. Run with whatever keeps you alive and you enjoy using.

Thanks for the kite... NOT

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Then you will be eligible for whatever gift comes next. It seems like they are making these periodic gem purchase gifts a regular thing now to encourage people to continue their support.

Is it bad to keep coming first?

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I finally got first yesterday. I was pretty sure I had someone in front of me, but still ended up winning. If someone did step aside, then I’m grateful. I kept playing to get my 25 races done and me and another guy were getting 1st and 2nd consistently. Someone suggested everyone take turns and decide who gets first next and I said no. He called me a kitten and told everyone to aim their stuff at me, though I don’t know if you can.
I’ll step aside if you can keep up as second, but against not having to try and just have the win given to you.

Engineer - Air Blast - Doesn't Apply Burning

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Air_Blast

The tooltip is not accurate as usual. From the wiki entry, it appears that Air Blast will extend existing burns on a target by an extra 2 seconds rather than apply a new 2 second burn.

AMD 3D graphic card

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So to rephrase your question:

“Am I able to use the stereoscopic 3d setting in GW2 with an AMD video card or does it only work with Nvidia cards?”

Ascended Accessory

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D: does it only work w/infusions pertaining/from the fractals itself?

Just tried real quick using a wvw defensive infusion (5vit) and can still only equip one ring even though the other Vassar’s Band doesn’t have an infusion. Or does the other ring need a separate defensive infusion ie (5 toughness)?

They don’t mean using a different infusion. The rings can be thrown into the mystic forge to be infused with an extra +5 AR. This would make it a different item than the regular ring with the same type of infusion slot.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infused

Past Event rewards unlocked as Achi Ones

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I’d like to see the meta-achievement reward skins as permanent unlocks as well any skins from event chests that you redeemed.

Ectosalvage broken again

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I received 2 ectos out of 15 rares. Anyone else receiving that O-o lately`?

I’m assuming you are using master kits or higher to salvage? I haven’t seen any difference in ectos.

Withdrawing Achievement Awards bugged?

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Yes, you can withdraw as many times as you want with characters from your account. It is a permanent unlock.

Does anybody else get tired of

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Why? You are still physically there and not shifted to another dimension.

Did not recieve items bought on Black Lion

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Have you cleared your mail inbox?