Guild Wars 2

My computer resets for no reason

that’s it, its been about 3 days since this started happening, at first it happened only while playing GW2, but then I tried a couple of games and it happened too, any ideas on what might be producing it?

what I’ve already tried:

-It is not a temperature issue, CPU and GPU never go above 50°C
-I updated any posible driver
-I removed an old HDD I installed a couple weeks ago

My setup consists of:

-Motherboard: MSI b85-g43
-GPU: Nvidia GForce GTX960
-CPU: Intel core i5 4690 – 3.5GHz
-RAM: 16GB 1600MHz G.Skill ripjawsX (2x 8GB)
-PSU: Coolermaster 80Plus Bronze 750W

all of it inside of a Coolermaster Cosmos SE tower with 5 fans, 2 of them on the water cooling system.

any ideas?

Got a GTX960 today, drivers up to date.

the game crashes right after pressing the “play” button when using GemFX, any idea on how to solve it?

Error log:

finally a perfect dress for us

Well I don’t really know where this kind of topic should be, none of the other forums seemed to be fitting, so I’ll just go with general.

Well the thing is quite simple, I was watching this video of an ultra realistic mod for Skyrim (not the kittenty mmo btw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCU862nVpJ0 and I wondered, Is there a way for us to Mod terrain graphics like this? I already am using SweetFX and it does help quite a bit, but still not as much as it could be, I mean I’ve watched the clean Skyrim and compared to the moded version, the difference is HUGE.

How amazing would it be to roam around all those great maps we have in GW2, but with improved graphics much like the video.

So has ever been a discussion about this? maybe on reddit?

Dracatis.1908:

1. Nope, one of the most viable beams in the game, don’t tempt them to make it a projectile.
2. Would be nice, though they’d have to drop the damage, so meh.
3. Maybe it’s just me, but I just don’t see thematically a Mesmer using a pistol. I mean if your just going to shoot something in the face… why mesmerize them? Off-hand I see it as a last resort for sucking at Mesmer’ing.

Summary: Fixing actual bugs would make me happy, this would not at all.

1. why turn it into a projectile? the idea is thinking how a beam would work, having that piercing effect it now has and having a bit of splash damage on its target

1. if you look at any other AoE skill, like arcing arrow from warrior the damage is perffectly fine for a wider area

1. dual pistol definately fit in the “duelist” theme, besides is not like dual pistols would work like thief’’s pistols, I’d give it more fitting skills #1 could be a bouncing bullet #2 could be a bullet barrage + dash that leaves a clone and #3 could be a block/counter with daze

Kadj.6725:

Give me a signet (elite would be a great slot) with a passive movement speed boost or I don’t care about signets.

Also, I don’t think you understand signets. You lose the passive when you get the active effect.

yes, that is true, when you activate you get the full effect, then during the CD you loose the whole effect, I dont see any issue there, then again, I’m just throwing cool ideas

gues those chages weren’t that good… ok, how about this:

-New signet elite,
Passive:every single target attack now hits 5 targets arround the main target in a 600 radius for 30% of the main damage
Active: extra hits now deal 100% of the main damage, main hit deals 120% lasts 10 sec

now for the visual effect i’d make it so an image of the attack appears at every target hit, like a clone that spawns, hits and dissapears… how cool would that be?

we all knew this was gonna happen since the fort salma attack, but i dont really see this as something bad and i doubt treharne will play a leading role, right now it is all about DE 2.0 and us

It would be interesting if they destroyed some WPs and instead added more of these “speed boosters” be it mounts or kites or whatever

-GS #1 damages 5 enemies on a 360 radius around the target

-GS #3 has a 600 radius

-Pistol can now be equiped on MH

well it is true that including too much of social networks to the game sounds frightening to say the least, but I was thinking about this from another perspective, like how our characters got to know the name of this new dragon and how some of the theories from the forum made it to the game in the previous chapter of the LS, I think it would be kind of cool if they turned the forums speculations and theorycrafting into the voice of “the people of tyria” from time to time we get some really cool theories here, and would be fun to see them as towns people gossip and whatnot.

to be fair, there are some really cool armor designs in this game, but yeah, more of that wouldn’t hurt

what would you think if Anet decided to do some 4th wall-breaking stuff with the living story?

not really sure how would that go, maybe doing some facebook/forums events that affect in-game?… I’m not really sure where did this idea come from, but maybe someone here has some cool ideas

well, besides new zones to explore.

as for me, I’d like to see:

- a couple of new dungeons
- a couple of new in-game armor/weps sets
- some new skills/traits
- a new weapon option for each class

this, obviously, during the full course of the season 2

my beloved bunch

Guardian – Mesmer- Warrior – Thief – Ranger – Necromancer

I’d give Staff a 2nd “spec” make it so you can choose condition/ranged staff or power/melee staff

Melee staff

#1(chain): swing your weapon dealing X damage and aply vuln – swing a 2nd time dealing 1.5X damage – your weapon turns into a schyte dealing a masive blow deals 2X damage and aplies 3 stacks of vuln

1. your weapon turns into a long schyte grabbing your target and dragging it to you does more damage the further you are from your target. range: 900(may be too much? needs CD)

1. executioner, deals massive damage under 25%, does high damage under 50%, low damage for higher health (needs CD) if this skill deals a killing blow there is no CD

1. AoE channel, your weapon turns into a schyte and you spin dealing X damage per second (needs CD)

1. on use, you gain 3 stacks of might (5 sec) and fury for every foe under 50% hp on a 600 radius area around you (needs CD)

there is a place at Hoelbrak, inside one of the lodges, its the perfect place for a guild it even has a throne for the guild master… I’ll post some screens when I get home

My suggestion is: Get rid of intensity stacking conditions.

all conditions should work like Poison, give each a tick damage and a secondary effect

Poison: Reduce Healing
Burning: Reduce Armor
Bleeding: Reduce Endurance regen
Confusion: fine as it is, but make it stack duration instead of intensity
Torment: fine as it is, but make it stack duration instead of intensity
Chill: add a damage factor
Weakness: not sure about this one
Vulnerability: fuse it with burning?
Blind: fine as it is
Cripple: fine as it is
Immobilize: fine as it is

this, obviously calls for an adjustment on how much damage per tick those can do, remove all condition duration stats and reduce base duration, so now conditions gameplay would be about keeping your conditions up and each player could have their own stack without taxing the client too much(I used to play with DoTs in WoW and that’s how it worked and it was quite fun) also make sure that side effects don’t stack

what are you using that build for? conditions on guardians are pretty bad overall though.

as for the runes, if you wanna go for condi damage and are using soldier (i’d first swap to dire) and use Necromancer runes maybe?

I fully support this idea, please Anet, make it happen

I’m disgusted to read such amounts of moralfa… woops, can’t write that, but you get the idea.

I for one support anything that gives us more options, wanna give us a muslim-esque full covered outfit? hell yeah, wanna give us the most revealing bikini/speedo? count me in!… if you dont like any of those, then don’t use it, you don’t have to ruin the game for everyone else because you dont like something.

instead of increasing Blink’s range I’d make it so that you cast it at its max range when you click outside of that range, now THAT would be a huge improvement

Wildstar was quite the dissapointment for me, it is just another classic MMO, nothing really new in terms of gameplay… If I had to pick a game that piqued my interest it’d be Black Desert, really good graphics and interesting gameplay

and seriously, graphics as bad as Wildstar’s are a big NO for me.

Dusty Moon.4382:

korelg.7862:

Dusty Moon.4382:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s just absolutely ridiculous they can’t make all these amazing backpacks tradable.

The Balth backpiece is from PvP – of course it shouldn’t be tradable. It is an achievement reward.

Reward tracks were made for PvP players to get some extra profit from playing, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be tradeable, also it is NOT an achievement reward, it’s a “track” reward

Because it is a REWARD for that track – plain and simple.

There are plenty of other items that can be traded.

then again, what is so bad about making it tradeable?… seriously, getting the skin isn’t really an incredible feat, it wont make the skin more common either, cause you can only get it once

I think GW2 art dept should take some notes from other games like B&S, Vindictus and many other asian MMORPG, they have really nice desings over there… I dream of a game with asian graphics and GW2 gameplay, I’d cry tears of joy if it were to come true

Dusty Moon.4382:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s just absolutely ridiculous they can’t make all these amazing backpacks tradable.

The Balth backpiece is from PvP – of course it shouldn’t be tradable. It is an achievement reward.

Reward tracks were made for PvP players to get some extra profit from playing, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be tradeable, also it is NOT an achievement reward, it’s a “track” reward

Nike.2631:

Talked about this at some length in the Fractals CDI. Just waiting to see the results of the discussion.

good to know they are at least aware of the issue

I totally support this, Fractal relics and pristine fractal relics become completely worthless after a while of running fotm, but what if we could buy fractal weapons with them? say 50 pristine relics for 1 skin would be fair I think, also they could introduce Fractal armor skins, much like the back piece you get to ascend each piece, and weapons could work like that too

something like that would truly give you a mid-long term goal for fractals and you would actually feel rewarded after finishing a long series of fractals and getting only 1 relic and some gold, I think most people feel quite dissapointed after running a dificult (sometimes your party just isnt that good) fractal just to get trash loot, and even worse, every other party member getting good rewards and you get nothing, that’s a really BAD reward system

so… is it worth taking PH over a flat 15% damage increase? going only by the numbers its clear that PH is a 20% increase on DPS but that’s only in the long run, using PH over a +15% will lower your burst but make your damage more consistent

this post is quite interesting, I’ve been using orbs this whole time but I’ve been wanting to get some nice runes, guess i’ll go with pack, flat stats seem to be the most effective way to power up phantasm dps

Staff is amazing to solo stuff on PvE, but for team play not so much, the best setup would be Sword+focus or sword / Scepter + pistol for your ranged needs, I used to play a lot with GS but with time you will notice how low your DPS gets on GS and move on

Weindrasi.3805:

I prefer male characters.
As a female player, I feel empowered by being able to play a strong, capable fighter. Running around with my breasts flouncing around and my skin exposed does the exact opposite—makes me feel like I’m just a tool for some 14-year-old nerd’s pleasure fantasy.
It’s easier to make a male character look strong and capable— it’s not a constant struggle to find something that doesn’t flash my breasts or show the shape of my bum. So, for human-like characters at least, I tend to make males. It’s just a lot of frustration off my shoulders.

That said, I did manage to make a female human guardian who looks quite tough. I used the biggest female body, and found armor that adds a lot of bulk to her frame without drawing attention to her breasts or her bum.

you know, armor that shows the shape of the character’s kitten is quite scarce, I’ve been looking for ever a piece of armor to show off my mesmer’s kitten , so far only Heavy (1 option) and medium (this has “more” options)

also, making tough looking females is quite easy, the only ones that actually look frail are the human females, but you can always use a full body armor, bikini armor are just 3 or 4.

I say, people just likes to complain and honestly, its getting old pretty quick

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

I did this in RO many times, one hour and I could make my potions or w/e, granted I was on a free sever with increased drop rates etc, but other game with crafting etc.

you DON’T know the real grind having played RO on a 1/1/1 server getting your armor (enough for a decent upgrade) then getting your cards and leveling up to 99 now THAT was grind, in comparison GW2 is a walk in the park, everything I want I have it with little effort

when I see these posts I chuckle… poor souls, don’t know what the real grind is

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Killface.1896:

30/30/0/10/0 Axe/x + LB is what I have use for fract lately.

For roaming build you can try s/s + gs 0 25 30 0 15 its a mobility build that will let you take camps/dolys easy

You shouldn’t be ranging in fractals (with the exception of a very few bosses) you shouldn’t build around having a LB. The best set up to run is axe/mace+ axe/sword its almost full offense (with one block) only pull the LB out when you’re party decides to range a boss (which once again they shouldn’t do most of the time). If you range in high level fractals while everyone melees that would earn a swift kick from me.

not really, there are some situations on where range is the smarter way to play, for example killing the ascalonian guys at the central plaza before the boss, the Fire shaman boss, the colossus boss and there are other situations that I don’t remember right now

remember kids, alive DPS > dead DPS

Paavotar.3971:

Yea, it only revives downed players. Would be pretty OP if it did it to defeated as well.

Heres some stuff about it as well to clear stuff for you and better understand what happens.

When the banner is summoned it HEALS five(5) downed players for a set amount.

If the player who gets affected by the banner is also poisoned he will receive less healing because of poisons ability to make heals less effective and therefor if the player is low on HP and has poison there is a chance that it won’t fully revive the player. He/she will get the heal anyhow and you will see the HP bar of the player increase with a good amount, but not enough to rally.

Poison and Agony will cause the banner to fail, even though it was neves specified that Agony reduces healing, it actually does

I’m all up for a musical weapon set

GS = a Keyboard (those that look like guitars)
Scepter = one of those sticks you use when directing an orchestra
Focus = Tambourine
Mace = Drumsticks maybe?
Axe = Banjo
Hammer = Bass

any other ideas?

when i think Guardian only Wolf and Raven come to mind and maybe Bear, but snow leopard feels more fitting for a ranger, thief or mesmer

Aetherblade and Zodiac armor from the gemstore

I’ve been using a might stacking build with Phalanx lately with excellent results

Zerker GS/LB might on swap, might on crit, bloodlust and fire sigil. Zerker armor and Cavalier trinkets with Runes of Strength, on this setup you can easily surpass the 3.5k power mark

traits 0/5/0/6/3 if I remember corectly, those last 3 points are for sprint and faster wep swap just as a QoL thing, you could invest them in a diferent trait lane.

Also, guys please stop with the whole “meta” thing, not using a meta build doesn’t make you useless, even more, there are non-meta builds that end up making the whole party stronger surpassing that way the extra damage you could get from the meta build.

I’ve actually seen a couple of norn wearing that creepy stache that would really fit the kind of char you wanna create…

If you are familiar with Fullmetal Alchemist it would be like Col. Armstrong xD

Celestina.2894:

Their original reason for not doing this was because they wanted people to easily tell the difference between say a great sword guardian and a great sword mesmer in PVP. Course, I did and still do think it would be obvious right away from a great deal of other things.

That being said, now that we can wear costumes over our armor…….that defense does not really hold up. I think there might have been another reason, but I don’t recall what it was.

korelg.7862:

I for one would welcome this, I’d remove weigh and racial restrictions too

I disagree on racial restrictions. Racial armor is one of the things meant to diversify the races. Plus it wouldn’t make much sense if any race could wear sylvari cultural, as Sylvari cultural armor is designed to be an extension of their body of sorts.

And before anyone brings up nightmare armor, that set is implied (and the heavy confirmed in a sylvari personal story) to have been specially crafted by the nightmare court. So those three armor sets are exceptions.

Removing weight restrictions however? I’m all for that.

You could tie the racial armor to some kind of reputation mechanic, so you can go be useful for the silvary and they as a token of gratitude give you the robes of their people, doesn’t sound bad right?

actually “overall” boon duration got lower, but specific boon duration got boosted quite a bit, take for example Runes of Strength gives you 45% might duration and a whole lot of power and extra damage… so now you have to choose what kind of boon you want to stack

I for one would welcome this, I’d remove weigh and racial restrictions too

so, th general concensus is:

In a perfect world Phalanx isn’t optimal, but since we don’t play in a perfect world it actually is a good trait, maybe it doesn’t beat the meta DPS build but it is indeed an equally good option… we finally can say that warrior has now not only one meta build, which makes me quite happy

now, if only other classes were in the same spot…

my 3 norn beauties

pistol fits more a duelist theme (mesmer/thief) I think shortbow or Staff, yes staff

Love my glasses

I’m not really into the whole Fiery stuff, but this just looks too good.

Back piece: Fires of Balthazar

I think now is the time to make that Volcanus