Guild Wars 2

Avelos.6798:

Oh I forgot to add, that there are even some GTX 750 TI that don’t have 6 pin power connector. Most of them just run off the PCI Express slot at 75 watts. Ones like the EVGA Superclocked have the 6 pin. Do research on the cards to find which 750 TIs do not have the 6 pins if you want the TI version.

Actually the 750 Ti was designed to not need the 6-pin PCIe power connector. Now if some manufacturer factory OC it and toss on a huge double fan cooler, it might need a power connector because it’s borderline in power draw from the PCIe slot.

I agree with 1 and 2. When we don’t even have an emote to clap to show appreciation of someone’s rendition of the Game of Thrones theme on the flute, it shows the short coming of the emotes we have. And of course first-person mode with Rift support would be a plus.

We don’t need 1300 skills/traits. That’s way to complex and too easy to create broken builds as well as overpowered ones.

In the words of Tribble trader Cyrano Jones, twice nothing is still nothing.

Honestly, the bridges should all be repaired at least as will as most of the stone paths. Also the most devastated wooden structures should have been torn down while repairs started on at least on the TP “ship”. Evon’s got the money.

If you work on the WvW maps while you are leveling to 80 instead of waiting until you finished mapping out the PvE areas it’s a lot easier.

I was thinking more this Demonts.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Dual-Link-Graphics-01G-P4-2751-KR/dp/B00IDG3NDY

Yes, it’s a combination of a slow dual core CPU (HT can be thought of as more of an overclock than two additional cores) and a throttled link to the very good discrete GPU (640 SPs, 40 TUs, 16 ROPs) so it’s more likely your CPU slowing things down here.

Shadows and reflections are known graphic settings that are also CPU heavy so I would leave those two off. I would say experiment with the other settings to find what you impacts performance on your machine. Just remember that around crowds of other players, that CPU will drag your performance down.

3) There really isn’t anything at the Gem Store you need to buy to be successful. All armors are nothing but appearance. There are items that provide some additional convenience such as additional account bank slots, more bag slots for a character inventory (each bag slot can hold a bag that has 4 to 20 slots. There are gathering tools that don’t wear out which is purely a convenience. Then you have the usual extra character slots you can buy, XP boosters, mini non-combat pets and grab bag items (well keys to open grab bag chests that you can have dropped on you during play).

I’ve never bought a bag slot for any of my characters as there are ways to empty your inventory without needing to return to a major city. You start with 4 bag slots and a 20 slot backpack. I have 4, 15 slot bags in my slots so my characters can carry 80 items at a time, note that some items can stack up to 250 in a single slot. It took me a while to expand from the initial 30 account wide band slots but it depends on how much of a hoarder you are.

It’s a lot easier at level 80 to make gold.

First rare armor/weapon/trinkets about level 68 can drop globs of ectoplasm when salvaged with a high level salvage kit. They are going for 42s a piece right now. Also since most armors/weapons that are dropped have runes/sigils, recovering them by salvaging can add another 4 to 5s. But it is a crap shoot. A master salvage kit has an 80% chance of recovering the upgrade and on average, 82.5% chance for an ecto. Actually it’s more like 40% of getting none, 45% for one, 7.5% for two and 7.5% for three (this is based on my 1200+ salvages). You can always just sell the rares, most armor and weapons go for 30-35s each.

Second is finding a niche in crafting, using the mystic forge to upgrade mats and items, etc. Only problem is not all items crafting or using the MF is profitable.

Third is converting other game currencies into gold. 1 Laurel can by a 3, T6 mats which is worth right now around 1g. So you can earn 1g a day if you do your daily.

Fourth is running daily content like boss events for the boss chest or do dungeon paths for those rewards.

Then there is always buying gems and converting them to gold.

I make around 50g a week and I’m a slacker compared to hard core players in terms of earning gold.

laokoko.7403:

Please stop BSing about the 1/400 drop rate. It’s probably not even 1 in 4000.

Agreed. But even suggesting 1 in 400 the cost for keys in gems is huge. Buying enough gems to convert to gold to buy a contract off the market is huge. So no way the price of a permanent gem stop contract will be “reasonably” priced. 8,000 gems would still be ridiculously low and that’s $100 of purchased gems (or 1000g).

It’s fairer almost for all players that it’s a random chance rather than a very costly purchase.

Basically the Intel HD Graphics 4600 just doesn’t cut it for gaming. While Crossplay is right about CPU being important, when around numerous other players, something this low end isn’t going to work. So yes, you will need a better video card if you insist on playing at 1920×1080.

Assuming it’s a standard width tower, it sounds like you got a Dell Inspiron 3000 Desktop like this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-desktop-i5-4440-processor/dp/B00I1A77CU

If it’s a slimline model that limits your video card possibilities even more than looking for a low power (electrical power) video card.

The best low wattage card you can buy is the GTX 750 Ti. Max wattage used is 60 watts. The card is a bit pricey at $150 at NewEgg (assuming you are from the US) but it blows away the Intel GPU in the i5 and doesn’t require external power. A cheaper but much slower card is the R7 250 (not the 250x) at $80. It should have a similar power profile to the 750 Ti but as I said, much slower. There is also the GTX 750 (no Ti) that goes for around $100 and falls closer to the 750 Ti performance but closer to the price of the R7 250.

Here’s the only concern, will the power supply you currently have be enough. The eVGA GTX 750 does list a minimum 300 watt PSU and claims the card only maxes out at 55 watts. So in theory it should be fine but prebuilt system have a sad tendency to use the cheapest PSUs on the market for their mass market units.

You are suggesting a Kickstarter to bribe a company to do something that the players/donors want. I don’t think Kickstarter has been used that way before and there is no way that ANet would go along with that.

So B, dumb idea.

minbariguy.7504:

I absolutely believe that the Devs and Community Team have every reason to expect to be treated respectfully, and I fully support their right to not engage with those who refuse to do so. So my advice to them would be…don’t.

But since they weren’t they felt the need to post this 9 months ago.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-on-Forum-Moderation-Enforcement/first#post3036871

coglin.1867:

Why? They used to have folks doing that. When they told posters they forwarded there thread to an applicable team, posters claimed they were being dishonest.

Similarly to what your doing here. They point out regularly how often they read the forums, yet you are implying they are not, or that they do not “prove it to you” regularly enough.

Because it’s like maintaining eye contact when someone is talking to you or making affirmative noises (hmm) after each of their points. They could be listening to everything you are saying without doing either of these but doing these things reassures the talker that they have the listener’s attention.

vpchelko.4261:

I know at least 4198 Russian speaking player in GW2. Is it few?

Which changes nothing that the official supported languages in the NA/EU version is English, Spanish, German, French.

But Vayne isn’t asking for a dev. He’s asking for an “official” voice to pop in the the popular complaint threads and reassure the players that their voice is being listened too. No promises, no interruption in developer’s time, just someone to acknowledge we aren’t just typing at each other.

Games that were once subscription and went to a VIP/F2P model offered the VIP level so older subscription players wouldn’t get trapped behind the new paywalls for access to old features that was aimed at the F2P player.

Here, after game purchase, the game is F2P. Therefore any non-subscription model that adds anything like being able to get exclusive items or an alternative way to get currently very rare items like precursors will alienate a fair chunk of the current player base.

You want more loot? Buy gems, convert to gold, buy what you want.

Edit: Yes English is my native language but I tend to drop words, change tense, etc. as I type. Had to fix the most egregious problems with my grammar.

It’s obvious that ANet keeps their employees on a very short leash when it comes to what they can say to the public. Anything that can be remotely construed as a “promise” has bitten them in the butts a number of times so I’m not sure someone showing up every few days and post in the “hot” threads to “please remain calm, you are a valued customer, we listen to all suggestions” is going to do a whole lot but make the jaded even more jaded.

Lately John Smith has been answering very general questions about the game’s economy but it’s obvious that he can’t really talk about specifics and he has little or no say in design. His job is more about spotting problems in the economy, some due to changes, and notifying “the authorities” who might seek his input as to possible fixes.

But nobody from ANet is going to show up and tell off the mount crowd or the dualing crowd or any of the other crowds that are pushing one thing or another that fundamentally goes against the core design of the game. Stringing the disgruntled along will only make them madder later.

So I don’t know how much goodwill a reassuring “official” voice is going to help here.

Likely he’s running a 32-bit version of Windows, maybe even XP.

Ashen.2907:

I cannot say that I really agree with the suggestion of asking that Anet take something away from one player in order to give it to another, particularly since the original possessor of the name, in this case, may have had it for years before GW2 even launched.

Because …

The OP either needs a better imagination or more unique source material to mine. Sorry every major fantasy character name and common variations were likely taken before the game went live to non-preorder players.

So for 1650 gems you get

250 gems Hair Kit.
200 gems Top Hat
162-180 gems for 6 Transmutation Charges
550 gems for 5 Metabolic Primers

Which leaves 470-488 gems for your choice of a non-exclusive green and 5 Utility Primers. Well Sapphire Dye was over a gold even before the rush to buy up supply due to this pack. But even at it’s 4g current price that’s only 30-40 gems or so.

Rauderi.8706:

John Smith.4610:

I’m not sure what you mean by growing gulf between the rates, the gulf has always been the same.

The gold/gem rates have very little to do with gold inflation inside the game.

To clarify with some basic (albeit third party) info:
100 gems sells for 9 g .
100 gems costs 12 g 46 s to buy.
Source http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

Pretty sure the gap wasn’t 3.4 gold at launch. Though that’s in absolute terms. Is there a calculated percentage in the algorithm to handle the difference that makes this difference relative?

Or, parallel to that, is it based on acceleration/deceleration of gem supply, similar to how sometimes buy orders and available sales are sometimes very close together and sometimes much further apart?

The gap is and always been 27.75%. Or another way of putting it the Gem to Gold rate is 72.25% of the Gold to Gem rate. 72.25% is 85% squared. To me that implies that gold is sunk going in and coming out of the exchange.

I meant the general “oh no my mini collection will never be complete so I’m leaving” posts. Not that there will be a solution similar to Mr. Sparkles.

The rescue pack was worth it IMO if you occasionally bought keys. 1000 gems gave you a 200 gem hat skin and 15 keys (plus some other stuff). 800 gems for 15 keys was a steal.

This though, not impressed at all.

But the price would be astronomical. It’s 1000 gems for 5 hair kits so how would you price infinite? 8,000 gems? 15,000 gems? Higher? It’s 4750g right now and at the current exchange rate that would cost you over 52,500 gems, over $650 worth of bought gems. Someone suggested around 1 in 400 chests as a drop rate. 400 keys is only 33,600 gems.

It’s never going to be “cheap” if offered in the Gem Shop. But how many would buy it if it cost $100 or more in gems?

Do you know how to make a new folder? Make a new folder labeled Music.

If all AMD users were getting this, then it’s a problem. If you aren’t willing to work with support to figure out what the problem is, it’s on you.

Ihrga.8325:

These days I sometimes see those tunnel dwelling trains in Orr that kill spiders on the first part – fail event second part – repeat… I don’t get what’s the fun in all this?

It’s never about fun. It’s about loot. Followed by complaints that you have to grind to get anything decent.

In Documents there is a folder labeled Guild Wars 2. In that folder should be a folder labeled Music.

That’s where your files go. Not sure what formats.

Oh, found out what.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack

Did you check the mesmer part of the forum? That’s usually the place for build listings. Only problem is I don’t think anyone have done any with the new way traits are doled out.

Zaxares.5419:

I’m still waiting for those Paper Bag helmet skins. :P

That was nicely played trick on reddit readers the devs did there.

It’s technically but is violating any local, state or national laws? No because the value of the contents is the same or more than the cost. Otherwise Crakerjacks, capsule toys, blind boxes and grab bags wouldn’t persist.

Labjax.2465:

There’s another game I once played where we had way more customization options and most of it was free… but then, I paid a monthly sub for that game for the first couple of years, so what can I say.

At least it isn’t pay to win.

I am a sucker for solid customization options though. I can burn a lot of hours on finding the right look for a toon, only to decide that it’s not quite right a few days later.

But I guess most people just want the options for the prestige of it. So prestigious it will be. They know what buttons to push; heck, we play these games to be “heroes” – so what better way to appeal to our psychology than give us a chance at an item that’ll make us feel more special.

If it’s easy to obtain, then no feeling special = less interest in obtaining the item.

I hear you brother. I do miss that game so much and not just for the flexibility in altering your appearance for a small amount of ingame currency, assuming you weren’t sitting on a pile of free alteration coupons.

Here, you better get your face right the first time or buy a kit to fix it.

But the loot system is tied to the TP in terms of acquiring the gear you want. If it wasn’t for RNG loot then a major reason for using the TP goes bye-bye and it will revert to a crafting gear market like every other player market in every other MMO.

Buy a new computer or it’s going to be a major organ transplant.

The major organ transplant will likely be cheaper if you think you can do one. DIY isn’t that difficult but it’s a matter of confidence. This isn’t swapping a video card or adding more memory or another hard drive.

CPU is four generations behind, it’s likely that your system is either using DDR2 or slow DDR3 memory. So motherboard, CPU, RAM upgrade would be required. I would stick with Intel CPUs even though AMD offers lower priced CPUs but considering the age of your current CPU, everything short of a single core CPU is an upgrade. You can do a decent upgrade of those 3 parts, a Intel Haswell CPU (Pentium G3258), a Socket 1150 motherboard and 8GB of DDR3-1600 memory for easily under $250. That would double you CPU performance even at default clock speed. The G3258 is unlocked and a 30% OC while still using the default Intel cooler is quite doable for a novice and will blow past in terms of performance of the more expensive i3s which are not unlocked.

Video card is a little more nebulous due to AMD’s reluctance to display the model number of the GPU. You could use GPU-Z to find out the number of shaders, clock speed, memory type and speed and with that find the exact model of HD 48xx.

That said even the HD 4890 is slower than the HD 7770/R7 250X which is a $100ish card. nVidia cards tend to be more expensive for similar performance.

Edit: I hate homophones. Heterographs aren’t my friends either.

Sounds like you believe that they only have X available as oppose to a small percent chance.

RP players have been complaining since the Feature Patch that it’s difficult to RP since zones aren’t even server specific anymore. They can’t go and meet in some out of the way, lightly populated zone on their server because that doesn’t exist anymore with Megaservers.

Zord.6130:

Behellagh.1468:

Sorry if this isn’t some fan service anime series.

Considering how revealing other armor sets are, this comment is totally useless.
Roleplaying IS an important aspect of this game.

But not up-skirt screen caps. That was my point.

I would say most of the changes done (that aren’t bug fixes) to traits and skills for each profession have been attempts to balance not for PvE but WvW since in PvP skills and traits are different from PvE already.

Sorry if this isn’t some fan service anime series.

Tongku.5326:

All I can say is that A-Net has lost me …

Then why are you still here posting? Do you go to restaurants that disappoint you and tell people going in how you disliked their food and/or service so that’s why you don’t come here anymore except to hassle warn customers?

If you don’t like the game and left, then please, for those who do enjoy the game, leave the game’s forums as well. The things you are complaining about is so fundamental to the game’s design that it’ll never be changed to a system where doing content A rewards B. Might as well as ask them to reformulate the professions into the classic MMO triad and turn it into yet another WoW clone.

Nick.6972:

For me the substitute for end game is WvW.
Unfortunately it’s by far the least updated game mode in GW2.

Because revamping the rewards system several times, moving the JP to it’s own map and adding a “recreational” waiting area you can farm isn’t updating it enough.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Danikat.8537:

I never really understood the whole “end game” concept.

End game is the part of the game that gets the least attention during development, and also the part of the game many players race to get to, spending as little time as possible going through the parts of the game that get the most work pre-launch.

MMO players have become trained to level up ASAP to get to the “endgame” and are confused when a game is all about the journey and not the final destination. This is what generates a lot of the dislike about this game as voiced on the forums (another source are disgruntled GW PvP players). Because the tropes that they’ve been trained to accept aren’t here, the triad, mounts, vertical progression, structured raids, etc. It’s like being raised on FPS and then playing a stealth FPS. It’s only natural to be confused.

The flipping comment has more to do with the fact the spread after taxes is negative on T6 mats rather than a general statement about flipping in general.

AlphaNeonic.1925:

I’d argue that the price of some of the items on the Gem Shop seem to only serve the purpose of making the black lion keys appear to be a good value.

Is anyone spending 150 gems or 12-15 gold on a single boost?

I think the chest would be a more viable option if they contained more chest exclusive/non gem shop goods. Let the items themselves be worth it, not the perceived value from the gem shop.

Cost of gems in gold is never considered. They want you to spend real money on gems and the price is set based on that, never ever the cost in gold.

The purpose of the gold to gem side of the exchange is to fund the gem to gold side of the exchange to provide a legitimate route for buying gold without introducing inflation caused by injecting new gold into the economy.

But it’s nice to open up your chocolate sampler and find out you won a new car.

Some people enjoy RPing in an MMO. Some MMOs it’s easier to do so. I don’t think GW2 is one of those.

Since the BLTC is listed as containing three random items of similar value to the cost of a key, it’s not gambling, it’s a grab bag. Just because you wouldn’t have ever bought most of the stuff you get from a chest doesn’t negate it’s implied value. The fact that by adding much rarer, highly valued items to the list of possible items doesn’t make it gambling either.

Server population tends to relate to their placement in World vs World (vs World). So I would check with the WvW standings to get a good 1st order approximation.

However if you are simply looking for a full world for PvE, the game recently implemented a system where each zone is now populated with players across all regional servers (NA, EU) vs just your server. I no longer finding nearly deserted zones since that change although new Living Story content (comes out every two weeks) does draw players away from older zones.

Opps, forgot link to WvW leader board.

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/

Again, supply issues. If players are concentrating on higher level zones to get higher tier mats then there are fewer players gathering lower tier mats. I do my dailies in sub level 25 zones and I have to dump excess mats onto the tp every other day due to overflowing my collection tab.