Guild Wars 2

The town clothes that are pieces like hats, coats, glasses, etc.

I’m betting the reason they choose this ratio is because more players are skinning level 80 gear than lower level stuff so this is advantageous to them. I have nearly 150 stones from dailies and map rewards so this particular change helps me a lot. I’m not the kind of person who skins something more than once.

I disagree about disabling the 2nd core on each module sirsquishy. He only has 4 cores to start with and any positive impact of disabling the 2nd core in each module is seriously offset by the decrease in total number of cores. The game really likes more than two. I would agree with that tactic on an FX-6xxx or FX-8xxx for this game but not on an FX-4xxx quad.

And yes OP you did get taken sort of. The FX-4130 was 1st generation Bulldozer and if this is a new system someone was clearing out inventory because the FX-4300 is 5-10% faster at the same clock speed.

Also even against the relatively old i5-2300 the FX-4130 20% slower in games. But since the FX-4130 is much cheaper than any of the i5 line, if you were a stickler on cost then the trade off would likely have been a lower end video card by about $60 which would have hurt performance in other games.

Now in a lot of other games the performance wouldn’t be as much of an issue because most FPS shooters are GPU limited and not CPU but with this game it can be troublesome at time and seriously cut into frame rate.

Karma sinks? Every seen the recipes for dye making for chefs? Many of the ingredients can only be bought with Karma.

So Vsync off and Limiter set to unlimited?

Again where and doing what? It does make a huge difference in the game.

FX-6100 processor. Not that the CPU is poor, just poor with this game which uses Dx9 and few processor intensive threads. Since you don’t say what FPS you are getting or where you are getting it’s tough to say you are somewhere that binds up the CPU, thus slowing the rendering loop.

I also suspect that if you up your settings in game you won’t notice a significant decrease in performance which says it’s not GPU but CPU limited.

Well unless it’s saying you’re connecting from China, yea you should be fine. Right now it doesn’t even list a location on the security page here, just my IP address. Same one I’ve been using for the last 18 months.

What’s My IP reports the address of the owner of that IP block. Since many ISPs are now cable or telco companies, those addresses tend to point to where all the IPs for that service connects to the Internet infrastructure. For instance I have ATT DSL and “What’s my IP” says I’m located some 30-40 miles away because that’s where all the DSL nodes eventually connect up to the Internet from ATT’s internal network.

Yes but Naqaj was saying it was 80%+ in China. I was pointing out he was wrong.

Basically it’s a 15% gold sink at both ends. The gem to gold rate is 72.25% of the gold to gem rate (or 85% squared).

Well according to StatCounter XP is now down to 47%, slightly less than Win 7, 8 and 8.1 combine. Anyways gamers will be using upscale rigs even if it’s at a PC gaming cafe.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-CN-daily-20140223-20140324-map

StinVec.3621:

I’m still a bit surprised at how little of a rise there has been in the exchange rate over the last 24 days. I honestly would not have been surprised had it gotten up to an average of 10g per 100 gems even midway through the month. Here we are barely skimming below an average of 9g per 100gems and the month of sales is nearly over with. Thank you for the chart as well, Behellagh.

Well if you notice they are spacing out items that spike the price upward, letting the rate cool off a bit before the next. Of course they are still adding a twist every so often with a “new” hot item like the new Frost Wasp Logging Tool and Lion’s Arch Survivors Dyes this Tuesday or the Set 3 minis and new hair styles last Tuesday.

After all if the price rises too quickly or they deplete the average player’s gold supply to quickly, you either get players who buy gems with cash or unhappy players. There’s a balance they are trying to carefully trying to find. It also looks like players who are buying gems to convert into gold are paying attention to these sales as well as opportunities to maximize the gold they are getting.

I think we are going to touch 7g today and there is going to be a number of large but temporary spikes down today and a more general trend tomorrow, unless tomorrow they put up another popular skin or slots (character/bank/inventory) for sale.

They may be holding out until the Friday through Monday for those items when more players are online.

It’s the same password that allows you to login here. You should be able to find it in your browser saved password section.

Wanze.8410:

lordkrall.7241:

I would say Gems.
Gems seems to keep going up in price, so it is quite likely that the price is even higher in a few months.

You pay 15% taxes both ways, so you need the gem price to rise 30% to break even.

Which it has since October. But I think we are reaching the point where buyers of gems with cash and selling them for gold are becoming significant enough that it’ll take longer than a few months for the rise in Gems to reach a break even from prices now.

Wanze.8410:

Invest in me.

So when are we going to have a line of Wanze funds to invest in?

Nury.3062:

I have an ideea for ANET how to make more income.
Sell in the gem shop items that will make a soulbound item,account bound.
Consumable sold in bulks of 6 ,1 for every piece.
One time use only.If you souldbound your item on another char (or the same) you have to buy again those to make the same item account bound.
maybe 1000 gems per bulk.(shouldn’t be cheap)
You can call it “Nury’s Bounder” or something like that…
What do you guys think?

You know it’s going to be hot dog/bun rules so if offered it will be individual or in packs of 5.

You are all enticed by magical words aren’t you?

64-bit client would only buy the game the ability to use more system memory to hold the game data. The performance improvement would be minimum because currently often fetched data that isn’t in the game’s memory space is still around in the disk cache memory space assuming you have a decent amount of system memory (8GB or higher). 64-bit won’t make the code run faster or enable better multithreaded/core support.

Dx11 on it’s own won’t buy the game a lot of performance either. The big advantage of Dx11 is that it’s thread safe, meaning you can split the renderer into multiple threads, across multiple cores and it’s that feature that buys you the bulk of performance improvement.

Dx12, well Microsoft hasn’t decided if Dx12 will be ported to Windows 7, where I imagine most of the player base is using. That’s why plain old Dx11 would be the likely path of upgrade if ANet decides to take another crack at the renderer. But that is not a small task.

Since Carbine Studios is founded by ex-WoW employees (pre 1st expansion) it’s logical that the look and feel is very WoW like.

Waiting until all is revealed and we get a chance to try it.

Someday I will learn not to skim/skip the OP and not go by the thread title.

Contact support. They will ask for a lot of information to verify it’s really him before they will reset his password.

He could check is browser password cache, assuming he logged into the forum once. It may be in there since the forum uses the same password as the game.

Really? The top looks to be Heart of Koda. Bottom and boots are Viper.

Then I hope you understand why I replied to “Update: I have decided to keep playing Guild Wars 2.” with my sarcastic remark. See I don’t know you from Adam and that statement implies that somehow your participation in this game is worth some note. I see it the same as someone who declares the party can now start since they arrived. Basically an egotistical, self important diva and I really hate those. I can’t put into words how much I loath people who believe their opinion simply matters more than the rest of the masses.

I had an experience a week ago with someone who thought rules didn’t apply to him and I simply couldn’t smack him upside the head but my seniors insist that we have to grin and bear it because the people he represents are simply too important to our little non-profit. So I still have a nerve frayed by that and seeing something similar here got you the sarcasm cannon pointed in your direction. Sorry about that.

There is no way of knowing unless they replied or if the post was an aggressive rant, suspension.

I only look at five of the boards here, and daily there are hundreds of new threads and posts. Most of these are self help, players responding to other players. Now if you are talking about suggestions, making a topic that is noted as a suggestion say in the title, would likely get it read by someone at ANet. But expect every post to get read, no. Topic skimmed, maybe depending if it’s been seen before and how often.

But the problem with topics on this board is there’s usually two equally sized groups shouting at one another about how the other group is wrong in their opinion. PvP Vs PvE Vs WvW balance. Economy issues. Inclusion Vs Exclusion. Casual Vs Hardcore. Etc. If I was ANet I wouldn’t acknowledge the lot of you for fear or raising the ire of one side or the other.

But I’m sure they are measuring the temp so to speak and these changes coming up next month may be a result of them listening. Sure it’s going to generate a whole new pile of polarizing topics but in my opinion if both sides aren’t happy about the changes for different reasons, you’re doing something right.

Meglobob.8620:

IMPORTANT NOTE

Under the new rune system players will only need buy 1 rune to get all 6 bonus effects.

Currently players after buy 6 of each rune.

So in theory rune prices should plummet because of less demand.

Sigils should rise in price because you now can equip 2 in a 2h, so demand should nearly double, resulting in higher prices.

Not unless I read the blog post wrong or misunderstood the before/after pics. They are tweaking runes to encourage players to equip more of the same rather than mixing by making the additional copies of the same rune add even more bonus than before.

One of our main considerations with this balance pass was encouraging players to use one whole rune set, rather than mixing and matching one or two from several different sets.

Seems opposite than what you just said.

cale, the point was they did buy it, it was changed post purchased because, those who are upset believe, enough players raised their objection to it. It is a valid point. But I consider the modification no more significant than if they fixed a clipping error.

If they didn’t mention it, would anyone have noticed right away if at all?

See I look at it as a "bug" fix. It’s just as if they fixed a clipping issue someone pointed out. They didn’t add more armor or move armor as some suggested in the zodiac thread. I’m sure nobody at ANet thought about it until someone pointed it out. And after a long look and consideration they told the art department to tweak it just to be safe. That’s why I didn’t see it as a big deal. If the top of my head peeked through the top of my hat and they fixed it, would I be upset? No. Even if I didn’t mind before it likely bothered others.

The flamekissed armor was clearly a misstep that they admitted too quickly and they understood why players who paid a lot of gold for their Tier 3 cultural armor would be upset that anyone could now buy a "nicer" variant with gems and at the time and with gold bought gems also cheaper. Now zodiac armor simply brought up the time honored chain mail bikini for females Vs full plate for males issue. Are the armors practical or simply cosmetic. If they only had practical armors in the game everyone would either look like a tin can, a leather fetishist or a walking quilt.

We had something like this happen back in City of Heroes. It was a trick of the shader combined with the mesh but it sure darn well looked like the game was having a wet spandex contest. But since the cleverer among us dumped the textures before and after and there wasn’t any art asset there, it was an artifact of the mesh + normal map + shader. Also it was more noticeable the darker the color was, white wasn’t revealing while black "hinted" at something. There was no drama, no rage quits, no vowing never to buy another thing from the game.

But I do understand your point. You are concerned that the masses may be able to alter an item significantly after purchase if they make a loud enough noise. And the only real case of that was the light flamekissed armor which was quickly caught and refund system put in place if the owners didn’t like the change. Personally I would have rebated the cost and strip them of the item immediately but I don’t run ANet’s business.

No ascended gear has to be a person journey to get and NOT something you can simply buy for a huge pile of gold. What’s the point then having time gated refinement and account bound mats if at the end of all that you can simply buy it. It would mean it’s a limitation on the craftsman and not the owner.

Sorry if you can spend enough time in the game to become Scrooge McDuck swimming in your vault of gold you can spend the time to craft your own “ultimate” armor.

Looking at the cookie expiration dates, two delete upon closing and one deletes within a half an hour (I think it renews upon access). two have a 2 year lifetime and one has a 6 month lifetime.

I use chrome and if I close chrome and reopen it, I have to login again.

Now with a chart for easy visualization.

No. Your login cookie is flushed upon closing of the browser. But if you close a tab, then opening a new tab to the forum shouldn’t require you to log back in.

Olvendred.3027:

Actually, the only problem I’ve had with the Nageling giant is the weirdly small area it has before it leashes. A few times in the past I’ve soloed it down to 50% or whatever, only to accidentally go out of its area and lose all my hard work. If the leash area were increased to the entirety of Nageling village, there would be no problems with the event. Well, maybe add a reward chest at the end, but otherwise no problems.

Bear in mind that there is nothing else in Nageling village that the giant is stopping you doing. No heart, no other events, no poi, even the waypoint is outside.

Conncept.7638:

Or, and I know I’m really straying in to dangerous territory here, they could just make the event scaling system that hasn’t worked since launch day, actually work.

It’s a Group Event. It has a minimum level of scaling that’s set at more than 1 person.

Yea that too. I’ve nearly soloed it only to have it’s lease pulled and have it regen all that damage. But usually it’s a mistimed dodge that ends up me rezing so far away that it’s pointless to continue. That’s why they recommend it takes two or more.

From what I’ve seen it is FIFO. However there may, and I haven’t experimented to see, that if you “top off” an item, that the old amount acts as a placeholder so the new items are considered old.

Buy side seems to work OK.

Xirus.9675:

Behellagh.1468:

Xirus.9675:

Update: I have decided to keep playing Guild Wars 2. I simply will not be using the dysfunctional Gem Store until my concerns as a customer are addressed.

I’ll notify the media.

Honestly, you’re just ticked because they took away the phantom nipples. That is hardly in the same class as the Flame armor clone Human Cultural mistake, which is why you aren’t going to get a rebate. What’s next, being upset because they fixed clipping errors.

I love how posts like yours, which are condescending, and the definition of rude, never get infracted.

Thanks for proving my point. Really…

Oh, and nice ad hominems. You really know how to make a strong case for why Guild Wars 2 should just edit people’s armor retroactively after purchase, and just silence customers when they post their concerns about this trend. You make such a strong case by trying to prove that I’m just being some creepy perv for wanting anatomically correct boobs! Those people in Europe are creepy pervs, too! There’s a lot of countries, and even US cities, that have whole populations of creepy pervs who want nipples and skin to not be censored! Reality is so scary! Ahhh!!! How have we survived as a species???

Yep – way to grossly oversimplify things to try to make my concerns sound petty and irrelevant. Acting that way to other customers is sure to attract new players to the game.

I also love how you basically took two little lines out of a wall of text and only responded to that. Classy. Everything about your response is just so classy – not rude whatsoever… >_>

Way to keep the love coming, Anet.

Sorry if I’m mistaken but I believed that was the gist of your various deleted posts. Since all they “fixed” was the normal map and a little bit of clipping through the armor under the breasts I simply classify that as an overreaction.

You have to understand the game got it’s various game ratings in the US, UK, EU and Australia based on the existing content and the presumption that it’s not going to change. IF, the change was done to eliminate any doubt that the zodiac armor is an energy field projected from bits of armor and not translucent blue shrink rap with bits of armor like some soft porn fantasy film then it was done to protect the ratings of the game. Anyways the underlying models are Barbie and Ken accurate, which is saying they’re not. So there isn’t anything you could see if the blue was a translucent layer.

By being upset you are implying that the minor changes ruined the look you were looking to achieve when you bought it and that the selling points were a hint of nipple and areola, which the change in the normal map eliminated. And to be honest, looking at the pics from the closed zodiac thread, I don’t see an difference in the coverage of the armor bits as some have implied.

So I consider this to be an uproar over nothing. Certainly not anything to heap abuse on the ANet art team or any forum members who may disagree with your take on the situation.

So you have the whole post saved or just the link to one of your previous posts to cut and paste from StinVec?

Did it with two Friday I think. Actually the other guy was doing a pretty good job himself before I arrived. I was just surprised that someone else was trying to take him down.

There use to be a different event that happened in Nageling besides the Giant. Group of human Vet separatists I think. Much easier than the Giant but I haven’t seen that recently. I think that’s because the Giant stays up for days.

That Packard Bell is using a very slow dual core, well below the minimum recommended for this game. The Integrated Graphics of the HD 8240 is quite … sad. On top of it it’s a “low profile” system which makes it a pain upgrading graphics, power supply, etc.

Since we don’t know your budget, I’m going to assume it’s around the price of that Packard Bell, in which case I would say either this

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-pc-monitors/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/asus-k30ad-uk003s-desktop-pc-21852533-pdt.html

or if you have a bit more cash available

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-pc-monitors/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/hp-pavilion-500-152ea-desktop-pc-21732511-pdt.html

In the first case, yes the Asus has less system memory and only a 500GB hard drive. Howerver the CPU is 4.5x faster and the integrated HD Graphics 4400 is 1.9x faster. Still not great graphics wise but you aren’t going to find a “gaming” pc at that price point. It’s also a standard width case meaning a standard power supply will fit as well as full height video cards.

Now on to the HP. It has more system memory and a larger hard drive than the Packard Bell. It’s CPU is 5.2x faster and the integrated graphics is 2.8x faster. Also standard width case. But it costs 60% more than the PB and 50% more than the Asus.

Now the other problem with these type of systems, is the shipped power supply is on the low power side. That’s why I bring up standard size power supplies. If you want to add a video card to any of these systems, one that can significantly perform better than what comes with it, you are likely going to need to upgrade the power system.

Sorry I didn’t get the 21st data up until now.

No they are not bugs. The area in the bank where you keep the crafting materials is called “Collections” and the expander only expands that. Everything else is still limited to 250 such as crafting, dragging and slots in the bank/guild bank.

This is the Internet. We’ve been trained to panic on rumor and rage on fact.

Pie Flavor.1647:

I’m sorry but no, with ascended, you will consistently win 10% more, and that is quite a huge advantage when it comes to PvP

it might not be noticeable in 1 engagement, it might not be noticeable in 100 situations, but the difference in stats will be noticeable in 1,000,000,000 encounters.

Sorry, I think this is a case of “I spent and absurd amount of mindless grinding to get my ascended armor and found it’s not what it’s all cracked up to be so I must convince others to waste time as well”.

I’m starting to lean toward Marjory’s weapon skins and the bank/inventory slots as the last “good” items going up for sale. But we still have 10 days.

Jesus = Son of God
Mohammed = Prophet of God

Slightly different context. Yes I know both names are in common use.

Sorry, rice-picker is in the Racial Slur Database.

http://www.rsdb.org/slur/rice-picker

Thank you for playing.

Brother Grimm.5176:

It will be interesting to see if ANY games (that AMD doesn’t in some way fund) will support it. This is AMDs attempt to differentiate themselves from Nvidia in a war they are currently loosing and I personally think it’s a desperate move at best. I don’t discount it may have technical merits, but no developer in their right mind is going to follow the first looser in the graphics chip race down an exclusive rabbit hole if they have a choice.

Then again, I’ve been wrong before… (and for disclosure sake, I’m a die hard Nvidia user).

It will depend on which 3rd party engines support it “out of the box”. So far it’s DICE’s Frostbite engine and there is a plug in for the UE3 which the new Thief uses.

It’s far easier to let a game engine developer add it than adding it to a game engine you cobbled together yourself.

There isn’t a nationwide minimum wage in China. Wiki says the range is 750-1620 RMB per month. So worse case it’s about 12% of a minimum monthly wage so about 1/2 a week’s income.

1st that’s old now, it’s been renamed. 2nd ANet says it’s a loyalty program. It has yet to be explained how loyalty is determined.

That was yet another thing I miss from City of Heroes. Click on an emote’s name to see a little animated gif of the emote.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emotes

Some of my favorites

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emote_GetSome
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emote_YataYata
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emote_BringIt
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emote_Grief

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emote_HoldTorch

Since we won’t have traits below level 30, it’s a fair trade off.

Also the idea of buying an MMO upfront is a relatively new idea there. There is a multislide presentation at the China GW2 site explaining why buying up front is a “good” thing.