Guild Wars 2

Reax.1806:

Yes, yes, and yes! I want an epic long cape! shoulders to feet!

Jacob.2490:

How about capes and mantles? Where are they? I want to look epic.

… then I want a bucket of dry ice for effect.

I’m just saying it’s nothing new. See the sticky.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-and-Performance-based-issues-1/first#post338300

Once loaded, access the “Graphic Options” window and make the following changes:
1. Change “Refresh Rate” to “60 Hz”
2. Change “Frame Limiter” to “60.”
3. Change “Reflections” to “None.”
4. Change “Render Sampling” to “Native.”
5. Enable “Vertical Sync” at the bottom.

All you need is a few game engine companies adding support and it’ll spread because it’ll be “free” to the game developer.

I think the Plants Vs Zombies FPS is built on the Frostbite engine. I haven’t bother to see if either Source or UE4 will announced support for it.

It’s not a secret. Shadows and reflections are more CPU than GPU so it impacts performance more when the game is showing it’s CPU limitations.

The advantage of Mantle is reduced CPU setup for API calls meaning more times through the renderer per second. Of course if your renderer is bottlenecked on the CPU by code that isn’t involved in setup for API calls the impact won’t be as great.

Dx 11 wasn’t introduced until late in the GW2 development cycle. Past it’s original release deadline. By then the underlying engine was done and it was just content and assets being developed.

PhysX? Yeah, lets cripple a game on an exclusive to one GPU manufacturer’s physics engine, because the software emulator is terrible. Better to use with the Havok physics engine at least it keeps the red/green war out of the performance question.

Since they hadn’t done a Dx11 port, a Mantle port is like expecting NASA to announce their next project is building a FTL Starship when all then have are the same old chemical fueled rockets we’ve had since WWII.

The whole renderer would need to be scrapped and rebuilt for multiple core scaling and Dx11 before they take on Mantle. Mantle is probably more straightforward to do with a Dx11 engine than the restrictive nature of a Dx9 renderer.

So until we see or hear about a major rewrite of the core tech in the game, don’t hold your breath. It takes a major effort in time and experienced manpower to replace the guts of a game while leaving the assets and other functionality intact.

Mantle show massive improvements if the game’s performance is CPU bound. Very little when it’s not.

Translation, helps slower CPUs a lot more than faster ones with a high end video card. And this is in a game where FPS performance is a major feature.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7728/battlefield-4-mantle-preview

And don’t underestimate the need to move and dodge to survive. You say you are new to GW2 and this isn’t an MMO where you plant yourself and slug it out even as a warrior. And Kraits are an enemy that can force you into melee with their grapple so trying to hang back with range attacks can be a problem considering your relative squishiness.

The GTX 650Ti is 35% faster than the GTX 650, 50% faster than the HD 7750. I consider that significant when he is asking for something equivalent to an HD 7750. The GTX 660 is 50% faster than a 650Ti. Then there’s the question of power available since the 650Ti uses around more power than the HD 7750.

Don’t forget the OP isn’t located where this stuff is cheap. I’m supposing he’s asking because he’s looking to exchange nVidia for AMD. And as I said we aren’t even touching power supply issues. It’s possible that his system simply can’t support the power requirements for a higher end card. We don’t know anything about the rest of his system. It could be a local shop built or store bought from years ago. We don’t know. And money seems to be an issue so lets hold off spinning expensive upgrades.

Anyway the root of his problem is a Core 2 based Pentium Dual Core from the era when Intel lobotomized the Core 2 architecture to make it a “Pentium” by restricting RAM speed and reducing L2 cache sizes to hobble performance. It’s not needing a faster video card as his GPU-Z screen grab shows.

Of an HD 7750? GTX 650 I think but that might be a tad slower depending and the game and settings. nVidia isn’t know for it’s fine gradations in performance at the low end. The GTX 650Ti is significant overkill and there is nothing in the 7xx series that low end yet. The GTX 550Ti is similar to the GTX 650 in terms of performance.

Have you tried an older driver/rolling back to the one that had better performance?

Low supply. We all know that demand can be “faked” with tons of 1c offers. So it’s best now to judge demand by actually looking at the current bids and total up the ones that aren’t so obviously fake.

The game prefers more than two cores for optimal performance and your CPU is a tad on the low end of single core performance which it also likes. Depending on the motherboard and were you are, you may be able to find a faster and/or quad core CPU that can be used in that motherboard along with your RAM (I’m assuming it’s DDR2 where today everything is DDR3). Even the “classic” Q6600 quad core should work, guessing here, not enough info in your OP about your MB, and that’ll be a step up in performance. Of course faster is better and newer is better.

As for the HD 7750. It’s a fine starter gamer card for the money. Just don’t expect 60fps at 1920×1080 in games without turning the “pretty” down on newer games.

1st it’s a very slow quad core, in comparison to what’s available even a year or two ago, and that’s what is limiting performance. Basically the game isn’t feeding your graphics card fast enough because GW2 is more dependent on single core CPU performance than a modern shooter.

Tearing is just an artifact of having VSync off. However with it on at these low frame rates it may make the game seem more choppy in terms of consistent frame rate.

Khisanth.2948:

You can get exactly the same thing but going to Rata Sum. Everything there is close together.

Or The Grove. They at least cluster all the crafting in one spot.

Do you honestly believe they start with gem shop items and then build a LS episode around it? No, they write the whole narrative first, decide where to divide the chapters, and then they either add a new skin related to the content or figure out what popular discontinued item to bring back.

You all make it sound like a development meeting starts with the Gem Shop people asking for a story built around something they can sell.

I don’t know but I don’t see a “focus on microtransactions”. I see a variety of meh items like the finger paint masks that the newb artist on the team can knock out with minimal supervision while the rest of the art team spends time mutating existing zones for LS content.

And microtransactions is what keeps the game going. They need to keep it fresh to keep income up otherwise their Seoul overlords will get all sorts of grumpy and try to micromanage even more than before.

The game still has it’s original selling point, buy once and play for free. Now if that’s for a couple of months or a couple of years that’s entirely up to the player. But the more months they are in the game, the longer the period of time that they may be tempted to buy something with gems, hopefully bought with cash ones.

As for me, I still have 3 more races and 6 more classes to try out so I’ll be here for a while.

Most everything is between the 4 and 8 o’clock positions near the inner ring, top and bottom level.

Minister’s Waypoint at 6 o’clock is where the bank, guild bank, TP and guild contacts are located as well as a vendor and BLC ticket vendor.

Take an elevator down (or use the free Commons Waypoint) to the lower level and the various crafting stations are spread out from 4 to 8 o’clock along the inner wall.

Back upstairs is the gate to LA and the Laurel vendor in the Upper City.

Sorry I was under the believe you were complaining about increases that occurred over the last few months and any recent drop offs. Of the three you gave as examples (since bronze price depends heavily on copper) were all caused by crafting changes (rumor or actual) or specific game events. I’m not talking day to day or even week to week.

20% chance for a 40c item. So that’s 8c a node. Oh no that new gold spigot will ruin the game’s economy for good.

Yeah, right.

WoW allows race changes? Since when, after they ripped off Dreamworks? Next WoW expansion, training dragons. :p

As for a reset of your Personal Story. Well you pick the order to join via the Personal Story which unlock Order exclusive armor which you could be wearing (or just the skin of it) when you choose to change race. So lets strip you of that while we are resetting your story, eating the cost and possibly transmutation stones you used in the process.

Then’s their your personal instance where you keep your unlocked/gem bought nodes and hopefully someday you residence. Got to move everything to your new race’s city. Should reset your cultural armor bought count since you aren’t that culture anymore. You don’t keep those armors or skins anymore either. There are probably a few more aspects that tie back into race in this game.

See, it’s a tad more complicated than you thought.

You’re all complaining about an 6-8 copper per node profit? Weren’t you all the ones saying it’s a convenience item so their is no reason to justify the cost economically? You can’t have the argument both ways just because you can earn a very small amount of money on each node now.

Macroeconomics, not macro as in TP trading cheats.

@gesho – if there’s a use demand goes up and unless supply follows, price goes up. Demand goes away or supply catches up, price goes back down. You may find it troublesome that prices move like that but if say supply is huge on some item. So much so that the price is inverted to the proposed “quality”, they they introduce a means to consume that excess supply which will eventually consume that supply and in turn raise prices. When the new demand is satiated or the event that material is needed for is over, the supply will once again climb and price will fall.

There is no reason to expect a stable market on some of these basic or refined materials.

Doesn’t matter as the PCIe controller is on the CPU and it only supports PCIe V2.0. And the Z77 only has 8 PCIe V2.0 channels out of it as well.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

You can’t “force” a standard that came out after a controller was made.

Race isn’t cosmetic if it changes story elements. Yes it’s a minor amount of story but it’s not just cosmetic.

Name another MMO where you can alter profession or race once you leveled your character to max?

I’m not saying it’s technically not doable, just that it’s not favorable to the business model of MMOs.

Since we are editing on top of each other.

The level 20 scroll still leaves you 60 levels to level through. Plus it’s a reward for having a character for a year in the game. Plus it encourages you to roll another character, which would be moot if you can simply switch.

Item price stays stable until it’s usefulness increases or is rumored. Then BAM! It’s not rocket surgery.

Buttercup.5871:

Why Appa? And we all know dolyaks can’t fly.

Faster exploration would be fantastic. We’ll have new legendaries soon, we’ll need all the gifts of exploration we can get.

In SWTOR, you would be dismounted if a mob or environmental thing hit you too hard. It can easily be done. Faster exploration would certainly beat running champ trains for skill points. Bring it on. It would certainly up the pace of WvW by a lot, all that running is boring.

The advantage of the 2600K over the 3770K and 4770K has to do with overclocking. The default performance is faster with the newer models but they tend to be more limited in how fast you can overclock them due to shrinking die size and a switch to an inferior thermal compound to transfer heat to the spreader on the chip.

Yes that model does go from on x16 to two x8 slots. And the 2600K is only equipped with PCIe V2.0. Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs are V3.0. But your motherboard can handle either Sandy Bridge (2600K) or Ivy Bridge (3770K) and has the components on the MB that can support PCIe V3.0 (I believe it’s line drivers aka amplifiers).

Click on the word Monthly didn’t work?

And I want an flying albino Dolyak and I’ll call him Appa …

No need for mounts with a waypoint system. Improved speed in uncovering maps would mean faster leveling through exploration XP.

There is no flight in this game (no plummeting doesn’t count) so adding it may cause issues with the game engine. Plus it reduces exploration risk to zero flying over critter filled landscapes.

It’s advantages are too great at any price. Offering one seriously closes the gap of Pay to Win class of items.

The only way to offer one is 1) no speed advantage like the broom and drill and 2) it doesn’t fly. But then your pretty critter ends up walking everywhere, dismounting you at every encounter forcing you to summon it back. I don’t know about you but there is rarely a minute of non-combat while exploring in this game.

CPU power as it performance, not electrical power.

No FXAA is a relatively simple post process filter done on the graphics card. If he’s limited due to his graphics, by all means turn it off (although some people absolutely can’t handle jaggies, I assume they were born after the era of 640×480 graphics).

But in all cases YMMV so toggle and see how much of an impact any particular graphics setting has including FXAA.

Why is it so difficult for players on the pro side of this argument realize that MMO devs do not want characters level to max and then switch class or race? They want you to level up a new character from scratch because that leads to buying more stuff plus keep as many of the various level zones having players in them.

Gender doesn’t affect skills in this game, race does. Gender doesn’t affect the personal story in this game, race does. From the POV of the devs, the choice of race shows the events of the world in a different perspective.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen “can I change the order I belong to” threads cause that’s the only thing else I can think of where a player makes and irrevocable choice. And that’s just so unfair that you have to live with that choice.

If you are talking about the area around 9 o’clock position of DR, lower level, that’s only for players with a Royal Pass. A permanent one went on sale for one day at the start of January in the gem store while other players may have a pile of the two week versions bought when they were available last.

It’s merely a convenience. Nearly everything in it is available spread out through DR, with the exception of a MF and gate travel from DR to all five other cities. And those you can access from LA.

That’s because the last two settings, Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality is set at lowest.

The first determines how many other players are visible and the second determines how many are displayed as generic models Vs their actual character.

This is because the game slows down around other players, well lots of other players.

Now I run at Highest/Medium for those two settings. I want to see as many players as possible and I want a fair number of them to be properly presented instead of generic.

Your millage may vary so try Medium/Medium first and see if that adversely affects your frame rate.

It’s not like level 80 events are anymore engaging than level 20 ones. This game doesn’t have “end content” the way a lot of MMOs are designed but spreads them though all level ranges.

But they want to make sure that everyone who bought or redeemed gem cards get’s what’s owed them so they are going to check their sums twice as well as rooting out the problem and fixing it.

I look at all this as WoW has created a type of MMO player that burns through content as fast as a California wildfire burns though a new housing development.

This leads to the problem that no new MMO can possibly have the quantity of content that a 10 year old MMO has and insist on a subscription model. They’ve tried but the conditioned “rush to max level” to get to the “fun stuff” leaves players staring over the edge of where content stopped quicker than say 10 years ago. And without content or replayablity, subscribers leave. That’s why all those MMOs quickly switch to a hybrid F2P/B2P/Cash Shop + VIP subscription payment model as a means to keep players coming in. B2P if you are still looking to recover development costs or keep the RMT sharks from swamping the playerbase, F2P if you don’t care and just want bodies in hopes to covert some to VIP and get a percentage to use the cash shop.

Without income no new content can come out and the MMO goes into a death spiral of fewer but more devoted players and eventually those left can’t support the development team any longer. That’s why WoW can still be subscription based after all these years and why subscriptions have failed time and again with new MMOs. You can’t take 5 years to develop content before releasing the game. Yes MMOs take that long to make but a good chunk of that is making all the assets in the world and all the game’s various components. Content as in missions/quests come last. So maybe two years of a five year development cycle. Two years of content gets burned through in two months if that.

If content is key then MMO development is a fools battle. Players consume a lot faster than it can be developed. So now everyone makes the barrier to enter as low as possible to keep new players joining up and that means low or free copies of the game and no monthly fees unless you want to.

That’s why ANet tried the LS. Keep players engaged with something new every two weeks so they don’t churn away to whatever new MMO that catches their eye. And that’s why I expect the ESO and Wildstar to abandon their subscription model in a year or two at most.

In all likelihood your IP address assigned to you by your ISP is registered to an entity that lists it’s address in Kellyville OK. Which is odd since when I do a whois on that IP address I get an entity, TDS Telecom, that’s located in Madison WI, still not close to WA.

Curious?

Batching up 6 weeks of LS which hard core players could do in couple of days isn’t the solution. Also it prevents events from previous parts of the tale to impact the later parts.

That’s what the traditional MMO Trinity system provides. I’m a healer, I heal. I’m a tank, I hold aggro. I’m a Paladin, I do damage. How is that not routine?

Therefore if you support that you must support the routine rolls assigned to your class while doing raids. Deviation is punished. There is no slack, no leeway in the system. It’s a totalitarian system that you must conform to simply to keep up with the others of your class. You are just a cog in a well oiled machine going through the motions that might give you a chance at a BIS item.

Also general you, as in those longing for a more traditional MMO Trinity system than what we have here. Those who want more info in the LFG system we have to exclude more players because they didn’t meet your ridged criteria. And since we don’t have that we get exclusion by achievement points or lack of a commander’s badge or insistence we reveal what armor stats we have equipped.

This is an MMO about inclusion and all I’ve ever seen as a result of the Trinity is exclusionary practices. But you all are still trying to fit this square peg of a game into your round hole of Trinity.

Raine.1394:

Behellagh.1468:

But you don’t need to put together a team in GW2 unless you are looking to do a speed run.

spit

Sorry, bad taste in my mouth. Any group can methodically do a dungeon in GW2. It’s only those that want to do it as quickly as possible with zero deaths so they can go do it again 4 more times this evening cares about party construction.

Yeah, we were basically talking instances. But, I did broaden it to include the open world encounter in GW2 which is all about overflow dancing. What a painful way to design encounters as it makes players responsible for working a workaround rather than providing content that just works. WoW and their LFG tool definitely wins all around. BTW, doesn’t matter if you spit or not. Monkeys do that. A rational argument is all that is required.

You seemed to miss my not so subtle dislike for all things “speed” that have permeated MMOs. Understandable when it’s a subscription based game, don’t want to pay for longer than I have to but in a B2P or F2P? It’s an example of if all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail. It’s all “how do I level quickly” or getting BIS gear or which skill/trait combinations are the best for this profession/class. Basically the sole quest in every MMO has become finding the closest thing to an “easy” button or God Mode only to turn around and complain that the game is to easy.

You want hard, PUG. Use white gear. Use tactics beyond dog piling.

But no. You want routine familiarity. You want your little role in playing to be all mapped out. I’m the meat puppet, I’m the healer, I’m the damage dealer, I’m buffs/debuffs and do your niche’s equivalent of pressing one and occasionally 3. It’s like school kids in Japan. They want to assert their uniqueness by tweaking their school uniforms but then they go and tweak them the exact same way.

My dislike for the Trinity is because I got to this level playing my way, killing along the way and now that I’m on a team, I MUST do only one thing and that’s not dealing damage. That’s what I like about GW2. Everybody joins the fray.

Standard TP not working but it’s not my end problem. We’ve tried to help him and the last time he declared Awsomium is malware since they didn’t specifically tell him about it.

And now this is the 2nd thread about how support isn’t helping him.

He also upset the game isn’t in Cyrillic and his retailer told him ANet wouldn’t refund the game.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Auction-does-not-work-for-real-money/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Cyrillic-support-in-chat

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tech-support-just-closes-ticket-no-solution

Some people you can’t help or won’t let you help.

They must still be selling like hotcakes then. If nobody was buying them and complaining then we might hear from them. Complaining and still buying them is like ravaging the dessert bar while complaining how all these desserts are bad for you.

But you don’t need to put together a team in GW2 unless you are looking to do a speed run.

spit

Sorry, bad taste in my mouth. Any group can methodically do a dungeon in GW2. It’s only those that want to do it as quickly as possible with zero deaths so they can go do it again 4 more times this evening cares about party construction.

95% of the time if the approach isn’t obvious, you’re looking on the wrong side of the hill or mountain. The other 5% are GD jumping puzzles which can be obvious, just annoying.

And that’s what YouTube is for.

Gulesave.5073:

Behellagh.1468:

UKNightWatch.5742:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Q-Is-multi-boxing-allowed/first#post244389

Has a moderator answer.

In short, multi boxing is not allowed.

Read it again. It is allowed as long as you control each character separately.

EDIT: This post has been quoted in other forum posts, but it is inaccurate. ArenaNet does not prohibit Multi- or Dual-Boxing as along as the player is active on each account and is not botting or using other third-party programs to “play” the account.

The key words there are “on each account.” The OP was asking about simultaneously playing multiple characters from the same account, which is different.

Since that would have never worked to begin with I simply assumed he stated it wrong. And since it’s impossible to log into the same account twice at the same time then using that linked post was pointless as well since it clearly talks about controlling multiple characters from multiple accounts.

I’ve gotten 2x ore with a mithril pick on a regular node. It can happen. No idea if there’s a better chance on Thursday night Vs Friday night due to you server WvW bonuses but it’s been happening for at least a year with conventional gathering tools and ordinary nodes.

Is that an 840 EVO Samsung? They will use you system RAM as cache to bench reads that high.

UKNightWatch.5742:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Q-Is-multi-boxing-allowed/first#post244389

Has a moderator answer.

In short, multi boxing is not allowed.

Read it again. It is allowed as long as you control each character separately.

EDIT: This post has been quoted in other forum posts, but it is inaccurate. ArenaNet does not prohibit Multi- or Dual-Boxing as along as the player is active on each account and is not botting or using other third-party programs to “play” the account.

So GW1 armor skins were only about $1 a piece.

Roll to disbelieve.