Guild Wars 2

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defrule.7236:

I personally will only ever convert gems to gold if I had a very specific reason to do so, for example buying an pre-cursor. It makes no sense for me to convert real cash to gems purely out of investment.

Of course not. It’s not about investing, it’s solely about acquiring things.

It took 7 days to drain 200K units off of the supply side for Quartz. 5 days before it dropped close to the number of bids. The number of bids rose by 25% in those 5 days but the bid price remained fairly constant.

If it was on reddit, I would have expected a much faster drop in supply with bid prices spiking. To me the slow pace seems to indicate speculation that either ascended armor or precursor crafting is coming soon. Some of the buying my simply be the result of market movement, either the drop in supply or the eventual spike in the price. It’s a “The Dukes are trying to corner the FCOJ market. They must know something.” moment.

Not saying the whole ball of twine didn’t start rolling downhill because of insider info, just that everyday traders may have noticed quartz being bought and joined in. Followed by those when quartz became short a term flip option.

Supply has recovered from it’s low and the flip margin is hovering around 0c but with demand at twice supply, I don’t see this new price shifting until official news about quartz is released. If it is used, I expect prices to rise further, if it isn’t, “express elevator to hell” time.

1st gen FX CPUs had performance issues, mainly clock speed. You may want to look up AMD FX patches for Win 7, there are two that could help.

I concur with adding a 2nd 4GB stick as dual channel can help performance.

There was a AMD video driver that hurt performance IIRC. I’m currently using 13.4 without problems.

Some of the graphic settings are “surprisingly” CPU bound. Mainly shadows and reflections.

But if you are just buying one of something then it doesn’t matter, other than you want it cheaper that what it’s currently goes for.

I know and I do but this is a perception problem for ANet if the GMs appear not to crack down on a player when the chat log is open and shut. Not asking for a GM controlled reaper to appear and harvest the offending spammer but it’s analogous to calling the police about the neighbor’s loud stereo. It’s obvious that it’s too loud since I can hear it from my property (large lots not postage stamp ones or connected) yet the music doesn’t get turned down. It makes you doubt the effectiveness of reporting anything if something so obvious appears to be ignored.

That’s my point. If we see GMs handling a trivial problem like this, it gives the playerbase confidence that the GMs can handle worse problems.

I wouldn’t say the GT 740M is bad. There’s a heck of a lot worse you can do plus your resolution is fairly low and you say you’re fine with medium settings.

As for the i5-3337U, it’s not as great as one might think. The i5 is normally a dual core in the mobile arena and even with HT, this game isn’t going to let it run at it’s turbo speed so at 1.8GHz, not quick like a bunny.

i5 quad is good enough for gaming.

Who cares about FIFO unless multiple players listing the same price. Economic competition isn’t just a buyer and seller haggling over a price, it’s sellers competing among themselves for buyers and vice versa.

But it use to be $1500-2000 on Twilight a year ago. The point being the cash price is dropping faster than the price is inflating. The two exchange rates are locked to one another so as the gold to gem shoots up due to the decrease in gem supply in the exchange, the gem to gold rate also rises just as quick.

And thank you for sharing your last four digits of your AmEx card with the entire Internet.

There’s a endurance refill noise?

This game is documented worse than my parent’s new Ford. Who writes a car manual that doesn’t tell you what all the buttons on the dash are for or even where the rear defrost button is. There’s a section on the rear defroster but they don’t show you where the button is. Upside you can ask the car to turn on the rear defroster, sort of. Also the steering wheel has more controls than an console controller. My parents have trouble with all the buttons on the DVR/Cable box remote.

Right after they add the Asura moonbase.

Any significant work on the render to add support for either of these APIs to get optimal performance will take a lot of time, devs and commitment on ANet’s part. Simply slapping a couple of new graphic APIs at the back end aren’t going to help if all the setup to call the APIs aren’t working as well as they do in other game engines.

We’ve all seen Dx9 in game engines run faster so it’s not the API but the rest of the renderer that needs TLC first.

Let me add my two cents and have seen this as well back during the trial month. Spammers who post in map, once a minute for a website that deals in gold selling in LA, I reported them, went about my game playing and when I returned to LA about two hours later, same player, same spam, once a minute.

Now I understand during trial periods that it’s whack a mole with these guys since another account is free so it’s kind of pointless since it’s likely they had other accounts ready to go if the ban hammer came down but they can’t have infinite number of accounts. Even if it’s only for a couple of minutes it would at least feel like something was being done to stop them. I would still put this lower on the queue than actual abuse/poor language choices but it’s pretty open and shut.

azizul.8469:

there will be time where 1g = 1gem.

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

I disagree. I’ve seen many CrossfireX benchmarks where the x16/x4 combo is inferior to either an x8/x8 or x16/x16. The difference is 5-10 so it isn’t huge but it exists.

Now the question whether or not CrossfireX or SLi helps this game or not … I don’t know. I’ve seen some players reporting better framerates once they disabled CrossfireX.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-scaling-p67-chipset-gaming-performance,2887-10.html

http://www.insidehw.com/reviews/graphics-cards/6178-crossfire-x8x8-or-x16x4-the-ongoing-dilemma

TopBadge.3569:

Also $10.00 is not the same as £8.52

Also Also why does the UK pay the most for gems? wtf.

Not this again.

Have you checked out the UK prices for the XBox One or PS4 and compare it to the US price? You’ll see the same roughly $1 to 0.85£ to 1€ we see with our Gem Store.

Must be a reason both Microsoft, Sony and ANet/NCSOFT uses these ratios.

Bri.8354:

My prediction is that eventually gem prices will reach a point where you cannot reasonably afford them through normal play. Only those who do things outside of normal game-play, such as investing in items and using exploits, will be able to afford a fair amount of gems for the time they spent in-game.

So far this has happened in every MMO I’ve seen, even in those FTP games which don’t support this sort of system if you look at trade rates of in-game currency for cash shop currency items/cards, and I don’t expect GW2 to be an exception.

At which point the hope is players will have been weened off of the gold to gem exchange and accept buying gems with cash. Hopefully by then ANet will solve their problem with buying gems online since it appears as frustration free as an IRS audit or signing up for health insurance. Thank ANet that stores in my area carry Gem cards if I ever feel the need to buy one.

You don’t need an account.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/48884-pristine-toxic-spore-sample

So pressing either The “M” or “All” button above the graph doesn’t take you back to the end of October?

Let me point something out here. The game rarely uses more than three core’s worth of performance so going from a quad to a hex core won’t make much of a difference but clock speed does. Now I don’t know how well a 1100T BE overclocks beyond the 3.4MHz you got with the 945 but it’s likely not going to be a significant amount without a decent cooler, a bit of luck and deep OC mojo. I see that 4.2GHz is possible (pureoverclock.com) which could give you a 20% boost over what you have if you can finesse it up to that speed.

Avelos.6798:

zerk.9701:

Cooler Master low quality PSU

Cooler Master’s PSUs are made by SeaSonic, which generally makes high grade PSU.
SeaSonic is also the first company to produce 80 Plus Gold PSU.
And all of their PSUs are rated at least 80 Plus.

That’s all good but the PSU model that is often stuck in prebuilt rigs that are offered on sites other than CyberPowerPC or iBuyPower are older less robust models that they are simply trying to clear out of inventory. Problem is picture is to small to read the model number off of.

I noticed it when I’m attacking so maybe it’s an audio indicator that you had a crit.

Blanger.3162:

Olba.5376:

Blanger.3162:

Astral Projections.7320:

Blanger.3162:

I kinda’ have to disagree to a point there is a substantial amount of RL money that is brought into the game everyday through people buying gems with RL money. What I’m saying is they only convert and bank, they do not buy anything with the gold.

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If you are saying here that real life money brings gold into the game, then you are incorrect.

When someone, let’s say me, buys gems with real money and sells them on the TP, no gold is generated. The gold I get is 100% from other players who are buying gems with ingame gold, no new gold is created. This gold is directly transferred from their bank to mine. Zero gold is generated and zero inflation occurs.

But what about the people who use RL money to buy gems then convert those gem to gold on the TP? Doesn’t that add a new amount of gold to the system?

No, that would be gold from the gold-to-gem side of things.

K….but someone is going to have to explain the difference to me please.

The exchange was started with a lot of gems and little gold. The ratio between the two meant gems weren’t worth a lot of gold.

As we buy gems with gold, the gold we use is deposited in the exchange and not destroyed (except for 15% sink). So gold in the exchange increases, gems in the exchange decrease so now gems are worth more gold.

Now if you sell gems to the exchange, you are being paid in gold that players used to buy gems. And when you are paid another 15% is taken by the sink which is why the two exchange rates are separated by the amount they are. Amount of gold in the exchange goes down, amount of gems goes up and gems are worth less gold.

So using the exchange, gems are neither created or destroyed by the game beyond what was created to initialize it over a year ago (I have a caveat for that assumption that has to do with new accounts).

And remember your password is the same one you used to get here. I you forgot or mis-remembered you can always check what password the browser is using for you to log into the forums under the password manager section in your browser.

No but it’s still my belief that the delay isn’t for anti-botting, so the captcha suggestion is pointless, but as a simple way to manage the rate of sell requests during peak hours. ANet probably believed that most players would sell off anything to the TP between encounters, hence the initial low number of items you can sell quickly, while the rest of your goods would have been field salvage into mats and deposited quickly into your bank or sold to a nearby vendor/heart.

And how do you have hundreds of items to sell? Did you expand your personal inventory to max with 20 slot bags? I barely get 50-60 items in an evening of play that aren’t mats that I redirect to the bank and they’re from hitting a couple of boss events.

But for me, my play style means I hit vendor/hearts periodically to sell junk, deposit mats, field salvage for luck and occasionally sell something to the TP but never for the “sell now” or “buy now” price. I need every copper so I check the range of “buy now” prices (do a buy more on the item) to see if the lowest one is currently a low spike due to an oversell at the former “sell now” price. I then price my item, post it and move to the next item or move along to my next event. My style works for me and I don’t get that message. Even when I’m selling a ton of runes/sigils from salvaging rares from playing the TP or promoting masterwork runes/sigils, the slight pause introduced by changing to last two digits of a price before posting is enough for me to avoid getting this message.

All I’m counseling is to slow up a bit and take a breather when dumping your loot on the TP. And maybe cut back on the caffeine and energy drinks a bit.

It can always be worse, try doing some simple maintenance on your parent’s single core Pentium 4 Dell. I can’t believe this was considered fast a one time.

And as it’s been mentioned time and time again if you all pause a moment instead off trying to sell everything in 10 seconds or less then this problem doesn’t come up. Take a moment, try picking a price that isn’t either of the two presented. Oh geez it’s now going to take you a whole minute or two to sell everything without getting that message and incurring the delay. Just relax, it’s not like you are working at a Chinese gold farm with a supervisor looking over your shoulder.

Firebaall.5127:

Behellagh.1468:

It only gives you a 15% chance. We get a lot more than that from WvW bonuses by the time Thursday rolls around.

It says 33% in the item description. Which is total malarkey. It has no effect in the current state. The item is not working as advertised.

Oops, mixed up the percentages, my server was at 15% bonus from WvW.

After you confirm enough times ANet does expand the IP range so they don’t ask anymore (assuming you are logging in from your home and getting the notices and not all over town). I’m now mapped to a Block 16 or 64K IP addresses because my IP does change dynamically (thank you PPPoE).

Yes, at some point if things don’t change the exchange can run out of gems and that last batch will go for astronomical price. Conversely a player selling gems at that point can make beau coup gold.

The Venn diagram of “be able to go into WvW when 2 zergs clash and not drop frames” and “My budget is between 800 dollars to 1000 dollars worth in computer parts” is a null set.

It only gives you a 15% chance. We get a lot more than that from WvW bonuses by the time Thursday rolls around.

Asmodeus.5782:

Well, I certainly hope they are not too efficient, they are pay to win items.

P2W? Really?

Ursan.7846:

Behellagh.1468:

How would it boost gem sales?

Because every single potential gem purchaser are also consumers of Quartz, and not sellers of them, clearly.

Though I’m all for actions which encourages players to buy gems to convert to gold. Is nothing but positive to Anet and to players like me who exchange gold to gems.

But quartz isn’t available on the Gem Shop, this is where I’m losing you all. Or is my sarcasm sensor busted again?

Before I put in orders I calculate a max that I won’t bid above and often I will be driven to that point which is when I stop and leave that last bid up. So I would also look like a bot.

And I manually scan some 200 items when I go into TP mode. Well it’s less than that because I use GW2TP to list only the items that haven’t exceeded my max yet, usually it’s only 30-40.

Calae.1738:

If Arenanet does nothing about it, why would that be surprising? It’ll boost gem sales since quartz will be more expensive. For all we know it could have been arenanet themselves that flushed out those items.

How would it boost gem sales?

Half of all commanders are self righteous idiots who just happen to get 100g together to buy the rank. We all know how well that worked in the army’s pre 20th century. There only use is as a guide to figure out where the zerg is currently on the map. I’ve never seen any order anything beyond “attack the gate” or shout out where to go next.

Armory, Dump, Cave next to Dump in Plains of Ashford. That’s three. Then if it’s up there’s escorting the kits through the Duke’s Estate.

Funny, I’m seeing data going back to 30 October on GW2TP.

A lot will tell you to go Intel i5 or i7 over an FX-8350. In most other games it should be fine but here the extra cores in the FX don’t help as GW2 is currently limited to around 3 cores worth of work. However if they ever rework the engine to do a better job scaling to number of available cores, that’s another story.

R9 290 is fast and cheap (compared to Titan, GTX 780Ti) but is very, very temp sensitive to achieve it’s performance. I would wait until some of the manufacturers slap a better cooler on it than the default blower.

Microsoft has a program called SyncToy that I use on all my MMOs and Steam to insure I don’t have to go through 24 hours of downloads at 3Mb/s by backing it up to an external USB drive.

Just to be clear you are asking for a virtual gift card for gems. As oppose to the Gem cards that have been in the stores or at places like Amazon for the past year.

http://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-2-Gem-Card-PC/dp/B009AYOFI0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384921417&sr=8-1&keywords=guild+wars+2+gem+card

If I’m hearing what Cronnix is hearing it sounds an awful lot like the various alert tones such like the ones you get with email, a party invite or whisper but muted.

Vsync maybe?

15 charr

The game engine would need to be completely rewritten to work on the PS4 simply because the CPU in the PS4 is roughly 1/2 the power of a FX-8350. They would have to come up with a more balanced approach to multithreading the engine since right now the game uses only 3 cores worth of CPU power, regardless how many cores you have.

Now will MMOs come to the next gen consoles. Of course, already happened with DCUO not to mention FF whatever. But in the case of DCUO, the game engine they use is UE3 so it was up to Epic to recode it for the PS4 and not SOE, although I expect they provided a lot of support.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

The big question is how much of box sales and gem store sales goes back into gw2 and how much goes to aion 2 development?

Well how much of Aion’s income went to GW2 development? That’s how game development is done (as well as movie production). Profit of one funds the next.

First way works too, at least that’s what I’ve been doing.

But the slope of the sell off was too gradual for removing ill gotten gains through and exploit.

Thalador.4218:

ilr.9675:

An earlier Studio (can and DID) find ways to do MORE with LESS.

That is to say… this would have still been considered a windfall profit for the Studio we all knew back around 2006… So no, they can’t just fix this by throwing out Expansions UNLESS those expansions actually focus on all the things everyone here has been begging them for…. (completely NEW weapon skills, “real” changes to Zerg-vs-Zerg, more meaningful storyline & personal story plot that branches and STAYS branched, compelling dialogue, more frequent PvE skill updates, ….and a serious look at the Ranger class in general probably wouldn’t hurt either considering it was the 2nd most rolled class but the least playable in end-game).

Welp good luck with it in any case guys. The clock is ticking…

This post deserves more attention.

Wholeheartedly agreed.

And that will never happen because it describes an entirely different game.

I know that the original GW fans loved the million weapons and zillion skills and the challenge to find the combination that dominates all others but it’s obvious in GW2’s design that the devs chose to go with a much simpler system to appeal to the more casual player as well as making it easier to balance and less likely to make kitten builds.

The personal stories merge because in the end it’s about you Vs the big bad dragon. It’s the natural convergence since it’s what everyone is working against. Now if they introduce another of the elder dragons I can see the paths diverging again with each order approaching it’s defeat again through their own means but coming together and the end again.

Submit a ticket, if you haven’t heard back in three days post in the “tickets older than 3 day” thread.