Saying the FX sucks is like saying the Phenom II sucks because they have similar single thread performance. The FX 8 core is underutilized, but that’s par for the course because few applications can take advantage of that many cores fully.
1) I assume scythe weapon, not scythe gathering tool. The scythe skin (extremely expensive) is for staffs and yes a guardian can use staffs. There is also a staff called Final Rest that is scythe like.
There are probably a lot more people who don’t use boosters than do. Those that do can buy them directly off the Gem Shop. So they buy say experience boosters at 5 for 550 gems or about $7 or 36.19g if they convert gold to gems. If they allowed players who don’t use boosters that get them as rewards or RNG from the chests to sell them on the open market they most certainly won’t be going for 7.2g a piece. The price would plummet and those who use the boosters would never, ever buy them from the Gem Shop again. That’s revenue out of ArenaNet’s pocket. Why would they do that then?
This isn’t a tech support issue, but more of a question. So I’m sorry if this post is in the wrong place.
Is it possible to copy GW2 to another computer – like on a DVD, thumb drive or external hard drive? (Or download it in advance and then move it.)
I’m going to be building a new PC this week (assuming all the parts arrive as expected) and would like to move the game from my current computer instead of having to wait overnight for it to download once the new computer is up and running.
Just copy the whole folder over, make a shortcut and run it. The shear size is the only problem, you’ll need a 32GB USB drive formatted to NTFS (standard FAT32 that USB drives are formatted in can only hold files up to 4GB in size).
Due to the size of the game without the living story to focus players into certain regions doing activities together. Otherwise the PvE population would be spread thin throughout the world. That would lead to the “there’s nobody else around” which leads to cries for server merges and the doomcriers proclaiming the end of the game. Living Story is a good way to end up neck deep in other players. Makes the world seem more active and alive.
There isn’t a single, group (operating independently) or cabal (operating together) of players pulling a De Beers on legendary/precursor supply, or any other prestige item to artificially keep the price high.
Any supply that gets posted for sale at a more reasonable price is immediately snapped up thus leaving the overpriced ones to remain indefinitely making players like you to believe that’s the going price. Prices have gone up in step with Gold→Gem rates which is indicative of increased coin in the economy. That’s simply inflation, plain and simple.
Sadly the easiest way to get a screenshot of your character is either on the selection page for a full body that’s reasonably large or stand facing a wall and pan the camera around for a close up of the face/upper torso. Or stand butt to butt with a selected character and pan the camera around. What I would do for a closer zoom on my character than these workarounds.
No. It’s the nature of the game engine that performance drops off rapidly during times when lots of players are present in a small area. They say they are working on it. Have you adjusted the character quality setting to their lowest as this does help some in WvW, but not enough usually.
Well the WvW option is out since I never play on world vs world and I have only just started to do explore mode on dungeons so is there alternative I could find from karma vendors or the market?
Like I said, cleric armor is the easiest but power and toughness are minor rather than either of them being a major stat. But they start at level 60, it comes in exotic and you can buy it off the TP cheap-ish.
Also BoH from WvW are awarded in the achievement chests. By the time you hit 3000 APs you should have enough BoH to cover that cost for the armor in WvW (you also need 5-6 gold for the set). Just pop in and buy from the armor vendor, no joining the fight required. It’s level 80 exotic.
It would be nice to be able to sell stuff from black lion chests we don’t want, such as any of the various boosters or tonics. People who don’t PvP don’t want glory boosters and those who don’t get the chests don’t always have access to tonics for the costume brawl daily.
So should those same items if bought directly from the Gem store also be available for TP? Cause you can’t have it both ways. In which case it ends up floating the Gold for Gems rate via proxy instead of strictly controlling it with the exchange.
Royal you really, really need to switch to caffeine free coffee because you are barking up the wrong tree with this crusade about insider info and the TP.
At least you are finding like minds in this thread.
That GPU is found on an E1-1200 or E1-1500 APU. Dual core either 1.4 or 1.48GHz, same performance as a 3.4GHz Pentium D, 3/4rds the performance of a 2GHz Athlon 64 X2, 1/5th the performance per core of the i7-4770 and 1/4th the performance per core of the FX-8350. The CPU is way down in slowsville so even if it had a decent GPU crowded events will still be a slide show.
Soldier’s is Power primary and Toughness as one of the secondary stats. Available from WvW (Karma or BoH for exotic) or dungeons (according to the wiki). The Vigil offers armor of those stats (must be a member of the Vigil) and in WvW it’s called Invader’s. Also Norn tier 2 and 3 (must be a Norn). You will have to mix pieces from multiple Temples of Orr to get all six.
Toughness primary and Power secondary is Knight’s. Available from WvW, dungeon or crafted.
Toughness and Power as secondary is either Sentinel (way expensive, Vitality is primary) or Cleric (way cheaper, Healing Power is primary).
Not to be called a white knight this game was billed as being different. Not just WoW without subscriptions. Not a WoW killer or a WoW clone.
No trinity. No penalizing players you help. You are encourage to help everyone. No need for teaming on most things. Exploration is encouraged.
As for the emptiness of some zones I chalk that up to the too successful steering of players to the short term living story content and/or dailies. There is a lot of area across all the zones in the game. If they didn’t try to concentrate players the whole game would appear sparsely populated. Since the game automatically down grades your character this makes low level zones places interesting for both low and high level players. You won’t just find high level players in the high level zones as you would in other MMOs. An 80 can PvE anywhere and still earn XP and level appropriate loot. Downside it’s arguably easier to still play a level 80 character, due to having all the skills and rare or exotic items, in low level zones and if you get the same XP and loot, why not play there. So we have a sort of inverse situation here than in most MMOs where high level characters are only found in high level zones and players try to level as fast as possible to go where they are to one where you can level to maximum just by playing in low level zones with max level characters joining them there rather than off doing high level content.
With the exception to fractals, dungeons and champions, the game is quite soloable. Just don’t try to take on 10 guys at a time and you’ll be fine. Play smart.
Yea it bugs me to have to team if I want the mats to build a legendary but with the LFG tool now it’s not standing around in front of a dungeon begging for a spot anymore.
Likely screenshots are “raw data” before it’s adjusted for you’re gamma setting in game. Likely it’s a feature so you can mess with it out of game with a photo editing package.
They did it with the Mini Holographic Risen Knights’ release and now it’s the same thing again with Mini Caithe and Scarlets. Mini prices have fallen by 100% in some cases.
It’s almost like Anet devs don’t know that throwing minis into the Mystic Forge is a thing that players do.
I love Minis and have had all of them for nearly a year, but I’m done with holding onto an item that Anet continually causes to crash in value by introducing more “Rare” minis that are easily attainable and no one wants (i.e. Mystic Forge Fodder). I’ll just wait for the prices to artificially inflate again and sell off.
To make this somewhat constructive: 1. Design Minis that People actually want as rewards. 2. Stop introducing absurdly common minis as “Rares.” 3. Listen to Players’ persistent requests for improved Mini functionality. Something as a simple as a tab that allows you to auto-deploy a mini instead of having to go into your bags and click it every time you’re Downed or change maps/instances.
/RantOver
This update was intended because of the announcement that pack 1 was going away there was a lot of demand on the exotics not just from legit owners but also merchants, this was a way for them to give to the community and say to the merchants, you aint going to make people pay 300g for a exotic when they shouldn’t have too.
Also prices are about what they were before the crazy “hype” happened which should be irrelevant because you can STILL FORGE the set 1 exotics… nothing truly changed, the hype was over nothing but it happened because enough people was worried about it in the first place.
Prices are fundamentally driven by supply and demand. The supply of Set 1 Minis is now limited as the primary means to acquire one is gone. True you can try to forge one but that requires four minis to be tossed in for every one, which may not be a Set 1, to pop out. There is no way that forging is going to provide anything close to the supply from buying a Set 1 and selling off the extras. So supply has become scarcer and as long as real demand remains greater then the price will likely rise. It’s not hype, it’s Eco 101.
Since GW2 is a 32-bit app running on a 64-bit OS if it tries to use more than 4GB of memory you will bet an OOM error. Since everyone isn’t getting it I’m assuming it’s something that is unique to players experiencing it. A combination of game settings, device drivers and activity I’m guessing.
@Sudden – That’s not the way multicore CPUs are designed. All the cores connect a single memory subsystem. There’s also a problem with your premise which is each set of threads running on an individual core needs as much memory as threads running on a different core. I’m going to guess that most of the memory being used is to cache zone and critter geometry/textures as well as sound/music data and not dynamically used by the program.
Those are all fine examples of real world two handed swords but the great swords in this game aren’t 4-4.5 feet long with 2-3 inch wide blades but 5-6 feet long with some blades 9-12 inches across like swords seen in FF series.
Of course you can hand wave it away with some magical/materials reason why it can be wielded with relative ease because IT’S A FANTASY GAME!
so i am supposed to be able to get naything in the game without having to grind or spend real money… yet it took me over a week to get the 360 gems i needed for 10 transmute crystals. so if it takes over a week to get those, how am i supposed to get a limited time item for 800 w/o using any real world money?
You’re not. We don’t have subscriptions, the game runs on a cash shop. Putting limited time attractive items in the cash shop encourages the purchase of gems with cash.
secondly when i started playing this game, i could have easily gotten 2400 for the amount i got 360 for… so why such a huge increase? to kitten us over and make people spend more money then they have to spend? and if the person doesnt have the money to spend, how is this in any way fair for all players in the game.
The gem exchange depends on players buying gems with cash and selling them for gold to keep the price of gems for gold in check. The imbalance between buying gems with gold and selling gems for gold is what driving the exchange rate up.
so i’m still having trouble seeing how your marketing campaign to people like me is anything but false advertisement (legal issue if you must know)
Nothing in the cash shop is needed to play the game. You can buy gems with in game coin but that’s really for the players who play a lot and understands the easiest way to earn coin.
All the professions can solo most critters. Dynamic Events are flash mobs of players and the loot threshold is rather low in terms of damage done. This doesn’t mean you can’t party in the open world, it’s just outside of friends and guild mates it’s not needed except in dungeons and fractals.
Don’t hold your breath. We’ve been dealing with this pretty much forever now. There’s been some minor improvements here and there but the game suffers in crowds of other players and complex regions like the major cities.
That graph seems to indicate that your CPU clock frequency plummeted for about 15 seconds before returning to it’s normal frequency. Could it be thermal throttling? Is your CPU overheating? You can use a utility like coretemp to monitor your temps. What’s your CPU?
Problem with standing out is that most inexpensive dyes are all dull, faded, pastel colors rather than bright bold primaries.
As for your list of cheap dyes. 60-70s isn’t cheap. It is compared to several gold each however.
There are 421 dyes in this game. Only 181 selling for 10s or less and 174 of those for less than 5s. And nearly all of them are bland and boring. 155 dyes in the 10-20s range and they are only moderately less bland and boring. 53 dyes in the 30-50s range and 19 in the 50s-1g range.
This wouldn’t be a problem if we had some way to try on the various dyes without buying them first. But the preview in the TP is limited and the swatches in the Wiki are still too small to be of much use.
So we end up will an array of dull, muted but affordable color choices to choose from because all the really bright primaries/secondary/tertiary colors are above 1g a piece and aren’t coming down any time soon due to their rarity and popularity.
It’s not that the FX has 8 crappy cores. Their design mandate was to make a CPU that could be as fast as an Intel quad with HT fully running 8 threads. And they mostly succeeded. Problem is when you aren’t fully running 8 threads it’s inferior because an Haswell Intel core running one thread is 50%+ faster than a single core in the FX. Not a big deal running Cinebench but sucks when you rip with iTunes.
Alright so I’m more than positively likely going to be buying an i7 4770K next week (and then saving up for a board, and yes I do mean the i7, I’m dead set on it) and I will be moving up from the AMD FX-8350 (I still think it’s a great processor, oh yeah.) so what could I expect from such an upgrade? And why I chose the i7 over the i5 is that both the AMD FX-8350 and i7 have 8 threads so I don’t want to lose four threads. I like… keeping it the same, or better without losing anything. Or much.
I can imagine world events would be much more enjoyable in FPS and such, WVW will play better.
Would there be any drawbacks though?
I read that Hyper Threading can pose a problem but over the years of it’s use, the bits of technology have made the issue of the conflict of on dye resources a nearly non-existent problem. But, anything else?
My PC is pretty loaded as it is. Two 7970s, a 1000W PSU, 16 GB DDR3, etc.
First you have to understand that both the Intel i5 and i7 are both quad cores. The i7 doesn’t have 8 cores, it just cons the OS into thinking it has 8 cores. Why would they do that? Because the Intel core is way overbuilt. Since the days of the Pentium the x86 CPU design attempts to execute two or more instructions at a time, as long as they result doesn’t impact one another. It’s called superscalar. Most every x86 CPU does this, both AMD and Intel. But it can rarely be sustained all the time because results from one series of instruction can impact another. C = A + B followed by E = C + D can’t be done at the same time however C= A + B followed by F = D + E can. What Intel decided to do was to introduce a 2nd thread into the instruction scheduler, the bit of hardware that spots unrelated instructions that can be done at the same time, and improve how frequently multiple instructions are executed at the same time.
But it’s not magical, you don’t get a whole core’s worth of performance out of it. You are lucky if you get a sizable fraction. In an i5 when one of it’s cores work on two threads, it alternates between them so each thread looks as if it’s running at 1/2 speed. In an i7 the boost if efficiency means each thread can be running at 60% speed on average.
Now that’s a great advancement if you have multiple threads that run all the time. But I’m not seeing that when I look at the thread CPU time while running GW2. There are a few threads that take 50-80% of a single core’s CPU time but many more in the 5-10% range. Now depending how they relate to the other threads in the game, some of those could run on the same core without impacting performance. In which case it doesn’t really matter if four or eight threads can be run at the same time as long as they get done before their results are needed.
Honestly I don’t see any improvements without going over budget by a lot. Be happy with over 30fps performance if you want pretty in PvE except during boss events. Best to play just above minimum settings in WvW and hope for the best. This system may be able to do better than that but if you set your expectations low to begin with, they you’ll be happy when it beats them rather than disappoint you because you expected better right off the start.
I know, little consolation. Upside is other games should perform pretty well.
Running your daily circle for ori and wood. What is the purpose of running to those nodes. Because you are on the way to somewhere?
So you are telling me I am doing it wrong if I do not spend half an hour a day running around gathering stuff instead of playing the game?
Are you serious, you can not see the grind that is right in front of your eyes?
Yes your doing it wrong still. I havn’t ran around gathering those in months cause i changed my method and having fun while getting materials. Play the game not try to grind for those and you will see different results. Hell i don’t run to all the World bosses just to get my daily rare for some ecto. I get my rares from drops from playing and I get a lot of rares cause I play for fun. I have 3 ascended weapons and have enough materials to make another 9 from just playing. Did i grind? Nope didnt even make an effort but here i am with enough materials.
Log in your game.
Type /age
See result.
You are not the average player. You play so much that you get alot of stuff.
It is like telling people playing an asian grinder, the game is not grindy, just kill stuff at your own pace and you will sooner or later level up…
1600hrs. based on that number I am a causal player. Congratz you proved nothing. I got 9300AP which based on leaderboards is not that high either.
Which doing some math states i been playing less than 4hrs per day.
Guess what? There aren’t a lot of folks who can play 4 hours a day or even one hour everyday. Playing an MMO isn’t a part time job which is what you get with 4 hours a day on average.
