Guild Wars 2

The game becomes CPU bound in WvW and large events, not GPU bound. So the CPU with better core performance wins and that’s the i5 (roughly 30% faster).

It’s time gated for the same reason new currencies are introduced, to prevent rich characters from instantly getting all the best gear.

Everyone starts with a level playing field. You only need to acquire 25 quartz a day to get a charged quartz and that’s reasonably easy to do between the mining points at Labyrinthine Cliffs and your home instance and a few kite baskets.

It’s also time gated to encourage players to play daily. A “happy” MMO is a populated MMO.

It could go either way.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/203?vs=700

Games are benchmarked at the bottom. DragonAge like more cores.

If you often do tasks that can take advantage of more cores, or lots of CPU active tasks at the same time, then more cores is better.

I’ve just been deleting them because I didn’t know about PvP salvage kits. Heck I deleted PvP pieces before because I didn’t know about the locker.

It does have a more powerful GPU, at least by a factor of two so it should be able to run at higher settings.

It’s unclear if the CPU is more powerful when fully loaded, since you aren’t specific enough with what you currently have I really can’t compare.

Remember WvW isn’t affected nearly as much by GPU as it is by CPU so if you run at low graphic settings because of your performance in WvW, that isn’t the problem.

Also you should be aware of screen resolution and how that can affect overall performance when the game isn’t as CPU bound.

I do this manually with buy orders. I’ll sit on the TP for an hour or two once or twice a week to buy rares for salvage. If I just put in bids and go away for that time I wouldn’t get much of anything as I get out bid within 5 to 15 minutes. So I stay to watch my bids and when I’m out bid I counter, as long as I don’t exceed my “limit” for the day. At the end of my session I pull all unfulfilled bids and and call it a night. Usually able to get 100 or so rares in that time frame.

Plus no need to rush to the end.

That’s why I suggest you contact support yourself. A Customer Service person is unlikely to see this here and respond to you publicly or privately.

You will however get other players responding because this is an open forum.

Ah … thief board is a better place for this post.

You won’t get a reply here. Maybe you should make sure they have your current e-mail address.

You could always try to contact support to find out why. They should still have the logs since this offense will be part of your “permanent record” as repeat offenses will lead to account termination.

You were reported and once the chat logs were looked over and verified you used “inappropriate language” they instituted the ban. Being online simply made the time it started obvious. It still requires you to be reported and somebody or multiple somebodies didn’t like what you were saying and reported you.

There is no defense. If you said something deemed “inappropriate” then bye. It’s like a red light or speed limit camera. You were or you weren’t, there is no reason to hear an explanation why you used “inappropriate language”, just that you used it.

And no the language filter won’t help you. Because it’s the saying that your punished, not that others had the option to filter and didn’t. It’s there for the T rating.

Yes. Plus there is no need to “tag” mobs, you have to do some percentage of damage to get XP and loot.

I believe Crawford is suffering from justification blindness. Doesn’t matter how many benchmarks show limited performance difference between the top end i5 quad and a top end i7 quad that extra $100 buys, it must be better because I have one and paid that money. Just as some gamers ignore benchmarks and insist that the socket 2011 CPUs are better or that hex cores are better simply because they paid so much more for those CPUs and they don’t want to seem like fools for spending $500 or $1000 on an i7 CPU that plays game X just as well as a $200 i5.

Anyways 6MB of L3 cache is plenty for a 4 core/4 thread CPU like an i5. It’s the 4 core/8 thread nature of the i7 that justifies the 8MB.

@DaBleuBerry – As for skipping the memory part I sure hope your old memory is at least DDR3-1333 CAS 9. And yes you can easily knock 100 watts off that PSU and you don’t need an 80 Plus Gold, 80 Plus Silver or Bronze is good enough for a system your size.

Logout, login and if your mail is still empty then submit a support ticket.

Example, charged quartz is bound but quartz isn’t and can be traded.

They redid the animation twice already. Picky aren’t you (pun intended).

First I don’t consider that a true Phenom II due to it’s lack of a L3 cache, it’s the same as an Athlon II X4 650 but using an Phenom II die with a disabled/bad L3 cache. But I digress.

This game becomes CPU dependent when around a lot of players and/or in high polygon environments like cities. Doesn’t make a difference how fast your video card is or your graphic settings. I bet you get great framerate out in the wilderness at high settings. But in cities, events and WvW, the game’s performance breaks down.

Since you use an AMD CPU, they aren’t ahead in the performance anymore and price their CPUs as such. It has around half the performance of a top end Intel CPU and owners of those are overclocking them to get good performance out of WvW.

So no, your PC is fine, it’s just the game that has issues.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I see no reason to go for an i7 over an i5 for a mid range gaming rig (especially a laptop). That difference alone should allow for a better video or an SSD within budget (or both).

You are paying a LOT of money for less than a 10% performance gain with the i7.

In the world of Intel laptop CPUs, i7s are quad or dual cores, i5s are only dual core. This isn’t desktops CPUs where gaming performance isn’t affected a great deal between an i5 quad and an i7 quad. And in GW2, quad cores are favored which is why you choose a mobile i7 quad.

Letting the gold to gem ratio float via the exchange means it’s automagically adjust to players coin wealth. So the more gold is in circulation, the more it’s used to buy gems when something attractive hits the market, which raises the exchange rate, which increases the likelihood that players wanting a particular item that’s available (or on sale) for a limited time only to buy Gems with cash, which keeps devs employed.

So unless you have a source for a constant stream of gold, or you buy a few gems a day in anticipation of the future, or can reign in your buying urges, it’s working as intended.

shirashika.1026:

I like that once and a every while we get a dev response on this but I hope they read this. make precursors non tradeable just like legendaries and make a clear path to get them that way it would be more legendary and less like a joke. its seriously the only part of this economy that doesn’t make sense. its suppose to be an achievement and people just buy it or randomly get it like the lottery which isn’t legendary. the complaints are that they cost so much and are so rare. supply and demand is broken cause they are rare but for the wrong reasons. you shouldn’t be able to trade them in the first place. that defeats the purpose of earning it except if you consider you buy gems and convert them to gold which is probably what Anet wants. This economy shouldn’t have to stay afloat on legendaries.

So if I get a precursor from a drop for a weapon type I can’t use or for a weapon type I don’t want my legendary to be, I’m SOL. Not acceptable. My character can only make two legendaries due to the only getting two Gift of Exploration so there is noway I’m going to “waste” one of them to craft a legendary just to sell. So what does that leave me, destroy? salvage?

No, you have to let players sell what they don’t want or can’t use including precursors.

I don’t have that but I do have a A8-3820 with an HD 6550D. I get 20-30fps in PvE at 1600×900 with most graphic options on high, roaming about the world. The HD 8570D is supposedly slightly faster. In AMD APUs using the fastest memory available for the CPU can significantly boost performance, but it’s still mediocre compared to a “real” gamer card, even a $100 one.

No idea why you added the LOL to promotions. Promotion doesn’t mean sale.

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Have you compared the prices of boosters in this game in terms of proxy currency to other games to determine if they are “out of whack”?

Let’s see.

DDO, character slot – 625TP, 50% XP boost for 15 hours – 2395TP, 30 slots shared bank – 2985
GW2, character slot – 800 Gems, 50% XP boost for 15 hours – 1650 Gems, 30 slots bank expansion – 800 Gems

Both games offer 2000 proxy currency for $25. So in this example either our character slot is overpriced or their XP Booster is. Lets not even talk about bank slots.

As others have pointed out a number of times, and which you seem to ignore, that gold to gems is and always been a secondary method to purchase gems and it’s inflation rests solely on players choosing to convert more gold to gems than vice versa. There is no such mechanism in DDO, it’s cash or nothing.

As for the cosmetic items like kites and flutes, well their cost is the price we pay for a game that is cash shop only for continuing income. They do seem popular as the surge in Gold to Gems conversion rate implies when such items first appear, due to the influx of gold to the exchange for gems.

Korimor.2406:

Any explanation? Or how much better would it be? The y510p is not available for another month from xoticpc, the y500 is availble now.

2.4GHz quad core Haswell Vs 2.6GHz dual core Ivy Bridge. 8% faster dual core won’t beat two extra cores.

20% faster GPU.

More memory.

Concur. The decision is obvious.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/When-they-will-release-a-guitar/first#post2260110

Nature of the lots of players at an event. The game becomes CPU bound. WvW is the same way.

If they include an SSD then of course they will take the money from either the CPU or GPU parts budget so I would go without.

There wasn’t a lot of options at NewEgg in your price range. You aren’t likely to find either of those GPU choices at that price point unless you are buying refurbished. The compact size of laptops makes heat dissipation more difficult so I would stay away from SLi.

The best single GPU in laptops under $1000 at NewEgg was the GTX 660M in the MSI GE60 with a quad core i7-3630QM.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152392

I have no idea how good this will play the game. The quad core helps but I have no idea if the GTX 660M will be reasonable enough, especially at the native resolution of 1920×1080.

It’s a recipe not an item. You still need to make it and as others pointed out it costs more to make than simply buy off the TP. So how is paying cash, then buying ingredients with coin, then crafting Pay 2 Win if everyone can simply buy the finished item off the TP for less than even the cost to craft?

Sounds like paying to lose coin.

The E2-1800 is a very low end dual core processor designed to compete with an Intel Atom CPU, the kind found in netbooks. It’s 40% slower than the Turion II M500. GW2 really needs a fast CPU.

The HD 7340 is a little bit better than the HD 4330 but not by a margin significant enough to notice.

You basically replaced your old laptop with a netbook as big as a laptop.

Twice nothing is still nothing – Cyrano Jones, “The Trouble with Tribbles”

New character slot is $10 if you buy gems with cash or roughly 27 gold if you buy gems with in-game gold. Have you found a source of unused GW2 copies for less than $10?

Well the MSI GE40 is their take on the Razor Blade 14".

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/msi-ge40-2oc-009us%20.aspx

Just not as slick or expensive.

Since all you are changing is resolution, then a more powerful video card will help in general as you go from pushing 2-2.3 megapixels at 1920×1080/1200 to 4 megapixels. But that’s not going to help you in WvW.

And other than overclocking, there isn’t a lot you can do. While the game does indeed have 50 or so threads, altogether it’s less than three cores worth of work so more actual cores won’t help. Performance differences from an i5-3570 to an i7-3770 is minor due to the slightly bigger L3 cache. Splitting real cores into two “logical” cores doesn’t help much in terms of gaming. You already use an Intel ivy bridge quad core so unless you want to gut your system for Haswell then your option is just overclocking.

Assassinator Ghent.8350:

Hi guys I am going to college and was looking for a gaming laptop that would be best for this game as well as portability. I would build my own gaming PC, but I have to have something portable. With gaming laptops, as far as I understand, the battery life is usually pretty bad.

Here was the laptops I was looking at. Price isn’t an issue, but I want a laptop under $1300 if possible.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152405
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152408
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312440
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314006

Another up for consideration is a MacBook Air. The 13 inch model with a i7 processor with 8GB of RAM is around $1249. It also comes with a 128GB SSD. The only downside is that it has Intel HD 5000 Graphics.

With gaming laptops is there a way to make the battery last? Is there any docks I can buy so I can game on the go more without having to charge up? Most of them come with a 6C battery.

Thanks everyone for the help!

The fourth one is the worse by a wide margin.

The first one, MSI GE70 has the fastest CPU and debatable fastest GPU plus a 7200RPM hard drive.

The second one, MSI GE40, has the slowest CPU and GPU of the remaining three but includes a 128GB SSD. To put into context, when I say slowest the CPU is only 5% slower than the GE70’s and graphics 90%. Also the lower screen resolution (1600×900 Vs 1920×1080 of the GE70) should help to negate that difference some. What it doesn’t have is any optical drive which might be a problem for some

The third one, Lenovo Y500 has a slightly slower CPU than the GE70 and SLI graphics but a slower spinning 5400RPM hard drive.

Of those four, I would go with the first one, GE70. But if I could live without an optical drive, or own an external one, and want a small laptop, the GE40 is nice as well.

Two problems with this system right off the bat.

First, it uses a kitten poor motherboard HD 3000 integrated video. You will be lucky to get 15fps out of it in PvE, at low settings, low resolution, standing still in the middle of nowhere with no other players around.

Second, it’s a slim line system, at least the one on Amazon, so upgrades including an actual video card is significantly more difficult with limited options. Also getting an upgraded PSU if needed is also troublesome for a slim line case.

Of all the ones on Amazon near your price point, this is the best one there IMO. CPU is a touch slower but the integrated graphics is actually passable plus it’s in a standard size case. By no means this is a “great” or even a “good” rig for gaming in the minds of DIYers but it is loads better than your selection in terms of gaming.

Hint list? What hint list?

I don’t recognize the location but yes, sometimes the textures aren’t all that great.

Look at the horizontal vine/branch that makes up the back wall and the vertical branch to the left of my character going up from that horizontal branch, the one with the obvious split texture. Compared to the other textures these seem very blurry and yes I turned FXAA off for this pic, note the jaggies along her bare arm.

Edit: And I also don’t have DoF blur on, I find it annoying.

First, few systems can handle large zergs in WvW at a decent framerate. WvW performance is constrained by the CPU and not the video card.

Second, not without major changes to her system or finding a faster compatible CPU for that motherboard. Perhaps used at a local PC reseller or Amazon (I would avoid E-Bay). Going to a quad like the Q8400 or to a must faster dual core like an E8400 will help but it’s not a cheap fix and in the long run a dead end.

You should look into CPU/RAM/Motherboard combos because anything other than a total guts replacement will be limiting.

What is making the loud noise? The PSU? The video card? The CPU? The case fans? All the time? When you are only playing the game?

Avelos.6798:

Behellagh.1468:

Defragging an SSD reduces it’s lifespan, which is why it’s not recommended.

I recall the old generation of SSDs coming with that qwerk. SSDs are getting better for that now so far as I’ve learned.

You don’t read many SSD articles do you. The problem for consumer grade SSDs has actually been getting worse not better. As flash memory has been getting denser, the number of write cycles have been going down. It’s not a “quirk”.

Flash have a limited number of write cycles. MLC flash used in SSDs have only 2-3K number of write cycles. Now manufacturers use of “wear leveling”, over provisioning and internal data compression to delay the inevitable as long as possible.

So why aggravate this limitation when you don’t have to.

As someone who’s never done PvP, where is this PvP locker? Let me guess, somewhere in the PvP area, a place I have no intention of every going.

I wish they were just chests that you could stick into inventory than bouncy ones on the left side of the screen. What does a non-PvPer do with a half a dozen PvP only items, half of them unusable do to class restrictions. I see it as a ploy to encourage players to buy another row of bank slots.

Well after the patch Wednesday I cracked 91 rares and only got 65 ectos which was low enough to be troublesome but unlike the time it broke I did get 2s and 3s. It’s just I got a surprisingly lot of 0s. I didn’t mention it because it could have simply been a run of bad luck runs, since I can only crack 15-20 rares at a time due to inventory space (thanks for all the PvP gear I don’t know what to do with ANet). I’ve hadn’t had a chance to do another salvage run since then.

Melchior.2135:

It makes you sound like Marketing People.

Defragging an SSD reduces it’s lifespan, which is why it’s not recommended.

They reason defragging is suggested for normal hard drives is because the average seek time of 14ms is equivalent to the time it takes to read 1.4 MB of data at 100MB/s. Every time the disk needs to “seek” to to fill a read request, it’s like asking if to read an additional 1.4 MB of data, even if it request was only 4KB. The idea behind defragging improving performance is to reduce the number of additional seeks to fill the request to 0.

Since SSDs don’t have an equivalent to “seek time” so there is nothing to reduce. And as I said before, the extra writes that come from defragging will reduce the life span of an SSD is the total number of writes is limited.

As it has been said repeatedly on these forums, having an item available for a limit time only is a way to get players off their backside and buy it now, preferably with real money. The longer it’s available, the more time players have to build up their gold supply to use to buy the gems to buy the item. As nice as that is for us it doesn’t do a thing to ANet’s and thus NCSOFT’s bottom line.

The Celeron G1610 is a bit better CPU wise, not sure if the Intel HD Graphics 2500 is all that much better than the 8400GS. Your system may perform a little bit better but you will still be playing the game with the settings set to low.

Ah, the old “clean your heatsink” fix. Which reminds me it’s been a year, need to buy some can air.

Oh and when you do use can air, immobilize your fans before using the air. Turning them into pinwheels may seem fun but really isn’t good for them. Finger or coffee stirrer works.

I think you’re leveled up to 80 and other than a few random beasties, some conjured up by you or other players playing with things it’s mostly exploration and jump puzzles so far.

The game will not lead you by the nose, with the exception of your personal story. It’s up to you to explore the world. Look for scouts on your map (telescope icon) as they will show you what is available in the area or tell you your too low level to venture there.

I was forced to farm them at caches. But since the only cache is Ascalon was in Vexx’s lab and that I suck at JPs I couldn’t get to the cache to farm. Still didn’t matter in the long run, even if I got Vexx’s and the Ascalon Aether kill achievement, I still would have been short one to get the mini.