Guild Wars 2

Give it a day or two and gem prices should get back below 2g per 100. Same thing happened when roses popped up in the store and just after the last major patch.

Biggest problem with building a computer that inexpensive is the $100 Microsoft tax for Win 7 Home 64-bit. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of cash left over in your budget.

As for ones you may find in stores, the ones based on the AMD A8 or A10 CPU is good enough to play at a reasonable resolution and settings. You can occasional find them on sale at office stores like Staples or Office Max or Office Depot.

Personally I like Ice Elementals for dodging. There range attack is fairly slow if you keep back from them and there’s a nice long delay in their AoE attack.

I play a mesmer and my biggest problem is keeping an Elemental alive long enough to get a couple of dodges out of each.

Back a month or two ago when and there was a drop rate problem on them (I was finding them seemingly daily in carrots), I would identify them and then sell them. Then they fixed the drop rate problem and I noticed how much they were going for I immediately stop identifying them and just sell them.