They are only “pathetic” because you set your expectations high to begin with. If you remember them from the early days you should know they were nerfed to these levels because they were run so frequently back then that the influx of coin and items from them were disrupting the economy.
The dungeon rewards were never nerfed, nor changed since they were introduced. The devs said they will be watching them and make adjustments as needed, but no adjustments were ever made to them.
Sorry, the ability to run a path them an unlimited number of times on an account and get the full reward was changed.
They are only “pathetic” because you set your expectations high to begin with. If you remember them from the early days you should know they were nerfed to these levels because they were run so frequently back then that the influx of coin and items from them were disrupting the economy.
Did you double click on the 400 gems to enter a custom amount?
If you haven’t been back since this got revamped April last year, you now select the amount of Gems you want to buy, not the amount of gold you want to spend.
Once there you enter the number of gems you want to buy on the Get Gems side and click on “Buy” button on the far right and not the “Buy More Gems” button underneath .
It’s like the Chinese dragon mini, when it first became available with activation of the two factor authorization, everyone seemed to have one. Now a lot have gone back to their favorite.
Wings were the must have status symbol. Once you do a jump puzzle, the wings get hidden and my not get unhidden when they’re done.
No one really has that information. Sites like gw2spidy and gw2tp sample the TP periodically but it’s like going into your grocery story and counting the number of boxes of Capt Crunch every hour. You have no idea on how many are sold or how many boxes were restocked between counting.
You can try to infer based on the graphs depicting items for sale. Players aren’t willing to take a loss pulling a sale so when supply drops it’s likely a sale. Offers on the other hand are fully refundable so a decrease in bids could be a sale or could be pulling bids.
His CPU is still faster than the Athlon 64 X2’s that is still listed as minimal requirements and keeping the more CPU intense settings on low (shadows, reflection, character model limit) it’s not as much of an issue.
However The GTX 750Ti is such a marked improvement in graphics performance it would allow a higher frame rate with more of the pretty turned on. Plus they can still use it when they do jump to a more recent mb/cpu/ram configuration.
Game, budget and laptop are three words that never ever go together. EVER. Yes, it’s August and sales for back to school laptops are in full force but this is also the time for stores to get rid of their terrible stuff cluttering inventory.
The e-450 is essentially a netbook/tablet class processor that’s less power than the first generation Athlon 64 X2.
There are some options but you will have to buy used CPUs from your local computer recycle store or eBay. You also have to figure out what CPUs your motherboard will recognize since CPUs that fit you MB but were released afterwards may not be recognized. Ideally you would be looking for a quad core, the game works better with more than two cores, with a clock speed higher than your current CPU. Like I said you need to know what’s compatible with your MB. Right now the Q9650 used on eBay is in the $80 range.
Graphics, yea, you could swap in something more modern. PCIe bus negotiates for compatible data rates so even today’s cards should word in them. The 9600 GT was a 96 watt card according to nVidia so something like the GTX 750Ti should work fine and blow away, on paper the 9600 GT. It’s currently around $120-140 for a 2GB card.
But as everyone has already pointed out, this, well not the graphics card, is throwing money at a deadend. The current modern dual core Pentium for socket 1150 is twice as fast as yours and the price and performance of the CPU is similar to a used Q9650.
In the last 24 hours it looks as it one was sole for 1020g. The theory is that the high bid will influence the sale price eventually. It did come down from 1097g to 1051, 1050 and lastly 1020 which as I said was sold.
Now for the speculators it’s become a waiting game. Who will start the rush for the door first.
Periodic Payments Related to Accounts, Service and Content – ArenaNet may, in its reasonable discretion, require You to pay to establish or maintain any Account, to use any Service or to use any Content. You acknowledge that if You are required to do so, but do not, then ArenaNet may terminate Your Account under Section 3(b). You additionally acknowledge that ArenaNet may require such payments on any basis it deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion, including but not limited to any per-use or periodic basis (such as a number of hours, days or months). And You acknowledge that ArenaNet may, in its reasonable discretion, establish the timing and form in which such payment must be made, including but not limited to credit cards or online payment services.
A little worrying for the future?
Sounds like a P2P endeavor going on for the future of GW2?
Other than the name change from “NCSOFT” to “ArenaNet” and “sole and absolute” to “reasonable” that paragraph always existed in the EULA. This has been pointed out again and again in this thread.
This was the original.
Periodic Payments Related to Accounts, Service and Content — NCSOFT may, in its sole and absolute discretion, require You to pay to establish or maintain any Account, to use any Service or to use any Content. You acknowledge that if You are required to do so, but do not, then NCSOFT may terminate Your Account under Section 3(b). You additionally acknowledge that NCSOFT may require such payments on any basis it deems appropriate in its sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to any per-use or periodic basis (such as a number of hours, days or months). And You acknowledge that NCSOFT may, in its sole and absolute discretion, establish the timing and form in which such payment must be made, including but not limited to credit cards or online payment services.
Note about half way down, right column of the Graphics card tab it says your graphics card is running @ x1 2.0, that’s your problem.
Not sure why this happens on occasion, that the card simply doesn’t use all 16 PCIe channels.
Again you only have one physical x16 slot? And that’s the closest one to the CPU? Pull the card, make show the slot is clean and the edge connector on the card isn’t tarnished and reseat it. I would appreciate any other suggestions as well.
I like the change from “sole and absolute” to “reasonable” discretion everywhere. They also made it clear that while the account is still non-transferable, it doesn’t prevent you from reselling the DVD or Blu-Ray containing the game.
They also softened the language for deleting gems from “any reason, including without limitation” to “fraudulent activities”.
Generally it’s replacing “NCSOFT” with “ArenaNet” and “software” with “game” and including some specific language for Germany.
This is getting to a point where it is extremely unreasonable for new players to be able to earn bag or bank expansions, or for players in general to be able to play to earn any of the gemstore items.
It’s a cash shop. Price hadn’t changed there.
It’s unfair that new players can’t afford to buy 20 bag slots right away either.
they look like they are setting it up for possibly charging monthly!
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Periodic Payments Related to Accounts, Service and Content – ArenaNet may, in its reasonable discretion, require You to pay to establish or maintain any Account, to use any Service or to use any Content. You acknowledge that if You are required to do so, but do not, then ArenaNet may terminate Your Account under Section 3(b). You additionally acknowledge that ArenaNet may require such payments on any basis it deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion, including but not limited to any per-use or periodic basis (such as a number of hours, days or months). And You acknowledge that ArenaNet may, in its reasonable discretion, establish the timing and form in which such payment must be made, including but not limited to credit cards or online payment services.
ALSO I THINK I READ: THAT ONLY ONE PERSON MAY USE THIS GAME, IF A MINOR USES IT, ONLY THAT MINOR CAN USE IT FROM THEN ON.
For the Nth time, was already there since the beginning.
Offshoot of a profession really. They aren’t meant to replace the existing professions and you can switch into or out of the elite specialization while out of combat.
And in all cases it’s because supply dwindled. Why did mystic coins become popular when they did is the question. I’m not familiar with the common uses of a mystic coin.
These Gem Shop sales always spike the exchange rate since it’s movement is based on the balance of Gold vs Gems added to the exchange by players. Players convert their gold hoard into gems to buy these items, especially popular returning items like Kasmeer’s Staff and the White Wings Skin. In the past the rate quickly drops once the sale is over as players buy gems and convert them into gold.
Right now it’s about 12.7 gold per $1€ of gems. A $25 Gem Card is worth around 320 gold.
First trait lines have been renamed specializations, you are talking about elite specializations.
Elite specializations are merely a unique specialization that replaces one specialization which allows your character to have access to additional skills and a weapon type. They still cost hero points to unlock.
The large download was a clue to another beta weekend in the works. Or did you think your client wouldn’t have HoT baked in whether you bought it or not.
Working yes. Potentially harmful, also yes. It is NOT recommended by the engineers who built the CPU, sure you can do it just as people violated the specs by running 1.65 volt DDR3 memory on the last few generations of Intel CPU that used DDR3 in the past.
BUT IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED. IT STRESSES THE MEMORY CONTROLLER IN THE CPU WITH SIGNAL VOLTAGES EXCEEDING IT’S SPECIFICATIONS.
So save $60 by reusing your memory if you switch to Skylake but realize you could be shooting yourself in the foot by damaging your $300+ CPU.
Did you put the video card into the wrong slot? The x16 physically closest to the CPU is usually the true x16 slot. You may want to pull and reseat it. Also if you videocard takes external power, make sure that connector is firmly connected.
Run the GPU-Z utility (google for it) and post a screen shot of it’s results. I’m going to guess it stuck running only x1 and it’s not “waking up” from 2D mode.
Yea, like Thorfinnr says, ArenaNet replaces NCSOFT is the most notable change and the EU portion got tacked onto the end being the 2nd most noteable change.
No, those items you can gift but you select the recipient and it’s mailed directly to them. You can’t but it for yourself, get it in the mail and then mail it to someone else.
They just killed one of these threads because nothing every good comes from one.
Should there be more useful builds for party content like dungeons or fractals, sure. But right now the vast majority of PUGs forming for those events want to do them as quick as possible and that means a certain build, skills and tactics that if you are don’t have or are unfamiliar with need not apply. Respect the pugs requirements. But this goes both ways. Don’t join a learners PUG only to abandon it because they aren’t fast or knowledgeable of tactics and don’t hijack one because you are too lazy to put up your own LFG request.
If the Meta and non-Meta keep to themselves there won’t be friction but human nature means players are impatient and rather than group with there own will group with anyone and that’s when the calls about griefing comes out.
Look up the dye you want, click on the eyedropper next to it’s name and it’ll show similar dyes by nearest RBG.
Clover seems to be similar in color for cloth and leather. However emblazed reflects light differently. It’s darker, a bit more orange and mottled, like there’s a lacquer on it. You can look it up on the TP and right click preview to see it. The starter Autumn is also close.
And they still didn’t defeat it in the video. Now a days we have the 30+ range crowd on the pedestals blasting away and it’s gone in two minutes. Trying to do it with maybe 10 people looks suicidal.
Yes, but were talking as if they could keep their existing DDR3 RAM if they went to a Skylark based rig which would only be true if they were already using DDR3L, which is doubtful as most systems use standard 1.5v DDR3.
Otherwise if they were going to buy RAM anyways, why mention DDR3 when DDR4 provides improved memory bandwidth? The price difference between DDR3L-1600 and DDR4-2133 is minor.
Screw the player base. The “player base” is a fractured group of conflicting wants and needs that is impossible to satisfy one without ticking another portion off. It’s trying to spin an infinite number of plates while on a tilt-a-whirl. Carbine listened to players who insisted that there was a large number of players champing at the bit for an MMO with 40 man raids and should cater to the hard core.
If the devs listen to the player base we would be playing a WoW clone with mounts, dueling, a hard trilogy and raids while their original vision would be totally gone.
This is like the fourth thread on this subject this weekend, did a lot of players who left before the introduction of ascended armor and weapons just return?
