Guild Wars 2

It’s closer to $360. But lets look back in time.

Oct 1st, 2013

Incinerator sells for 2450 g. Gems to gold is 3.75g per 100 gems. So you would need roughly 65,400 gems or over $800 dollars. So actually it’s cheaper today, by more than half, in real currency than it was almost two years ago.

If you look at the chart for Incinerator, it’s price has been fairly stable all this time. Right now it’s price is near the low for the last 16 months.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/30687-incinerator?full=1

Yes, it’s up noticeably since mid Aug 2013 but in terms of cash bought gems, it’s pretty cheap today because the exchange rate has gone up faster than Incinerator did.

As you pointed out it does future proof it. The only drawback, other than cost, is the whole Z170 chipset and motherboard hasn’t really been tested with the inevitable tweaks and BIOS upgrades that a more mature Z97 motherboard has. You will be on the bleeding edge and everything that means.

I think if you could hold off for a few months that the i7-6700K (or i5-6600K) and the Z170 is the way to go. There will be a few bios patches out and supply of Skylake should bring the price closer to suggested retail. Also DDR4 prices may start to go down as well.

But that’s my opinion.

Amiron.1067:

Behellagh.1468:

Steam survey says less than 0.07% of Window users have a primary display that’s 4K. So prioritizing things to do that affects the most players, I would say it’s rather low on the list.

Where is this survey? And it sounds like it accounts for 4k monitors, not 4k dynamic super resolution. Because of DSR, I imagine it’s a much larger portion of gamers who use resolutions higher than 1080p.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc

Your problem is essentially this right?

http://techreport.com/review/27102/maxwell-dynamic-super-resolution-explored/2

In this case it’s a feature support by one GPU manufacturer on only their latest GPU. While obviously more players have this GPU hooked to a 1920×1080 display than players with true 4K displays it’s still a relatively small minority of players.

SkullProX.7083:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flare_Dye
this one for e.g but i saw it at a few others too

https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/tool/dye/search?cloth=dab44d&leather=cbaf61&metal=e2b742&sort=matcher

This site has a tool that finds close matches to more expensive dyes, at least by color.

Flare for instance has the Masterwork grade dye Nectar be reasonably close for cloth, while the fine dye Pastel Lemon is closest for Leather and Metal.

Healix.5819:

To prevent the OOM crash, turn the model limit/quality to lowest and restart the client after joining the map. Restarting alone should be enough if you’re just doing one event (the more things you have to load, the worse it gets).

Nay of the Ether.8913:

This should have been top priority before they started pushing betas because a new expansion is worthless if you can’t even play it.

This problem cannot be fixed without a 64-bit client. Chances are they’ll simply reduce the map population caps in an attempt to prevent it, rather than fixing it.

64-bit doesn’t fix it, it postpones it until your heap outstrips physical memory and performance goes into the loo as it becomes more and more dependent on the swap file.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Bigger-interface-text-4K
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/4k-game-pc
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/4k-Monitor-UI-Scale-Options
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/4k-Resolution-Support
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/4k-Small-UI
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/4K-MONITOR-disappointedhttps://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/4k-resolution-interface-size

These were the easy threads to find. 1st one from 4 days ago.

Steam survey says less than 0.07% of Window users have a primary display that’s 4K. So prioritizing things to do that affects the most players, I would say it’s rather low on the list.

Sephas.8793:

spirit shard

/15chars

Nope. Core game you get nothing. In HoT you will gain mastery points.

If you use one of those level up tombs, then you will get a Spirit Shard instead but normal XP leveling, you get nothing.

Lobby Based uses a hub-instanced design, like how GW did it. You only run into other characters at the hub/city but the various quests are instanced where you won’t run into other players not in your party. Example – GW, PSO

Open World, everyone plays on common maps with few instances. Essentially opposite of Lobby Based. Example – WoW, GW2, a great many MMOs.

Sandbox is an additional descriptor for open world. It’s opposite number is Amusement Park. In a sandbox world many activities are player created rather than premade by the developers (Amusement Park). Example – EVE.

The phrase open world got co-opt as a descriptor for a continuous map with no obvious load screens. This is a technological solution phrase rather than a game design phrase.

As long as it’s “Fulfilled By Amazon” which means it’s in Amazon’s warehouses and Amazon deals with the shipping.

Substance E.4852:

Behellagh.1468:

pdavis.8031:

Why is it I seem to see these posts every Tuesday?

Because people are bored and subconsciously miss living world with it’s two week release of new content. But they wanted an expansion and that means not a lot of staff working on current content. Oh well.

I think it’s more that people are pretty unused to Anet not promoting some new gem store thing each week.

This is honestly the quietest I’ve seen it in a long time. I’m not sure if it’s a new strategy or they are genuinely that strapped for manpower.

Which is why I think the schedule has slipped. I’m betting they were planning to be much, much further along with HoT and ran out of “filler” material to keep us busy. The stuff they pulled from the store is planned to return during those first few months post HoT launch, or even the anniversary sale, so they can’t bring them back prematurely. Anything new requires resources that may have been assigned for HoT.

Remember when we got Tuesday and Friday Gem Shop updates/sales? Sort of miss those days. I have nearly 5K in gems built up waiting for a sale.

pdavis.8031:

Why is it I seem to see these posts every Tuesday?

Because people are bored and subconsciously miss living world with it’s two week release of new content. But they wanted an expansion and that means not a lot of staff working on current content. Oh well.

As it is each profession has 196,830 possible trait combinations and specialization adds another 196,830. This is just traits. Have the build gurus looked at all of these? See what synergies may be available with certain weapons and utility skills in an attempt to find that min/max combo that the devs missed?

No, what we get are players complaining that the setup they had been using is no longer possible, probably due to the prevention of multiple adepts as well as the pruning and merging of traits into the ones that remain. And in most cases these were builds that were copied and not discovered on their own. The so call “meta”.

Hey, the rules change. I get it, nobody likes their cheese moved but this is the life cycle of MMOs. Stuff changes, players get to respec. Fortunately by level 80 we have enough hero points to unlock every trait and skill, for free now, and we can respec, for free, at will. I’m sure we will all be able to adjust as long as we let go of the past. Those builds of old are gone. Move on already, it’s been more than a month.

There is no such thing as “make fast gold”, especially on the trading post if you don’t already have a boat load of gold.

Go farm Silverwastes like everyone else.

Gamescon is this upcoming weekend. Not a good time to drop an inevitably buggy patch. Plus Beta weekend.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spirit_Shard

Lots of sources.

Don’t get me wrong, very nice Oompa Loompas. It would just be nice to watch them without being yanked around on a bungee cord.

You don’t go to boss events much do you because it’s full of level 80s in low level zones. Also dailies drive level 80 players into low level zones. The last exotic drop I got was from killing some random thing in Wayfarer Foothills while I was strip mining the map waiting for Maw.

Camera work by novice drone pilot.

Yeah, it’s stupid, you have to go to your equipment tab in the hero panel and turn off your helm there rather than the outfit tab.

Someone pointed this out a while ago as a tool for finding similar dyes. It does a so-so job, sometimes great, sometimes not so great, depends on the color.

https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/tool/dye/search

Menadena.7482:

Behellagh.1468:

ASP.8093:

Behellagh.1468:

Unless you are into WvW servers are meaningless. The game will dump players from all servers (in a region, NA or EU) onto a single map, or multiple instances of that map.

It does seem to bias the placement in favor of putting people from the same home server together, especially in town.

You can get around that using parties to “taxi” people. Just takes a bit more work.

So not being on TC or Piken isn’t going to screw you out of RP opportunities entirely, it just might make a certain kind of spontaneous play slightly more annoying.

These folks should be able to tell you more: http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/

True, it does try to assign based on server and guild as well but party is pretty much guaranteed to be together when they move to another map.

Sort of. It depends how full a map is although it will do its best to keep a party together.

Now if we could just form parties greater than 5 people it would make things a whole lot easier.

And that’s why I said try versus does.

And that’s my point. While they’ve been removing stuff from the gem shop they really haven’t returned any or had sales which are the other usual promotions.

It’s making me wonder if the HoT schedule is slipping so much that their plans for the Gem Shop were all related to HoT being out.

Key sales are always popular. 20% is the usual amount. Sure it’s a sucker’s game but as long as you aren’t expecting to make money on keys it can be fun, like opening booster packs of Magic.

ASP.8093:

Behellagh.1468:

Unless you are into WvW servers are meaningless. The game will dump players from all servers (in a region, NA or EU) onto a single map, or multiple instances of that map.

It does seem to bias the placement in favor of putting people from the same home server together, especially in town.

You can get around that using parties to “taxi” people. Just takes a bit more work.

So not being on TC or Piken isn’t going to screw you out of RP opportunities entirely, it just might make a certain kind of spontaneous play slightly more annoying.

These folks should be able to tell you more: http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/

True, it does try to assign based on server and guild as well but party is pretty much guaranteed to be together when they move to another map.

Soft logs per plank was changed about a month after launch. At launch planks use to be 2 logs per, changed to 3 about two weeks after launch.

But default wood and ore gathering was always three.

Last was the 24 hour wings and new Lion’s Arch dye pack.

Come on sales.

On the bright side the lack of promotions have caused the exchange rate to drop like 10%.

Unless you are into WvW servers are meaningless. The game will dump players from all servers (in a region, NA or EU) onto a single map, or multiple instances of that map. You would be better off finding a RP guild and party up as it will put a party together on the same map.

Of course this means you will be neck deep in non-RPers. Just be aware of that.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Behellagh.1468:

Lian Olsam.9541:

http://i.imgur.com/5kQ8a6a.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/alOvIUl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0eQqrQ1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QuUNt6Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/udgU86v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1O2bFUP.jpg

You forgot one image.

See actual evidence that huge company is spying on people? Post a tinfoil hat pic!

It’s not spying if you tell people about it.

Wi-Fi Sense only works if your contacts/friends get within range of your wireless network and you can switch it off.

Cortana, to do her job as your personal assistant needs access to your calendar, e-mail, contacts, searches, etc. I got the creeps when Google started suggesting news articles, posted reminders when the cable bill was due, pointed out where my car was parked, etc. but actually it’s more helpful than creepy now.

Diagnostics and Feedback? You mean like how GW2 sends knows your system’s configuration or how every crash report from any software captures that data. My anti-virus and firewall sends back data to their mothership.

You are complaining about Windows Defender? It’s better than not having any Antivirus/anti malware product at all running. Install a 3rd party solution and it stays off.

Again with Wi-Fi sense and yes they don’t need to ask you for access because you already are using their product, it’s in their database already. You expect to use Skype but not expect them to know who you use it with? That’s like expecting the phone company not to know who you call.

I take it that this is Edge? That’s no different how any browser works nowadays.

I’m pretty sure the tin foil hat is appropriate because it isn’t an issue whether they are “spying” on you but the assumption that this information will only be used for “evil” rather than providing you with a better, safer, more useful environment.

Lian Olsam.9541:

http://i.imgur.com/5kQ8a6a.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/alOvIUl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0eQqrQ1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QuUNt6Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/udgU86v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1O2bFUP.jpg

You forgot one image.

Why surprised. It’s players who want Vegeta or Usagi or Cloud or Hermione or Drizzt who can’t find a name. Perfectly ordinary names shouldn’t be an issue.

Biggest change is the revamp to traits, again, and you may have to repurchase some of your skills. But this can be done with hero points you get as you level. By level 80 you will have enough just from leveling to unlock every trait in every trait line as well as every skill in your profession. Hero Challenges will provide additional points.

As for 20 slot bags, that’s why I run with “cheap” 15 slot bags.

As for what to do? Dailies, boss events, explore unexplored regions.

Zero Day.2594:

Behellagh.1468:

Other than a want ad for a Lead Graphics Programmer, no.

So yeah, nothing. They might be used for something else entirely, we can’t be sure at all.

Except the qualifications include the following line.

“Expert knowledge of current-gen graphics APIs (DirectX 9/10/11/OpenGL 4.X and DirectX12/Metal/Vulkan).”

True, it may just be HR boilerplate.

Xbon.9086:

Lian Olsam.9541:

I m not just talking about gw2 but gw3 etc etc

you’ll still be able to run previous dx’s if they decide to upgrade, dx12 uses the hardware far more efficiently, and fps boosts of up to 75-150%, it would be in any devs best interest to develop for dx12, yes you have to get the updates, that’s GOOD, because it patches security holes.

As many have attempted to beat it into players heads, the devs have stated that the rendering loop that is calling the Dx9 API isn’t the thread of code that is currently limiting frame rate.

2nd Dx12 gets it’s biggest performance game by allowing more of the driver code run in “user mode” where if the renderer is already multithreaded, can significantly boost performance. Our renderer for all extensive purposes isn’t. That means if Dx12 calls were magically to replace the existing Dx9 calls, we would NOT see that much of an improvement.

Authenticators, I use WinAuth, are really independent to copies of the game. What you need to do is set up an authenticator with the same 16 character “secret code”. You wrote that down, didn’t you?

If you use WinAuth I know you can extract it a couple of ways. Easiest is right click on the Guild Wars 2 label and select “Show Secret Key …” and use that when setting up the authentictor on the laptop.

My home system and my parent’s (when I visit) are now setup and their IP remembered.

The other possibility is use an authenticator on your phone or tablet. Google has one for Android I know.

In DR, 2nd floor with character model limit and quality set to high. And supersampling.

35fps seems reasonable.

Other than a want ad for a Lead Graphics Programmer, no.

Hardly “graffiti”.

Names do matter but I think this has more to do with players naming their character after their favorite anime/manga/cartoon/tv/video game/novel characters, obvious puns or tweaked names from GW lore rather than not being able to create a truly original name sans accent characters.

But Lord Faren’s Speedos would sell surprisingly well to a player segment.

Since the heart of a “play forever” system is data retention, that will not happen because what constitutes a “dead account”.

Learn to be more creative with your names.

Ashen.2907:

Behellagh.1468:

Keys are worth a lot more than 3 gold each. 25 keys cost 2100 gems. That’s 84 gems apiece at it’s cheapest baring sales. That’s about 14 gold each at the moment.

Price and worth are two different things.

Well worth is a subjective value. One can make an argument that 99% of things at the gem shop aren’t “worth” their price in gems or real currency equivalent. But that doesn’t change their objective price. A 15 cent 1/2 litter bottle of water is subjectively worth a lot more to someone dehydrated than someone who isn’t.

If $40 worth of keys only give you a 15-20% chance to get 3 tickets to get a Dreamthistle skin that you could sell for 320-385 gold while $40 worth of gems could get you around that amount of gold, it doesn’t show keys in all that great of a light.

Which goes back to my point that you have to want or not mind the standard fair from those chests if you buy keys. On average I will say their contents are “worth” the 84 or even 125 gems a key cost if you estimate the value of those items in gems but only if you are willing to use those items as the vast majority are account bound.

CandyHearts.6025:

Not to be offsubject but… I’ve never seen people fight over something so. . . trivial before.

Not really. Players tend to forget that the gem shop’s primary purpose is to generate the month to month income stream that ANet needs to stay open. Game sales generate spikes in income but that’s not a reasonable way to plan future development as those costs are monthly. So every time someone shouts about the price or availability of an item at the shop and if only they reduce the price or leave it available 100% of the time are ignoring the fact that if what they suggest would actually generate more income consistently it would have been done already as that is in the best interest of the company.

Keys are worth a lot more than 3 gold each. 25 keys cost 2100 gems. That’s 84 gems apiece at it’s cheapest baring sales. That’s about 14 gold each at the moment.

If they upgrade, it’ll be in addition to Dx9.

And the privacy issues in Win 10 are overblown.

Dreamthistle skins are 320-385g each. That’s roughly $33-40 of gems.

$40 of gems is at best price roughly 38 keys.

The chance of getting 3 or more tickets (in combination of scraps and tickets) in 38 keys is roughly 15.5%. And that’s using the “good” rule of thumb odds. Using the stats from the 350 chest sample that was recently posted that goes up to an awesome 21.6%. Woot.

Of course buying keys with gold bought gems yields even fewer keys so, yeah, buy off the TP, it’ll be cheaper.

The conversion to cobs and recipes that use candy corn mitigates that material. We still have 19 million of them for sale but a lot of it is supply priced at or above twice the going rate (around 13.5 million priced above 34 c).

Snowflakes on the other hand have only a few popular uses and dropped in vast quantities as players did those side winter dailies this year. On top of that the shear number of gathering tools that also drop flakes simply compounded the problem. Tiny Snowflakes went from 8.5s with 28K for sale to 5c with 72K for sale in 3 days. And there’s been 11.5 million for sale now. Demand simply wasn’t there. There are over 11 million priced above that 5c price today for sale.

They need to have some kind of bulk snowflake eater. One flake for ice cream or rune or sigil isn’t going to help.

Imagine crafting snowman finisher charges, or a temp mini pet, or a temp snowball mail delivery (thwack! you’ve got mail). I’m spitballing here but you see what I’m getting at, they need to increase demand by some means.

Here’s a review of the Home package and the experience upgrading. It doesn’t sound like a format is required.

http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-day-one-1719864054

Didn’t you hear? Fractals are the new Dungeons.

Sounds like this one. Spoilers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quaggankeep_Channel

The idea behind knowing multiple 3D APIs is that knowledge can be used to create a neutral API at the render level that requires minimal massaging of data for each specific API. The current rendering code may be pretty entangled with Dx9. Therefore if you want to eventually support additional 3D APIs other than Dx9, you have to tease the Dx9 specific code out of the renderer and replace it with abstract function calls that at first could simply translate to Dx9 API calls.

Also during this process they can look at making the various data structures and classes thread safe which is the first step toward dividing the workload across multiple threads with a balanced workload. That would allow it to scale across multiple cores better.

Like I said earlier, games systems does not mean game platforms.

rapthorne.7345:

I imagine this is an issue with your system. I play with everything maxed at world bosses and I never have out of memory errors. GW2 rarely even reaches 3 GB RAM usage of the 16 I can utilise

Not quite. The game is a 32-bit app and therefore has memory size restrictions dictated by a 32-bit system which on a 64-bit OS is ideally 4GB. It simply can’t use the 16GB you have.

But a dev did come along and said that memory fragmentation of the heap can cause an OOM situation because the available heap for data has gotten “Swiss cheesed” to the point that there isn’t a block of free memory large enough to meet the request. A 64-bit memory heap would alleviate this problem.

But OOM can be mitigated to a degree by lowering character quality and/or character limit while avoiding long play sessions.