Guild Wars 2

Can’t tell. Can’t find anyplace that has specs on amps per rail with that model.

What happen with that njoy you had posted in your other thread? The sticker on that one showed 340 watts at 12 volts which is more then enough.

PCIe is backwards compatible. A PCIe V3 card will work fine in a PCIe V2 slot. Sure it’s total bandwidth is degraded but that’s small potatoes compared to the computational power and VRAM memory bandwidth of the higher end cards. Total overkill for this game but most PC gamers play more than one game.

I came here to comment because I thought the OP spelled abandon wrong.

For a comprehensive comparison I use TechPowerUp. Besides using a range of games and resolutions, they also test power use and have a performance/dollar and performance/watt charts.

Assuming you aren’t insane and buying a GTX 980Ti or a Titan X, here’s a like to their recent performance chart from a GTX 960 review. You can look at the other charts from the pulldown at the bottom of the page.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_960_OC/27.html

I’ve seen nodes blip in for a moment but not there for an extended period of time only to disappear.

Unless I missed something only Traits is changing, not the entire NPE.

Tigaseye.2047:

Behellagh.1468:

It’s 80 gems per $1€/£0.85 and has been that since launch. And as others pointed out it’s ANet’s primary source of continuing income. It’s comparable to other game proxy currency available on consoles and in other MMOs.

Your issue is that items cost too much in your opinion in terms of real money. $10€/800 gems for an armor set. As others have said, you are saving from no subscription or being charged for the littlest of things that you would find in F2P.

You also have to remember that a fair number of purchases at the Gem Shop is done with gold bought gems. Lowering the price of items will simply mean it’ll be easier to buy items with gold bought gems which may mean less cash bought gems bought and that means less income for ANet. Given a way to get something for “free” (no cash cost), people will pursue that route rather than open up their wallets more to actually buy gems.

That’s probably why he’s not asking them to lower the price of the items; but just the real money cost of gems.

If they did that, more people would (almost certainly) buy gems with real money, rather than waiting to buy them with gold.

But in the end it’s the same thing. $10€ for a full armor skin is $10€ if it’s 800 gems or 2000 gems. Since I doubt that’s what he’s suggesting, altering the cash cost per gem then he is asking them to lower the cash cost of items on the gem shop by reducing the gem cost or increasing the amount of gems you can get with cash. It’s the same result either way.

Or is this a complaint about the equivalency of $1 is 1€ even though that’s been addressed (UK VAT, exchange rate at launch and any other fees involved with currency exchange).

But it sounds like he’s asking ANet to lower their income by discounting the price of gems, something that will never happen. You want to pay less for an item, wait for the sale.

It’s 80 gems per $1€/£0.85 and has been that since launch. And as others pointed out it’s ANet’s primary source of continuing income. It’s comparable to other game proxy currency available on consoles and in other MMOs.

Your issue is that items cost too much in your opinion in terms of real money. $10€/800 gems for an armor set. As others have said, you are saving from no subscription or being charged for the littlest of things that you would find in F2P.

You also have to remember that a fair number of purchases at the Gem Shop is done with gold bought gems. Lowering the price of items will simply mean it’ll be easier to buy items with gold bought gems which may mean less cash bought gems bought and that means less income for ANet. Given a way to get something for “free” (no cash cost), people will pursue that route rather than open up their wallets more to actually buy gems.

I think there might be an Overwolf GW2 overlay that track that but nothing officially in game.

I assume they weren’t selling and they made that tab annoying long to scroll through. They really need to add a filter for outfits/full armor skins/piecemeal armor skins/weapon skins.

Theorl.3491:

5 xe-8-2-2.lon10.ip4.gtt.net [77.67.66.225]
6 xe-11-3-0.fra23.ip4.gtt.net [141.136.110.113]

I see London, I see France …

I couldn’t help it. It just popped in there.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

Where exactly is this? I want to go see it for myself.

One of the barges around where the old, pre Scarlet, city portal complex was.

The problem with region specific is that nobody will venture beyond the race city’s gates to do the content. World boss events by nature are map specific. The only PvE class of daily then is the do 4 events in map X and I don’t have a real problem with that.

As for “new daily system is a move away from the original intent”, how did it differ from the original daily system? Only differences are Laurels aren’t part of the daily, the fix 10 AP reward if you do 3 of 12 dailies Vs 5 of 10? 12? and each daily is worth 1 AP. If anything, the decoupling of the Laurel makes me more incline to skip the daily. The token awards are just that.

I would have loved to have seen a few more steps spread out over the last year. Basic repair and debris removal. A Charr/Asura military force defenses deployed. Airships removing more and more of the drill debris. A tent city for the survivors in Lion’s Arch or Gendarran Fields.

But I can understand that major reworks of zone maps aren’t something you want to crank out every 3 months.

Yes can show up to 100%, but rarely, nearly as rarely as the times performance is worse. It’s very dependent on the kind of app and games in general aren’t one of the ones that make a big difference in. And unlike the similarly clocked i3-4360, the 4170 only has 3 MB of L3, not 4 MB which decreases the likely gain from HT.

Where you are right is the notion that a 4 GHz OC of a G3258 was enough to compete with the i3-4170’s default clock speed, it isn’t. If the OP doesn’t want to commit to OC the G3258 to it’s max with a good 3rd party cooler, and the price difference between the i3-4170 and the G3258 isn’t better spent on food/rent, then the i3 is probably the better choice.

His PSU choice implies the OP is in Eastern Europe so the price difference may be more than the 80% difference, $60, found here. So it may be a budget issue.

The ancient Tom’s Hardware hardware review of GW2 had the i3 giving only a mere 3% over a duel-core Pentium at the same clockspeed so a 4.0 GHz G3258 Vs a 3.7 GHz i3-4170 may be too close to call.

Thanks for pointing out the default clock speed difference, I wrongly assumed it was closer.

Some H81s can OC a G3258 Ansau, that isn’t a problem. From my understanding as long as you have the most current BIOS then you will be able to with a Gigabyte H81 microATX motherboard. But here’s a list of tested motherboards.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2389948

And a few articles on it OCing the G3258 on an H81

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-b81-cheap-overclocking,3888.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/202196/asus-enables-overclocking-on-h97-h87-b85-and-h81-series-motherboards.html
http://www.ukgamingcomputers.co.uk/overclocking-pentium-g3258-on-h81-b75-h87-h97-chipsets-a-60.html

Well, we have an idea what event will be going on when Neo Lion’s Arch is open.

Well this is going to get moved to Community Creations.

And well done.

It’s purpose is to get rid of the surplus of bloodstone dust you have clogging you bank or mule characters. Nothing more. It’s that or tossing the dust. And MMOs have trained us to be horders.

I’ve only see minor cosmetic changes, the font, crisper outlines around items.

I would go with the G3258 and OC it. i3s are limited in OCing and HT is a extremely poor substitute for 2 additional “cores”.

[tech stuff]
HT is simply smoke and mirrors to con the OS into assigning addition and hopefully unrelated “threads” of code to each core to improve each core’s efficiency. In the end it’s has the same average results as modest (20%) overclocking except HT improvement is variable and sometimes has a negative impact in a cores’s overall performance.
[/tech stuff]

So yes, G3258 and a nice $30 3rd party heat sink and OC it.

As for will you be able to play decently in WvW, the game really does better when it has 4 real cores but a true Intel quad core isn’t cheap.

Are you going to give us a hint of what you think changed? I don’t see anything major myself.

If Oceania had their own server, they would only be playing among themselves and not with anyone from NA or EU, depending what region you are playing on now. I would wager that you will feel that the game is empty of players and while you will have excellent ping times, there wouldn’t be enough of a population to sustain the game.

mexay.3902:

Seriously, this should have been implemented at launch. China has it’s own servers. Why can’t we have OCX/SEA servers?

We’d only need 3. Hell you could split them into English and Non-English, same as Euoservers. I can’t imagine we’d need a huge data centre.

If ANet wants to push eSports they should be paying attention to stuff like this.

If ANet wants into China, they had to licence the game to a Chinese company to run the game for them. That company, KongZhong, is the ones providing the servers, not NCSOFT or ANet.

MMoGeek.6273:

How is the UI on this game, compared to SWTOR?

Don’t know, never played SWTOR.

Will I be spending the next 6 weeks learning the basics?

Hope not. Recently, relatively, ArenaNet altered the leveling process to simplify learning the basics. For experienced players it’s painful but for a new player to the game, it hopefully will be useful to you, a new player.

I heard the game is open world, I like that, but am I forced to follow quests like a circus monkey running from & to point a and b until max level?

No. There are no traditional quest givers in this game. This game is more about wandering around and finding people in need of help, which are hearts on the map, or dynamic events that spring up from time to time around each map. They are entirely optional to do. However some players may feel aimless without a path to follow. The closest thing we have is your personal story but that doesn’t start until level 10 and you could ignore that completely or start it when you are level 80.

Also since the game will automatically down level you in stats if you are in an area that is below your level so the critters there are still challenging, but rewarding XP and loot in your actual level range, you could remain on the Level 1-15 starter map and never venture anywhere else. Boring but doable.

I like to grind mobs, loot items, craft gear etc. I was told this game has all of that. Is there anything else I need to know?

The PvE game is designed to be very, very co-op friendly. Just about every activity gives you a bit of XP, your character has a copy of all the material nodes on the map so there’s no rush to get to one first. There is no tagging of critters and no split of XP and loot from a critter, everyone who does a minimal amount of damage will get full XP and loot. Everyone can rez. With no traditional MMO Triad of roles you aren’t preordained to be “the support guy” or “the healer” for the entire life span of your character. This makes the game extremely soloable and with a few exceptions, little need to find and run with a party. Dynamic Events are like flash mobs with swords. Simply announce where one is happening and a crowd will form to dispatch it before dispersing again.

Lastly, I usually play mmos alone, from 12am to 5am CST, but in some other mmos, it often felt like a single player game*yes I know I just said I play solo lol*

Is there a constant flow of players running to and from? I guess I want to know if this MMO has a major city feel to it or a rural small town feel.

Well in the major cities. The game uses what’s called “megaservers” which strives to populate each map with players from all servers in your region, NA/EU. Since Oceania tends to play on the NA server, if you are as well you should find players about, just not as many as say between 5p EDT to 3a PDT. I play in that time block as well because I’m a vampire, or at least that’s what the neighborhood kids think I am. Can’t dissapoint the children now.

Hope this helps. Oh two last things, the OMG sticky at the top of this board has a lot of tricks players learned and the wiki is your friend.

Maybe I’ll see you in Tyria. Have fun.

It’s nice we get XP for rezzing but it not the motivating factor for me. Just like mat gathering gives XP, again I’m not doing it for the XP. I don’t explore for the XP. I don’t visit Vistas for the XP. I don’t craft for the XP.

khani.4786:

McWolfy.5924:

All of the collect things should go to the wallet

No, currencies should go in the wallet. I hope they add the historical ones there too.

Collectables (foxfire clusters, blade shards, etc.) should have a place in our crafting material storage.

Exactly.

Blade Shards at refined mats not currency.

You don’t, you dump a large chunk of them and chalk it off as start up costs.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Mystic.5934:

no; lower drop rate. used to find 2-5 per day, now it’s like once every other day.

Maybe so. But it went from 2.94 silver and ~147k supply to 5 silver and ~112k supply in about a half hour today, and it’s done something similar before.

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/20316-black-lion-chest

And someone sucked up nearly 60K of them in 20 minutes for that to happen. There is nearly 75K for sale at 5 silver right now. That’s a pretty nice price dam right now. That’s also roughly 60% of all units posted for sale.

Fox.8957:

Oh hey. Learned something new. My fault for not reading. I always assumed it was xp, not skill points.

I’ll make an edit.

Perhaps. Is this the first time you are running the GW2 on this computer? Is the video card new? Did it work for a while at decent frame rate and then stopped?

From what I can gather from what you posted you have an HD 7770. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

In my experience I would not recommend anything but extreme low end video cards in an HP Pavilion unless you upgrade the PSU to something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026

Downside is the case isn’t very big and the excess in cable length is tough to keep orderly and out of the way.

It only took 2 1/2 days to drain that amount. Actually it was aroun 10.9 million supply before it ticked up to 3 copper. This is what happens when players mindlessly post mats and items at whatever minimum amount the TP lets them. An enormous glut of nearly useless mats.

Mats aren’t currency. Usually.

So is the OP talking about slow response times from the TP or the sell rate limit?

So AoE (narrow) cone?

There are 2 available at over 2000 gold each. It basically took 15 million supply to be removed just to budge the price off the 2c default.

The last character I made was before the NPE feature pack.

Scipio.3204:

I feel like a lot of people misunderstood OP. What he(/she) asks doesn’t increase the value of bag slots; he simply asks that you should have the ability to move already purchased bag slot expansions between characters, this way if you want to delete a character with expanded invectory that doesn’t go to waste.

Seems perfectly reasonable for me

That is reasonable. But too many just read the title and reply, pro or con, accordingly.

Darkwolfer.7819:

Though you might be right, there is probably enough ignorant consumers out there who are buying them because they have nothing better to do with their money then spend it on unlocking tons of bags at a steep price. So yeah ANet probably wont change it… consumer power is dead because people don’t know how to use purchasing power.

It’s not that they are ignorant it’s just that they don’t have problems buying $5€ a bag slot per character in a game they enjoy playing. Just like how HoT is not going to be able to be bought with gems. ANet needs cash flow. Real cash flow.

To put it in MMO terms, they prefer CoT (cash over time) Vs a spike in cash. An account unlock may cause a spike but it would erode significantly any future income from that item.

Svarty.8019:

sirsquishy.8531:

Behellagh.1468:

Perfect time to reopen the SAB.

Oh this!
SAB would be a perfect Filler.

I profoundly dislike the SAB, but even I think this is a perfect opportunity to get the repeatable content back while we wait for something new.

Plus it’s content already made. If the staff is wholly committed to HoT, there isn’t the staff who can knock out something for the interim. So that means recycled content, none of the holiday events are appropriate and the Zephyrites have been blown out of the sky. That doesn’t leave a lot. SAB seemed logical.

Broom.2561:

Behellagh.1468:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

City of Heroes. Earn currency to buy from Tailor shops. Sounds very similar to this game where you earn currency to buy what you want or you can craft.

No, the fee was for changing your look but the various pieces were by and large free to mix and max. Plus the cost varied based on your character’s level. You could also earn free or half price discounts which lowered the price even further.

Also the game’s money supply spun out of control once they introduced crafting and the consignment shop. The tailor cost never changed from launch so in the last few years the cost was trivial as player had 100s of millions when at launch 100K at max level was a lot. Even full cost total change was like sofa cushion money.

Don’t forget the tailor shop tokens. I totally forgot where I got them, but still had over 90 when the game died. Hadn’t paid for the tailor in years.

“You could also earn free or half price discounts …”

Yeah, I had over 100 on my main. What can I say, stuck with a look that worked.

Captain Unusual.9163:

Not to insult OP, because I can totally understand where the confusion comes from, this question is hilarious to me with no context involved. I can’t stop picturing a mighty warrior or cunning mesmer just staring in rage at this bucket in his hands, unable to set it down, and unable to bring themself to release their grip on its handle.

I’m imagining an Asura with a tube of superglue ROFLing around a corner.

Forum Bug. She’s on it.

ZilentNight.5089:

They are removing 90% of the items on the gemstore, this may be the perfect time for them to bring back all those old items back. So lets hope that is what their plan is. Bunny ears will be definitely a big seller. Crosses fingers

90%? A wee bit exaggerating there for effect.

sirsquishy.8531:

serenke.4806:

sirsquishy.8531:

to freeze content development in favor of an expansion

is what most expansion-based games do. What did you expect?

Except that GW2 is NOT an expansion based game. Its SUPPOSED to be a bi-monthly release based game (per countless PR releases via Anet in countless interviews). If they are changing the model, it would be nice to know.

It was, players whined. They tried again, players whined some more. So now they are doing an expansion. However they have mentioned that Traits 3.0 will be out before the expansion so we may be getting a feature pack between now and HoT.

And you should know better than asking ANet to say something.

Did you exit and restart?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

City of Heroes. Earn currency to buy from Tailor shops. Sounds very similar to this game where you earn currency to buy what you want or you can craft.

No, the fee was for changing your look but the various pieces were by and large free to mix and max. Plus the cost varied based on your character’s level. You could also earn free or half price discounts which lowered the price even further.

Also the game’s money supply spun out of control once they introduced crafting and the consignment shop. The tailor cost never changed from launch so in the last few years the cost was trivial as player had 100s of millions when at launch 100K at max level was a lot. Even full cost total change was like sofa cushion money.

Unless you shortcut through the PvP zone you should end up where the city portals are.

And who said the RNG didn’t have a sense of humor. Or at least irony.