Guild Wars 2

Problem is .. there is not really so much to do there .. you can go blast some of
the ice crystals to protect the golems now and then .. and then back to the champs.

The problem is really that most of the event is so kitten ed boring that trying to get
some champ bags is the only thing you can do .. or leave the event for a while
to kill some arctodus .. lol

Oh and phase 1 .. if something should be changed then that one to just one wall
because autoattacking the wall with that kitten ed slow charzookas is really the
most boring thing ever.

If you behave in chat like you do here .. maybe no wonder if the people are not
that friendly to you,

The nice community is in open world PVE .. in PvP you will always have those
special kind of people like in any other PvP game.

Yoshirou.2801:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Yoshirou.2801:

I can choose any part I want also the assembly is free !well at least here in Israel so I should go for Gtx 970, lower the cpu to i5 4690k and ram to 8 gb ?
My budget is around 1500$-1600$

I would bump up to 16, even if it meant cutting back a couple versions on the video card. But that’s me.

Isn’t 8gb enough for gaming ?why would I need 16 ? Unless I do video editing or streaming right ?

Its enough at least for most actual games with 32-bit clients. When 64-bit gets
more common then of course that may change.

Maoric.6132:

While I can’t directly improve the Telia->NCsoft hops

Mostly the only fix ist to let your traffic take a different route to avoid the
overloaded hubs. Personally i use a VPN whenever the critical hubs on my
route (telekom → Level 3 in Frankfurt) have problems.

But i also remember Telia from my Diablo 2 days .. that was still with ISDN,
and i had to pay per minute for using dial-in providers when i wanted to
avoid the lag we often had in D2.

My last was that :
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tribulation_Caverns

redcomyn.4651:

Zev.3407:

Get the princess item form the new lion’s arch achievement, it’s a Dragonite Ore eater.

Why? If the Dragonite Ore Eater just destroys the dragonite, why not just throw it away and forget about the Eater?

Some people simply can’t destroy things, for what reason ever. And the rather spend
15 minutes each day to destroy something when it gives 1 copper reward

Ok .. thats a little exaggerated, but more or less really how it works ^^

I prefer Black Widow over Iron Man

You only need to hit the Maw Shaman as one of the first 50 players, or whatever to
get that champ bag .. damage is irrelevant.

So when other players destroy the portals go instead and already attack the shaman.

Haha .. i already expected something like that when i saw how downscaling worked
and when i remembered that they said upscaling should be stronger.

Just look at the size and date of the image, that simply shows already that they now
have a higher compression.

Seems it has changed somewhere between May 15. and 23.

Im so exited to hear what all those people say about Black Desert who are here
constantly complaining about grinding, since it seems to be a real grinder where
you only level by killing mobs.

Tera .. played it 2 weeks ago once again for a day .. and after that i already lost
again my interest.

And my god .. the person(s) that created to patcher from Tera really should be …
what an abomination is that ? Does it install the very first version of the game
and then apply every single patch since release step by step on top of it ?

Behellagh.1468:

It never occurred to them to just wander, tab to see critter levels, explore all the NPCs to see what they do/offer, etc. They were looking for the big dancing ! or ? over an NPC.

I remember we had to speak to every single NPC in EQ2 when it was released, to
find out if they had a quest or not. A lot of people were upset when we got the
! and ? over their heads and said : the game was again dumbed down like WoW.

Behellagh.1468:

Wayfarer was my original starting area when I first started playing. I’m sad to hear how bad it is post NPE. I still frequent the area north of the “wall” but I haven’t seen how the southern area plays since post NPE.

Wayfarer is not bad, its still my most favorite area and the only one i completed
on all my 18 characters.

Also the “nerf” to the bunny quest .. everyone i talked about it so far was happy
because the old one got really annoying after doing it the first time.

Vayne.8563:

imsoenthused.1634:

Vayne.8563:

I forgot about Guild Wars 1. Completely different than Guild Wars 2, mind you, but far more fun for me than any of the other MMOs out there.

I suspect OP has a personal problem with the company, reading between the lines of his posts, which would make that not an option.

Well if he’s looking for an MMO with active combat and no gear treadmill, he’s going to be looking a long long time, no matter what he has for or against anyone.

Hm .. Champions Online has no gear threadmill, and at least there are a lot of
powers you can use while moving. But its a superhero MMO, and playing without
freeform characters maybe takes a lot of fun out of it.

Vayne.8563:

eureeka.5368:

camelot unchained recently came out with a new vid on some content and trait system. omg blows gw2 outa the water in customization. I can’t wait for this game!! gw2 will be a memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdLRYy3o-Qw

Because we haven’t heard this before about Archeage, Wildstar, ESO and even Neverwinter. lol

But .. but … “when you move around you actually see other players move around”
Now this is such a great feature never seen in any MMO before .. nobody else
will play all those MMOs where you don’t see other people move around while
you move around

MauricioCezar.2673:

Sorry, but this is a freaking awesome look on the second SS. Mind tell me what sword is that?

The second screenshot is mostly black dog hunts black cat at midnight in the coal cellar.

Why can’t you people post some informations when you want help ?
Why must we always ask what exactly your problem is ?
Can you help me with that ?

Looks just like some random character in human T3 to me.

Oh .. and that face on the GW1 box also doesn’t look asian to me in any way.

Making each single fight take longer doesn’t really makes anything harder, mostly
just more boring, tedious and less fun (at least for me) .

Less damage is in the end the same than more HPs for mobs .. so hey .. why not
give every mob 100% more hitpoints .. Teq will then have 4 times the hitpoints
he had before the patch .. this will be really funny .. right ?

azizul.8469:

my CPU running at 73 degree C during zerg fight, showing how bad the dependence on CPU the game is….

But all that DX12 would do is bring your temperature more up, since what people
want is that GW2 uses 100% of your CPU instead of just 70%

Funny how some people think they would have a better performance with less
usage of the CPU.

Also a 64-bit client would not give better performance, it would be maybe even a
little worse. All it will do is help against OOM crashes on systems with extremly
high settings where the client uses more than 3,5 GB memory.

Astralporing.1957:

Harper.4173:

You operate under the false assumption that we “script-kiddies” care about the content and not the reward at the end and getting it as fast as possible.
That’s where you went wrong.

No, he didn’t went wrong. He was addressing the posts to those of the “hardcores” that are complaining about the game being too easy. If all you care is the reward at the end and getting it as fast as possible, then obviously game being too easy wouldn’t be a problem to you at all.

But .. they want more better mostly “exclusive” rewards for their harder content.
So in the end it correct .. all they care about are the rewards.
If ANet or any other Game Company puts in “harder” content that doesn’t give
better rewards, most of the people who constantly cried for harder content
just because the challenge, suddenly say : why should we play that when we
get the same in easy mode.

I’ve seen that so often in forums of so many other MMOs since i play online,
in the end it always comes down to the same.

Majic.4801:

Sampling Bias

SkullProX.7083:

Does anet read forum posts? Because i cant believe a company would make such a huge mistake that even tho 90%of the players in the forums ask a harder gameplay, and more challenging content, and they still make the game easier…

90% of players in the forums aren’t 90% of players. It’s likely less than half of all players have ever even logged in to the forums, let alone posted in them.

Our german CM wrote a while ago that only 8% read the forums and only 1-2%
post in the forums. So in the end these 90% are not even 2% of the total players.

Khisanth.2948:

Beldin.5498:

I gave up on stacking sigils when they started to make then useless in LS2 instances
and later also personal story, because mobs that give no exp also give no stacks.

The personal story mobs actually DO give stacks despite the fact that LS2 ones don’t. Neither of them give exp or loot. This also means there is really no reason for the mobs in LS2 to be that way.

Hm .. i remember that the mobs in phase 1 at Claw of Jormag event also didn’t gave
exp and also no stacks long ago before LS2.
I also never was in a PS instance with a stacking sigil since they changed the mobs
there to give no loot anymore.

VaLee.5102:

To sum up my experience and opinion: after about 2 years of GW2 I’m actually going back to WoW.

The funny thing is, the same has been said about WoW again and again in the years
when i played EQ2.

WoW was the epitome for a total easy stupid dumbed down game, and it was
getting dumbed down even more with every expansion.

@OP
I refuse to watch youtube videos just to understand what a post wants to tell me.

I gave up on stacking sigils when they started to make then useless in LS2 instances
and later also personal story, because mobs that give no exp also give no stacks.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Can you get your browser remember your password for this website?

Never hat problems with Opera or Firefox.

Shifu.4321:

Did you know that there are only 4 areas that are level 80 (Drytop, SW, FGS, Cursed Shore)? That means that your exotic and ascended gear is maximized ONLY in those 4 areas, and that in every other area of the game, a lower level character would match you or be more powerful.

Doesn’t that sound a bit absurd? Shouldn’t an exotic/ascended character at least match the stats of a non-downlevel?

FGS is also 70-80 .. so just a part of it is 80.

Malchors Leap is also 75-80 .. but its in my eyes the most senseless maps of all ^^

Vancien.1980:

And P.S. The longbow skin appears to be selling for around double, $2400 on the trade post so your friend sold at half price.

He didn’t wanted to wait maybe for 2 years to sell it, so he made a direct sale.

I also have no idea how often things fore prices like that are really sold.

zenleto.6179:

Beldin.5498:

MiniEquine.6014:

Farming Flats.5370:

I dont know whats going on, but there is something fishy, Before the patch i was soloing AC dungeons relatively with ease. Today i must double the effort to achieve the same thing .. with my build i can kill a young karka in southsun with a single use of purging flame .. the same build struggle in AC and the same skill is … maybe downscaled too much. Well the damage done is not proportional .. it’s weaker.

It doesn’t make sense that i can go in silverwaste or any other lvl 80 zone and melt everything on my path with only half of my skills then going to a lvl 30 dungeon and unleash everything i have to get the same effect.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The community has been begging for more challenging content for some time now, and having access to older content with a challenging kick can be quite invigorating.

Do you feel better overcoming a difficult task that took all your skill, or do you feel better just because you are more powerful than your enemy by default and plow through them?

Oh come on .. yeah all those poor 80s in full ascended that seek challenge in
Queensdale. Maybe level 2 skelks should oneshot them .. or you die instantly
when entering the zone.

What does a highlevel do in lowlevel zones normally ? Either its completing
a map or harvesting .. nobody is there to seek a challenge .. this argument is
so far from reality.

Or spend 10 mins doing a world boss, don’t forget.

Oh yeah .. worldbosses should take 2 hours at least .. i mean Behemoth .. DPS .. Portals
DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals .. DPS .. Portals ..

Can you imagine the pure challenge that this would give ?

Also its great that people who think starter areas are too easy now can think :
OK … its so kitten easy here .. but as soon as i’m 80 and full ascended i come
back here to have a real challenge.

Now make the scaling maybe even more punishing that lvl 80s have to ask
level 10 chars to help them complete a map, or that they need to form raids
to take down a centaur ^^

My crystal ball blames your outdated 32-bit windows.

MiniEquine.6014:

Farming Flats.5370:

I dont know whats going on, but there is something fishy, Before the patch i was soloing AC dungeons relatively with ease. Today i must double the effort to achieve the same thing .. with my build i can kill a young karka in southsun with a single use of purging flame .. the same build struggle in AC and the same skill is … maybe downscaled too much. Well the damage done is not proportional .. it’s weaker.

It doesn’t make sense that i can go in silverwaste or any other lvl 80 zone and melt everything on my path with only half of my skills then going to a lvl 30 dungeon and unleash everything i have to get the same effect.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The community has been begging for more challenging content for some time now, and having access to older content with a challenging kick can be quite invigorating.

Do you feel better overcoming a difficult task that took all your skill, or do you feel better just because you are more powerful than your enemy by default and plow through them?

Oh come on .. yeah all those poor 80s in full ascended that seek challenge in
Queensdale. Maybe level 2 skelks should oneshot them .. or you die instantly
when entering the zone.

What does a highlevel do in lowlevel zones normally ? Either its completing
a map or harvesting .. nobody is there to seek a challenge .. this argument is
so far from reality.

Swoo.5079:

I just expect my level 80 necromancer to be at least as strong as my level 6 necromancer. Again, both my characters unless the ego you are talking about is of my toons.

But .. but .. you have learned to play your 80 necromancer .. and are a total noob on
you level 6 .. so that compensates for it … rofl

I really love this kittening argument

Evans.6347:

Are you saying people are going to stay away from low level zones beccause they are slightly less op? If so, thats ridiculous.
This affects nothing other than some egos.

Beeing less powerfull than a newbie character is not less OP .. its UP (underpowered)

Else everyone is OP .. and then again the word OP means nothing .. you can also
call a newborn child OP because it can maybe one-hit a fly.

Gratz for 1200 gold .. or whatever o.O

Just last week we also had a new person in our guild that had such a ticket.
I think he took a bow and sold it for 1200g. Then he had even more luck with
crafting precursors from that money.

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

Hey all, didn’t want to leave this discussion hanging. Losing the hover list was a needed concession because of the fact that the currency list is growing and would potentially become unusable. We’ve been talking about ways we could have kept it, and things we might do in the future to bring it back, but time constraints kept us from being able to implement any of them for the 6/23 release. We are still looking at it and considering our options though.

What about a scrollable combobox that opens on click maybe but looks more
like the old wallet ? Needs maybe also another click to close but also closes
automatically on closing the inventory.

Just an option to either cast it at your feet or around your current target would be nice.
I really hate it now with my necro when i constantly not cast my wells because i am
so used to just click them once and thats it.

You can only forge items where actually an item with the stats you wanted exists.
Wurmslayers stuff only exists with one given set of stats, so you can’t change them.

In the end its more like an exchange .. throw in the white sword, get back the red one.

MidsummerPrism.5047:

Is it normal that I cant use the recipe that is supposed to work in order to change the stats of my ‘s armguards ? (TBH the 3 choices aren’t that great)

You can only forge items where actually an item with the stats you wanted exists.
Wurmslayers stuff only exists with one given set of stats, so you can’t change them.

In the end its more like an exchange .. throw in the white sword, get back the red one.

HawkMeister.4758:

Usually the “useless” build were useless to the Munchkin crowd, who are useless to me.

This game definitely changed to having much less diversity and more cookie cutter builds now.
Which is great for overworked Devs with Guild Wars 1 balancing PTSD and Zerker Meta optimal DPS runners, but very boring for us tinkerers and fun builders.

For example before I had a neat Hammer/Rifle Warrior build that still allowed me great mobility, but that is dead now as the 25% run speed is on the same tier with Rifle -20%.

Oh well, at least this way there´s actual hope for eventually getting even more Elite classes with future expansions.

Never heared of traveller runes ? And the runspeed boost never worked when you
had a ranged weapon equipped, so traveller runes were already “better” before
the change if you want perma speedbost.

If you have 32-Bit windows update to 64-bit.

Else my crystal ball doesn’t give me enough information about your system.

Its mostly a defect graphics driver or a problem with direct-x

So best deinstall your driver and do a clean reboot before reinstalling it. If that
doesn’t help try reinstalling direct-x.

SilkLost.1835:

The 32bit use less RAM not because it’s forced to, but because it assign memory in chunks of 4 bytes and 64bit assign memory in chunks of 8 bytes, so sometimes just to assign 1 memory address you take up more RAM than you need.
Guild Wars 2 is perfectly playable with 2GB RAM

Its more that Win-XP used less memory than Win7 because of the way DX-9 is
emulated in Win7.
However i wouldn’t call playing on minimal settings at 1024×768 or whatever
not really “perfectly playable” because else you would have mostly a lot of
OOM crashes with Win7-32 even with 4 GB memory.

But only 2 GB .. i remember i already had swapping without end 10 years ago with
Lineage 2 when i had only 2 GB at that time.

Yeah .. the old color was better visible and also fitted better to the whole design
of the waypoint, vista, poi icons.

heliumbox.3621:

Nothing else changed, drivers up to date, no viruses, only GW hogging CPU usage.

I5 3570k
nvidea 970
8gb ram

never had issues until LA patch.

Any ideas?

Whats the problem with that ? Else people always dream of it that GW2 would
really use 100% of your CPU. Thats more or less what all expect from DX12.

In the end more CPU usage just meants better multithreading. At singlecore times
it was normal when games pushed the CPU to 100%

2 GB ram is adequate ? You will either crash all day because OOM or your system
will swap on your harddrive like crazy and you will end at 1 frame every 5 seconds.

Rampage.7145:

Now that would be a good reasson to buy a 100$ expansion, having the game on Dx12 running efficiently along all CPU cores, not the mini Rytlock.

But then people will start to cry that ANet have also to include a free copy
of Windows 10 .. because its unfair to give them a game with something that
they can’t use.

Oh .. and all people who have already bought Win10 want their money back
from ANet .. lol

→ Module: HMIPCore.dll

I would start with desinstalling whataver you have installed from “My privacy tools”

Check if your PC is overheating.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Yes but can’t you get higher precision now because of the increase in stats and the way specializations work?

Nope .. you get +84 stats on your character i think, but we loose 300 from the
old precision line.

Also critchance scales again weird when mentored down.

And the new signet mastery buff from warriors also behaves strange. Runs out
mostly before the 60 seconds and even when it shows more than 1 stack my
critchance doesn’t get higher.