Guild Wars 2

I just noted yesterday how outdated XP is when i wanted to install Server 2003 in
my company on my old workstation as AD Testserver.

That workstation was still an old Dual-Core and i ran into a bluescreen at the
installation and in the end i figured out that i needed to disable multicore processing
in my BIOS.

I could deactivate it when i updated to SP1 .. but really .. that showed me that this
OS is much more outdated than i even thought.

Depends on your HDD. I had a 10.000 RPM WD before and already good loading times
and the SSD wasn’t really that much faster. At least no compare to how much faster
Windows Updates are with the SSD.

But don’t ask for stuff thats worth only some silver.

What you will mostly get is stuff from the gemstore .. and maybe ascended items.

Ansau.7326:

Beldin.5498:

Was again at Svanir Shaman last night, and with the same settings like in my first
post, the FPS again went down to under 20. Even since i now had a maximum of
205 FPS in a cave Dredgehaunt Cliffs while mining a rich iron ore.

Also i still had 50-70 FPS while doing the pre-events and destroying the totems, but
all went down when the actual fight began.

So in the end the real framekiller are things for that we don’t have any settings at all.

The framekiller is not a setting, just in those situations there is a huge amount of data your cpu has to render at the same time.
It’s like asking to fill a 50l tank in 2 seconds with a garden hose.

But its mainly the Snowstorm thing it seems. All is fine even with 50+ people running
around .. but as soon as the Shaman fight begins it goes downhill.

So why exactly is there so much more data in that fight that needs to be rendered
than before in the pre-event fights ?

Khisanth.2948:

Banning was exactly what they did around release when there was an issue with the karma items. Supposedly as a warning for the future. On the other hand since this would be bad PR it won’t happen.

Its a totally different story.

It seems Anet wanted to avoid having extra servers, databases and clients for the
beta test, and now all that stuff happens on the life servers.

No if bugs happen they could swap over from the beta to the life environment,
and its simply ANets job to fix that.

Wow .. are those numbers real ? Especially that you played exactly 5000 out of
10000 hours on one specific character .. O.o

ckotoc.5421:

So they cant even make a proper beta test and you blame players for that.Nice logic…

The problem is mostly that there is no real Beta Client and Server but the life client
and servers are simply used for that and so the Beta Client makes changes directly
to the life database.

At least it look that way to me. Can’t imagine they work with different SQL Servers
in the back just for that one special character slot.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

The Shatterer’s attacks hit plenty hard, it’s just they’re all aimed directly in front of it (except for the crystals, which are destroyed too quickly to hurt anyone, but pretty much down you instantly if they explode). Force people to fight it head-on and it would be fine.

I also feel the second phase of the Claw fight needs a more concrete indication of progress, maybe give the Claw a stacked buff that the golems remove, and it goes vulnerable when they’re all gone?

Yeah .. i remember Shatty killed me once before the megaserver when i often went
into close combat because time was often a problem there when we only had maybe
10 players o.O

For Jormag .. i only hope they don’t change anything that makes it even loooooonger.
Especially phase 1 is only boring and i only twice had a group where enough people
knew the double-damage trick to get him directly to phase 2 after only one icewall.
Else mostly you have 3 walls .. and those charzookas are soooo boring.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

And here we have yet another example of “if it can be exploited, it will be.”

Its not an exploit if people got the skins just by playing the beta. Its simply a bug.

And my god .. who would not try out a new shiny if it suddenly appears in your
wardrobe .. and what the hell is so bad with it that people call for bans ?

hybrid.5027:

Frostfang.5109:

Soldiers with some extra healing. That makes me hit like a Zerker without the crit. The crit is sacrificed for survivability and healing – so I can get in and ress all those zerkers

“Hit like zerker” No. Soldiers is about 40% less DPS. Add in some “extra healing” and you’re hitting like half of a zerker.

Do all the people who are advocating tanky builds not understand how their skills work? Or do they have trouble dodging attacks in general?

Soldier is 27% less if you use soldier armor and trinkets. If you only use armor
its just 13-14% less.

At least if the number at gw2skills.net are correct that i used for my calculation.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Add a chest to the first part of Jormag. It can be a small one, but some sort of reward to encourage people to do the first part and not wait till the second part to join in.

Or make that part simply shorter and remove all those annoying fear-spams that
we got last time people were complaining about those events .. sigh

rapthorne.7345:

honestly your preferences contradict one another. you want to be tanky but don’t enjoy heavy armour… don’t get that, tanky classes use heavy armour.

I think its more the optical style. Look at the image i postet .. that doesn’t look heavy
but more “Black Widow Style” for me .. so its a heavy class but it looks like medium
armor ^^

Starbird.4029:

That looks nifty but unfortunately I can’t use the shop (welcome to being in a Asian country where credit cards are barely used and never issued to foreigners).

I bought all my gemstore stuff with ingame gold .. its just a matter of farming :o)

My favourite guardian outfit need even 2 different sets from the shop, but there are
also other options for the chest. The main problem are leggings without skirts,
very much the same as there are not much coats without skirts for medium armor :/

For speed you can use retreat and save yourself .. however i prefer also to use
traveller runes.

Was again at Svanir Shaman last night, and with the same settings like in my first
post, the FPS again went down to under 20. Even since i now had a maximum of
205 FPS in a cave Dredgehaunt Cliffs while mining a rich iron ore.

Also i still had 50-70 FPS while doing the pre-events and destroying the totems, but
all went down when the actual fight began.

So in the end the real framekiller are things for that we don’t have any settings at all.

Its mostly the effect overkill on those events i think.

I recently noticed i had only 12 FPS at Svanir Shaman, while i have most 70-120 in the
normal open world. I had character model limit on middle i think.

Next time i set it to low. I had around 50 fps still when doing the pre-events but
as soon as the fight with the shaman started with all those ice-storm it still
went down to 18 fps.

That was with the drivers from last december. I installed the new beta yesterday
but haven’t tested them at world events till now.

I have a i5 2500k and a R9 280x

Rename Gw2Setup.exe to GW2.exe and move it to the folder where you want
to have your GW2 installed. Then just start GW2.exe from there, it will download
the client directly to that directory.

Arkinos.7245:

Beldin.5498:

Arkinos.7245:

Right now I’d say Eve and maybe Lineage 2 give people a lot of options and most importantly: open world pvp.

Lineage 2 .. really ? The most grindy game ever where you have to camp at a spot
for 10 hours to get 1% exp .. and loose 5% exp on every death .. so yeah a lot of
PvP will of course let you play forever if you don’t want to end up as a level 5 again.

Oh .. i forgot to mention that you could actually level down from deaths.

Whining about how harsh a game is still doesnt change the core of the game.

Lineage2 offers a lot of sandbox features, you can actually claim Cities with your guild and have a lasting impact on the world.

I thought the thread was more about alternates to grinding .. and L2s alternate
(at least wheni played it) was even more grinding.

Castles were mostly owned by Guilds of Goldsellers .. and people sometimes even
joined Goldseller Guilds.

Farming was also fun when you were ks’ed by goldseller farmers all the time, or when
you entered an area full of farmers and they just say : “you go, i PK”

Arkinos.7245:

Right now I’d say Eve and maybe Lineage 2 give people a lot of options and most importantly: open world pvp.

Lineage 2 .. really ? The most grindy game ever where you have to camp at a spot
for 10 hours to get 1% exp .. and loose 5% exp on every death .. so yeah a lot of
PvP will of course let you play forever if you don’t want to end up as a level 5 again.

Oh .. i forgot to mention that you could actually level down from deaths.

heartless.6803:

Crafting is worthwhile if you’re concerned about any of the following:

Crafting legendary weapons
crafting ascended gear
achievement points

Casmurro.9046:

Crafting imo is only worth for making account bound stuff like ascended armor, or to make a legendary.

Afaik there is no crafting needed for legendarys, only for ascended.

Ayrilana.1396:

Don’t you have both Twilight and Sunrise skins as well? Just toggle the skins through the wardrobe system.

Sunsrise has simply not the extra effects from Eternity. For one there is the glowing
orb on the hilt, and then there is especially this nice fire aura.

Mirta.5029:

There have already been problems in games like these where people created fast exp grinds. You enter a dungeon, kill a low level enemy, dungeon complete, you gain your exp, exit and do it again.

Yepp .. and in that case its already a grind again .. because only that one player made
dungeon gives the best rewards .. and so people are “forced” to grind that one
over and over again.

Then the developer decided it is too good and closes it or makes it less rewarding
and suddenly the forums are full of post that the developer hates all gamers
because they don’t want them to earn money.

Locuz.2651:

aspirine.6852:

Rest of the game was mediocre tho. But so is GW2.

What made those dungeons so good compared to gw2, or gw1? I only tried wildstar for a short while and the whole pve part did not get me.

U tried the dungeons?

Comparing WS dungeons with GW2s is like comparing 3 star cuisine with catfood.
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How often have you heared ANet talk about how great their dungeons are ?
Oh .. and how great they will be in HoT ..just look at Colins reactions when
Angry Joe asks him about that.

The thing is simply that GW2 never cared about dungeons and people who
wants to run dungeons all time are better in other games. GW2 is all about
open world. Dungeons are just there because .. yeah .. we have of course also
some dungeons .. because people expect them .. but there is not much more
to talk about ..

And instead of 4 events in zone X make it just that we have to talk to an NPC in our home instance

maddoctor.2738:

I doubt they will scrap the LS concept completely. Although lots of players were crying about it “we want expansions, not LS”, there were loads of players who actually preferred the LS system.

They scrapped already the original LS concept, that i much prefered over getting some
solo dungeons with bossmobs that take longer than a whole dungeonrun in this game.

Also beside some tendrils and destroyed WPs there was not much “living” in the world
in episode 2 in my opinion. In the end they scrapped living world already with LS2.

Devildoc.6721:

But anyway I’m rather frustrated with Anet right now because they’re literally expecting to hold our attention with Esports tournaments until HoT.

Thats what we got because of people always crying : give us an expack .. LS is crap
i’d rather have an expack every x years instead of that.

Would be interesting what happens if ANet stops LS also after the release of HoT
and when the first people have rushed through it in 2 weeks, and we get no
more updates for the next two years ^^

Behellagh.1468:

Problem with most Public Test Servers is that players rather explore the new content, choose to gossip about that and will put up with the bugs rather than constructively report them.

Thats one thing .. the other is that bugs that are reported on the testservers often
still are released .. and also that there are even bugs after the release that never
before occured on the testserver at all.

So in the end the testservers mostly are used to know the upcoming stuff before
release and maybe also know what bugs to exploit for better farming or in GW2
what mats to buy to make a profit after release.

Tyger.1637:

Gathering. Specifically mid-tier mats like Iron and Platinum, and herbs, and Hard Wood. An hour through Sparkfly Fen which has only Hard Wood and Platinum nodes can net anywhere from 2-4g an hour depending on how zealously you get through it and the prices of the day are.

Try Timberline Falls .. if the layout is not too bad, i can make there 2 gold in 6-10 minutes.

WindFall.1479:

That… that kind of looks like one of the default faces in Elder Scrolls Oblivion, specifically for the high elves. Anyone who’s played it will know what I mean.

Lol .. i remember in a review of TESO one of the few positive remarks were :
- you can at least create decent looking elves

You know that you make the most money in this game by selling crafting mats
at the TP ? So if you just count what you make by direct drops of money and
stuff you sell at the NPC while throwing everything else into your bank, you
will of course don’t male money.

Dungeons is the only exeption where you get noticeable direct money .. and maybe Tequatl.

Valento.9852:

I fear many players will leave the game because a large amount of the playerbase is so mad right now. I’m reporting bugs as I find, I wish I could help more. :/

Whoever leaves the game because of 2-3 days with some mostly cosmetical bugs
will either come back if he encounters the reality in other MMOs, or has never
really been a fan of this game .. or is maybe totally wrong in the MMO genre.

The only really bad thing was the guildchat problem .. but the fix also fixed a problem
that already annoyed me since the start of the game : no longer guildchat wipe
when you relog.

Its a bug from the last patch.

Temporary fix : put them in your inventory and relog your character. After that
they should stack again.

It has been reverted with the last patch.

Sometimes when harvesting ore or wood i do only one swing and then the
animation stops while the progress bar still goes further and you harvest
normally 3 pieces.

In Dredgehaunt Cliffs and Timberline Falls its Rosemary i mostly look for, however
i also think there are only 3 other options beside that.

Ashen.2907:

All grind of any sort in any game is optional. I guess the OP’s point is that he would like a discussion about how to reduce grind and increase fun rather than a focus on whether or not one person’s optional grind is acceptible while another’s is not.

Not if we talk about the chance to see all content in a game.

In a game like Lineage 2 (original version) the grind to get to max level was in no
way optional. In all raid-centric MMOs the grind is also not optional if you want
to see all raid zones.

Terrahero.9358:

The higher level herb nodes have as many as 10 possible drops.

Is that an Ascalon specific thing ? Since the herbs in Straits of Devastation only drop
4 different things, and the herbs in the Shiverpeaks zones also.

Hey .. silk is at least better than just getting a piece of T5 wood or mithril ^^

And its especially frustrating if you use a BLSK and don’t get anything else beside
the rune of course.

Balsa.3951:

a new LS chapter every 4 Days (Im a Doctor not a Mathematician JIM !) so maybe u need calculate better then me the timing.

Positive effects are a great PR

all Player new and Old are Happy

Why not a new chapter every day .. or every hour .. i mean in the days of Skynet
Software will create itself and there is no need anymore for people to programm
stuff in loooong hours sitting before a computer.

Oh .. or why not bring out the Holodeck Version of GW2 .. now that would make
the people happy.

Khorthall.1682:

Hmm, so this brings up my next question.

If I were to do a combination of Zerk + Knights.. would it be better with Soldiers? I suppose this would lead to the Toughness vs Vitality.

Then again I hear that conditions are not affected by armor, so Vitality (Soldiers) would be better yes? Hmm.

Yeah .. hard to decide. I was longtime a zerker / knights fan, but since i did that math
i also now try more soldiers stuff, since what kills me the fastest often are really
mobs that spam masses of conditions.

Single harvesting tools have never been on discount afaik. They only returned for
are short while for the normal price and then disappeared again. However it seems
they are now permanent in the store, so maybe there will be a discount some day.

However till now the only discount was where we could buy a bundle of 3 tools
for 1800 gems or whatever it was.

petespri.6548:

Beldin.5498:

Edited the post to also calculate the soldier armor, since your numbers simply are
much too different. You see celestial and soldiers are very close and not so difference
than what you postet.

And like i said before, might and banner change the total numbers but not the percentage.

Question.

Your chart does not factor in Condi damage for celestial. How much dmg would that add? I wonder for solo play for certain mob types in Silverwastes or high toughness.

Can’t say that since condition works over time. For bleeds however its not that big
difference i noted. Have a sword warrior with celestial armor, amulet and rings
and the bleed on Mobs in Dredgehaunt cliffs was 53 while my other warriors
with zerker / knights stuff have a 46 bleed there i think.

Gw2skills.net says 76 instead of 55 per bleed btw. .. never really checked the number there.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

However, on an important note, keep karma-bought items soulbound seems pretty important to me. It creates incentive to do particular tasks/control events on your alt (meaning more game-play/replayability).

Soulbound on use is also totally fine for me. The thing with Orr stuff is that the
backpieces for example are accountbound on acquire and soulbound on use.

I also thought after i bought some backpieces there for other chars with my
guardian that had all WPs, that i could maybe buy an armor set for other chars
that don’t have the WPs now.
However i checked it closely before i did that because i knew that armor were
charbound in the past so i didn’t bought it.

Now if we see that the whole NPE was made to “don’t confuse players” this is a
thing that is really confusing .. and maybe also something that creates a lot of
extra work for they support.

Yeah .. in the end it will mostly be a problem of the video drivers ^^

Sounds like you maybe have a virus / malware on your PC.

Else it is very strange that GW2 is already running directly after you reboot.
If it is really already running after a fresh reboot .. have you looked into your
task manager after reboot ?

Uninstalling also doesn’t do much, in the end you have GW2.exe as executable
and GW2.dat where all the content is stored, and thats it mostly, beside sone
files for the ingame browser.

Sometimes it also helps to delete your local.dat file that is locate somewhere
under your windows user-directory.

Link I.2458:

Hey,

Bought the game yesterday tried installing it 7 times so far each resulting in a bsod=
page fault in nonpaged area

Does the BSOD also shows the name of a driver / module that causes the problem ?

Also rename the installer to GW2.exe and start it ftom the directory where you
want to have GW2 installed.

Also make sure all your drivers are up to date, even stuff like an old lan-driver can
cause problems sometimes.

Oh .. i remember my PC crashing with bluescreens all the time in Age of Conan
when i had a NVIdia card .. after testing masses of older versions i found finally
one where it didn’t crashed that often.

Later i found out i only happened with Shader 2.0 .. shader 1.0 was no problem.
It was simply always happening when there was a specific blue glow effect.

Years later in Lotro i learned that NVidia drivers have problems with SB-Live Soundcards
because the try to use the same memory and thats was maybe the reason why
i had so many crashes.

So often it really are just the combination of some different things that lead to
problems. But mostly in the end its a driver problem .. the game just uses a
standard Direct-X call and only the driver that runs in kernel mode can crash
the system from that.

Sorry but you should maybe ask this at Microsoft, NVidia or ATI since Win 10 is
still far from release and nobody know what they will change with different builds
and how it would work with actual drivers and whatever.

Edited the post to also calculate the soldier armor, since your numbers simply are
much too different. You see celestial and soldiers are very close and not so difference
than what you postet.

And like i said before, might and banner change the total numbers but not the percentage.

Xhyros.1340:

Beldin.5498:

Izaya.2906:

Beldin.5498:

Dawdler.8521:

Ragion.2831:

This is precisely why i never use full zerker. You will often benefit more from the damage reduction from the toughness stat mixed in than doing 14% more damage when you are already doing high damage.

Its not like doing 14% more damage than a hybrid means you will be able to two-shot everything and everyone so sacrificing survivability for that small increase is really pointless.

A hybrid that only does 14% less damage than a zerker is barely a hybrid…

Its not so easy to just look at a single stat. Zerker is about power, precision, ferocity, sigils, runes, skill and traits. Compared to your average hybrid, a zerker maybe only have 20% more crit damage, true… but he will also have 20% higher base damage, traited to do 20% more damage, choose weapons that do 20% more base dps and have 20% more crit chance to use that ferocity. etc and so on. It adds up to alot more damage.

Wearing knights or soldiers armor and zerker jewlery and weapons for me is a hybrid.
And 12-14% is the total difference in damage after calculating critchance and
crit-damage on the numbers that gw2skills.net calculated for that build.

23-27% is the total difference if you only have a zerker weapon.

And since everything here works multiplicative the difference will also not change
with might stacks and other buffs or debuffs.

You are forgetting banners, might stack(this is not multiplicative, might adds a fixed amount of power and not a damage modifier), fury and possibly spotter.

I didn’t forgot it. Precision and critical works multiplicative, so in the end the difference will be the same in percentage. The total numbers differ, but the
percentage is the same.

It doesn’t matter if you compare
100 * 100 against 100 * 75 or 1000 * 100 against 1000 * 75 .. the difference is 25%

This guy knows things. “Zerker” is not just armor. It’s the entire build. If you still have all the damage boosting traits/utilities you will not magically do 1/3 of your damage just by swapping armor to knights. Maybe you would if you swapped to nomads, but not to knights.

Yeah .. traits will in the end have a much bigger inpact on the total damage than
what armor your wear. Using 0,0,6,6,0 instead of 6,6,0,0,0 will of course mostly
result in a much lesser damage.

I always wonder when people notice they have to make a trait-check instead
of a gear-check