Guild Wars 2

Behellagh.1468:

The thing that bothers me the most is you can take a single character through HoT and get all the MP there yet you need to take a character of each race though the PS in the core game to earn all the MP there.

No … you had to take a character of all races to the personal story BEFORE HoT
was released to get all points, if you do the storys now on different races you
won’t even get those points anymore, and they now say it works as intendet,
or they don’t even have a clue how it should work and everyone tells different
stuff.

Personally i at least have those 3 × 3 points for norn, humans and asura that i
did before HoT, but i didn’t get any for 10 and 20 charr story, and first support
told me they know about that and i should wait for a fix, then a dev posted
it works as intended, and then support told me they can’t do anything and
live with it (more or less).

VaaCrow.3076:

As for very little content, New wvw map, new pvp game mode. new tournaments in pvp. 4 new pve maps and relevant content, guild halls, raids, new fractal design, new armor, new weapons, new legendaries, new events, new achievements. And not to mention the continuation of the living story when they get around to that, which was ALOT of content prior to HoT despite how you may feel personally about it. I’d say the price of HoT was fair.

New WvW maps ? Its just replaced content, as if they had removed all Classic
zones from the game and we now had only HoT or nothing.

New armor sets ? I think there are a whole of 3 different sets, compared to the
dozens of sets we got in the original game for the same price. And all of them
gated behind a big grind. And that after we don’t even get new armor sets in
the gemstore since over 1.5 years.

Since we got the wardrobe in the end we only got carapace as new set, for the
next 1.5 years .. and then 3 sets in a full priced expansion .. yay great work with
removing armor sets from the gemstore and give them us as ingame rewards.

Supernaut.2684:

Beldin.5498:

And else .. you can gear up with dungeons, you can already aquire lvl 80 exotics

Good luck finding a raid group with your exotics, though.

But, to be honest? Ascended gear should never have been put in the game. It was a clear backpedaling from their initial stance on how gear progression should work in the game. Personally, I think we’d be better off without it.

Thats something totally different .. i was als against the whole ascended stuff,
however i understood your first post like :
- you need to play dungeons to get exotic
- then play “heroic” dungeons (maybe ftactals) to get ascended for raiding
- then raid for legendary or even better stuff

And if you only play open world .. no gear for you .. be happy with green or yellow.

Taltevus.3289:

I want Gw2 to look like Black Desert Online. Don’t care what way it needs to happen.

I would at least die to have a character editor like that <3

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

zxstanyxz.8769:

I want OpenGL not DX12! give us OpenGL!!!!

And i want Glide .. 3dfx Vodoo cards were so much better than NVidia crap at
their times

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

SkyShroud.2865:

im not greedy

i only want anet to have multi core support, the rest can wait

They have multicore support, only not for more than 4 cores.

nope is only two cores and anet staff already verified that the game indeed is badly optimized to the point that even though it appear to be utilizing two cores, a lot of the things are done on one thread thus it is mainly one core that doing the job.

also…multi cores as in…cpu scaling

gw2 was developed in the old era that still uses 2 cores….
however, dev can no longer keep using two cores as the core speed no longer increases, what continue to increase is the number of cores we have on our processor. even intel made a statement to all game dev to start using the cores and not depend on single core performance, i guess intel also reaching their limit on single core performance

Just take a look into your task manager. If only 2 cores are used a i5 would not
even run at 50%.

……
Since when i5 has hyper threading to 8 cores. You sure you know your stuffs?

50% of 4 are 2 .. don’t know why its 8 for you.

Seriously, are you even reading your comment? You even quoted your own comment. This is exactly what you wrote yourself If only 2 cores are used a i5 would not even run at 50%.

/facepalm

Also, you are the one that said gw2 is capable of using up to 4 cores.

/facepalm2

I really don’t understand what you want from me .. is my english just that bad ?

4 cores = 100% .. 3 cores uses = 75% .. 2 cores used = 50% .. 1 core = 25%

Of course that means those cores are used to 100% each.
Now if one core runs at 100% and 3 at 50% thats 25 + 3 * 12,5 = 62,5% and that
is already more than what is possible with just using 2 cores.

So hard to understand for you ? Or whats your problem with me ?

And since you also quoted the 3DFX thing, that has nothing to do with all
the above, i really start to believe ist personal and you are stalking me.

Supernaut.2684:

I’m not talking about the treadmill, nor am I advocating for any kind of treadmill. Please re-read my post. I’m talking about sensible gear acquisition, as in gearing up by playing the content in the game.

I also don’t want to be forced to play dungeons, and even more dungeons to get
my gear … one of my main reasons to play this game was that i can craft the
best gear.
And else .. you can gear up with dungeons, you can already aquire lvl 80 exotics
for example with 70 in CoF if you want berserker gear.

Supernaut.2684:

The only thing I wish ANet would learn from WoW and apply to GW2, is clear and purposeful gear progression.

In WoW, you run dungeons to gear up for heroic dungeons. Then you run heroics to get the gear needed to raid. It’s a clear path, and you learn group play on the way. It makes sense.

No .. please no. If we ever get a gear treadmill here then i’m really out, and i guess
a lot of other players also, since that is one of the main factors why a lot people
play GW2.
Its already bad enough that they made legendary armor raid exclusive, and i
really hope the whole raiding thing will backfire hard.

Rauderi.8706:

I find it more amusing that WoW is learning from GW2, in some ways. This last expansion, it focused on quite a few quality of life improvements, like the reagent bank, sorting bags, etc.

Thats normal Blizzard style .. they never invent new things themself, they just look
what seems to be a success in other games and then assimilate it in WoW.
Trying new things always has the risk that people not like it and Blizzard don’t
wants risks.

VaLee.5102:

You know you could say GW2 took raids from WoW right?
It might aswell take other good things and implement it in the game, just like WoW is implementing a wardrobe system in the next expansion, a thing that GW2 had for years. Does that make WoW a GW2 clone?

And WoW took raids from EQ. I don’t think there is any single thing in WoW that
was not taken from other games. They even hired players from EQ top guilds
to design their raids.

However i wished GW2 would not have started with the raiding crap, since that
is mostly and elitist playground, and i already see how people in my guild that
never had raided get aware of why i was so against that.

zxstanyxz.8769:

I want OpenGL not DX12! give us OpenGL!!!!

And i want Glide .. 3dfx Vodoo cards were so much better than NVidia crap at
their times

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

SkyShroud.2865:

im not greedy

i only want anet to have multi core support, the rest can wait

They have multicore support, only not for more than 4 cores.

nope is only two cores and anet staff already verified that the game indeed is badly optimized to the point that even though it appear to be utilizing two cores, a lot of the things are done on one thread thus it is mainly one core that doing the job.

also…multi cores as in…cpu scaling

gw2 was developed in the old era that still uses 2 cores….
however, dev can no longer keep using two cores as the core speed no longer increases, what continue to increase is the number of cores we have on our processor. even intel made a statement to all game dev to start using the cores and not depend on single core performance, i guess intel also reaching their limit on single core performance

Just take a look into your task manager. If only 2 cores are used a i5 would not
even run at 50%.

……
Since when i5 has hyper threading to 8 cores. You sure you know your stuffs?

50% of 4 are 2 .. don’t know why its 8 for you.

Ok .. look at your CPU Speed .. its not even 2 GHz instead of 3.4 .. so you have
maybe a thermal problem. I would check the temperature of your CPU and
look if the fan is maybe not working correct.

Common problem is that the GPU not uses all 16 PCIe lanes, reseating the card mostly
helps. Please post a screenshot like this :

Mordachai.1896:

As for the ambrite weapons, another way to get the mats for those would be the pvp reward track. You dont even really need to be any good at pvp; win or fail you always progress your track. Myself i combined the pvptrack with occassional drytop events and sandstorms. Did what i wanted, when i wanted it. No rush, no grind.

Playing hundreds of PvP games if you don’t like PvP for me is grind like everything
where you have to repeat some tasks that you simply don’t enjoy.

Riku.4821:

The thread owner said his budget is $1100 or so. Which is high end.

He also wants Windows and a Monitor .. so its more like $700-800 for the PC itself.

SkyShroud.2865:

Beldin.5498:

SkyShroud.2865:

im not greedy

i only want anet to have multi core support, the rest can wait

They have multicore support, only not for more than 4 cores.

nope is only two cores and anet staff already verified that the game indeed is badly optimized to the point that even though it appear to be utilizing two cores, a lot of the things are done on one thread thus it is mainly one core that doing the job.

also…multi cores as in…cpu scaling

gw2 was developed in the old era that still uses 2 cores….
however, dev can no longer keep using two cores as the core speed no longer increases, what continue to increase is the number of cores we have on our processor. even intel made a statement to all game dev to start using the cores and not depend on single core performance, i guess intel also reaching their limit on single core performance

Just take a look into your task manager. If only 2 cores are used a i5 would not
even run at 50%.

Hmm .. from my experience when farming yellow mobs in Dredgehaunt Cliffs
i would say maybe 20-30 minutes.

Rasimir.6239:

Beldin.5498:

The stupid thing is .. if you have done it for all races nefore HoT you have got 5 points but if you have never done it before you only get 1 point.

Personally i did it on 3 races before and got points for every of those 3 races, however
now doing it for Charr don’t gave me any more points.

Interesting … I had done all story achievements of all races and orders before the expansion launched, and I only got one point per story chapter, no duplicates. Are you sure those extra points were from race stories and not from some other achievements you’ve overlooked?

I browesed through all categories i think and clicked through all those achievements,
thank god you don’t see the points you earned directly, and after all when i
counted all those story achievements i had (9 for 10,20,30 on 3 races) i got
nearly the number of points i actually had .. +-1 i think, but like i said, the
UI is soooo bad to actually count what you have gotten.

beefjus.9347:

I’ve noticed that hopping from one character to another some times results in the contrast being turned up really high, making all my toons look like albinos in the character select screen. This doesn’t happen often, but I thought that you guys should know.

Yeah .. that bug meanwhile exists for maybe 8-10 months or whatever.

Post a picture like this for better diagnostic … GW2 in the background,
GPU-z and CPU-z in the forground. Important is your GPU runs @x16 and
your CPU runs at max speed.

I know some areas in GW2 where i can get a maximum of 170 FPS with my old if 2500k.

SkyShroud.2865:

Riku.4821:

And I am sick of bad drivers and lower performance for a still high price.

that is not true.
it depends when you buy the graphic cards and what graphic cards you have bought
ati price/performance beat nvidia at similar launch date until nvidia do a price slash. it really depends on the market and time when you purchase the graphic cards.

ati new driver is pretty smooth,. according to some netizen and articles, ati driver is more matured than nvidia but nvidia beat ati by optimising the hardware to perform well in specific area. to do so, naturally nvidia enhanced something while reducing something from the hardware to maintain the pricing.

Yeah .. and all the optimizing from NVidia breaks other things with other games
all day long .. just look at the tech froums and see how many problems there in
the end are related to NVidia drivers .. and NVidia has a loooong history with that.
Heck even in Diablo 2 already most problems were related to NVidia.

beefjus.9347:

So THIS happened today. It just reaffirms my vote for DX12. I don’t get why GW2 is running like crap, but Witcher 3 (high, hairworks off, low shadows and water) still runs at 60fps… SMH

So how many big zerg fight with or against other players over the internet are there
in the Witcher where you still have that performance ? Oh … wait … there are none .. right ?

I don’t understand why people all the time compare apple with oranges. Has noone
ever played for example Lineage 2 with Unreal Engine or AION with CryTech Engine
and seen how this o so good single-player / shooter engines suddenly give you only
a slideshow as soon as you have massive amounts of players in an MMO ?

And to your problem .. make sure your GPU uses all 16 PCIe lanes. Reseating you
GPU mostly helps.

SkyShroud.2865:

im not greedy

i only want anet to have multi core support, the rest can wait

They have multicore support, only not for more than 4 cores.

Btw.: i found this graphic today from some tests in a german magazine, i think they
used the Witcher, GTA5, Battlefield 4 and LoL .. but in the end i guess the procentual
difference will be more or less the same in many other games..

So for me with my old i5 2500k i get a only 17% more from a i5 4690k and at least
30% from an i5 6600k. till not sure if thats worth it, and maybe my good old 2500
must do the job some years more

Astrus.7480:

That quote still confuses me to no end but what I think it means is that there’s only the one Tyria Mastery Point to be had for each chapter of the Personal Story.
So if you’ve done all of the original PS chapters on a Sylvari there’s no more points to be had if you complete the PS chapters again with an Asura and chose a different Order to join.

The stupid thing is .. if you have done it for all races nefore HoT you have got 5 points
but if you have never done it before you only get 1 point.

Personally i did it on 3 races before and got points for every of those 3 races, however
now doing it for Charr don’t gave me any more points.

And i need still 19 points, and that i am not able to get the 6 missing points from
the story really is annoying as hell .. especially since i also have mo intention to
do stupid LS2 achievements or things like collecting all ambrite weapons.

Still bugged

Lobo Dela Noche.5127:

10 year old games like DDO that launched with DX 9 support, have added 10 and 11. Is it just that none of you have faith in Arenanet to add DX12 support?

Yeah .. and in HdRO i tested that for 2 days until i went back zo DX9 because
the performance was worse, and the water looked worse and whatever else.

So .. just going to a newer DX version doesn’t magically everything better. And every
MMO i know is very CPU heavy, and DX12 would also not magically change that
and make all those other calculations suddenly done by your GPU beside maybe
high quality shadows.

To see if everything is fine with your CPU and GPU please post a picture likes this :

First make sure that bluescreens are enabled to see if you have a bluescreen or if
the PC reboots without any error. In that case its mostly a problem of your powers
supply.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm

You can’t compare a browser with an online game.

That is a very weak GPU and more or less on the same performance level than a
Intel 4400 it seems :

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=2974&gid2=1794&compare=radeon-r5-m330-2gb-vs-intel-hd-graphics-4400-mobile

Eponet.4829:

Beldin.5498:

Khyan.7039:

Beldin.5498:

Since these kind of threads came up already before HoT i really wonder how many
people could already play druid before HoT, since else it is simply not possible to
heal without doin damage .. or playing AFK with healing spring on auto-attack and
doing nothing else.

The difference is Druid healing provides additionnal buff damage. That’s why druid is fine because you provides support to the party.

Oh yeah .. since you said that .. buffs also really seem to count. A while ago a was
on my way to a rich iron node with my guardian and used retreat while there was
somebody killing a spider in range .. a while later i suddenly saw that i got some exp.

So it seems you really can get kill credit without doing damage.

Did you have shattered aegis or the burn enemies that you block rune or trait equipped?,

Not sure .. shattered aegis could be possible .. however i don’t even know that
shattered aegis also works on other players .. and even when i personally still
haven’t done any damage but it was only damage from somebody i buffed.

Khyan.7039:

Beldin.5498:

Since these kind of threads came up already before HoT i really wonder how many
people could already play druid before HoT, since else it is simply not possible to
heal without doin damage .. or playing AFK with healing spring on auto-attack and
doing nothing else.

The difference is Druid healing provides additionnal buff damage. That’s why druid is fine because you provides support to the party.

Oh yeah .. since you said that .. buffs also really seem to count. A while ago a was
on my way to a rich iron node with my guardian and used retreat while there was
somebody killing a spider in range .. a while later i suddenly saw that i got some exp.

So it seems you really can get kill credit without doing damage.

Since these kind of threads came up already before HoT i really wonder how many
people could already play druid before HoT, since else it is simply not possible to
heal without doin damage .. or playing AFK with healing spring on auto-attack and
doing nothing else.

Deleting local.dat fixed that problem for me when i had it a while ago.

Only that we can count our points and see if we click on the achievements that
we got for example 1 or lvl 10 human, 1 for lvl 10 norn and another for lvl 10 asura.

Also i noticed 2 days ago that i suddenly had again 3 instead 2 mastery points and
don’t know from where, so not sure if there was a ninja fix.

cupcakesandcatnomz.3924:

No, just git gud or go home, wanna be a casual? Go play dungeons, raids are for the big boys!

The most important word here is “BOYS” … so i guess “big” boys are those from 12 to 14

i don’t even now what a “swore thumb” is .. is your thumb crying out “kitten you frostfang
you hurt me” ? Or is it just again some obscure word for a kitten symbol ?

http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=swore&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on

wobblyeup.7204:

Hi, I’ve downloaded the 64bit client and have done everything that was stated in the post, but it seems that I always have to redownload GW2 whenever I run it. please advice on what to do.

Don’t start the game directly from your temp directory, but save the client into the
directory where your GW2 is located.

Since we only got 3 ugly new armorsets in HoT so far, and no new in the gemstore
since 1.5 years i guess all other armorsets will be only available in raids and all the
“unworthy” “bad” players can wear outfits.

NOT having this kind of bullkitten gamedesign where 90-95% of the players pay
for content that only 5-10% of the players will ever see was the main reason
i started with GW2 …

I start to think ANet trys to play the Anti-LotRO ..
LotRO renmoved raidiance … we got agony
LotRO removed raids .. now we got that kitten

Personally i don’t like the new areas and i still only play in the old areas ..
so the only thing i would be missing from HoT is Dragonhunter, Reaper and Revenant.
Oh .. and autoloot

Question is also : where did you buy the game ?

Btw.: on a “good” connection you download the game in 2-4 hours, and not a week.

DoctorDing.5890:

I’ve said this before but many players take pleasure in GW being a fairly easy game. In fact, the chilled-out, friendly vibe is what attracted many to the game in the first place. You can run across most of the open world maps without having to fight if you choose.

So it’s hardly surprising that stress levels rise when the difficulty level ramps up. And with stress comes salty players, abusive chat, blame, frustration, name-calling etc. It’s a shame really.

+1 to this.

The “easy” content was indeed mostly what made the GW2 audience so nice, because
if events can’t fail there is no reason to insult other players for beeing bad, but as soon
as they can easily fail, the drama begins.

I’m not only dissapointed by the low number of new armorsets in the expansion
but in general about the number of armor sets we have gotten since we got the
wardrobe. There was Carapace … and that was it i think

I wouldn’t even complain if we had 5 new SETS in the gemstore instead of those
boring outfits.

But normally for a full price expansion there should have been more or less the
same number of armor sets in it than what was in the original game, and also
quite some that are “easy” to obtain like crafting, buying for gold or karma and
not only via grinding some new currencys and whatever.

Jaken.6801:

I know they changed their content release to:
- Armors ingame
- Outfits in Gemstore

Problem is .. we get (nearly) no new armor ingame .. and also none in the gemstore.

I really really wish they revert that and give us back armor skins in the gemshop
just like in the first 1.5 years, instead giving us just Carapace in the next 1.5 years.

Hmm .. your Bus-Interface only shows @x16 1.1 .. normally it should go up to 2.0 when
GW2 is running. Never seen that before, common problem is that it doesn’t run @x16
and in that case reseating the GPU mostly helps. Not sure if it helps in your case but
you should give it a try.

Else uninstall drivers, reboot, reinstall drivers.

Rhok Mhaan.4930:

an Intel I7 2700K processor running at 3.5 GHz and overclocked to 4.5 GHz

There is your answer. Do you really wonder about overheating when you overclock
for over 1 GHz ?

Please post a picture like this so we can see if your CPU and GPU run correct :

ham.8209:

if we really want to get anets attention . then this needs to happen much sooner then that time . as i have noticed there used to be 4 full servers and no there is only 2 at my last check . puts me in mind of another game from this company . called city of heros or something like that. any ways story goes anet pulled the plug on the game out of the blue . and never to this day said a word about it . in my book in many ways i think they are trying to do that here. but maybe we all need to take a page out of there book and do it to them before they do it all to us yet once again . then maybe and maybe only then will they listen to us. other wise i do not think they care about the players no more in the first place.

ANEt has nothing to do with City of Heroes. Or at least they have not more to do
with it than Blizzard with Kings Quest or Larry Laffer.

To get help you should post the crashlog. Klick on “show details” after the crash
and copy & paste the text in a post.

Tannin.1920:

The problem continue, i do a downgrade to the drive recommended by NVIDIA and the black screen still happened.

None of Staff ARENA NET see my file to say that numbers on THEYRE SERVER.

ANet staff is not the NVidia support .. and yes .. this is strictly an NVidia problem.

Joshua Diaz.6402:

Just as a heads up, the Mastery Points for Personal Story are awarded on a per-chapter basis. So once you complete Chapter 1 and earn the Achievement for it, you’ve earned the Mastery Point for Chapter 1. This includes each different starting storyline: I believe the right names are: Graduation Day, For The Legion!, Crime and Punishment, Rising to the Challenge, and Waking from the Nightmare. Similarly, whichever Order you join, there’s just one Mastery Point there.
Hopefully this helps clarify the total number of Mastery Points you should be expecting from your previous accomplishments in Tyria. That said, the different stories really are fantastic, and should definitely be experienced, but for your own pleasure, and not for Mastery Points.
If any of you still think you are missing MPs from Achievements you’ve completed, let us know via the in-game Bug Report tool and we’ll try to identify if there’s a bigger issue happening.

I have even opened a ticket because i bought a new character Slot. created a Charr
and played the lvl 10 personal story, and did NOT get my mastery point.

Support said its a known issue and you work on it, and i should better stop
playing the story until i read about a fix in the patch notes. So did support
didn’t tell me the truth and you are not working on it and think all is fine ???

I had 2 mastery points before i did that story and still had only 2 after it :