Guild Wars 2

Well doesn’t look like I’ll get away with the easier option then :P

Sadly Intel CPUs seem to have a maximum sale discount threshold of $20

As a staff ele the molten fellas almost got me a few times but once I got to the final boss it was more manageable.

I thought it was a lot of fun. I know people love to come on the forums and brag about how easy everything is, but difficulty is not directly proportional to fun for everyone.

The rest of the non 1-shot attacks generally aren’t threatening to zerkers though.

You tried to PvE without a warrior? /shakes head

I think she meant to say: “Hay gurl, Logan gone so cray cray over that uptown hussy that he forgot that you got swag.”

Ranger elite:

Laz0r Signet: PASSIVE – All ranged attacks are instant an do extra laz0r damage. ACTIVE – Call down a massive pwnlaz0rbeam from the heavens dealing (10,000 base damage) to up to 5 foes.

Must have pre-searing starter tight leather female necro armor.

Note: The GW1 heritage light in the game currently seems to be somewhat oddly thick. Can we get a trim on that?

Best way I ever found to make gold, Queen’s Jubilee. Oh, but that’s over.

I can’t play other MMOs because of the lack of loot/exp sharing with strangers.

When you get to know your skills well, you end up utilizing blind more often.

Even if you don’t interrupt a large attack with it, you can think of it like a free dodge roll.

Places like Orr and Southsun push the GPU usage to 100% and run close to 60 FPS.

LA only pushes the GPU usage to 60-70% and runs at about 40 FPS.

So I’m guessing this means a GPU upgrade will give me a conditional boost and a CPU upgrade will give me a thorough boost?

The issue is on their end, not yours. Recently the servers have been doing it to me too.

So no matter what your post says, they are the only ones who can fix the issue.

Until then, treat your repair costs like they are already spent.

My concern with the 6870 was that it was a mid-range released before GW2. So there is still (maybe) the slight possibility of a minor GPU bottleneck on GW2. However, the 7970 is a more recent high-end card where that isn’t even a question. That thing won’t slow down GW2 on its own, so there’s no reason to run two for this game.

So here’s my specs

CPU: i5-750 2.66 GHz
GPU: HD 6870 x2
RAM: 8 GB
Native res: 1920×1080

I kind of go back and forth on CrossfireX ON vs CrossfireX OFF. I can run Supersampling with CFX on which is kind of nice, but I don’t seem to notice much of an increase past that. Is this because of a CPU bottleneck or an issue with CFX support?

Is anyone out there running CFX with better results?

About a year ago I remember hearing that GW2 had an issue with OCed CPUs where it would actually run better at stock speeds. Is this true?

I get about 15-60 FPS, but it’s the 15 part I don’t like. For an MMO I could tolerate maybe 25 from time to time, but I like my games smooth as butter otherwise. I have to run my culling settings on Lowest/Low to keep the best balance between performance and appearance.

What do y’all think I should do?

1. Maybe there’s a CFX trick I don’t know about?
2. Should I get a beastin’ single card instead like an R9 280X?
3. Would OCing my CPU help?
4. Should I just go ham and get an i5-4670k + motherboard?

Next! I want to throw fireballs at Trahearne too!

Romo.3709:

Flash.6912:

Here is my char w/ over 6000+ hours of play time

Dude… That’s 10.34 hours a day. Non-stop since release…

Not that unreasonable if you account for AFK time.

I’m working on 100% on my next character and I find myself not skipping vista cut scenes.

I actually have a habit of mashing the screenshot key during vistas only to find that I already did that the first time around.

a t s e.9614:

and there should be a limit of people killing them.

No no no no no, Devs, you did not read this. Fix the kill credit bugs, don’t restrict them more.

We’re all still waiting on open world to be looked at. I’m honestly surprised to find that karma, gold rewards for events and the DR tied to it is still the same.

I can understand the champ farming zergs but I dislike them compared to the old pertinent/shelter zerg. Both were/are afflicted with kill credit issues, but at least the non-champ farms weren’t an endless game of keep-up.

I actually think the boss rotation is kind of neat, from time to time I hop on and check for the upcoming world boss events. Though if more of them are made like Tequatl we’ll lose those unless we’re fortunate enough to not have busy work/dinner/whatever in our days around reset.

Mad King’s Labyrinth and the Crown Pavilion were great too, but after losing their limelight (and zerg) they are near impossible to survive in.

Sometimes I just want to go out and kill stuff, but I know 1 out of every 25 enemies I slay will drop me maybe a blue or green if I’m lucky.

Really though, Zephyr Sanctum did absolute wonders for open world. Kite Fortunes were a desirable drop and fallen kites were spread around most maps. I could play any alt I wanted and still get that stuff. I could also hop on my main and go do any content I wanted and still get it.

I think perhaps as a start all events everywhere she be more rewarding and more variable with their rewards. Also a brand new set of karma armor would be great too. We understand that the gem shop brings in money and therefore it makes sense to release new armor art there, but we want more stuff to work toward ingame too (that isn’t just buyable with gold for example.)

Yep I am the opposite side of the spectrum (like many others). Hard work, only a slight few exotics to show for it.

Though I did forge an Energizer way way back. Sold for like 6g at the time.

skullmount.1758:

DarkWasp.7291:

Overkillengine.6084:

If the Ascended weapon skins are any indication; we’ll get armor skins that look like they are made with a kid’s bakelite craft set.

Gotta drive transmutation crystal sales somehow I guess.

We’ve been able to preview the ascended armor skins through data-mining already.

They look great.

Well maybe you like them, but I know I don’t (and seemed like a lot of others didn’t either, according to the Ascended armor thread that was in the GW2 discussion forum).

Well yeah there’s always going to be that.

If you like something, play the game with a smile. If you don’t, go and complain on the forums. That’s just how it works :P

Now we need these events in every zone near every heart.

Overkillengine.6084:

If the Ascended weapon skins are any indication; we’ll get armor skins that look like they are made with a kid’s bakelite craft set.

Gotta drive transmutation crystal sales somehow I guess.

We’ve been able to preview the ascended armor skins through data-mining already.

They look great.

Psypher.7621:

My character and best looking! Also a good mix and match imho!

OK that image is just all sorts of win.

Amlin.6041:

As a warrior I take umbrage to being called “Aromatic”, pungent perhaps, maybe even going as far as seasoned, but aromatic was just hurtful Anet.

Should have rolled ranger. Only our pets smell, but we can stow them.

You guys could have about 500 of my skillpoint scrolls if they weren’t account bound.

I’m not sure I understand the merge on this thread.

The OP is about adding armor sets as rewards for the variety of PvE content we already have. The merged thread is about the armor design itself.

The OP has a very valid suggestion but now it’s been overrun by one of the (if not thee) most controversial topic in MMO history: Male vs female armor.

So on the OP topic:

We’ll be getting another set added to PvE finally sometime soon, but it’s going to be added to crafting. The ascended set.

It would be cool if we could get a Fractal set and perhaps a new karma set or two to reward open world or WvW content.

RyuDragnier.9476:

lol he said LB was garbage? I have to agree that unless you can keep enemies at range in PvE, it IS. But in events, like the current LS ones, that LB is powerful, especially since you can safely fire from a distance into enemies. And in WvW, it is one of the best tower defense weapons there is (along with the Necro staff).

Thing about the LB in PvE though, if you need to have it out long enough to get past the initial barrage + rapid fire burst then you probably should be at max range. I only spend a lot of time auto attacking with a ranged weapon when I’m waiting for a heal recharge and my party isn’t healing in melee at all. In that case I’m usually far enough where the LB has just about the most ranged DPS you could ask for.

Best

Zephyr Sanctum
- Kite fortunes were a nice bonus to all of the game’s content (they could drop anywhere) and they had a selection of cool rewards tied to them.
- The achievements for jumping/finding all of the crystals were cool
- Belcher’s Bluff was cool
- Sanctum Sprint was awesome
- The map itself was great and drew a lot of social attention
- Achievements were easy to acquire within two weeks but not so easy that they only took two hours
- Interesting lore

Worst

Tequatl
- If we wanted to do the “new thing” those two weeks we had to wear our fingers numb and sit for hours just to get in the event
- Virtually no noticeable scaling making the event possible on non-max maps
- Literally close to no developer communication, our concerns about overflows, rewards and AFK turrets recieved no response until a patch after the event
- Effectively removed one boss from an already working world-event rotation we already had going
- No living story content aside from talking to Rox and finding dragon shards
- A GOOD thing though: I feel like the changes to the other world bosses are indeed an improvement. Inquest Golem Mark II is actually fun now for example.

Whoop whoop! My favorite class and my favorite game style.

Questions:
1. The autopilotyness of ranger 1h sword skill one, where can it it be useful in PvE? Is there even a slight chance that we can get a PvE/PvP break in this skill to allow free movement in PvE only (because the chase mechanic is still useful in PvP)?

2. Why do you think it is that compared to warriors and other classes more rangers in PuGs seem completely unaware of the more useful DPS or supportive builds.

3. In order to stay competitive in the DPS field, our pets not only have to be alive but they need to benefit from buffs so that their percentage of our damage raises along with the rest. Do you have any comment on consumable buffs and applying them to pets?

4. Not a question, but don’t forget to mention: Due to the fact that ranger pets continue to do their percentage of the damage while the ranger is holding an object, power/precision rangers are likely to increase party DPS the most by picking up a conjured weapon than any other class.

5. Getting a ranger up near 100% critical chance is more difficult than with a warrior, how do you feel about purposely equipping Ruby Orbs instead of Scholar Runes to help raise critical chance?

6. In boss fights, rangers can often get stuck in a pet limbo where they have to deal with the 60 second pet resurrect timer no matter what. 20 seconds is often short enough to swap out a pet before it dies, but many fights are near impossible to maintain your pet’s health for the entire 60 second recharge if the previous pet had died. How do you deal with that? Is there any chance we may see the pet death timer reduced to 20 every other death (60, 20, 60, 20) to prevent an endless chain of 60 second timers until combat is broken?

7. When you play as a melee ranger, which ranged weapon do you prefer to bring as a backup?

8. Do you ever play solely ranged?

9. When you’re in a group that provides fury for you, do you prefer to bring an offhand axe instead of a warhorn?

10. Which is your favorite healing skill?

Keiel.7489:

I’m the only hero that matters. Who care’s who they chose to be my supporting cast.

Yeah! That’s right!

No one was watching those minions anyway, they were all watching MY character! My hero!

My character was a woman though so… I guess the thread is still relevant. I’ll just go ahead and blame ArenaNet anyway :P

Julissa.1476:

So I was finishing up with my “Shut the doors!” achievement in Mad King’s Labyrinth and I noticed that another bullet popped out under the meta-achievement Tower of Nightmares, right under the “Fight the Toxic Alliance (blah blah)”, and it says “Speak to Sergeant Walters of the Seraph”. Funny thing, when I returned to LA, the text disappeared. Went back to the Labyrinth, there it is again. Searched Google, didn’t find anything. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!

It’s possible that the Labyrinth is triggering the LS markers the same way that entering dungeons triggers personal story markers.

If you’re curious about what it wants you to do, map to Kessex hills and you’ll start a mission right off.

I think of it like a scale: It has a male side and a female side. On the scale is 4 weights.

For centuries one side had all four weights. In recent years they were willing to give up just one of those weights making the ratio 3:1. (Don’t argue ratios its example only.)

Now we have two groups trying to take the wrong approach:
To keep with the status quo, a group from the side with 3 weights aren’t willing to give up that second weight any time soon.

Meanwhile, some members of the side with one weight want to take all four for a time to show the other side how it feels.

The solution? Remove all the weights, give two to Tybalt and give two to Countess Anise.

Zaxares.5419:

It’s pretty obvious that Marjory and Kasmeer care deeply for each other. It wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out to be a romantic relationship as well, and if it did, I’d be sad…

Because I want Kasmeer for myself, kitten!

Trading post, 22-24g, make it happen. At least the mini of her could be yours.

What? Gnashblade said it, not me.

A lot of misunderstanding going on so I’m going to just straight up delete that post.

I admit, I could have worded it better.

MatthewMedina.5419:

This change has actually been needed since launch. As noted, we’ve already been using these difficulty mobs in content, though in a more limited way. That was due primarily to the fact that both species ended up being named “Veteran”, but one was solo-friendly, the other was not, and all it did was cause confusion. There will be more updates in the future to bring the rest of the species at this difficulty level in line with this change.

Please pass this on to whatever team can look into this, but elite mobs and kill credit are misbehaving in the open world.

Basically they seem to take more hits than a champ to tag kill credit and for that, unless I’m in a party, I often ignore them.

In dungeons of course they are fine because you have to be in the group that damaged them.

Charr males should have a “hide” checkmark on their chest pieces that is checked by default.

Doggie.3184:

DarkWasp.7291:

You guys forgot Trahearne and Trahearne

My Sylvari and Trahearne, you mean.

You think you’re good enough for him do you?

We don’t want to run low on crab cakes in Divinity’s Reach man.

Anyone else suffering connection issues to both the forums and the game right now?

I’m here to report a (likely) server issue. I was playing PvP about 10 mins ago and it got really rubberbandy and laggy toward the end of the game. When the round finished and I loaded back into HotM, I completely lost connection. I have not been able to log in since then.

The forums are also slow at the moment. My internet connection is loading other pages fine.

EDIT: It’s up again. Lets see if it sticks.

Ranger:

I can’t decided between:
A. Allowing free movement during skill 1 of the 1h sword in PvE
or
B. A pet overhaul

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Blood and Madness will continue until the November 12 update.

Sweet relief! I can lower my procrastinated inquisition farming to 8 per day.

riddleguy.9738:

What do you guys hope the tower of nightmares will bring? I personally hope it brings some soloable story instances. Those are my favorite part of the LS releases.

Same. I like solo content that is relatively challenging.

When I overcome it I can feel accomplished rather than just having that excuse: “Oh the other 4 people in my party FINALLY figured it out.”

or

“I felt really carried that time.”

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The new TA path was LS – as was Tequatl but not directly linked to the current storyline (as far as we know). The new TA path is Scarlet fully, so while it isn’t temporary like most of the prior LS stuff, it was LS stuff.

Well I’m not just talking about “story.”

I’m talking about content. TA and Teq were very isolated. If you didn’t want to run that TA path or fight Tequatl you weren’t going to see any new content.

(Aside from the changes to the current world bosses, those are cool. I forgot about those until I fought Golem Mk II last night.)

With the living story based content we had balloons all over the world, kite fortunes dropping, new minigames, elections .etc It all just felt a little more involved. All of it was very grab-n-go. If you wanted to check out the new areas you didn’t need a PuG or an organized server on TS.

That’s what I’m saying. That’s the part of LS based content that I really like.

I’ve actually come around to enjoying living world content and I’ve sort of missed it the past month and a half.

Tequatl wasn’t really living world content, it was base content. The new TA path, again, base content. Finally we got to Halloween which is great, but not much of it is new.

I really enjoyed Zephyr Sanctum for example. I thought it had good items, areas and achievements.

It looks like this tower thing can be proper living world content again. Perhaps with more achievements/items spread across the world instead of isolated. And it may have some nice isolated content too that will hopefully be just plain fun. We won’t have to worry about what it might have replaced or what it means for the future. Just enjoy it while it’s here.

Anyone else know the feeling?

Don’t get me wrong, keep up with the patching old content and adding new features. Just happy to see living world content coming back.

Any time they put jumping (at ALL) in a dungeon, they should find a way to penalize the person who can’t jump, not the four other poor souls spending 15 minutes waiting on him.

Jade Maw Fractal PuGs 4 Life!… NOT!

Because there is always that ONE guy…

It is true though, that GSs are like the favorite child of weapon skins.

Just look at legendaries:
Which weapon type had a legendary that was so good from the start it didn’t need an effects buff in the semi-recent patch?
Which weapon type has the only combinable mega-legendary?

Though I think all of the weapon types could benefit from a full pristine down-to-earth set.

By that I mean:

Greatsword: Long Shiny Thin(ish) Claymores (as opposed to nearly Anime proportioned massive broadswords)

Daggers: Something like the AC daggers but shiny silver and much smaller (sharp and small, sharp and small, not blunt and file cabinet sized)

Swords: Bonetti’s Rapier was awesome, more of that

Staves: More stuff like Monsoon. Very slim base with cool glowy/glassy/jewely things at the end. Maybe finish the set and make a tornado one and a earthquake one.

Levelord.5746:

It’s about doing it for FUN and not the rewards. Stop being so entitled. Can’t you just enjoy the Halloween event without constantly begging for money to be paid out for every corner you turn?

Jeez, what a bunch of whiny complainers.

This again?

Rewards and fun go together.

Whenever somebody asks ArenaNet for better rewards they are making a suggestion for more viable content. More viable content means more fun content.

MMOs tend to be about progress and projects. Leveling up, completing X set of armor, collecting stuff. It’s how a lot of players play.

If you still enjoy the game and don’t care for that stuff, good for you. Not everyone is like minded though.