Guild Wars 2

15 Charrs say it’s warrior.

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We have ballistas, golems (Mech-like), trebuchets, catapults, Arrow carts (machine gun-like), but what about tanks?

A tank in GW2 should be a magic-powered, driven, mobile and heavy vehicle with a turnable cannon turret. It requires two people (one driver and one cannoneer) to operate it.

Specialities:

• Immune to normal damage
• Automatic stability, cannot be stunned or otherwise hindered in movement.
• Immune to arrow cart damage
• Vulnerable to damage by other tanks, golems, catapult fire, trebuchet fire, ballista fire, cannon fire.
• Suffers double damage from Ballistas. (They act like anti-tank siege)
• Cannot be driven into buildings, castles or through gates
• Cannot use portals
• Cannot be built inside buildings, towers or castles.
• Driving over enemy entities (except siege) knocks them back and inflicts 15,000 damage, ignoring toughness and deals 3 stacks of bleeding.
• Slow movement – about 80% movement speed of a normal player.

Purposes:

• Anti-Zerg
• Anti-Siege

Costs: 500 Supply (to keep them rare)

Driver abilities: None, you steer using WASD
Gunner abilities:

• Aim and fire shot, cooldown: 10 seconds – Fires the currently loaded cannon ball
• Change to massive cannon ball – Ideal against siege structures and enemy tanks, cannot damage enemy players and NPCs. Resets the “Aim and fire shot” cooldown (so it’s ticking from 10 again)
• Change to explosive cannon ball – Ideal against enemy zergs. Explosion impact radius: 300, deals 7500 damage to enemy players, 2500 damage to structures and siege objects. No limits on the number of affected targets. Deals no damage against enemy tanks or golems. Resets the “Aim and fire shot” cooldown (so it’s ticking from 10 again)
• Move cannon to the left
• Move cannon to the right

Avoid joining 5kap+ zerker warguardele only groups. Those are usually very toxic. That said, every class and weapon combo is, if played right, viable for dungeons.

The download size varies with chosen languages etc.
for the average person, the download size, no matter the compression, is around 20 GB.

If you ask this due to limited bandwidth, you can stop downloading and continue later as GW2’s download system is file-based, meaning it’ll download separate files which then will be appended to the gw2.dat

Does the issue also emerge without sweetfx? It might be that this kind of dll injection is malfunctioning gw2’s shader instructions.

digitalghost.7891:

but it just keeps saying that the file is in use, even tho its not, when i try to delete one..

The fopen handle is not closed correctly. Windows is weak in that aspect (linux clears orphaned fopen handles). Try deleting the file after a system restart.

There is a limit of 10,000 Achievement Points from Daily Achievements and 5,000 Achievement Points from Monthly Achievements. If you reach these limits, you’ll no longer gain Achievement Points through these categories.

Don’t join 5kAP+ warguardele zerker only groups. Instead, open your own and specify. It takes at most 5 minutes to find four alike-thinkers.

Making tomes tradable might be a good solution. The only issue is if the price goes down too fast (if they drop too often), it might overshadow all other available leveling solutions.

Dual Spec only okay with 15 minutes cooldown and while being out of combat for at least 2 minutes.

RoRo.8270:

So the only way to fix this is to use a software which I need to pay for?

The alternative would be to contact your ISP about peering issues and threaten to change your ISP if they don’t fix it.

The map chat in this screenshot might get someone banned…

abomally.2694:

The problem starts here:

16 716 ms * 737 ms 195.16.161.58

It appears to be an issue with the RIPE network:

http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-195-0-0-0-1/pft

See: https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html?searchtext=195.16.161.58&search%3AdoSearch=Search#resultsAnchor

=> Level3 Europe

The Day-and-Night-Cycle is inter-zone-synced, unless an instance (Dungeon, personal story or FotM) overrides it. 70 minutes day followed by 40 minutes night and 5 mins dusk and dawn in between.

Your ISP has a faulty peering with the Level3 interconnection. 195.16.161.58 belongs to LEVEL3 Europe.

She’s easy: Don’t stack her.

But 67% of the people don’t want to not stack and continue failing at her.

Hey,

“switch at last” can be a pain for a PuG because not only is it more difficult with “sub-optimal” setups, but you also have to pull 25% more for one who likes to boost an alt.

Let’s do away with that and replace the reward XP with an item such as:

[Dungeoneer’s Journal]
Consumable
Account bound on acquire
Upon use, grants the user 70% of the total experience needed to level up

This should end the “switch at last” dillemma and still give the switcher what he’s working for.

Istaria (A game of 2003!) had an adjustable night time brightness. A technique used 11 years shouldn’t be that hard to implement.

Koeril.2057:

Received: from ncwedge99.us.ncsoft.com (ncwedge99.us.ncsoft.com. [64.25.34.37])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h65si18954235qgf.82.2014.08.10.15.26.44
for <xxx@xxx.com>;

This one is legit.

Waikd.4632:

Dx10-11-12 is not supported on XP

Absolutely no problem anymore since most ppl ceased using WinXP due to stop of support since April 8th. The only infeasibility is the high workload for virtually nothing because gw2 is non-subscriber, non-addon-based.

LadyMorrigan.3071:

Ettanin.8271:

LadyMorrigan.3071:

If this is the case, why I can play without a single problem on all my characters, in the exact same time in which a single char is “imprisoned” on a random map?

Because this specific IP (the server the map is hosted on) is throttled by your ISP.

Then why I can unlock a char by guesting, using the same ISP?

Because you are then changing the map, hosted by a different IP. Guesting has a high chance to get you to a different copy of the map.

LadyMorrigan.3071:

If this is the case, why I can play without a single problem on all my characters, in the exact same time in which a single char is “imprisoned” on a random map?

Because this specific IP (the server the map is hosted on) is throttled by your ISP.

This would require a major rewrite of the rendering and view engine and I don’t think that ArenaNet is undergoing such a feat easily.

This is also the same reason why World of Warcraft, albeit having DX11 support since Cataclysm, is still unoptimized. They only changed the graphics API, but not the underlying single-threaded code preparing the rendering steps (which is from Warcraft 3!)

Can you post the source code of it (censor your own mail address of course!)?

proofen.7281:

Silverstarre.5247:

Is this a new error or something you have been experiencing since first starting to play the game?

Ive had it since I bought this computer. Did not have it on the computer before this one, been playing gw2 on both of em.

Then your GPU was delivered defective. Demand a replacement.

If you get around this problem using a VPN service, then this is clearly an issue with your ISP lacking network neutrality. I’d then recommend unsubscribing from your current ISP for disrupting network neutrality and change to an ISP who upholds and wards network neutrality.

GW2 is mainly single-threaded. It’s not your hardware’s fault but how unoptimized the software is. You’d need a Tianhe-II supercomputer to get 60 FPS with full details and no entity culling. Even an extremely overclocked Core i7 4790 with quad-SLI’d GTX780 is not able to do this.

This issue is present in all DX9-based games because the DX9 render pipeline is single-thread only. DX11 is able to render multithreaded, with Civilization 5 being the first game utilizing it.

The game devs mainly used DX9 until recently due to WinXP support. With XP being a thing of the past, most devs are likely to move on towards DX11.

Uninstall your Antivirus temporarily. It might negatively affect how GW2 opens and writes to files.

Looks like your GPU cannot render transparency correctly.

If you are in a bugged zone, note down the IP you get by /ip and try again later.
If it is bugged again and the same IP, then not enough people left the instance yet.

VOLTCIEAGE.3029:

I was thinking about adding NON MANDATORY SUBSCRIPTION to gw2

Go play on the chinese servers. They have such a model.

Monthly subs, mandatory or not, are actually HARMFUL towards anet’s motivation adding new content or patching current one. Why?

Because the revenue is static and steady, were there subscriptions, they wouldn’t need to create content, just alter existing one, just like Blizzard is doing. Seen any different true endgame than raiding in WoW? Nope.

GW2 wants YOU to choose your endgame goals. And this does not work with a subscription model, be it mandatory or not.

Counter-Suggestion: Why don’t you buy 800 gems a month and declare it a non-mandatory subscription?

Not a bug nor an oversight.
Only areas that came with release count.

This also means that Southsun Cove is excluded from counting towards area specific kills.

I’d prefer a friendly bearbow over a moaning and cussing zerker gs war.

Note that the game is not made for resolutions larger than 1920×1200 and may leak memory when doing so.

Are you doing the same event over and over?
If yes, then this is the Anti-Farm-System kicking in. This system is used to make botting ineffective.

Do something else ingame for at least an hour and it should be gone.

Traffic consumption, typical, self-measured:
GW2 – 40 kbyte/s max (Server throttles animation packets if more data is needed)
TS3 – most of these go by 128kbit/s bitrate = 16 kbyte/s (UP and DOWN)

Your minimum for 2 ppl would be:
1 Mbit/s down and 320kbit/s up

kishanp.1490:

What about Nvidia GTX 760, DDR3 3gb dedicated ?

The reference GTX760 has 2 GB GDDR5 VRAM (as of here). Can you link me where you wish to obtain that GTX 760?

Laptop CPUs in contrast to Desktop CPUs are already throttled down due to heat specs. You simply can’t get an acceptable FPS on a laptop for zerging.

Bonobo.1470:

Ok, so you have a Nvidia Titan (cheapest card overhere is 900 euro’s/ 1050 dollars) and you still get below 30 fps on low graphics in large zergs? Basically you are saying that it is impossible to get a laptop that is capable of decent WvW?

GW2 is CPU-Limited due to bad thread-focused programming (it has some multithreading, but not enough). It doesn’t matter if you have a GPU for 1337€/USD/Whatever_Currency_In_The_World if you still need a Tianhe-II to reach 60 FPS in zergs + full details.

It’s basically the same as using fraps. So no, not banable. Also, your PC won’t play GW2 for you → not banable.

DJRiful.3749:

Anet Policy, no modification to game files (.exe & .dat) or else it will result in perma ban.

Basically this. It is not allowed to modify the game files. Even for something that does not provide a direct or indirect advantage.

kishanp.1490:

thanks, but will 1gb dedicated will be enough or need more?

GPU memory is not all that defines the GPU’s calculating power.
You also need to look at:

• Shader/Stream unit count (Everything above 512 is fine)
• Clock speed, shader clock speed (700 MHz core speed, 1200 MHz shader speed are recommended)
• Type of memory (GDDR5 = good, DDR3 = bad)

Also make sure that when your GPU has, that your PSU has at least:
0 6-pin/8-pin power cable slots: 20 A @ 12 V (total value)
1 6-pin/8-pin power cable slot: 35 A @ 12 V (total value) or 20 A each 12 V rail, 2 rails
2 6-pin/8-pin power cable slots: 50 A @ 12 V (total value) or 20 A each 12 V rail, 4 rails
Otherwise your PC will shut down on high strain due to insufficient power.

Go to %temp%
delete the folder named gw2cache-<some UUID here>

Better solutions:
1) Get a better ISP (Especially one that respects and wards net neutrality and doesn’t QoS their TV subs)
2) Get ethernet instead of WLAN (More reliable in urban areas)
3) Get a guild or a guild alliance who will enable Teq on a weekly/daily basis outside the normal spawn times (= less randoms = higher chance of reentering on disc)

GW2 is CPU-Intense. Even with an i7-2600K or better you’ll barely manage 20+ FPS at crowded world bosses.

The CPU you are suggesting is better (by about 12%) than an i7-2600K in the realms of Single-Threaded computing, but there’s no CPU reaching >30 FPS during crowded events.

Rez downed players unless you are in danger to get downed yourself (i.e. during Golem Mk. II)
Never rez dead players if rezzing is detrimental to group/zerg DPS where DPS is critical (i.e. on Tequatl)

The plea “Dead ones wp” is most of the times a correct one.

ProtoGunner.4953:

My SSD got destroyed by playing GW2, replaced and asked a friend.

Your friend is clueless. Only bad caching (WoW/D3 MPQ cache has the potential to do so, GW2 doesn’t cache) or using a swap file on your SSD can destroy it. If you wish to run your OS on your SSD (not recommended, the speed gain is only on booting), disable swapping and get at least 16 GB of RAM.

With a license bought in NA, you can play on both EU and NA Megaserver no matter where you really are. GW2 only has a region lock on registration (EU key: Not usable outside Europe, NA key: Not usable inside Europe), but you can choose to play on either the NA region or the EU region from whereever you are in the world.

Also, I wouldn’t dare touch the Chinese version. It is beefed up to the point of Pay2Win.

Note: Changing from an EU server to an NA server costs gems, as guesting is not possible between regions.

Bloodlust.3672:

This is especially important for players who customized their hotkeys for skills—so their hotkeys no longer match the same placement order as the UI.

Not necessarily true as you can see in the attachment below. I’ve set skills 6 to 0 to Shift+1 to Shift+5 and it shows the correct hotkeys.

And at least you can swap three of the five utility slots.

You can use different hotkeys and they will also show correctly.