Guild Wars 2

Why does everyone keep going on and on about things not being prestigious enough? Wear the armor because it looks cool, not because you think people will stare in awe at your glorious presence.

Geez…

CodeHavoc.7926:

Your first problem was spending probably hundreds of gold on gear and runes. The meta of going to change, so complaining about it won’t help. As for the meta itself, it needs to change. Now builds will be more than Precision, power, and ferocity.

To be honest there’s little to no indication that the meta WILL change. There’s potential for it to change, sure. But not much beyond that.

Um…

Sooooo….

Why?

Teratus.2859:

A lot of people want this.. myself included

but I doubt they will.. they would prefer to work on new game content than change older content like this…
even though Zhaitan really did give Elder Dragon a bad name..
after hyping him up soo much it was a colossal disappointment to finally fight him in what can only accurately be described as a glorified pidgeon pooping on a ship battle…

just about every encounter in the game is harder to kill… even Moa Birds…
Zhaitan is just embarassing and I do wish they would go back at some point and really make him impressive and at least a little challenging..

As much as I’ve invested into the Story of Gw2 I think I will honestly stop bothering with Story content if Mordremoth ends up being another embarassing joke of a boss fight..

sorry but when the whole story focus of the game is building up to dull and boring dragon fights then its just anti climactic and a waste of time…

There’s a lot more wrong with the story than that. But yes, the Zhaitan fight’s a joke. Though, I thought I read somewhere that they said they wouldn’t be changing it because they had other priorities.

Ryumi.7109:

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Your monitor can’t even refresh that fast, though…

To be fair, a sigil on an exotic gives more to the weapon than upgrading from an exotic to an ascended.

What I’m saying is you get more out of the sigil. heh

DietPepsi.4371:

Donari.5237:

There is such a toggle, Excludee. Bind weapon sheathe/unsheathe. With weapons drawn, you’ll run upright like the NPCs. You’ll also run slower, but then so do they (I’m pretty sure they all have weapons out when they run, too).

They do not. NPCs in the Black Citadel can be frequently seen running upright with both hands empty, but clinched. As stated above; running speed is also not reduced until the player engages in combat. The player can do this upright run when they enter combat and stow their weapon, but as soon as any attackers are killed or give up the player will return to full running speed on all fours.

Maybe they’ll fix the Charr rifle drawn animation too. Here’s hoping. I’d like to stop holding my rifle like a hammer.

Basically this. I just don’t like the all-fours run animation. It just looks strange when literally only the player characters do it. I’m sure there are people out there who like it, so I’d just be happy if they let met toggle it without having to put on my engineer’s hobosack, or always run around with my weapons out.

Hayashi.3416:

No, it’s a large-address-aware 32-bit client.

Sadly.

Gahhhhhh everything is awful in the world now

Hayashi.3416:

Excludee.3850:

Sometimes running your monitor at its native resolution makes things behave better too. I get somewhat better performance out of 3840×2160 than slightly lower resolutions. Though seeing the posts here make me feel a bit better about not getting a constant 60fps. Maybe the mac client isn’t quite as terrible as I thought.

It might be. These guys probably have, system-spec speaking, only a fraction of your Mac’s performance.

80% utilisation of a 2000 point system will still exceed 100% utilisation of a 600 point system, if it was possible to somehow collapse system performance into a single variable (it isn’t). But you get my idea.

I’m pretty sure the game doesn’t make use of all of my hardware, is the thing. It’s not really something I can complain about, but I think that’s the issue. Is the windows version 64-bit? IIRC, the emulation used for mac is only 32-bit, which is part of the issue heh… It is what it is, I guess. The game’s certainly not unplayable.

Sometimes running your monitor at its native resolution makes things behave better too. I get somewhat better performance out of 3840×2160 than slightly lower resolutions. Though seeing the posts here make me feel a bit better about not getting a constant 60fps. Maybe the mac client isn’t quite as terrible as I thought.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Faereilos.5106:

60+ fps in sparsely populated maps at medium high settings. 15-30 at world bosses depending on size of zerg. Turning off player names usually give me a 5-10 fps boost.

Shrimpkin.4851:

Between 4-7fps for regular game play. I drop down to 1-2fps during fights with big crowds.

How do you manage to do anything with only 4-7 fps? O.o

I can move fine. Things get choppy during big fights and some cut scenes but other than that it’s ok. I do have everything set as low as it can go, so while the game doesn’t look the greatest, I can still play. I’m on an HP laptop same as the OP so upgrades are not an option. One day though, I shall build a real pc.

If your computer runs that poorly, I’m amazed it’s still alive. You uh… might wanna start saving up for something new, buddy.

Took 2 years to fix, apparently. Nice.

Can we get a toggle for the Charr running animations now? Either run like they do now, or run like the NPC Charr do? I’d like that.

It’s all on Youtube.

munki.6402:

Excludee.3850:

Don’t argue with people on these forums. Very little criticism of Arena Net or Guild Wars is met with anything but scorn here, regardless of how valid or invalid it is. It’s kinda like when people criticized Notch for being lazy and deciding not to do things in Minecraft. People just jumped in yelling about how good of a person Notch was for making the game.

Sooooo, don’t waste your time. Post what you think, let Arena Net read it, likely ignore it, and then move on. These forums are silly. Remember when people were asking for a toggle for the airplane mode? Yeah.

Why do you post here, or even frequent this forum, if you think they’re so ineffectual and “silly”? What does any of this have to do with the topic? I have posted here previously and will say again that the OP is making pessimistic assumptions and engaging in hyperbole. I fail to see how people who support Anet, are patient with them, and appreciate the work they do are somehow automatons “jumping and yelling” praise. I am interested in and will certainly discuss valid concerns based on actual issues. I have zero interest in the musings of an embittered, reactionary try-hard who can’t get their head around the fact that their opinion is not the be all and the end all.

If everyone would take a moment to see Figure 1 (listed above), you will see an excellent example of what I discussed.

I’m usually more impressed by the people who have the rare exotics than the legends.

MHCerberus.1385:

Excludee.3850:

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

I may be alone here, but it runs pretty well on my Mac laptop. It’s from 2011 and not really meant for gaming. I don’t get great frames (10-20) but I have little to no issues with DC’s

The game crashes if you have too much stuff going on, at least on my version of the OS. WvW and world bosses are the worst offenders. Drives me nuts. Doesn’t happen as often as it used to though.

I just hate low framerates heh… Call me snobbish, I guess.

Klinch.2964:

Excludee.3850:

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

Haha, is it really that bad? I have a desktop I built when gw2 released that was kinda beast at the time. I wanted a dedicated laptop ONLY FOR WORK, so I just bought one of the new Macbook Pro’s…

First thing I did was install Guild Wars 2. Haven’t really played it much on mac yet though.

Edit: To stay on topic. I play with vsync on, so it sits at 60fps during open world with not too many people, dungeons, and sPvp. During events with many people or large WvW fights, it sits around 20-25fps.

My mac is my sort of “work computer”, I guess. It’s a dual xeon with 32 gigs of ram etc etc specs and kitten waving.

The point is, my computer is as good as anyone elses here, but the game performs pretty awfully haha…. Honestly, I need to just get around to bootcamping it so I can just run the game in Windows….

The Mac client’s basically an emulation anyways, if I understand correctly. I get like 20 FPS in a fight, and around 40 in town. If I stand still in an empty place I get 60.

Legendaries had exclusivity??? Lol?
Who doesn’t have fourteen Twilights these days?

It’s a skin. It takes a bit of effort to get, but in the end, it’s a skin. I decided I liked Incinerator the other day. Guess what? I’m gonna go on a little journey to get it. If a new legendary comes out that I like, I might get it too. There’s nothing legendary about an item you can literally just decide. “You know, I’m gonna get that. Let me just go do a couple things that I can do by myself without thinking, aaaaaaaaand now it’s mine. Lovely.”

Try playing on the mac “client”.

It’s a joy when it doesn’t crash haha

Siphaed.9235:

Excludee.3850:

Im Mudbone.1437:

eusmecher.8937:

This expansion should be free like other’s mmo …..not payable….

NAME JUST ONE mmo that is B2P or P2P that has free expansions. You haven’t played many MMO’s I take it.

EVE Online.

Even DFO, which was controlled by NEXON, had free expansions.

EVE isn’t F2P or B2P, it is P2P. This means that you’re required to pay around $15 a month just to access the game, even in content dry spells where there is nothing new to the game. EVE’s “free” expansions hit every 4-6 months; that is to say it hits ever $60-90. Do you see what I mean?

I have no idea about DFO, because I don’t read into NEXON games because the company is known to have heavy P2W features in their game. Even the media takes pot shots at how money grubbing they are as a company to try to sell power for more $$$.

Nexon is also the largest shareholder of NC Soft, IIRC. Just a thought.

Honestly, I don’t really care about paying for the expansion if it turns out to be good. Someone asked if any MMOs (they did say B2P or P2P) did free expansions, so I chimed in. Also you can theoretically play EVE for free if you’re good. I did it for a while. It’s a lot of effort, but eh, it’s doable if you’re dedicated. shrug

Im Mudbone.1437:

eusmecher.8937:

This expansion should be free like other’s mmo …..not payable….

NAME JUST ONE mmo that is B2P or P2P that has free expansions. You haven’t played many MMO’s I take it.

EVE Online.

Even DFO, which was controlled by NEXON, had free expansions.

Don’t argue with people on these forums. Very little criticism of Arena Net or Guild Wars is met with anything but scorn here, regardless of how valid or invalid it is. It’s kinda like when people criticized Notch for being lazy and deciding not to do things in Minecraft. People just jumped in yelling about how good of a person Notch was for making the game.

Sooooo, don’t waste your time. Post what you think, let Arena Net read it, likely ignore it, and then move on. These forums are silly. Remember when people were asking for a toggle for the airplane mode? Yeah.

munki.6402:

Seriously, ANOTHER thread about this?!

Keep ‘em comin’. I just want a “Turn Off Events” button.

Dante.1763:

Wouldnt you have to take this up with the reddit guys? I mean, i dont use reddit, but this seems like something you would have to take up, over there.

More or less this.

Affecting*

And if what you’re saying is true, that’s kind of amusing. In a sort of unfortunate for you sort of way. Not sure what they can do about it, though. Why, are you getting hate mail now?

I’m sure it’s not awful…

But uh… The skill’s pretty bad. And it doesn’t have THAT much range.

Kinda curious how it works with Synaptic Overload with that one skill it has with the concussion bomblets.