Guild Wars 2

Karizee.8076:

Otoh, I hear WoW was a ghosttown this weekend

The Old Republics (aka WoW with Star Wars skin) F2P launched.
The lemmings will be back.

Players NOT enjoying are simply not logging in anymore. And ANet will see those metrics.

The so called “whiners” are actually the ones still giving a crap, though I agree there´s always the agony aunt addicted crowd.

But this is all out of our hands anyway. We´ll see by December where the current trend leads.

My prediction: No Overflow servers for Winter Day´s one time event.
Which will probably be during Christmas Eve to make really sure nobody logs in.

As you can´t stop paying subs it´s somewhat hard to quit a (quasi)F2P game, the question is if ANet will get anymore of my money.

The answer is no, Turbine probably will when I try going back to Lotro.

Compared to here the gfx are atrocious and the fight system will feel glacial, but I guess that feeling will pass after a week.
CCP´s EVE Online grindfest would´ve been my old goto, but I´m not playing yet another guinea pig in some loudmouthed dev´s new vision of awesomeness.
Fool me n! …

Mr Crazy Moose.5760:

because of the lag and general bugginess they encountered with the lost shore event.

Hell of a way to make a first impression.

Yeah, this.
I´m not even mentioning this game to anybody anymore.

DarkWalker.4385:

Sebber.4952:

Last year Colin Johanson the lead content designer of GW2 said this.

“Q: What of the level cap? Have you guys decided whether you’re going to be increasing the level cap in future expansions?

Colin: Yeah. The level cap will be 80 on the initial release of the game, and we absolutely would increase it further into the game, probably through expansions is the most likely place we would do that."

Missed that, otherwise there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have purchased the game.

If this is true, I will most likely stop playing when they release the first expansion that increases the level cap. I’m not going to go through the gear grind twice on the same character.

Nice Necro and agreed!
And quite frankly they already did that with Fractal.
From what I hear it is now the best place to get gear and once Ascendant armor starts dropping the old exotics will be obsolete too.

spacemayu.4817:

We’d be playing all the time together one day. The next day, without a word, they never come back.

Which is of course the true Death Knell.

Hopefully your guildies have just gone and tried out Old Republic´s F2P launch, but I´m not very optimistic.
2 months and paying 50 bucks is hardly enough to instill loyalty towards a developer that already is lying to you.

Merthax.5172:

To OP: I’m simply going to work on leveling alts and avoiding the whole end-game gear grind altogether.

I would have expected to be playing this game for years, but it looks like it will just be a few months.

This.

And not give ANet any more of my money, I must add.

ericf.2837:

Most of it is PvP (I do not PvP), & doesn’t say where you can get the PvE versions.

Well then look again, it clearly states the PvE sources. Be it from crafting, cultural or the different factions (Vigil, Whisper, Priory).
You can also search around in the Gw2Wiki

Though without dungeons, the Whisper and Norn only sets are as sexy as you can get on medium armor.

Yeah, looks like everybody either likes to whine or shamble obediently after that carrot.

Very bad idea!
Right click is for character alignment/movement, never turn with your keyboard!

Put dodge on the middle mouse click instead and don´t forget to disable double tapping so you get rid of accidental dodges for good.

I first didn´t want to believe just on the stats of one pink ring, but by now it´s clear Ascendant gear has catastrophically introduced the WoW power creep into GW2.

Obviously the only way to elevate the old exotic gear, apart from the clumsy stat change done with Legendaries, is to introduce a new more powerful level of Runes(without infusions).

These would again equalize exotic gear stats with the new ascendant versions and still make the power-creep somewhat bearable. I guess.
People could keep their old somewhat boosted gear for everything else but Fractal, and still have the option to grind a new set for “the everlasting” Dungeon.

Just trying to come up with a band-aid for this ludicrous situation.
What say you?

Yeah, sitting this one out too.
First I´m dead tired by the end of the day these are on for me, then I don´t see how running the zergs with 1 fps will benefit me any.

Glad I didn´t invite anybody to this.
I´m embarrassed enough at the abysmally programmed client´s gfx performance, let alone showing how ungracefully the server handles overload.

Taking a good nap instead and/or watching Formula 1.

Interesting observations.
Looks like I´m supposed to again throw money at somebody else so I can properly play this game.
Already dumped 90€ into a processor upgrade that made my FPS worse.
If only ANet could give us a guarantee that their kitten client would run properly, but by now I´m sure they´re just as clueless about all these performance bugs.

Damai.1947:

Since some graphic options are not available on xp (because of dx9 I suppose), it should need less ressources to run on xp.

Nope, GW2 is a DX9 game, the only thing we don´t get on XP are high res textures because of available memory issues.

Yeah don´t believe the hype.

As you actually have to stay mobile that Acer Aspire M3-581TG is indeed your best bet.

If you want to game on it, avoid all those 610m cards like the plague.
That memory interface width is key, it should always be 128bit or higher.

Quickening Zephyr .. HOLY MOTHER OF KITTENS !

Get it ASAP, then a Longbow .. you have become an ozom artillery machinegun of kick-kittyhiney !

:)

edit: Yeah, like Drake said. Better go to the Ranger fora instead.

This is the Guild Wars 2 tech support fora, not the online manual for your monitor or graphics card.
Read those or google it, or ask your local geek to explain computers to you.

Yeah, running at 1280 I´d also love to use the small UI, but I just stopped bothering with it.

There´s already enough aggravating bugs in this game without me purposefully adding yet another one to annoy myself.

Game optimization isn´t only poor, it´s broken.

The game just throttles itself down seemingly on a whim. It´s got nothing to do with bottlenecks or any other problem on the client´s hardware.
Looks suspiciously like it somehow activates the framelimiter at arbitrary settings and just stays that way.
No matter what setting is on that useless options menu.

If you run with more than 2 cores you´re taking a gamble it seems.

!http://i.imgur.com/E1pi5.jpg!

;)

The art is as always gorgeous and the idea sounds intriguing. We´ll see how many actual different maps it will contain.

Pity we didn´t get some more in-depth technical info, just yet another fluffy teaser.
And teasers are about the last thing we need right now.

Because in the mean time these guys are just running like hell with this frikken ring.

Too bad it comes bundled with what will destroy this game.

The one pink ring to ruin them all .. Cheezus.

Astralporing.1957:

HawkMeister.4758:

Again, all this angst based on the stats of one pink ring. And we don´t even know if they are final.

Fact: ascendant gear has the slot upgrade already factored to stats.
Fact: ascendant “slot upgrade” values are better than exotic equivalent

HawkMeister.4758:

Fact: infusion is useless outside of Fractal Dungeon

Unknown. Existence of different kinds of infusion (offensive, defensive) suggests that they do a bit more than just help resist Agony effect.

Now you´re just making stuff up to suit your fear of the mythical UBER ascendant gear.
Infusions only counter agony.

Bardes.1870:

HawkMeister.4758:

Bardes.1870:

HawkMeister.4758:

Morrigan.2809:

What would make me happy is if they gave ascended armour the same stats as exotics and just added an infusion slot-ta da!
you can mitigate agony, don’t create power creep and introduce new mechanics via infusion slots without alienating your players.
Win win.

Wrong wrong.
That would make ascendant armor inferior as it can´t be upgraded with sigils&runes.

Infusion is useless outside of the Fractal, thus all the alienation is uninformed and overhyped.

Who told you they can’t be upgraded with sigil and rune?

The effin´ pink ring.
The only real fact that kitten pic is good for, and those kittening vague devblogs

Again, where did you read that the Infusions won’t be able to affact general PvE or WvW?

Nothing you posted were mentioned by blog post or Chris.

Again, where did you read that it will?

Bardes.1870:

HawkMeister.4758:

Morrigan.2809:

What would make me happy is if they gave ascended armour the same stats as exotics and just added an infusion slot-ta da!
you can mitigate agony, don’t create power creep and introduce new mechanics via infusion slots without alienating your players.
Win win.

Wrong wrong.
That would make ascendant armor inferior as it can´t be upgraded with sigils&runes.

Infusion is useless outside of the Fractal, thus all the alienation is uninformed and overhyped.

Who told you they can’t be upgraded with sigil and rune?

The effin´ pink ring.
The only real fact that kitten pic is good for, and those kittening vague devblogs

Morrigan.2809:

What would make me happy is if they gave ascended armour the same stats as exotics and just added an infusion slot-ta da!
you can mitigate agony, don’t create power creep and introduce new mechanics via infusion slots without alienating your players.
Win win.

Wrong wrong.
That would make ascendant armor inferior as it can´t be upgraded with sigils&runes.

Infusion is useless outside of the Fractal, thus all the alienation is uninformed and overhyped.

RaGe.9834:

Get your facts straight!

And your(& all the others) useless BS Maths are based on one pink ring!

NOT only is everybody overreacting, but the hysterical exaggerations are making sure there can be no fruitful dialog with the DEVs about it.

Well done.

Again, all this angst based on the stats of one pink ring. And we don´t even know if they are final.

Fact: current gear has a freely usable slot
Fact: ascendant gear doesn´t
Fact: infusion is useless outside of Fractal Dungeon

This actually makes current gear overpowered. Please Anet, don´t nerf exotics!

This thread could easily be labeled:
The eternal woes of the Theme Park consumer.

And yet when ANet offers you in some short days the endless Fractal Dungeon honeypot, you balk.

Please Anet, stop catering to these everhungry consumers.
Uselessly trying to “outWow” WoW!

Concentrate on your Sandbox WvW gameplay. The only way to generate truly loyal customers.

nofo.8469:

HawkMeister.4758:

killcannon.2576:

Uh oh…you used facts. Prepare to be lambasted over the furnace of irrationality.

Another fact is these Mathmagics are based on the pic of one pink ring, we don´t even know if it´s attributes are actually finalized.

Statistics, do you speak it Muthakitten?

You are a shining example of a furnace of irrationality.

Right back at ya.

Oh and I´m totally OK with irrationality. Just need more than one pink ring and two vague messages to indulge in it.
Obviously some need far less.
Cool.

killcannon.2576:

Uh oh…you used facts. Prepare to be lambasted over the furnace of irrationality.

Another fact is these Mathmagics are based on the pic of one pink ring, we don´t even know if it´s attributes are actually finalized.

Statistics, do you speak it Muthakitten?

Uder.9187:

Kaizer.7135:

I hope to GOD there are none because I just finished spending 15g on them and I’ll be VERY pissed off if there are going to be Ascended Runes and Sigils

If you hope not, it means that we lose all the variety we had with runes. Ascended gear stats are better than exotic plus runes as far as we know:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-26-more-powerful-than-Exotic-MATH/first#post724773

And all this magic math is based on seeing one pink ring.

OVER 9000!

Nachyochez.9758:

From Linsey:
‘The stats and functionality normally added to gear through upgrade components are actually built into Ascended items. ’ So, according to her, you’ll still be getting the shout healing in Ascended, and it’ll heal for more.

And that fact you got from seeing one pink ring?
Impressive.

replicant.3620:

Kaizer.7135:

So how powerful are these infusions then?

More powerful than you can possibly imagine! ;-P

YES! Over 9 0 0 0 !

Nicely sums up the whole hysteria behind it all.
We see one pink ring that´s actually nerfed(no rune/sigil slot) to be usable only in one frikken endless dungeon(for now) and everyone start howling like Connery got at their mums.

Yes, it could be the introduction of LOTRO´s stupid&failed radiance if ALL the future content will require infusion gear. But so far the Devs don´t admit to it.

For now ascendant gear is just another set of gear people will eventually have for one specific build, namely running agony dungeons.
Just like they already do with grinding gear for different builds and cosmetics.

What OS are you using?
The (WinXP only) 12.10 beta driver solved all disappearing terrain issues for my HD7750 on Windows XP.

This seems to be solely a graphics driver related issue, don´t expect much help from ANet on this one(as if). Complaining directly to ATI will probably help you more.

So what´s your advice on how to use these best. Ideally with the least amount of gold wasted on buying mats.

ATM I´m crafting “on demand” to equip my 3 main leveling chars with adequate armor and weaponry. Though neglecting jewelery and cooking totally.

Right now I just leave the boosters in the bank and hope eventually I´ll farm enough to actually make good use of that hour.
Am I doing it wrong?

Is that one hour even enough to level a whole craft from 0 to 400? Or can I do more than one?

Interesting.
Sounds almost like this beta driver messes something up in the buggy hardware detection system of this game. Accidentally fixing it.

I´d really like to know if your FPS limiter is working right. Currently my best guess as to what´s most broken in this client.

BTW what about the disappearing terrain bug? Mine only went away after I installed the 12.10 beta(WinXP).
For a quick check hit Hoelbrak and the jumping puzzle to the vista between Jag and Bear lodge. The vista in the western park of the Black Citadel is another good one to test.

This is a well know bug of this client. Had it too after a crowded zergy bossfight.

Lets all hope the next patch will fix this, in the mean time just go to options and tone down the sound quality or switch it off outright.

She cannae take it anymore Cap´n!

Looks like your graphics card is about to croak or already dead. Actually you shouldn´t be able to read this anymore nor even have written it in the first place.
Amazing.

Yeah, would be the best.
The Win7 64bit version will also allow high res textures for GW2.

The installer uses some fancy transparency crap to simply show that bitmap of the Sylvari chick for the downloader/installer/patcher.

The MSIMG32.dll is your problem here. Looks like yours is probably corrupted or broken. Google it.

BTW it may be a tumor, ah, sorry I mean virus.

If you have problems understanding English maybe reading one of the other 3 language versions will help?

Can I haz yoa stuffz?

Not sure if serious .. therefore:

N O !

Basically already answered in Linsay´s blog

1) They aren´t. Actually nerfed as they don´t have a normal upgrade slot and instead hardcoded slightly higher stats.

2) Yes. Fractal Dungeon only.

3) Yes, on ascendant gear from the Fractal Dungeon.

4) Likely in later iterations.

Seriously just read the kitten article instead of the exaggerated hysteria on this board.

It´s hilarious how one (pink)ring can create so much angst. Almost like people are playing the wrong game.

Nevertheless this is actually a good question in regards to the whole Fractal Dungeon hysteria.

Angrec.6970:

Not to mention this infusion mechanic has been done in other mmos before (radiance in lotro and resistance in vanilla wow being prime examples).

So radiance/resistance only worked in ONE Dungeon in Lotro or WoW?
Yeah, that would´ve been irrelevant, just like it is in GW2.

Seren.6850:

my issue is that, currently most of us in my guild have multiple 80’s we just bring whatever makes a good balance, now i have to gear all my alts again

So you´re planing running the same constantly repeating Dungeon on ALL your alts for gear only useful in there?
Guess that´s your lot in life then.

Swoo.5079:

The problem is that Ascendant gear isn’t nerfed – it is auto upgraded and then has a buff on top of that.

Wrong, but quite frankly I´m done arguing about one frikken pink ring.
Providing proper info on such a possibly vital new game mechanic is ANet´s responsibility and they should step up.
Pity is they are by now all asleep and think everything is still right with the world.

Heh, good kitten morning that will be when they wake up.

Finally a thread about a real problem.

Ka BUMP.

For now I see virtually no difference between grinding Dungeons multiple times for its cosmetic gear, and this new Agony/Infusion mechanic to better survive the LOWER LEVELS of the endless Fractal Dungeon only.

The kitten hysteria over this whole issue has morphed from a comedy to more of a farce by now.
I really hope ANet will get their heads out of their kittens and start supplying us with some cold hard facts, like yesterday.

I´m so fed up arguing over the stats of one frikken pink (seriousyl?) ring and a fluffy but small and vague blogpost.

Problem:
Fractal Dungeon is endless.

Agony gear is only needed in its lower levels.

Agony gear is nerfed as it can only slot infusion thingies, therefore has slightly higher stats to compensate.

Solution:
Ignore the frikken Dungeon and do what you´ve done till now.

Bardes.1870:

1.) Acended ring kill jewelry crafting.

Wrong. Actually the opposite. Plz reread Linsey´s article.

2.) It is not “just” one ring or one backslot. It’s a beginning of new Tier gears.

Wrong. New Tier means higher stats, which they won´t be.

3.) Agony/Infusion mechanic means — if your equipment sux (you do not have enough acended gears), then you are not allowed to do those new dungeons.

Somewhat right. You need Infusion to survive lower levels. The whole point of this Dungeon. So don´t go there.

4.) It forces you to grind if you want better gears for WvW or if you want to be qualified for the harder dungeons.

Wrong. Infusion is for Fractal Dungeon only, useless in PvP.

5.) Old contents/gears become less useful or even become completely useless.

Wrong. Old gear is actually better as it´s more flexible due to the free upgrade slot.

6.) All these mean whenever Anet pushes a new future, you’ll need to grind new Tier gears again and again.

Only if you need to see the bottom of an endless Dungeon.

Then I guess you need to find another game indeed.

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