Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if GW2 has problems with SLI, but GW2 does have problems with slow processors since GW2 requires a beefy single thread processor. What CPU do you have?

Squall Leonhart.2075:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Before this turns into a total flame war…

@Tilrune, that graphics card you linked is the 2GB version of the GTX 650Ti. Personally, you won’t need the extra 1GB of RAM that card comes with. If you want to spend about 180 on a card:

Would be awesome if it was in stock (not sure if you want to wait for it)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133470 -GTX 660

Or…

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500275 -GTX 570
After the rebate it’s got a pretty nice price.

Edit: AND you get Duke Nukem! I’d buy the card just for the sake it comes with Duke Nukem (sarcasm)

1GB is easily usable on these video cards, so 2GB would be a boon.

It depends on the applications running. From my experience in my normal operations, I never use more than 3/4 of a GB when running GW2. Either way, the GTX 660 rocks the same 2GB capacity for a few bucks more while the 5/4 GB on the GTX 570 is more than enough to run GW2 with all your desired high resolution textures.

If you’re determined to go on a budget build, I recently purchased a GTX 650Ti (1GB) for my siblings as a Christmas present who want to play GW2 but couldn’t because they inherited my old 9800GT which is slightly antiquated Out of curiosity (and to make sure it wasn’t DoA) I tossed it in my rig to see how well it performed. On max settings, besides supersampling, I was able to pull 25-35 frames in LA, and on lowest settings I could pull 75+ frames. So, if you don’t mind lowering some settings, then the card is an awesome budget buy. I got it on newegg for 110 after rebate (and it came with Assassin’s Creed III).

It took me a while to figure this out as well, there are alternate paths in each section of the jumping puzzle to look for. Your answer lies at the end of these alternate paths.

Before this turns into a total flame war…

@Tilrune, that graphics card you linked is the 2GB version of the GTX 650Ti. Personally, you won’t need the extra 1GB of RAM that card comes with. If you want to spend about 180 on a card:

Would be awesome if it was in stock (not sure if you want to wait for it)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133470 -GTX 660

Or…

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500275 -GTX 570
After the rebate it’s got a pretty nice price.

Edit: AND you get Duke Nukem! I’d buy the card just for the sake it comes with Duke Nukem (sarcasm)

Newegg gave the description of that computer as ‘Gaming and Entertainment’. If I had to toss my vote in, its 95% entertainment, 5% gaming. That graphics card will go excellent in any home theater PC, but won’t go very far for gaming.

As Covis said above, everything looks decent specs wise besides the video card. If you’re looking for a budget buy for a graphics card I recently purchased a GTX 650Ti for my siblings who want to play GW2 but couldn’t because they inherited my old 9800GT which was an excellent card for its time, but its very outdated now. For kicks (and to make sure it wasn’t DOA) I tossed it in my rig and tested the quality. I was able to toss everything to max settings (aside from supersampling of course) and could run around LA gettings 25-35 frames. Modifying the options to a lower setting, I don’t recall what I changed, I was able to get 35-40 frames around LA, then on lowest settings I was getting 75+. I got the card for 110 (after rebate on newegg and got a free copy of assassin’s creed III).

If you’re more into the intensive side of GW2 (WvW, large scale dynamic events, etc) then I would bump up to the 150-200 dollar range and get a GTX 560Ti (normal edition or 448 edition) or a GTX 570, or a GTX 660 (if you can find one that cheap).

Obviously you can run ATI cards as well, I’m just unfamiliar with what is comparable to the above listed Nvidia cards.

For reference, I run a GTX 560Ti 448 edition and it runs GW2 at max settings while getting 35+ frames everywhere besides WvW, where it dips down to a 25+ frames.

My younger brother (not the aforementioned siblings) runs a GTX 560Ti (normal edition) and it fares out almost as well as my card.

I would check to see how much RAM you are using under a typically load of your computer. If it’s anywhere near 3GB (even though you have some extra) then I would say that is the culprit.

Another thought would be if you are running out of RAM, how much of your pagefile are you using? Pagefile is like RAM, but its just space reserved on the hard drive for RAM to use. Pagefile is used when things get tight on space or information stored on RAM isn’t often accessed. If you haven’t messed with the pagefile settings on your computer, then it’s prolly at its default size, which is normally 2x the amount of RAM you have installed.

Note: Pagefile is ultra slow compared to RAM since its stored on a hard drive.

Judging from your brief system specs that you posted. You may not have enough RAM to run the game at the settings you want. My PC when running GW2 (plus firefox, pidgin, steam, and some other small programs) uses almost 4GB. I run GW2 at highest settings on my machine.

You graphics card also looks like it only has 512MB or 1GB of RAM. 512 is most likely too small, but if you have the 1GB version, that should be enough.

I’m also running into memory issues, but it’s because I have some bad sticks in my rig at the moment. I have to wait for santa to give me the 12GB I wanted.

I’ve never bought AMD before, but I did a quick look on the specs of the processors. If you’re looking just at playing GW2, I would run the A10 based on the fact that its’ clock rate is higher than the 8120 which is important for large scale battles in GW2. GW2 requires fast single thread performance. However, if you’re just casually playing GW2 and do other things with your PC, I’d grab the 8 core processor and overclock it to get the best performance.

The A10 uses less power than the 8120 by 25 watts, so you’d be more ‘green’ by going with the A10. Also, if your graphics card takes a dump on you and you don’t have a backup, you can use the A10’s built in 7660.

TBH though, I’m sure there are other things to look at besides core count, stock core frequency, and power used.

Edit: I guess you could replace your 6650 with the A10’s 7660 (I also don’t know the numbering scheme for ATI’s/AMD’s graphics cards)

In terms of playing GW2, 4.4Ghz. GW2 requires fast single thread performance. However, if you’re going for a general overclock, 4.0.

Side note: I think I’m in the same boat as you. I have an i7 930 with a GTX 560ti 448 edition, but I haven’t checked percentages recently.

I doubt I’ll spend any irl money on anything. I’ll be shooting for converting my hard earned gold to gems to buy any costumes sold directly in the store (much like GW1). Beyond that I’ll watch people lose/win the BLC lottery (or other chest if there is one).

Pretty awesome, I wish the forums were filled with more content like this.

I found the following thresholds for hitting DR from classic dungeons (aka not FotM).

1) Completing 4 paths of dungeons in 2 hours is the limit. If someone completes a 5th dungeon run within 2 hours, DR will be inflicted.

2) Completing the same path multiple times consecutively will inflict DR (not sure if this still holds, but I know it used to).

3) Completing a path in under 15ish minutes will inflict DR on the following run (not sure if this still holds, but I know it used to).

Of the two mice listed, the naga.

I want to see the bonus mission pack (GW1) missions as fractals. I’m all in for bring back old lore and playing it in the new GW2 system.

So there are no karma items that can be converted to gold/silver/copper? Even if the conversion rate is poor, like 5 karma to 1 copper?

Let me start by saying that I know people abused this in the past and that is was a terrible thing. I’m just curious what the most lucrative item (if any) can be bought with karma and immediately turned around for gold. No mystic forging, no trade posting, just selling right back to a vendor.

Side note: I know in the past I could use 3 karma to get 1 copper, but now I can’t find that anymore.

@Larkistic
4GB is on the low end for running GW2 in my experience. I had a stick go bad on me a while ago and was stuck with 4GB for a while and when running GW2 it hogged all of it. 8GB is more than enough.

Does anyone know if an older i7 will hamper the FPS of GW2? It’s a i7 930, no overclock.

I know some people use one of these monstrosities:
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-molten/

Anyone know by chance how upgrading blueprints affects the siege’s stats? How much more health/damage/etc. does the siege engine get?

With regards to when dailies and dungeons reset, they reset an hour earlier because of DST changes. That is, stuff reset for me at 7 P.M. local time, but now stuff resets at 6 P.M. local time. I learned this the hard way when I missed out on doing my dailies yesterday.

I doubt it’ll be practical at all to do this, its just something fun to do in my spare time. All the applications I’ve found via searching on google have been either paid versions for drives larger than 4GB or free ones that limit the storage to 4GB.

I kinda wanted to avoid spending money on something like this. Thanks for your help guys.

I’m curious if its possible to load the entirety of Guild Wars 2 into RAM (assuming one has enough RAM available to set aside for the game while Windows/other applications can still run normally).

Just seems like something neat to do if you have the RAM resources to do it.

Yeah, dungeons are the way to go. My guild runs AC in 15-20 minutes (still in search of the DR limit), during that run we use the food that gives +30% MF and +40% gold from monsters. So we get 26s (run completion) + 1.4*15s (from end boss) + 1.4*5s (from the champion [gold] mini boss) = 54s every 15-20min plus drops.

I bought a Razer Naga specifically for Guild Wars 2. I found that since we can move while casting skills/spells (most skills/spells at least) that I didn’t want to hinder my mobility from either taking my hand off the mouse to use the num pad or take my fingers off wasd to use the numbers on the keyboard. I also tried using 10 keys around wasd/esdf and this wasn’t for me, so having all my skills (1-10) and f3/f4 on the Naga’s 11 and 12 buttons (mapped to – and = on the keyboard). Then, for the other two class specific abilities (f1/f2) are rebound to ‘q’ and ‘e’ for me. This way my fingers don’t really have to move far from my movement keys/mouse.

Friending is one-way. However, I think one way you can tell if they have you friended is by hovering over their name in your friends list. If their amount of arenanet achievement points shows up, I believe that the friendship is mutual, if it doesn’t show up, you friended them and they have not friended you.

1) It’s the guild’s tag that the person belongs to. Usually its the acronym of the guild’s name. For instance, mine is Guild: Testing Eternity Tag: [TE].

2) Do the personal storyline as you level, it will indicate what level is recommended in the top right corner of the screen in parenthesis. The story rewards you with alright gear and another means of leveling up. It also gives you a break from exploring the world.

3) There is a website that shows what guilds are on what servers but this website contains only guilds that have registered on the website. http://www.gw2guilds.org/

4) Guilds are great ways to find people to do stuff with. They may eventually lead to making new groups of friends. In my GW1 experience I met a lot of people and a special someone who I am really close to now. So if you’re feeling social, I’d find a guild.

5) Best way to learn slang is to ask the person saying it what the expression means. There is no real way other than playing the game and asking around. The one you mentioned is a group of 4 looking for one more person to do the dungeon called ‘Twilight Arbor’ doing the explorable mode instead of story mode.

So this database you’ve created has all the human armor skins…I’ve been waiting for the wiki to complete it’s list so I can choose what armor to get. You sir/madam, are a hero!

If I may make a suggestion, I really loved the way the original GW1 wiki displayed armor. That is, multiple pictures of a character wearing half the set of armor to show each individual piece if one wanted to mix and match sets for a really custom appearance:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_female_elementalist_Luxon_armor

Does anyone know where I can find the new discoverable recipes for all the crafting professions that were mentioned in the first post, like the discoverable Halloween jewelery?

There seems to be a lot that came with the new update. Some of it I heard will stay, like the costume brawl achievement, and other items will be unavailable once the event ends, like all the achievements under the special event section of achievements. I want to know what items (not ones exclusive to the BLC or anything involving RNG) will be unavailable once the event ends so that I can get them before the event ends.

I run an EVGA GTX 560Ti 448 FTW edition.
My brother runs a Zotax GTX 560Ti.
Both are DX 11 compatible.

My other siblings share a computer, but only have SLIed 9800GT’s that run DX 10. (My brother’s old card and my old card). However, for christmas I’m looking to give them an upgrade, something like a GTX 650 (runs DX 11).

If you’re looking just to get the best frames outside of WvWvW, at 1080p and highest settings, I wouldn’t go higher than a gtx 560ti 448 edition or a gtx 660 / whatever the equivalent ATI cards are (Nvidia fanboi, sorry >.<).

Sidenote: I run a slightly overclocked EVGA 560ti 448 FTW edition (overclocked from the FTW overclock) and in sPvP and PvE there are only a few instances where the card hovers around 30fps. Otherwise its hanging around the upper 50’s. As for WvWvW, I would assume it performs worse, but I haven’t toyed with WvWvW very much so I can’t help you there.

I use a 560 ti 448 edition and it runs great. Since that is of no help though, this performance review should shed some light on how some different cards run GW2 at different settings and resolutions.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-6.html

I did read that one, I was hoping for more options than the single guild. I just figured that I would post so that if there were more out there that have not posted yet I would let them know too

Hey all,

I’m looking for a guild that I can join that basically only runs dungeons. I will only be representing when I’m looking to do a dungeon because I’ll miss my guildies in my main guild. I don’t care if its a small guild with distinct group(s) that run on a strict schedule or a large guild that just creates a dungeon running community, let me in please. I just want to run dungeons however, meeting new people is always a plus =D I’m tired of checking LA/{insert dungeon map here} for a group and would rather just ask in guild chat to get a group going. Also, I’m willing to use any voice chat software because it just enhances the dungeon experience.

Thanks,

Ilithis

Home World: Fort Aspenwood
Guild Name: Testing Eternity [TE]
Guild Website: n/a
In-Game Contact: Ilithis Mithilander
Focus: PvX
Quick Notes: Casual guild comprised of mainly people from the original Guild Wars. Mostly we’re interested in running dungeons so there is more emphasis on PvE than PvP and WvW.

Does shutting the game off after farming for a particular item for 30min actually reset the DR code and allow one to continue farming for said particular item?

Oh, maybe I interpreted what the wiki page said about the recipes then. In that case…runs off to the Mystic Forge to create those recipes

You get the recipes from the Mystic Forge using:
X Mystic Coins
X Crystals (bought for SP from Miyani in LA next to the Mystic Forge)
X Bottles of Elonian Wine (also bought from Miyani for some gold)
1 chest piece of the armor satchel you wish to get the recipe for

Just a forewarning, I hear there is going to be a patch for these mystic forge recipes to make it less expensive to get these recipes.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_forge
also detailed on how the recipes are obtained.

@derry, I know what you mean when you say that you completed all the paths but didn’t get credit for one of them for the achievement. I had the same thing happen to me in TA. I did all the paths with one group, each path right after each other. Then, a while later as I was looking what I needed for more ArenaNet achievement points I had noticed I was 3/4 in completing that line of achievements for TA. The next day I went back and did the spider path again to get 4/4. Not a big problem since I love dungeons, its just a weird bug that I wasn’t sure if other people ran into until now.

So I was just wondering if there is a decrease in drop rate when farming an enemy for X minutes. I need thin leather and have no cash to buy it on the BLTC. Currently I hunt wolves in Gendarren Fields and I’m wondering how long I can do this before I see less than desired drops. Also, if anyone knows of another place to get thin leather, let me know :p

Thanks,

Ilithis

Ilithis Mithilander is the named I have been using for everything since middle school when I started playing Dungeons and Dragons. Since it was my first time playing, my DM asked me how I was enjoying making a character and what not. My reply was something along the lines of “I like this”, but I can’t speak properly sometimes and it came out like i-li-this. Then, Mithilander is a derivation of Mithrandir which I encountered in one of our D&D 3.0 books.

Ever since that campaign, which was the most epic campaign ever, Mithilander is my surname for all my characters while Ilithis is always my main.