So many cheaters, clearly ‘achievements’ are simply worthless these days
Sure they are! If you want to have an achievement people respect and look up to, do something in the real world. Help solve one of our problems, code a piece of software millions of people use, create some art others enjoy… help other players exploring stuff in a video game they can’t do on their own.
It’s not you lose anything.
Unfortunately preconfigured gaming PCs are either expensive or crap (and expensive). And “multimedia PCs” often have integrated Intel graphics or something like a Geforce 920, which might be even slower.
If you know someone who can put together the parts for you, you will most likely get something nice out of that budget. It’s not really rocket science. I’m from Germany, I know a couple of online shops that build a PC to your spec but you will have to rebuild all from scratch, including case, etc. And non-DE shipping is prohibitively expensive, not really an option. Will likely get over 600€ this way than just to order upgrade components.
16GB vs 8GB won’t make any difference as far as motherboard or PSU are concerned. All modern boards accept 2x 4GB or 2x 8GB modules without a problem.
RAM: 8GB of ram will be good enough, make sure you buy the right kind for the motherboard if you go with the board I’ve listed, then it will be best to get DDR3 1600Mhz. I ent with 8GB of HyperX Savage, currently around £37.
With the client now being 64bit and reaching more than 5GB I would use 16GB RAM. The difference is just ~40€. Never save on RAM, especially not when it’s cheap.
As for the graphics card, maybe you can get a used (if you want that) GTX970 or faster AMD equivalent on ebay or somewhere else. The CPU BrotherBelial recommended is pretty solid, would be a shame not to pair with a higher end card.
600€ budget isn’t that bad.
No, I don’t regret it at all. It has some rough edges, not everyone can love every aspect of a game. For me most of the complaints are not really an issue. I’m not particularly thrilled about the mastery system but the levels will come anyway while you play the game. And they have always listened to feedback even if they can’t respond to every single thread. Plus, let’s face it. If they changed all the things players demanded all the time the game would probably go to hell.
As for the amount of content, I suspect the living story will pick up where the main story ended. So, you more or less bought that, too. In advance. Sort of.
It has an inertia type feature, you need to get it moving first, and then it picks up speed. You need a few people working on it, not just one person.
Oh, thanks! I didn’t know that. Probably not many do. But it explains a lot.
Everyone just seems to nuke the hell out of it and don’t question the “0” in the floating dmg numbers.
Then don’t do it. I hate raids, I will never set foot inside and won’t pay anyone to let me tag along just for an achievement. But… let’s not derail the thread. Sorry, Chris. :/
I’m still all for “impossible” JPs with physics involved. Could be great fun.
I’d approve! Oh, and add some spiked walls… hell, moving spiked walls!
It may make for an awsome asuran themed jumping puzzle. Moving, teleporting, bouncing, force field platforms over a lava that materialize and vanish in a certain pattern. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spekks's_Laboratory with a twist!
But, tbh, 3D and/or first person platformer often play clunky at best so it might be the best idea to stay in a static environment. The spinning platform is rather buggy anyway. Put down a combo field on the ground. It doesn’t rotate with the object.
My apologies if this was brought up earlier, I haven’t found anything while skimming/searching through the topics, but maybe I was just blind.
I’ve been to Dragon’s Stand a couple of times, but the experience there is just not good at the moment. There are players standing around, noone seems to know what to do, the first event chain is not started, but the timer is ticking. Often it get’s going with less than 60mins left which is not enough for an unorganized map. The events at the three lanes don’t seem very difficult to me, so it doesn’t seem to need much organization except for three independent groups.
Start the timers only after the first chain is started
That would massively reduce the chance that you end up on a map described above. It’s also rather depressing if you see “30 mins left” when the meta event starts, but it’s virtually impossible to do in that time. Again I’m talking about not completely organized maps.
Remove the timer altogether
That will likely turn the map in a giant warzone with constantly pushing forward and back at the camps. But at least it gets something going and it’s far more likely for people to join in the fight instead of standing at the starting point, waiting for three commanders to appear out of the mists and watching the timer to tick to zero.
Another extremely annoying bug. I was on a map with 1,5 lanes going. Suddenly a “leave for a more populated map” popped up. So why not, maybe it’s better to concentrate the players. I ended up on a completely dead map that hasn’t started the first event yet with about an hour left. That’s when I choose to made this post.
This post will obviously contain spoilers. Lot’s of them. Don’t read ahead if you haven’t finished the story yet and don’t want to know these things in advance.
Didn’t encounter any game breaking bugs.
The strange, rotating structure you have to climb before the last mission made me motion sick. It’s cool, though. Combo fields place onto the “ground” do not rotate with it.
I took Canach and Braham with me. Played everything with a Mesmer, roughly 80% berserker, 20% soldier’s gear.
The fight against Eir. Interaction with Braham is really nicely done, but either I suck at damage or it could use some tuning. She must have revived Garm at least 5 times so it started getting tedious after a while.
Fight against Canach was interesting, didn’t get it at first. I am supposed to stand below his shield dome that will reflect the stun grenades back at the evil Canach and then nuke the hell out of him while he’s stunned? That did work once and then never again, I just wore him down slowly and painfully. Not sure if it’s supposed to be like that.
Mordremoth was an incredibly fun fight but very easy. Guess it’s tuned ok. Couple of things with that one. There is a phase when everything goes boom and Braham(?) shouts to get into the air or get shielding. I didn’t find any place to get flying first. Burned through distortions and managed to get stuck at the edge of the plateau somehow. There seems to be an invisible wall or something around the place that obviously has holes.
The updrafts aren’t visible very well. I only stumbled over them when I suddenly got a “press f to jump” (or something like that) hint. My suggestion would be to place a marker arrow on them like in Silverwastes when a fort command falls, but that would probably look incredibly bad. Maybe better to have them active all the time during the encounter so you can learn your way around the place in the beginning when not that much is going on.
The adds in the final phase of the fight are rather boring. At first I thought “what the” when so many spawned but they do almost zero damage. Mordremoth should have employed those pesky pocket raptors instead. Maybe include one veteran, as it is now you can just ignore the whole army.
Trahearne’s sword you get at the end is a one-handed sword? The description reads greatsword and I can remember it looking like one when he wielded it.
I was sad that there were no end credits. The soundtrack is superb and I really hoped for something like in Fort Trinity at the end of the main story.
All that, of course, are really just minor things. The feeling was epic in my opinion.
I am a bit disappointed if it is only 4 maps of content and raids. I did expect a full content expansion considering the price of it.
Explore the maps before you judge it. They are huuuuge. Tangled Mess… I mean Depths, basically feels like 4 maps stacked onto each other. Last night I jumped, more like fell, into kitten (stupid profanity filter, “a deep and dark hole”) and found that giant underwater caverns. Felt like ending up in Blackreach in Skyrim.
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(Frigging pocket raptors keeping me in combat mode too long….)
The secret to dealing with pocket raptors is…
Deep pockets.
I just love’em.
- Player runs towards them
- “Oh, cute little raptors. Never mind, I can just ignore them”
- Player get’s crippled
- “Hm, kind of annoying.”
- Bleed is stacking, they actually hit like the big ones
- “What the…”
- Player downed
- Player dead
I think a lot of the Adventures are very poorly balanced. It should not be all that hard to get gold, everyone should be able to get gold with a little bit of practice.
But why? Do you see the content in the game as a sort of todo list where you tick the checkbox “got gold, been there, done that”?
There is an unbelievable number of things to do in the game. If you can get all of it done to perfection it a couple of months it’ll get stale fast.
I’m usually good at this kind of stuff. Got furious that I never reached 15 (aka silver I guess) and admitted defeat. Will come back later. Unless I forget about it.
What the! I can’t believe it’s that easy to get to the security console hero point in Verdant Brink! It took me almost an hour experimenting with the updrafts and finally arrived jumping from the highest point of the map via all that gusts and floating debris. Was fun though.
Thanks for the guides, helped me a lot sometimes. Even though I don’t really look at guides unless I’m desperate. <3
The only hard part of the clocktower is the “omg omg the green slime, omg I’ll drown!” If you ignore the doom below, take your time and learn the way as you go, it should be… possible. But I also remember the horror first time I did it. It took me many hours.
2nd hard part: no mesmer portals.
I didn’t play last year at that time. Are you still instanced with ~10 other people? Does everyone still rage about charr? :/
Random thoughts, you asked.
PSU (750W) is totally over-the-top for a single GPU system.
Why an old 4th-gen Intel Core CPU? (well to bo honest, doesn’t probably matter very much, but shiny new should be shiny!)
Why an nvidia 960 instead 970? Almost twice as fast.
Unless it’s for budget reaons.
You selected K-CPU and Z97 chipsets, so you plan to overclock? If not, non-K and cheaper boards are identical in speed.
Likely it’s more related to the view. Asura are smaller so you can see better when to jump. And for me, I’m more careful on my smaller Asura because she is smaller than the others even though I know she has the same footprint as a Charr.
For the record, my mesmer is a Charr.
As for the last jump, the one from the last but one platform to the little pipe, I find it easiest with first person and turning the camera to the ground. So you know when the pipe is below your feet. Problem as a Charr is that you cannot see where you’re jumping anymore after you’re halfway up since your head is above the texture.
It’s actually not that sadistic. The jump in Dry Top seems to be more difficult, judging from other people I ported up there.
If you stand on the top platform and turn the view so that your character looks straight at the little pipe you used to jump on the top platform, the direction to jump is 90° to the left. Just run off the platform, don’t jump very far. You can more or less just drop down to the pool.
I can help/show you ingame if you want.
and the more money they make the more money they put into a game
Do you really believe that? Tell that to the WoW devs.
The more money you make, the more money you can sink into other projects to get a more diverse lineup of your games. It’s silly to have one single game in the pipe. If that fails, you fail.
Also, you cannot just throw money at a game and make it better. That usually doesn’t work so well.
You seem to come from WoW, I’ve played that, too. Didn’t like the direction and gameplay anymore. So why should I want the go into the same direction here?
I also don’t get the timesink thing. WoW even has a worse timesink. Getting a new legendary every couple of months. For the last 10 years!
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Do you really like the game to 100% without exceptions and agree on everything A-net does?
Of course not, but all of them are other issues than “we want more loot faster”, “we want mounts”, “we want tank/heal/dps”, “we want addons”. It’s getting old. Now we even got raids that not a single person I play with cares about.
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The 750Ti is not that good anymore, especially for newer games. I wouldn’t buy it new unless you’re on a very tight bugdet. But it should handle GW2 most of the time. Rule of thumb with Geforce cards model numbers:
x10-x50: low end to mid
x60-x70: mid range to high <- usually best bang for the buck
x80-x90: fastest (and most expensive) version
Add “Ti”: a bit faster
Here’s a nice overview:
https://international.download.nvidia.com/webassets/en_US/shared/images/products/shared/lineup-full.png
Best value currently IMO is a 970, despite the bad press with 3,5GB/4GB. Rest of your system is fine.
Hide the shoulders, most medium armor coats look much better without.
As for the helmet… the pirate hats look quite nice on female Charr though most look indeed silly. Yep, you want a female pirate engineer… named Chyarr Boomtail. Ok maybe not.
Actually, if you don’t mind tail clipping on most armor, you won’t even notice the other issues after a while. And if you do, just hide them.
Yea, I meant through the Trading Post, but I suppose if I can find someone who has it who can link it that would work.
I’m not sure what you mean with preview. Can you right-click on a dye and preview your armor with it?
If you need an abyss dye item link put [&AgGETwAA] into the chat. It should produce an item link. (You can get the links from gw2db.com or any other GW2 item database.)
The Legs are Ascalonian Catacombs Legs. It was bugging me too for a while.
Oh, nice find, thanks. Will try them out after work today.
Wow, thank you so much for this this answer, Aryto! I admit I have never even thought of checking my mid level leatherworking patterns. Will try it out tomorrow.
