Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing this game (and a Ranger) for 3mo’s now and can confirm that some of our pets ‘automatic’ abilities rarely if ever happen.

Chomp: "This skill heals your drake for 965 when it hits. "

I’ve never seen it happen. I’m going to test this as well as the Brown Bears “Bite” here shortly.

Agreed, great artwork in this game. It often amazes me how much pure art goes into making a game of this scale.

It even looks better in 3D.

1 stay alive/up – going down hurts everyone
2 if your profession has a team/group buff ability(s) bring and use it
3 rotate your attack skills so your not just standing there waiting on CD
4 see #1 above

To conclude, we are not universally hated or useless. If you feel that way play another class.

The two ‘improvements’ that I’d like to see for pets is AoE/AR resistance – we must get some sort of AR resistance for our pets to be able to run Factorials. Secondly, many of our pets ‘automatic’ skills are simply broken. (for example) When was the last time you got a ‘heal’ from a BITE or CHOMP? If Anet just made the abilities that pets already have actually trigger and work we’d be talking about ‘nerfs’ instead of adding boons.

If you wander into an area swimming in down NPC’s place yourself in aprox the center of them and SoN will revive the entire lot of em at once.

Scootabuser.4915:

MaRko.3165:

I was out ‘farming’ the Straits of Devastation for mats (and map completion) yesterday and came across a ‘Champion Risen’ with an enormous HP and a decent chest.

The resulting battle likely took longer than a full ‘zerg’ that normally happens at these things but my Ranger with the help of an Engineer took it down with barely a scratch.

If I lay down my Bonfire or Healing Spring in front of the Ranged players, they get the benefit of adding Fire to their attacks and the front line gets regeneration. My pets can add boons or remove conditions for the entire group. Not as well as others some may argue but very useful.

I’ve never been excluded because I was a Ranger.

My Theif can kite around champions ALL day long without getting hit ONCE. Your story has nothing to do with class mechanics.

Sure it does. The whole idea that we are to ‘squishy’ or can’t provide enough DPS is silly. Almost all the lower level content (outside of dungeons) I can solo while I run across other professions that are downed by the encounters.

While we may only have 1 ‘blast’ finisher (via our Drakes), we have 9 Major and 5 Minor projectile finishers to work with (while less than a Thief(16) and Warrior(11) it still can’t be discounted).

I was out ‘farming’ the Straits of Devastation for mats (and map completion) yesterday and came across a ‘Champion Risen’ with an enormous HP and a decent chest.

The resulting battle likely took longer than a full ‘zerg’ that normally happens at these things but my Ranger with the help of an Engineer took it down with barely a scratch.

If I lay down my Bonfire or Healing Spring in front of the Ranged players, they get the benefit of adding Fire to their attacks and the front line gets regeneration. My pets can add boons or remove conditions for the entire group. Not as well as others some may argue but very useful.

I’ve never been excluded because I was a Ranger.

Greetings,

While testing out different weapons at the Fort in LA yesterday I finished with testing out my different pets as well. While testing a few interesting things happened.

My two birds (Eagle+Owl) consistently gave me Quickening Screech! (never noticed it before) How awesome is that? Every 20-30s I’d see a swirling shimmer go over my toon’s body (and of those nearby).

While testing my Brown Bear the oddest thing happened ONCE. The entire left side of my tool bar started shimmering in Purple (like purple flames) and I realized that I was getting the benefit of BITE. I’d never seen it before, idk if I’ll see it again.

It was interesting to see how well the ‘auto attack’ and the ‘F2’ attack performed as well is if the attack was a single or AoE effect. While my Birds, Cats and dogs out performed all my other pets on single targets my River Drake won its place on my Pet round up for hitting multiple targets with its bite (~475) and tail swipe (~2500). Oddly its tail swipe is more powerful now then its ‘F2’ effect!

Ok, so not to create yet another ‘Rangers are broken’ or ‘Pets are broken’ thread, it appears that we’d be fairly even more awesome if ALL of our pets actually did what they are listed to do. While the Drakes Tail Swipe is AWESOME and likely OP and will get nerfed – I’ve never seen where I gained health from its ‘Chomp’.

Chopps.5047:

Agadar.4931:

Chopps.5047:

arrownin.3128:

It’s ALRIGHT. The number 4 skill isn’t all that special, and you might as well just auto attack instead of using the 4 skill. However Whirling Defense is great for ranged defense, and it also hits for a lot of damage in a pinch!

I’ve done over twenty 1000+ crits with a single toss of offhand axe #4. If there’s a tightly grouped mob, that thing is actually quite beastly.

And regarding agadar’s hurtful rhetoric, I have Bark Skin. My invitation to help you is always open.

If you think that making big crits is what counts in this game, boy do I have news for you.

When did I say that? Seriously, the point you brought up is an entirely different discussion. I think I know why you responded that way. You think I’m saying to use offhand axe all the time “FOR BIG CRITS”. That’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m saying that in the right situations, offhand axe is a good weapon and certainly not terrible and you are trying to claim.

Agadar, the fact is that sometimes you have to kill a large pile of trash mobs. Clearly, a bouncing axe dishing out 1000 point damage to a dozen enemies is a good thing or else warriors wouldn’t use 100 blades and elementalists wouldn’t use Meteor Shower.

You have to realize that everything in this game is situational. There is no “one profession that pwns them all”. There is no “one weapon that is the always the optimal/best for every situation”. There is no player than can perpetually tank a boss, so why should your pet? These are all things, in my opinion, that you ask for, based on your comment history. ANET isn’t going to make ranger OP just for you, man!

Seriously, agadar, I like you. I like debating you. You should guest with me. I won’t troll you and I won’t be mean. It’s not about benevolence. Clearly you want ranger to work, I found some things that tend to make ranger work, why can’t we meet in the middle?

I like the main hand Axe as between it and my Drake they can take down open world PvE mobs fairly quickly. I tried using a Horn with it and the burst of speed (when active) was awesome but found (for me anyway) the Torch to be more effective.

I’d have to ask what kind of numbers are you getting off your main hand Axe? I don’t think I’ve seen my main hit that many targets that hard. (unless of course its bouncing between a bunch of RATS which shows the damage scales inversely with the size of the target)

Maybe I’ll drop by the Fort @ LA and test it out… (curious now…)

M.

Oh… idk… its kinda like a solo game (Skyrim comes to mind) but with other people around.

Here I was looking for a missing skill point and find myself facing a Champion! Not to big of a deal – most of them drop fairly easy – however this ones HP was barely moving! Egads – do I just leave or stick it out?

Here’s where the playing with others around comes in – much to my glee a handful of other players showed up and between all of us finally beat it.

Sure, they all went on their marry way afterwards but so many times in my ‘adventuring’ I’ve ran across others fighting something or the other way around its kinda nice.

Others may wish to have a more ‘social game’ but I’m having fun with it the way it is.

thekillermoose.1825:

So i was just wondering what to do when you just hit 80. Do you buy a full set of exotic or what?

Yup. Rewarded myself with a full set and now I’m trying to get 100% world map. There are/were so many areas that I did not even set foot in – its amazing. Its been keeping me busy for weeks! Some of the View Points are at the end of jumping puzzles and others are just plain a PITA to find how to get to!

M.

loseridoit.2756:

Vayra.3290:

Why? In long story, GW2 Dungeons are always horribly bad because their level of difficulty is next to impossible

Please, don’t make me laugh. Dungeons in this game are ridiculously easy. The only fights I have ever consistently wiped on during my first few runs were Lupi and Dwayna in Arah. EVERY other boss I have killed on the first try without knowing any tactics beforehand. If this is “next to impossible” in difficulty, I do not want to know what you consider acceptable. I can remember other games where you would spend weeks trying to kill just one of the bosses in a dungeon. Games where it took months before anyone had completed the hardest instances, where it took weeks from hitting level cap until you would even considering doing more than the easiest dungeons (which were about as hard as Arah at the easiest). Please give us dungeons like the Tomb of the Vulture Lord from WAR, Hammerknell/Infernal Dawn from Rift, or anything that is actually challenging pve content.

Say that again with a full party of level 35-40 on ac explorer. ANet screwed up on level scaling. Level 80 with exotics trivialize all content in the game while a group of level 35 will not be able to finish.

Arah only hard because you are fighting at your “proper” level

Too all that say that all the dungeon’s are to easy I offer this: “The Nudist Challenge”.

Gather a team of your buds and video the group of you successfully running ANY dungeon on any path with NO armor/trinkets (hence the ‘nude’) and anyone who has any arguments that the path you took is to hard will be put to rest.

I have a Logitech BT Razor mouse – could NOT be used at all in GW2. Bought a $20 wired USB blue MSMouse – not a single issue since.

GW2 and wireless mice just don’t get along.

If you have a wireless mouse just ditch it to play this game.

dadjitsu.8730:

there is definitely something wrong, I have GTX 460s in SLI running a 5700×1280 display over 3 monitors, and in high quality and its smooth. your 690 should not have a problem

just to add I am using the Beta Driver 306.02, I did have problems with the certified driver

Its a 6xx series glitch. My 570’s scale almost perfectly. GW2 is not the only game that this happens on. I’ve seen similar reports on Boarderlands2 forums.

The current system of entering a dungeon is way to boring. Stand around a large crowd people attempting to mix/match a group together.

Profession, gear, level, skill and play style are all factors in finding a group.

Take a hint/idea from the FPS games – if your in a Guild and 5 mates jump in at near the same time they are automagicly grouped together – everyone else is tossed in a bucket and tossed into the instance 5 at a time.

Put a 5min timer on it so people are not playing ‘revolving door’ in attempts to land the group dynamics they want. If specific group dynamics are desired – form a Guild. If guild mates are not online/available to play – jump in the random pool.

In a true ‘skill based’ game any random group of players ought to be able to finish most of the content.

Clark Skinner.4902:

that’s only in wvw

I have run over to rez someone many many times just to have them waypoint out before I can get to them. I think they go to map screen immediately after getting killed.

I used to wait and see if someone came by to help but ended up WP’ing out more times then not.

The issue/problem that I have is that I’ll bring up the map and intensely search for WP’s near a repair station. This might take a few minutes as ether (A) repair can’t be found everywhere and (B) places that might have repair might not show on the map.

So after searching for a close repair facility I click the WP and usually mindlessly click again and its then I notice that some nice person is attempting to revive me. (adding frustration to them)

When in defeated if there was an option to ‘go to nearest WP with repair’ it’d simplify the process.

+1

I swap pets all the time and have given up on naming them..

The issue here is that when on a limited budget where you simply replace everything (get a new gaming box) replacements need to be done in stages a little at a time.

So we have a AMD Athilon X2 7550 processor and a geforce 9100 integrated gpu to upgrade.

Going with a CPU+MB+Memory upgrade won’t buy the OP any real performance gains as the built in graphics abilities of any of these options are on par or worse than what he currently has. Getting a DX11 capable GPU will give him more performance in open world PvE (discounting LA and large Zergs) and can be used with a new CPU upgrade when its affordable.

BroScientist.9875:

MaRko.3165:

IDK, my favorite attack right now is Torch/Axe/LB – lay down a bonfire, hit them with a flaming bleed and switch to LB for flaming arrows. I rarely use my SB at all.

You can light your arrows on fire with the torch? That’s awesome. I never even glanced at the torch because it just seemed boring to me but now I will have to check it out. Currently I am using GS/lb but torch+axe/lb sounds like it could be fun then.

“Bonfire” is a combo field. Fire out of or through the ‘combo field’ with a ‘finisher’ to get the effect. Axe/SB/LB/Dagger Our element traps also provide a combo field.

Combined with a Fire trap and alternating between them I can stay in a ring of fire most of the time (not moving) or create a path of fire leading to me.

I tried running with Axe+Horn or Sword+(horn or torch) and have better luck with the Axe. (the Sword+horn is pretty awesome for single targets, the Axe’s automatic ‘bounce’ between targets imho is better for crowd control coupled with a Drakes tail I don’t worry to much when getting mobbed.)

I think it was mentioned in the future more WP’s will be added. Even before the patch it sucked that if you got killed – left behind – there was no way to single handedly fight through the trash to rejoin your team.

I agree that dungeons that a solo option would be handy and nice to have.

While many games have ‘difficulty levels’ so that less experienced players can play through while more gifted players have a challenge GW2 offers none of that.

Just as in life anything can be a challenge until its ‘known’. The first few groups that figured out the ‘boss’ mechanics and how to beat them were faced with a challenge up to the point of figuring it out. Afterwards, once a solution was/is known its easy.

Personally, I think they ought to add a ‘insane’ mode. Something to keep the more gifted players challenged.

Humm…. I wonder….

Many of the FPS type multiplayer games have a ‘lobby’ sort of system. I know the GW2 designers tried to avoid that system but the current system does not work so well ether.

I wonder what would happen if each dungeon was simply a WP that was otherwise unaccessable other than clicking on your map to enter? If 5 guild mates clicked on the map WP within 30s of the 1st one they’ll get grouped together otherwise everybody else would get tossed into 5 player groups. Period.

It would encourage Guilds and leave the PUG’s to complete randomness. Heck, even place a 5s WP fee on each instance to discourage playing ‘revolving door’ in attempts of getting a ‘better group’. Want a challenge? Play with 4 random people.

I run a mixed build: 0/0/20/20/30, Cleric armor with Guardian Stones and Zerker Weapons+Trinkets.

Healing – I did some tests with the healing/life stealing Sigils and was not at all impressed and ended up destroying them and using %5 Crit Sigils.

FYI: The Sigil of Corruption is pretty awesome but it seems that you can only have one ‘stacking’ Sigil active at a time. When having two 1-handed weapons equipped having Corruption +Bloodlust (Axe/horn or Axe/Torch) I never saw the Bloodlust Sigil active, only the Corruption one.

On the Wiki: Healing Spring – Gains 100% benefit from Healing Power.

More healing power = faster healing.

IDK, my favorite attack right now is Torch/Axe/LB – lay down a bonfire, hit them with a flaming bleed and switch to LB for flaming arrows. I rarely use my SB at all.

Gotta…. get….a…..glowing…..axe…..

I’d suggest checking this site out: http://www.techbargains.com/

Sometimes the major brands will have a laptop outfitted with a GTX660m or GTX670m with a fairly deep ($400+) discount. If your looking for true portability there are a few models which have 14-15" screens.
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If your upgrading your PC in stages (as your pocket books allows) adding a GPU/PSU as the 1st step is a decent idea, however depending on the clock rate of your current CPU you may not see much of a performance boost.

IHMO: While many current day gamers like to ‘save money’ by going with an i5 rather than an i7 as the current crop of modern games don’t make use of an i7’s extra threads the next gen Consoles are just around the corner and more than likely will support more threads then the current generation does. Consoles more threads = PC more threads. (therefore making the i7 more attractive)

I’d call myself a ‘casual’, I’m able to play a few hours an evening. Whats wrong with the ‘story mode’ providing some of the mechanics (but not overly punishingly so) that are needed to learned so that players can build skills for the explore modes?

I would not count myself as a kitten player that needs to be fed rainbows but I don’t have 24/7/365 to invest in: waiting for a group, watching Youtube videos, reading and actually making a run.

I’d love to see a video of an ‘elite team’ outfitted in all level specific WHITES and no trinkets make a run. Surely if this is a ‘skill based’ game, remove all the gear and see what happens.

Chopps.5047:

Shaidan.1503:

I still enjoy Ranger, but some of the claims you see on the forums have some truth in them. We do have some things that could use attention and I’m still standing that in time it will be done. We’re a jack of all trades class where we can really do anything, but we are not overly amazing at anything. Most of what you will find are BM bunker builds, a trap build, and the occasional berserker glass cannon. We don’t presently have a lot of effective build variety however you can still adapt and succeed with a Ranger, or shamelessly complain as others do. Your best bet is to create both and give them a go for a few levels and see what feels the best to you. If Ranger is a class you truly enjoy you will adapt to play how it is designed presently working through the flaws.

I respectfully disagree; I’ve found more useful builds than just three. And I think rangers are overly amazing at evasion, actually, as well as mobility. I’m going to take another break from the forums and get a video up very soon. I promise I will show very unique and special things that only rangers can do. This includes an explanation of the stealth trolling rangers have been doing in dubs (makes people claim “hax” and is loads of fun harassment strategty). Think more creatively about how you can combine abilities and maybe you’ll get some of this cheese in before I make it public, which is something I feel like I must do to try and repell the beliefs people have ingrained about this class.

“stealth trolling rangers”

Now THIS I’ve got to see!

Personally, I went with a more ‘tanky’ build – a full Clerics/Guardian Armor/Runes. All 5 of my ‘trinkets’ are Berserker with Ruby Jewels. Weapons I have a mixture while still experimenting with the upgrade slots.

Peter.9406:

I’ll answer your first question for you: F2 skills can’t be switched out. The other skills you see on your pet box are their default skills which they use on their own. Lets say you want a bear but don’t like the F2 on it, you would have to choose another F2 skill that suites your liking.

Thanks Peter, I understand that some of the pet abilities they will do on their own but the question remains how do I change the F2 skill? (to more my liking?)

For the Brown Bear it remains “shake it off”. I can bring up the pet management menu and see the other 3 ‘F2’ abilities listed and have LEFT/RIGHT (with and without ctl) clicked on them to no avail.

Ok, I’ll admit to playing (and LIKING) my Ranger to Lvl80 and beyond. There are a few nuances that I’ve still trying to figure out.

Pet “F2” – how do you change it? The Brown Bear has what appears to be a awesome ‘bite’ which sounds like some free health but I’ve never been able to change whatever the default F2 is on my pets is.

The Drakes have a ‘chomp’, Bears have ‘bite’ both of which seem to be examples of our in built ‘regeneration’ skills.

The ‘defy pain’ looks like it could be a great SOS button – how do I get it on F2?

I’ve recently been running with kitten Horn and Axe/Torch combo. When I picked up the items all but the Axe (has Superior Sigil of Corruption on it) had empty upgrade slots so while shopping for upgrades I came across these:

Superior Sigil of Leeching
(Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat
steals some health. Has a 10 second internal cool-down.Heals
the player for 975; unaffected by healing power.)

Superior Sigil of Blood
(+30% chance to life steal on critical. This effect cannot
trigger more than once every 2 seconds.Heals for 453 at level
80, and an additional 1 health for every 10 Healing Power.)

To try them out I went to a low level area, placed my Pet in non-combat state and got something to start attacking me. After waiting for my health bar to go down enough to notice a change I switched to a SSoL weapon. Sure enough my heath bar went up a bit – but there was no animation (such as you get when an NPC does this to YOU). I then tried the SSoB and the NPC was dead before I could notice anything.

Granted the SSoB appears to have very little chance at happening. I wonder if its worth bothering with at all. The same could be said of SSoL, while I did notice my health increase its likely not enough to make much difference in a fight.

Of course in many open world situations there’s always retreat but I was looking for another way to gain health when my Spring was on CD.

Current stats: At-2772, CrC-18%, Armor-2606, H-18552, CD-0%, HP-667, BM-30

Any suggestions?

While leveling my toon from 0-70 I got most of my gear from Karma vendors – saves alot of $$ and their gear is much much better than can be bought with $$ at vendors.

It seems that when your armor is actually broken – it will vanish off your toon – if you find it wandering around in its underware – time to get your armor repaired.

(actually I did not know about the WP or armor tricks – thanks)

Churchill.8714:

I love when my AH/Hammer Guardian has a Ranger or Ele in the party and I don’t see a single blast heal field anywhere but in the back – not to mention the lack of heals I get from AH with the rest of the party also being in the back and no where near me.

relevant to 99% of people you’ll see playing those jobs.

The less than a handful of runs I made with my Ranger I always made it a point to run forward into the melee area to drop a healing spring for the melee dudes. Heck its one of the few things that Rangers can bring to the party to help the group.

poisonedsodapop.9348:

I get the changes, I really do. What I don’t get is the reason they would remove the waypoints before implementing other changes. For instance, ok you don’t like the lack of teamwork. But why can’t we res our party members? Maybe they’re new and they don’t know how the fight is fought. You can explain something but actually experiencing it is the best way to understand. Maybe they’re actually level 35 in a level 35 exploreable and not geared in full 80 exotic stuff. Maybe it’s a party of all elementalists who only know each other and don’t want to pug. The thing is sometimes when someone goes down, they go down and there’s no saving them.

I think most people’s major gripe with this is that instead of removing the ACTUAL issues (balance issues, hp sponge bosses, “overpowered” bosses, etc) that caused people to glitch and waypoint instead of ressing someone Anet just shut down the one method that actually gave players a chance of not wiping and being able to survive the dungeon.

I think what needs to be done is to actually test the dungeons how they were “intended” to be played. Get some people to run AC explore in an all 35 party, and the same with all the dungeons. Maybe get them some bad gear even to really emphasize what a pug is. What a person new to dungeons is. That will truly help Anet understand where the problems lie in their dungeons.

I know when I started doing explorable dungeons I did them for gear as a badly armored level 80 with my guild who didn’t particularly know exactly how the dungeons were run. It was tough but having the ability to run back saved us many times. If it weren’t for that I probably would have given up on doing dungeons. I think that’s where we’re headed now.

This ^^.

I’ve said if before and I’ll repeat until I’m blue in the face: your content design is broken if Lvl35 players with Lvl35 skills in ‘Average’ (mix of blue/green and MAYBE a yellow) and with ‘average’ player abilities can’t finish it. The content is ALSO broken if an elite team of Lvl80 players outfitted in Exotic/Legendary gear can finish the content in less than %80 of the time it takes the lower level players.

PS: For those that would like the dungeons to be even harder I have two very easy simple suggestions: 1 – take a group of lower level players in or 2 – there is nothing stopping you from actually USING Lvl specific gear even if your a Lvl80! Go purchase a set of WHITE Armor/Weapons and join a PUG of lower level toons and see how CHALLENGING the dungeons are then.

If its becoming a big time sink waiting around trying to get a group together – why bother? There are other things to do.

Getting a group together before the patch was problematic to down right impossible.
The PUG’s I joined were great – even if my squishy Ranger was the last one standing or got lost as the others ran off while I was pet switching for the next fight. (never did find them – they nicely did not kick me)

After a couple of good fun experiences the reality set in. I wasted nearly 1 week of evening play time looking for groups to run dungeons that I have not experienced yet. In the end, instead of waiting around to be some groups ‘newbie’ dead weight I’m having a blast trying to find viewpoints and areas-of-interest and doing map completion.

So as a inexperienced Ranger I’ve got off to do map completion rather than bother with the dungeons at all. No one-shot-kills, AoE’s covering EVERYWHERE you could possibly dodge to and no ‘dead is dead’ – you die you have to start over.

While in the open world PvE I can see that others play their toons much much worse than I do, I’m in no shape or form gifted, advanced or ‘elite’ of a player to be able to tackle any of the dungeons on my own or have the time to learn or practice them. If the dungeon content provides fun and pleasure to those that do have the time and skill to run them, my hats off to Anet for providing the content.

IMHO: All games ought to have content that is of interest to all levels of players.

I thought the December update specifically sped up our LB? At least I recall a thread in which Mr Peters said that it was getting buffed.

I feel your pain. When I have 3 Centar’s around me all wacking on me when the 1st one goes down the ‘auto promote’ fails and I just stand there getting hit. Hitting ‘1’ then auto targets the EQUIPMENT RACK a dozen or more yards away instead of the 2 Centar’s that are left in my face kicking my butt!

Where’s the prioritization of targets? (there is none!)

1. In your face (attacking you)
2. Attacking you from range
3. Might attack you if you get near it
4. Will attack you if you attack it
5. Will not fight back – non-living object

More times then not, switching targets will pick #5 above over 1 or 2. <grrrrr>

I was thinking about Pets and AoE and it dawned on me that the ‘2s protection on dodge roll’ was likely the game mechanic intended to protect our pets from this.

It might work if we actually got 2s instead of the seemingly 0.5s we get now.

So the moral of the story is farm for T5 and T6 mats – sell on the TP and use the profits to purchase gear. Wonderful.

I guess there are enough RP’ers and Legendary seekers wanting the high end mats to keep the prices of those items up.

Thanks for the replies.

In the SLI configuration screen there are a number of options (off the top of my head), the PHYSX can be set to ‘AUTO’, ‘USE CPU’ , ‘USE GPU1’ or ‘USE GPU2’.

If your config is set to ether of the ‘USE GPU’ settings – Physx is all that GPU will do. If that setting had been changed from ‘auto’ it might explain why your GPU’s are not scaling.

The only two other possible causes (I can think of) is if you’d used the 3rd party application ‘nvidia inspector’ to change the nvidia default values/settings for the game or that your 2nd card is in a PCIEx4 slot – however you’d see this ‘scaling issue’ with all your games.

Nvidia has a SLI specific forum which could provide more information as this is not a GW2 issue.

So now that WP running is no longer allowed in dungeons, is it more valuable to equip Spirit of Nature to hold your party together or the patched “Entange” just to awesome to pass up on?

IDK about the other classes, does the others have a similar ability?

It sounds like your SLI config is set to have one card be PHYSX.

I’d goto the NCP and SLI page and reset to defaut settings as well as the GW2 listing in the Nvidia control panel and ‘enable defaults’ and ‘apply settings’ to save.

I suppose that people fighting in town clothes would be to ‘realistic’ for some countries and get the game banned.

I liked the idea of having different town clothes to outfit our toons with until I learned of this restriction. I kinda wonder why bother with having ‘town clothes’ at all if there is no use for it.

I used to work for a national ISP and over the course of the time I spent there each and every free/paid for ‘security solution’ that messed with Winsock forced us to walk the end user through a Winsock reset. (Hardly a day went by that I did not have a customer issuing ‘netsh’ commands.)

While not recommended for average users it is the #1 reason I don’t use those types of products.

Odd, which driver set and which cards are you using? Are you sure they are a matched set with matched clock settings?

Outside of my #1 slot card always tracking 10-15 degrees hotter than the bottom card they track fairly evening as far as load goes.

BTW: Any SLI “issues” is a Nvidia problem, not an GW2/Anet problem.

Broken computers – no. Cruddy ISP’s, low grade routers and congested WiFi YES.

A < 10$ 100’ CAT5 cable will rule out the WiFi.

Actually, after watching a video of the animation, I take that back. The flying unicorns have rainbow effect trailers. Kinda cool.

This would be VERY hard to miss out in the open world.

Kandrick: It seems that crafting might make sense if your able to gather/salvage (from free/drops or cheap items) > 50% of the mats needed to produce what you want.

Have you seen the price of anything Apothecary or that uses Passiflora or Passion flowers? Egads!