Guild Wars 2

Good thing the sugar rush is a consistent 10% buff as well just keep in mind you have to reapply it or make it stack before it starts.
Either way that jumping puzzle is complete fail with speed buffs.

Got it twice without any, it can be hard because of the time of completion being like what, 90 seconds?

Will the candy corn recipes be discoverable after the events? im sort of stacking them up. Kindof collecting all the recipes. xD

Just haven’t discovered them all because i’m not exactly high level with all the crafts yet.

It doesn’t use a chunk of Vram for processing from my expierence. Uses alot more Dram.

Anyway.
I’m running steady at 1920×1080
With everything maxed
I’ve disabled the ingame FXAA and enabled some different filters in Nvidia control panel, just because i find them less curvy and shraper that way.

Post processing makes the game look too bright, disabling the bloom effect made it look more vivid.
Bloom definitely loses it from HDR.

I’m running;
- AMD Athlon II x4 650 @ OC 3.1ghz – just a minor automated clock for 100 mhz.
- DDR3 1333mhz 4 GB
- Nvidia Geforce 630GT @ OC MemClock – 1020 / ShadClock – 1840 / GPUclock 920

Everything runs stable under heavy workload @ 40-45c

Thing didn’t cost alot, basically runs everything stable at 40 fps from WvW to Cities.
Never see a fps drop, so i don’t exactly know what’s dipping it for alot of people.

Besides that, a lot of effects and shaders work better under DX11

They’re near the first area in ashford like a lot of them. dependable on spawn and diessa plateau. Has to look as if the ground is dried.
You’d find a bunch near the mortars grabbed a total of 2-5 every visit

Still can’t understand how my bag of chip 300 dollar pc can run GW2 maxed out and everyones complaining like mad about that.
lol.

AMD Athlon II x4 650 3.1ghz
Nvidia Geforce 630GT 1GB
4GB 1333mhz Ram

Must be me.

Anyway, yeah like I’ve said before it’s well worth it.
Just have to try it out, dependable what server your on it can be a pretty much flawless experience.

It’s a nice suggestion to be honest, if they ever implement it though. I do hope they add support for android as well. =d

Think i understand what you mean.
But for me, they feel nice to have around.
They basically make the areas feel as if it’s crowded.

I’d say June Juli-ish anyway. =>

Yes, Think i clocked 200 ish aswell now.
Most games have a replay value of 30 – 40 hours.

Besides that you can expect content updates, quite literally next week + the event.

Fingers twitched that the updates wont be that fast. Hardly have time now. =[

@Knote

Not really no, can’t really get a optimum rotation here as it is.
too many factors at play.

On guild wars 1 the whole hero thing when they removed the cap ruined the game so much.

i could get a 7 man hero party and literally do nothing through every hard mode content

But from my expierence with the dungeons in guild wars 2 you’d have to keep yourself alive as much as take advantage of any buff factor and fields.
Especially with ranged projectiles it’s better to dimble towards a field that would have a chance then not take advantage of it.

But there’s literally so much to do.

Sadly with the new job apps i’m not going to have enough time to fiddle with all of it. =d

Definitely the shady cat selling red apples.
I mean there’s nothing shady about that right?

Well, yeah. they did up to a later latter. Where a repetitive cycle turned out supreme.
I remember just needing 3 buttons to reach the top chart, with a just 2 cooldowns rinsing it until the end of the raid.

It’s really hard to make something complex without removing the fun aspect.
If, you run with a good dungeon group you’d be pretty okay to kite something through a designated trap/bomb/trigger area.

It’s quite stale, but if you play with people you know there’s definitly possibilities to use advanced and more complex strategies.

I still place bombs with a whole army right behind me on my engineer. =p
been leveling all of the classes, find it hard to decide the right one aswell.

I remember back when i played WoW as a Paladin healer television on raid healing. Okay guis we have to move now. pops bubble ‘’whats he doing?’’ … ‘’No idea, who cares.’’
pressed the same buttons assigns lowest hp.
Especially in Cataclysm that was pretty easy with the spell changes.

I’m more than certain that every game will bore you at some point.
Atleast, that’s what i think.

But, with my job currently going pretty well.
Considering picking up 3 additional jobs.
Since working full – time with jsut one doesn’t seem to be a possibility for me in this time of need. =/

So for most of it every couple of hours that im able to log on im enjoying to the fullest. Just messing around with a class whenever i got an hour.

I quit wow, because i couln’t enjoy it anymore.
Nor would i have the time when i’d get a job. I know, a sub fee is like going to a cinema for the same price.
But it feels like a total waste when i can’t dedicate the hours into a game i pay for monthly.

And from that experience im receiving im also getting the feeling this game is more biased around casual play.
Which, totally fits me no doubt. Just not sure if it fits everyone.
Probably doesn’t have alot to do with classes, but it feels like that.

Not that it’s anywhere near original or funny, but i still liked calling a sylvari elementalist charcoal factory.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AE6WY3Qhm2A/R1A2wRY4wYI/AAAAAAAAADY/GxFL_uDBK1Q/s1600-R/DSC01416.JPG

yadigg?

Rpgtabbycat.5869:

Stuff like the upcoming Halloween update will be free.

Expansion packs you will have to purchase. Whether they make them available for purchase with gems will be entirely up to Anet. Considering how many gems it would take to upgrade a regular game to deluxe, you can bet it will cost a small fortune in gems to purchase an expansion pack that way.

Oh kitten that will everyone will just save up gems they can afford now. =/

Don’t forget the Tyrian content, coming right after Halloweens content.
Bottom of the preview.

Yeah mesmers are, but i thought it was quite lacking. Elementalists are sort-of okay i suppose? you’re still rotating between your F skills can do some decent chaining get some combo fields up.Remarkably you still have plenty of times to decide it i suppose.
Im indeed playing a ranger, and turning on the tv whilst playing. =>

Corian.4068:

If you look at the world map you’ll see there’s a lot of blank space on it that can be used for new zones. We’ll probably see many of those filled in with free updates over time, and expansions will add entirely new sections of the map such as Elona (the land to the south of the map).

The expansions would also add new skills, weapons, races, professions, etc. That’s my guess anyway.

Yeah, better be Chrono-mancers.

What the hell, are you using some sort of filter or different Graphical control panel settings?

My rendering isn’t anywhere near what you’re showing. 0.o

(Yeah, i’m using the full deal on 1920×1080 with supersampling. Although on 2048 everythings just too tiny.)
Turn off Post procesing or lower it to mid range,

Edit; Nevermind i see what the guy above me did tharr.

Actually, gets me back to the SMAA filter. =x does just that reduces the effectiveness of these effects to a subliminal amount.
I hate FXAA filtering =s

I do sincerely hope they’ll ask money for the actual ’’expansions’’ They’re not just like adding a extra dungeon or area.

Ofcourse, but if you read the haloween preview on the bottom of the page you’d be seeing that they’re adding a tease of content coming soonish.

That would be the free content being dropped, besides that i sortof have high hopes for this haloweens event. Not to mention how they’ll do christmas. =>

For what its worth playing engineer past his second slot up to his third.
Throws christmass balls, Drops UAV packages on the floor uses his flamethrower to set entire areas ablaze.
Even though i played my engineer the least, the whole skillbar set is ridiciliously gigantic all coming with strategic input or just mopping around with a flamethrower. Nothing wrong with that, just set the players on fire whilst they wait for a Ascalon Crypt group. =>

I still recieved a few apparantly someone from china and taiwan tried to access my account. =s

But i’m not recieivng my own log-in attempts anymore either, unless my IP changes.

Nurvus.2891:

Furthermore, the “evil” side is ALWAYS more popular.
Always.

I know right?
Fluctuates a lot depending on what you pick first. =>

Khronus.8370:

I don’t care who you are. I am evil in game. I ride on the back of jormag to lay waste to your pathetic and puny lives.

When the claw has fallen, I scurry off in an attempt to resurrect my fallen comrade to wreak havoc a couple hours later.

Until you took an arrow in the knee. =?

Honestly, We need an intelligent elephant race that spontaneously came from Utopia because of Primordius. => or the pig-like creatures. I mean destroyers don’t exactly look like pigs. 0.0

^

Dwarves…fine…as long as they also include Tengue. Otherwise, Dwarves are just same old same old as any other game which gets kinda boring. I mean, if they are going to go Dwarf, they might as well include Elves, Gnomes, etc….blech.

They Vanished after the great dwarf event.
Turning them all into stone, guarding the tunnels. Stopping the Destroyers from overwhelming the surface.

Seeing they’re close to extinct a rare race couln’t be playable =d

So you’re save ^^

Major off-topic;
My money is on ’’Proposed’’ Chrono-mancers as a playable Professions though!
secretly utopia cancellation revealed the Chrono-mancer.

Ok so, i’ve checked it out with some water.

With

http://imgur.com/Ez4L9,h1v2u

Without
http://imgur.com/Ez4L9,h1v2u#1

It looks like the post processes being used should have a wider variation of options to choose from.

From my understanding with hassling with these injectors on Skyrim.

These are ussually effects that get added additionally when you tweak a certain Ini file.

(This is aside of the main ini file)
It would give you the option to enable different aspects from the DirectX engine.
Like blooming effects, Radial Blurs, etc.

Now seeing we can’t edit our D3D10 (Since that’s what guild wars 2 uses) because it might not be possible to do so.
We can’t adjust different aspects about it like add Bloom / HDR , LumaSharpen , Color Vibrance (which is editable in Nvidia but that would change your desktop color schemes aswell.)

Now you could honestly, adjust the brightness levels of the HDR and Bloom effect. So it wouln’t blind you or make certain things to a point where as i can’t tell the difference anymore.

Least to say, i have no idea why, but even with post processing on (It might overwrite it)

Besides that Lumasharpen really sharpens the image you recieve, It’s not mind blowing but it’s definitely better.

Hopefully, if they update their policy it’s possible to adjust the DX10 File to alter the appearance of the images we recieve. That way i can actually look if there’s a possibility that it could look better with just a simple graphical tweak. =>

Although from the last website i linked with the 2 screenshots. It’s definitly looked like it had way more potential then the current one in use.

FXAA
http://i.imgur.com/1jPzy.jpg

SMAA
http://i.imgur.com/05wec.jpg

http://guildwars2.mmmos.com/?page=view&id=2115&title=smaa-injector

Sadly, from reading what’s been said.

A GM stated it would’ve been bannable.
But there’s a huge chunk of confusion around it, no idea if a actual dev would respond to this.

Would make my own screenshots, but here i am already reaching out for my halo. And just skipping it until i can get some clarification and jsut do it with other games which don’t have an actual MMO element. =d

Think the main problem would be the actual FXAA filter not the Post processing

Yeah, i suppose it’ll be that. Tried changing my nvidia options but pretty much nullified lighting.
Tried it from every angle and every position =s
http://postimage.org/image/cjlckk39z/
I’m really getting a feeling there’s some sort of radial blur aswell.
I didn’t touch anything that radical just the hgiher texture filter. did adjust the shadow a bit but that’s about it. And well the Ambient Occlusion
I’m sure there’s a injector that can blend the bloom effect more towards one liking trying to find it as it is. Been meddling alot with it. most of them add useless effects like DoF and what not. but that’s with skyrim had high hopes that i could find one as of late. some of the tweakable settings can be amazing and actually compile alot of DX11 elements on backwards versions.

http://postimage.org/image/8ir8bsost/

Are you seeing more then me I’ve tried strolling and snapping different areas all over.

Pretty sure im not experiencing it on my screen

I don’t know for certain, but apparantly there’s quite a difference between how nvidia and amd cards render certain effects. Not to mention possible settings you get to tweak in the control panels.
What i do know is, given the capability to change alot of the control panels limitations in Nvidia inspectors guild wars 2 profile.

One noticeable difference ive encounter whilst browsing around was this;
Tweaked;
http://i.imgur.com/bDUdQ.png

Normal;
http://i.imgur.com/0cz6x.png

As stated, the images are just showing a minority of what you encounter ingame with it.

That’s done with the FXAA Injector
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1164730-Post-Processing-Tweaks

Supposely you can manage that in the nvidia control panel aswell, The bright color scheme could be altered aswell, but you’d just have to meddle with your Nvidias Guild wars 2 profile.

Again, no idea how to do it with the ATI tools.

No idea if Anet allows a Injector to do it’s job, so wouln’t advice using it.
Looks to me as if there’s a radial blur present when i compare the images.

Right now, all i’m worried about is how Halloween will turn out to be.
=d

Well, i don’t know if it’s allowed by Anet, but it’s a possibility to run a SMAA or other flavored graphical injectors that alter the shader.
I’ve been doing it with Skyrim for the past month.
Whilst some of them like ENB presets seem to absolutely demolish your graphic card (GTX 660/680)
(But that’s what happens when a graphic card has to use Dram instead of their own Vram.)
I doubt the SMAA injectors or anything like that wouln’t do it at that much of a rate. Then again, my game looks perfect as it is for me. =/

(It hogs your VRAM) Doesn’t actually matter much wether you have alot of decent RAM in your slots.

Was able to alter the Filters brightness and some of the shadows.
The ones from ENB presets i’ve tried were the HDR ones and the Bleak/Unbleak giving it a vibrant Movie look or actual pain in the kitten lighting =D
ENB Unbleak preset
http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/24828-1-1349356283.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o4cAjk60-2c
That’s skyrim with the ENB Bleak preset
(You’d probably have to set the Youtube video to 1080p to actually see what sort of difference it makes)

This is the Zoners HDR Preset for the ENB mod;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i8m1o9NfwF0#!
Again its best viewed on 1080p, i liked it quite a bit. But the Unbleak preset with some minor tweaking did a way better job.
—-

Now i suppose you’d only have certain FXAA and SMAA injectors around that would be compatible with guild wars 2 at this moment.
But then again, im not in the mood to try these injectors out and get banned for it. =>

Until that warrior walks up to you with a bigkitten hammer and totally demolishes you without receiving anything

You can’t expect them to work on saturdays and sundays can you now. =< Alot of the bug fixes from what i saw, were aimed at the story line. Taken from the past weeks especially last week there WERE updates.

I agree windows uses more but, that’s just a bit over exaggerated x5 times.

Eitherway, I wouln’t play games on linux.
Might have my support for it, but then again i’m not positive i’d be playing it on linux.

So i read an article about the Google Authenticator being implemented in 2 weeks. Prime, anyone got experience with it being a save bet?
Today i received like another crap load of Gold seller mails.
And the funny part was, one of the mails i recieved turned out to be someone i saw a WEEK ago on my server.

It really started to worry me, I’m pretty sure my Email accounts pretty secure, but for the sake of it.

Mojo.2691:

Perhaps they could be mainly for vanity but have a faster movement speed while on the road.

We may even see mount combat, you never know. If they do add mounts I hope it’s done differently than other games have done it.

Well, siege weaponry comes to mind.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Siege_weapon

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Alpha_Siege_Golem

That’s the only actual place i wouldn’t mind to see expansive mobile combat

Mh, i don’t know about that. Gems are rising pretty much by 17 silver last time i checked it in just a couple of days already, now that everyone starts to get a big bundle of coins.

Besides that, i wouldn’t understand why you would want to receive gold from someone that hacked into someones account. To eventually use it as a bot and sell gold from.

CoD doesn’t promote scamming. The only thing that promotes scamming is a way to actually receive it like mail and trading it in person.

Edit;
Come to think of it, makes it more legit and harder to find. If you give me items and i’d send you gold as C.O.D. but like probably items that are totally pointless. But, how do you want to verify transactions that happen like that? Gold for items. What could possibly be wrong there?

i know it’s logical but, just wanted to state it. Because that was a big mistake. =/

If they do, they should add a otter dam. Which, we can destroy. Afterwards they enrage and they turn on us like er… spoiler; The mad chickens up in ebonhawke peckin the living crap out of my ranger, lol.

Well, what about some sort of progressive Dungeon finder?
So people that actually have experience wouldn’t get queued up with new players that still have to learn it.

I suppose, that already hits the bar.
But just trying to figure it out, because the biggest nuisance you hear is that it usually irritates people when they have to wipe every single time because someone doesn’t know what to do yet, or just can’t figure out how to do that exact encounter.

The seer should be a race. Can’t have it as a class or it would be sort of exclusive.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Seer

I know you put ‘’the Seer in front of it, but it’s just confusing at some points. =d

edit;
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Seer // guild wars 1 version.

edit:

To be fair, i’m trying to think of one right now. But i find it so incredibly hard with paragon and ritualists sticking exactly where they want . xd
Especially not seeing spirit keepers working. Those are too close towards urns.
Mist Walkers? errrr…

Edit:
Some of the Traits seem pretty decent.
The whole guardian thing i don’t agree they look very linear with each other.
Yeah sure, they both seem to work with spiritual practices but it seems alright.
What if, instead of having a huge weapon kit.
They would work a bit like engineers?
Having different spirits that can possess them granting new abilities?

I mean that’s just me, i probably should come up with one myself but i’m not as creative.
But, i like the overall engineer set. And just having one special Profession like that doesn’t make me that happy. =[

edit:
I merged my posts together, so i wouldn’t spam string the entire Suggestion, sorry for that.

Yeah, just hope, if they consider doing so. Bring something from HA (Heroes Ascent) back. Oh, i just love those ghostly heroes. =(

(From Guild wars 1)
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Heroes_Ascent

Er, it’s sortof a battle arena where you test your wits against each other. Call of duty can be best described towards it if your not home with the common Defense of the ancients concept. Where you have them to prevent your base/hero w.e. from falling. WIth 3 different playfields that you have to defend. Tier1,Tier2,Tier3.

Now you’ll probably wonder why i put Call of Duty in that list. But it’s a bit skeptical to put it this way. Since there was a specific mode that would basically like that Arena game that totally failed. Forgot it’s name.

Moba and Dota somehow merged together. It’s the same, but not exactly the same. So it’s confusing, like me. 0.o

Edit: Bloodline champions, SuperMNC and well like i said Call of duty. Are Arena based games. So fit the role of the MOBAs.

Then again, LoL, DoTa 2, Smite etc.
Strafe back from when they had this starcraft map that sortof started the whole thing.
Eventually warcraft released and they modded DOTA maps.
Which quite frankly got popular unlike the Starcraft map, eventually couple years later growing wide with other Dota games which you cant refer to as a dota since the game was called Defense of the ancients. So it turned out into a MoBa Genre.
Ofcourse i skip the entire big hurl of information but i was hoping i could enlighten a bit of it. =/ You’d have to google it. But honestly, those games get repetitive like craze at some point. (my opinion)

Actually, it would be possible if they bring back the old GvG with the guild lords, if they can match up with some sort of defensive structure. Or those HAs’ were pretty cool, with the ghostly heroes. ^^

every ‘Freaking mmo ’Implements mounts.
It’s ’Boring me out having to see a mount on every acre of the ’Play field…..

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Death_Magic

. 0.0 .
I remember when my MM spawned a walking army of bone horrors from the corpses.
Then applying Splinter weapon and Barbs. they were unstoppable =d

I rather want something like this then walking zombies and skeletons. Atleast they have a sudden feel to them then the so called zombies you see in every MMO and freshly put shooter nowadays. =/ Not to mention the filthy skeleton pirates. =[

You do know some of them have more armor, or more damage. Not all veteran mobs have to be as spongy as the rest. But they can still hit for like twice the amount.

Really? I’ve been wondering whether in Guild wars 1 Specifically Necromancer minions and having a ranger pet out. Not to mention Ritualists with their spirits recieved less loot. Based on them sharing loot just like heroes and henchman would.

Is the engine that much the same that it scales exactly the same and the Guild wars 1 speculation bode truth?
0.o

But to come back to the ‘’anti-farming’’ part.
I’m not exactly positive about that, if i farm a specific mob that drops less frequent at some point. and just stops dropping afterwards. 6-7 mobs later i start recieving it on nearly every mob.

If you have stable internet.
You can easily get it in one 45+ zone with it giving 100+ per kill not to mention the other xp you would eventually receive, In like an hour.
I agree they should fix it.
But, it’s doable as it is unless you wouln’t have stable internet and you’d really get my sympathy for that. =/

With the recent cooldown on server transfers the simple workaround with just doing a quick server transfer has basically dissapeared aswell.

My question was, for a simple workaround would there be any sort of possibility to switch to overflow from your main server, so we can finish the specific skill challenge and swap back to our main server?

There’s sort of loads of skill challenges that bug out regardless on specific servers.
I’m doing my part to report as many as i possibly can.

I’m positive this can’t be due the new nvidia drivers. My nvidia 630GT with the latest beta drivers wasn’t recieving this. And it’s been out for quite some time.
I tested it out as of today and it happens aswell.

I concur it happened before 15th of september.
My 3rd alt playthrough recieved it on the 14th.
Whilst before that, i’ve played a character cleanly through cutscenes without any cuts.
I don’t know wether it helps or not, but that’s what i wanted to point out.