Guild Wars 2

I have seen 5.7 Gb of memory use. Remember If it’s in memory loading times are 1000 times shorter compared to your SSD…. memory speeds are in ns instead of ms (whatever you do your SSD is also limited by throughput…. 600 Mbps is peanuts compared to RAM read/write speeds. SO do not complain and hope they’ll improve until the full game is loaded into memory , provided you have the neccesay memory. I wouldn’t mind.

32 GB available, with full load I use about 7-15 Gb (with browsers/other apps already in memory and so on. So I should have 16-25 GB available: just continue loading stuff, make a teemporary ram disk if needed I do no care…. just make sure it goes FAST, yes I know I could do so myself…. just copy the whole folder in RAM then start it, could make a nice .bat for it… sounds nice and oldschool

(oh and improve core (4?, 8? 12? 16?) usage, GPU usage, and so on. 64 bits is a nice start, now improve!)

Tried it today with an semio organized group, some ppl were ferried in with lFG we had avbout 18-24 ppl/lane and we got 1 down, 1 @ 5% 1 @ 10% and 1 @ 20% wew treid hard in ogre lane but 5% was the max we could mnage with 20 ppl, we had a lot of ppl killed a few leavers due to the time (23:30 start) and in the end not enough sustained DPS….
I myself died during the second DPS phase… and respawned only to face a long walk of shame… losing most of the second 3 min DPS opportunity.. I noticed good condition dmg is quite powerfull, but the duration and the stacks need to be there… when everybody is dodging around it’s the main dmg for the lane, at least in ogre.

My mesmer thanks you for a useless drop -.-

Could this become account bound, soulbound on use -PLEASE?-

This has come up before… There should be a solution to your problem on the forum

If I remember correctly i has to do with the PROGRAM name not being recognised by the software of your GPU so it defaults to intel graphics instead of using your dedicated GPU… Try renaming your 32 bit client gw2-32.exe and your 64bit-client gw2.exe and retry. (in this order)

I personally have no integrated graphics, so I’m doing this from head,I’m sure it was in the bugs and/or players helping players thread.

A week? What were you doing? I spend 8 maybe 9 hours and was done…. with all tyrian collections… I’ve not played tyria since launch except for that specific day…. Now I’m returning doing some dungeons and WB’s for the rev skins… Oh and you can get 100+ mastery points in The Maguuma Jungle… just so you know… 49 for Tyria, 112 for the jungle…

SO either ppl have 49 points from tryia and 51+ from HoT or they have just HoT maxed… We have 8 ppl in our guild with 161 masteries already. Only 3 of them have said they were farming (either COF or Spiders or both)

for the snipers: don’t stay stationary, just move left and right and continue attacking when you play ranged… else just kill ‘m with priority. you’ll ge hit now and then, but you’ll most likely never be in the line anymore losing you just a couple of k’s instead of being downed….

I’m at 20.5K AP

I rechecked… It say indeed 10%, but some fireworks last 5 minutes others 10 minutes….

Farming seems to be detrimental to my brain functions… Guess Now I should try to think again and learn some new things…

I’m only at 100 mastery atm, I’m not interested in farming till 161, nor do I plan to do so. I wanted ley line gliding unlocked, and I unlocked it. I’m now working on nuhoch stealth detecton, in normal play. I have full gliding most done normally, except advanced and ley line, and I will go on normally, mostly because I could farm 10M XP now, but I still need the actual mastery points to continue when I’m done doin the one ’m working on now…. Problem is: those need a lot of points, I still need 56… My priority are with 56 points not the 10 M XP….. (give or take a couple M )

We are the Borg Farmers! Resistance is futile! Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own, prepare to be assimilated! You will help the Kollective!

One of Many, Drone

Thank you for the corrections… Chak mate

I’ve checked there is fireworks with a 10% most have only 5% though…

Second I might have false values of base . but I do know I get 4.3K XP whe boosted.
And I do not run candy corn food, an inscription or the 10% fireworks, so I lose about 30% (I am at 345%) somewhere??? where max should be (correted) 375%….

I haven’t seen any sour ppl or have seen any negativity regarding the spiderfarm… 3-4 people will catch up to other players and you might lose 1 cycle… if you’re farming 2 -3 hours it’s a nice time to visit the toilet or sell stuff….

well the farm is next to an event, the event offers a welcome change of targets tbh…

Also my description made note WHY people cannot farm spiders with 5+ people… well they actually could but it would be dumb…. most maps have afk-ers and other people running to story or exploring, not focussing on the event, doubt 5 spiderfarmers would make everything impossible… Same was shown for silverwastes, dry top and other event maps… I’ve been doing adventures for a while now… I suck at minigames so it costs me a lot of time. Ineffect I’m not doing meta cause I’ playing a different part of the game..

Spider farm: 3-4 ppl, 5max.

REQUIRED GEAR?
- none, make sure you can tag stuff and have XP gains maximized
REQUIRES MASTERIES?
- basic gliding, bouncing mushrooms, in effect you’ll need about 2 mastery points to start….

LOCATION:
South of the Itzel village (north-east of map) in Verdant Brink. You’ll be lookng for atree village…. You can go there walking, or by shrooms from the itzel village WP (should be a shroom on a big planky surface)
You’ll need shrooms to get up to the spiders, make sure you have the mastery, gliding is a very usefull method of travelling back.

GOAL:
You’ll be killing some veteran spiders…. ONLY veteran spiders…. to get XP….

GAINS

• 1 Cycle should kill up to 30 spiders , for 1.5-5k XP a piece giving ~ 45-150k XP (~2.5-3min) a cycle
• This Cycle can be repeated up to 20-24 times an hour (600-720 spiders/hour)
• 0.9M XP (no boosters) (5.5 hours for 5M XP)-
• 3.6M XP (max boosters) (1.5 hours for 5M XP)
  final results depending LARGELY on your booster use and efficiency:

• 1st: _Efficiency_*
  Make sure all spiders have time to respawn…..
  Running circles at full burst with all 25 stacks of might and such seems nice, but it’s a waste: you’ll lose kills/hour….

In spider farm when over 5 ppl:

• You kill so fast the respawn doesn’t keep up… A circle needs to respawn fully, else you’ll lose out on 1.5-5k XP per spider, this is a LOT
• people might miss tags on some spiders losing out on a lot of XP and you’ll lose out on 1.5-5k XP per spider, this is a LOT
• you’ll suffer loss of killstreak (AS A GROUP)

• Fix: Either all people go ranged and start leisure killing and it will work, but if 1 person in a group of 6 (or more) pushes too much , and a possible loss of over 8-10 spiders a cycle effectively dropping the efficiency per run to 50-65% of what it should/could be…
  Your duration of the rounds will only drop a dozen seconds maybe….

Gains(?) of being TOO FAST:

• 20-24 spiders for 1.5-4.2k EXP (due to killstreak loss)/cycle
• 2-4 More cycles/hr (22-26 max)
• 440-524 spiders (losing you 75-280 spiders/hour(!))

24-30K XP / cycle without boosters
75-90K XP / cycle with ALL boosters

which will make maximum gain drop to
0.5-0.6M XP /hour (no boosters) (8.5 hours for 5M XP) and
1.5-2.1M XP / hour (all boosters) (2.4-3.5(+) hours for 5M XP)

WARNING: YOU WILL LOSE HOURS GETTING THE SAME AMOUNT WHEN SPIDER-FARMING WITH 6 OR MORE PEOPLE !! SO MAKE SURE YOU ARE 5 OR LESS !!

Advise regarding BOOSTERS:

• celebration, birthday 100% (from monthly/ birthdays)
• heroic/experience (includes killstreak) 50% base, + up to 150% with killstreak(BL keys/ boosters in gem store or converted old boosters)
• banner 5-15% (laurels/ guild)
• infusion 20% (laurels)
• utility 10% (BLTP/crafting)
• food 10-15% (BLTP/craftng)
• fireworks 5% 10% (BLTP)
  ————-+
  +370%

• Experience +50% (from reward choice boosters (converted old boosters) These will affect the whole Experience gain (from kills only)

In all cases use a celebration booster and FOOD+Utility+fireworks, use any banner available

Enjoy the grind….. (5M experience will take 1.5- 2 hours of running circles…if you can provide yourself with the boosters)

Drops: drops are mostly poison glands t5 and t6 and some blues/greens and an occasional yellow… you’ll get some nuhoch bags but nothing making you filthy rich. You are in this for the XP, not the drops

Potential problems:

• Main problem: You’ll fill up your available mastery points very fast… Make sure you can actually reach your goals before you spend a lot of boosters, having all your xp ground out but no points to spend will be a waste of playing time…
• More then 5 people…. find another map (efficiency = important!)
• Less then 3 people….. It will slow down, At the time of writing this: new people will join and refill the group reasonably fast…. I had a farm group early in the morning…
• No boosters…. Well either wait a couple of days and hope for a basic celebration booster, or spend some gems on boosters…. you can get a decent buff with foods, banners, fireworks and a laurel experience infusion (~65% of max 365)
• Trolls: as long as you do not have your banner placed only a couple of minutes ago you could travel to another location (map instance)
• The Bore…… Boredom…1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide, 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide…. Grind….1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide, 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide…. Sleepy….1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide, 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 glide…. and so on. Nothing to be done…. make sure you stay focussed on running: falling down will mean losing the 3-4 others, and losing a block of xp or killing your partner in Duo…. I take a break every 30-40 minutes losing me some time, but I take my biobreaks, drinks/foods and refresh my ingame foods/boosters…
• Full bags… Bring infinite merchants or 1 use versions, enough salvaging capacity is a minimum requirement
• Banners… Placing a banner below will attract a lot of treasue hunters…

NEVER ever go to a farm via LFG and IF you do: make sure people stay in your party else you’ll have 5+ people see above for likely consequences, IMHO guild groups and random occurances tend to function best

well….. That’s about it… Now everything is out and in the open. Oh and I doubt spiderfarmers are the causes of fails in a map… The fact people do not know/ underdstand the meta events is…. We had SW introduced in 3 or 4 blocks…. taking 2 months, this time we got 4 silverwastes maps in 1 go…. If it would take the same time this would stabilize and give good instances withing 1 or 2 months….

I really was troubled when the expansion came out. Big maps, chaos, no clear objectives, over the top difficult hero points, difficulty navigating…. The feeling much was bugged or impossible to solo…

After a week or 2 I now feel most of my problems have been adjusted some of the worst bugs have been adressed, most mechanics have been discovered and I already finished verdant rink twice and auric basin once.

The only 3 things I really do not like are

• Dungeon nerfs, I used to do dungeons daily… Since HoT launch I didn’t check 1 except for CoF, and I didn’t even run it to the end. (you’ll know why by now)
• The changes in condition duration, shifting duration from food to armor, I rebuild 2 of my 6 hybrids only to notice most armors are now multiple times the cost they once were… I wanted to make a viper exotic armor… problem is the cost of the oil… the EXOTIC armors went up (at least for the new sets) from 6-20 gold to 60+ gold….
  No to mention the rise in costs for ascneded armors
• The fact everything which would have been a reward isn’t a reward but a gemstore item…. I can earn armors, but corresponding back items are gem store tems 0.0 -> -.-

I have both, and TBH, I’d use a commander tag above a mentor tag, I can see the mentor tag having it’s uses but: It can be abused, same for commander tags.

Also the amount of people flying mentor cause they have it is remarkebly low, maybe cause asking questions when flying a mentor tag gets you some really nice answers….

I saw one person carrying mentor asking something and someone else replying:
You’re the mentor, you might want to explain it to yourself!

Differences between commander/mentor:

Comander tag:

• 4 colors
• Squad chat channel
• makes use of the party system, soon to be expanded (managing squads up to 50 ppl)
• dedicated commands (/supplyinfo, /squadinfo )
• available to ppl with 300 gold and some wvw tokens.
• generally used in big events and WvW, colors have more meaning then just being a tag, if WvW servers are using this, often a protocol exists on the server (When I was on SFR, blue was open zerg, yellow was scouts (for keeps and zergs) red were guild groups, purple were focus groups, and havoc squads…. this allowed for a easy tactical view of the battefield.)
  In silverwastes commander tags were linked to their respective forts…. often for other big scale events multiple color tags are used
• A Commander will coordinate (teams will coexist in squads) and commanders have acces to smaller groups and in time these smaller groups will get to be more important then mass zergs.. In a lot of cases zerg scaling makes completing events a problem already in PvE… understand a zerg will kill smaller groups but splitting your zerg in 4 or 5 groups will mean you can strike 5 targets while a zerg can be only in 1 place. (multiple 5-10 man Havocs vs 1 25-50 man Zerg)

Mentor tag

• 1 type
• Only a mark on the screen
• Using a mentor tag can have people asking you to explain, take your time doing it… A mentor is a teacher… If you do not want to: Do not tag up. For you there are hundreds of other lvl 80’s with rank 1 pact commander.
• no further functionality, availale to people for becoming lvl 80 and doing 15 minutes o cof farm.
• using teams will ask good communication and coordination, the tag will not provide means for this
• A mentor could coordinate but doesn’t have the tools, in effect mentor tags are nothing but a mobile signpost/information poles.

For both types

• Use tags responsibly, you’ll have players trying to find you hoping to get structured efficiently ran events, information, and other signs of organisation.
• If you commit to using it: see it through, I really hate people tagging up and disbanding on first signs of trouble, or being 5 minutes in and saying Oh my dinner is finished… leaving dozens of players abandoned
• I understand people are not machines and do not know everything, but learning stuff before tagging is a good approach… make sure you have a idea what should happen. did Dragon stand 2 days ago with a commander who didn’t know the events in 1 lane… If you tag up people look towards you for advice and in case of big scale events other roups in this case other lanes will give you hell for doing stuff inefficient or actually not doing your job…. Unfortunately I never ran the lane before as well…
• Expect critisism. This can be positive and negative, expect both.

I think most of these should be selfexplaining pieces of info….

Most peope really want to be of help. I’ll happily follow a mentor in any event…

Just make ‘m flap harder, the glittering wings backpack could make a nice buzzing sound like a dragonfly and the buttrfly backpack should flap like crazy like a butterfly, just don’t make our glidepathc all eratic.

I did verdant brink on my one of my mesmers 72% map tyria: 100% verdant brink : map completion: gift and map thingies

I did verdant brink on one of my warriors 100% map tyria: 100% verdant brink no gift, 100% auric basin no gift…

Functioning as intended,

It’s not like we want to give them away for free.. you need to grind for it, long and hard, to make sure youdo this we made the boxes dfrop with twice the chance of a pre in the precursor drop list, so not only do you have no longer any chance for an ascneded box, IF you do got one, it means you loast another shot at a pre.

Of course we also made sure the drop rates are so low as we made crafting more rewarding by making sure you need to grind more for it as well…

Of course this has been done cause we know you all appreciated grinding. And myuch more RNG and gliding will be added to further enhance your frustration in this game.

- possible A-net answer-

/sarcasm?? I doubt it…

owns
2 full heavy asc armors (viper/ zerk)
1 full medium asc armor (zealot)
2 full light asc armors (zealot/zerk)
and a number of loose pieces.

No grinding is easier by deteriorating agony resist, each fractal you lose 1 point of AR from your total… should be nice, especilly around 150 AR where your infusions are VERY costly.

you regen 290/sec for a period the tooltip lists the total regen for the entire period.

Peak memory usage 5.7 Gb ram… doing dragon stand.

1920*1080 max graphic settings. no crashes, seems stable, only thing I found weird was the amount of memory usage, but I do not mind, having 32 Gb It should work out fine.

Sli-ed graphics solution. min FPS seemed a bit higher

Heavy prefix automatically makes it only lootable in a 75+ map.. we do not have many centaurs in lvl 75+ unless you mean the centaurs in dry top, and they are FRIENDLY.

1 content was already nerfed to shreds
2 heropoints have been nerfed to shreds as well. yes some champions remain, but manyhavee the mastery gating removed or the champ was moved somewhere else.
3 I really do not like the pets being behind a wall only opened with event’s with a limited time to get -BOTH- the tiger and the fire wyvern (if I’m right)
4 Well they want us to keep playing,and while gold will be a less used ommodity due o supposed better balancing of the game…. well… I agree with the fact I hould be able to get some cash from somewhere… (A fervent dungeon runner)
5 dead content?
Like:
Orr temple-chains (meta events of end game gw2),
Southsun Cove (so called endgame content with 1 meta event: the karka queen),
Dry Top (meta events LSS2 prt1 no rewards),
Dungeons (no rewards)
???

Silverwastes still has some instances…. As long as poeple have keys…
6 Well balance can be tricky but introducing a new stat set (or in this case multiple) while simultaneously destorying another stat (well thing rabid, dire, sinister here, or in other words ALL USED CONDITION DMG BUILDS) should warrant a rechoice of stats on armors… I am losing 2 sets of aristocracy runes due to some person saying well this isn’t balanced let’s change stuff and see how it goes. My answer it doesn’t It just kittenes me off in a very bad way. Costing me 400 gold in new gear, new stats, new rune sets and in the end It could be more powerfull, IF and only IF the sets are complete, and they seem NOT complete at this time….

Just wait until the timer runs out and help your guildies… Most misions are credited upon completion of the timer… (well max a minute later)

I am wondering if I should agree… when looking at fear and terror (terror has a very low uptime so overwrites are rare…)

In the case of chill, chill stays chill….. Chill is an easily applied control condition like cripple (and weakness, and the like) and thus UPTIME is more important, enemies have reduced recharge, reduced speed and in case of reapers a lot of other attached stuff goes on, like lower damage from or to the enemy and dmg done by the condition, the conditin spreading..

Why I could see benefits:
Multiple reapers could stack dmg in case of multiple chill providers you couldstill get your damage in, problem: damaging chill could be stacked, non damaging chill would have lower uptimes
Why not
Coverage (duration uptime) would likely drop lowering reaper effecitiveness due to the amount of trait’s functioning around chill….

I have my main on viper already, finished story… I really really do not care to farm for scribe mats…. I have all waypoints unlocked, 65-70% of the heropoints…

TBH I want to do dungeons, but I don’t plan to run each time for 30 silver. so….

I’ll find something else. Still the maps are beautiful, the music is, I love the new enemies and friends, I enjoyed the story. I just do not care for legendary backs, legendary farms, and so on.

I want more dungeons… maybe raids will fill a gap, but “As it is gated another incentive to PLAY THE GAME is removed.”

But my list of entitlements:

1. Give me back DECENT REWARDS for DUNGEONS
2. I’d like a guid hall for my bank guild. It would be a reason to do some of the content.
3. I didn’t mind the mastery gating of heropoints, just the fact it was champs only was a big letdown, now both requirements have gone… well gg….
4. I do not see the need for an endless grind for a new stat, not bringing new content, yes boon duration and condition duration were placed on armor and it seemed nice, until I noticed food was nerfed and now all my condition builds had to undergo -mandatory- change or be ineffective… Which is costly due to runes of aristocracy not being available from the TP… I used multiple sets…I lost 2 complete sets now…. Nice I have no reason to refarm ’m
5. I find the problems with new arrivals to be the downfall of new events… people do not know what to do, or try to learn by example as best as they can… problem is they need to learn 4 new big VERY BIG meta events… Some do not care whatsoever. Some troll and some just try hard only to see their effort wasted again and again.
6. I do not see much ways to gain decent gold. Previously I used dungeons. Now I guess I need shiny baubles or comparable… I do no longer have a feeling of improvement.

No longer a feeling of improvement…. I do not need stats or levels I just hopedto be able to use my nice armors, but… All mys sinister armor and weapons (well roughly 18 pieces of armor and 30 weapons…) are now to be converted, and will need new runes and sigils.
In effect the new expansion lost me 400 gold instantly and 7 geared characters.

Problem is a big enough % -ge of the player base should feel lke the OP.
If not this is a doomed venture.

Gw2 is said to have sold 7 M copies… if half have HoT and only 10% likes it you’ll see the numbers you have a 350k ppl player base for HoT , on 2 or 3 continents (dunno if china is factored into this number) leaving you with 175k ppl or 115k ppl per continent on 20 servers so 5k people per server playing on personal times so you could be looking at a 200-2500 people playing per server at any time on 4 maps 50-625 people/map…..
Of course if 90% thinks it’s awesome… figures change radically but final numbers would be 500-6000 (yes rounded the figures a bit)…..

Problem is 90% is not a probable number, nor is the 50% of 7 Million buying HoT is my guess, from all players I knew who took a break only a few returned… maybe 25-35%

Having 50 on a map is barely enough content to do a map….. we’ll see…

Even though I like the event maps I really really mis maps just to run around in… These are not explorable maps these are event maps… untill people have completed the story scouting and masteries the people focussed on events will be a growing but smaller group…

problem: if this group isn’t growing fast enough, the events will die and so will the only reason to play these maps who also form the whole PvE expansion.

I still am quite crossed about the dungeon nerf and I’m playing until I no longer can afford food and travels and I’ll be gone. I played dungeons for 3 years and foudn SW boring after 2 weeks. I already have seen the new maps and really do not care about Silverwastes v2,v3 and v4 with a huge vinewrath at the end. Nor do I care about fractals.
I do not like the neew WvW map. and do not play PvP.

I made 20k AP, had my say in the forum. I find the maps beautifu, the music breathtaking and I do not want to update my 6 hybrids and 3 condi builds to new stats like vipers due to a change in food. I do not care about pre crafting…. Only things I liked were masteries, and maybe, maybe raids, but tbh I played this game mostly solo, doing PUG dungeons…

We’ll see where it ends.

Mordeus.1234:

Not sure how feasible it would be but in a future expansion it would be cool if we had to use mounts to get to different places just like how we use Gliding in Heart of Thorns. It’s safe to say that waypoints render mounts useless but surely there could be a region of the world where leylines are scarce and therefore waypoints are extremely rare.

I could see a Kralkatorrik expansion where we have to ride a mount to get over uninhabitable regions of Dragonbrand corruption, maybe a breed of minor dragon immune to its’ effects. Or maybe a Seadragon expansion where you can traverse the surface of the ocean Windwaker style in a vessel, as a quick way of getting to the region you want to dive into.

But I can’t see mounts being introduce elsewhere in Tyria without some sort of restrictions like the ones placed on Gliders.

And will your mount res you when you’re dead or is you character gone afterwards? IF your mount dies as well what wouldhappen to you?

Some mounts used by enemies:

Siege devourers by Charr
Combat wolves by Stone summit dwarves
Dead horses by necrid horsemen
Beetles by Costic frogs

Some transformations used in gameplay:
Junundu wurms
Siege devourers
scorps in EotM

A mount used by allies
scruffy by taimi.

problem with mounts:

In gw2 mounts are exclusively used by enemies. if a mount is used in any case by an ally is probably only if the mounted thing is an object.

Tanks, golems (see taimi), choppers and the like are all used. NO -LIVING- MOUNTS THOUGH.

And now because you have cowboy frogs riding beetles, you want your pegasus?

You can glide already, jump higher then humanly possible, and run at superspeed, why would you need a mount?
- to show you’re above others?
- to gain unfair p2w advantage to others?
- to clutter the screen with stuff which isn’t usefull
if mounts would get combat possibilities outside transforms, for gems or behind a RNG wall this forum would explode you would have 100000 posts of people who are raging and demanding to have mounts be turned into mini’s or something. And a lot of people who would just leave. If everybody would get ’m for free WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE? To kill framerate even more?

I feel sorry for the dead horse, by beating it so long now the first horseburgers should be very tender now…. A new orrian delight…. Deluxe version delivered on a scale of Zhaithan.

well original calculations say 579 expertise 38.6% condition duration based upon exotic armor/weapon/trinkets
this should be 609 for an ascended armor 40.6% condition duration based upon exotic armor/weapon/trinkets. 1 problem though: I haven’t seen the trinkets (yet)

40% from gear, 10 from malice , 10 from toxic tuning, 20 from pizza: 80% base…. you’ll only need 20% from runes or traits

(instanly filling it for warrior, for max bleeding you will not need malice and you could try bursting), same should be the case for many other builds…..

I ran my S/S & LB warrior with sinister armor weapons and trinkets and aristocracy runes.

I now run my S/T & LB berserker with vipers armor and weapons and sinister trinkets runes still aristocracy.

Sigils are malice and strength… before they were corruption and strength, problem is I ten to get ganked by snipers losing my stacks while fighting too often IMHO and it was just more logical to add a +10%

Understand you can get might from FGJ, Sigil of strength, And signet of rage, fire aura, firefields and blast…. I normally run banner of strength (blast finisher *2, +170 power/condition dmg, regen if traited) making runes of aristocracy usefull for solo play…

For group play however… going 100% duration and adding a sigil of blight and torment could work…. I do not know… I try to be reasonably self sufficient.

My berserker has now 93 % bleeding and 80 % burning duration with food and utillity….
This is 30 + % base (viper& sigil) + 20 % burning and + 33 % bleeding from traits and + 30 % from food and utility… (and comparable to my old situation)
I’d obviously prefer 100 and 100, but to do so I need to replace sigil of strength with sigil of smoldering ( + 20 % burning) or get more vipers…. both have advantages, and I’m used to playing my build relatively solo

I think it works out quite well.. and yes viper’s seems to be way more powerfull… My Yassith’s armor and weapons are nice. now waiting for the amulet, rings and trinkets

I looked up the music on internet and had my baby listen to the non combat ones, she has been dancing the better part of the time while enjoying the music… she’s been standing hoilding objects and making dance moves for a while now.

She’s 1 yr 3 months old, but enjoyed music a lot since she was 4 months old (and I found out) . If she’s sad just playing some music generally works better then hugging or cuddling. Well….. Now I know she likes downtempo house/electric and HoT music

I think the music is very nice. I only thinks it’s a shame some of these pieces are only minutes…..

I understand it from a programmers view but from a listening P.O.V you notice stranger things I really need to get used to fadeouts in classical parts… It really doesn’t work for me I can see why it is done from tyhe game’s perspective, but for listening, I feel more music should be coming… but it doesn’t…

I also like the visual art a lot, but this thread is for music.

it will likely be availabel for a short while after haloween

Old system here 3yrs now

• Intel i7 3930K hex core @3.8 (base is 3.2, oc-ed to normal turbo freq) on a
• ASUS Rampage IV extreme
• 2 GTX 780 (3Gb) in SLi on 2 monitors 1:1920*1200 2: 1920*1080
• 32Gb Ram
• 1 256 Gb SSD
• 1 250 Gb 10k RPM Hdd (swaps/and other temp files)
• 2 HDD’s 1Tb each .in raid 0

Framerate in Open area’s 60-85 FPS witrh all option on high/ultra, supersampling The new High MSAA and so on. If I seek a place with a nice view I sometimes have 125+ FPS, as long as no other -players- are around, spawns are not nearly as big a problem.

In LA ~ 35-45 depending on location and amount of people or during events framerate can go down to 15-18 FPS, My sli set locking up and crashing gw2 happens sometimes with the karka queen and tequatl. I do not play triple trouble…

WvW is generally stable 60+ FPS with a guild group (25-30, occ. 35) in combat FPS drops to 45 somtimes a bit lower. depending on the size of the attackers (1 or 2 ebnemy groups or zergs.. in a big zerg vs zer vs zerg I retain 20-24 FPS,

It is not a graphics problem they have capacity and are 30-45% loaded…
CPU will bottleneck a bit and FPS tends to be a bit better at 4.0 but I have my computer in a location where ambients vary and I couldn’t cope with my PC doing the safe thing and just power down during gaming as it would really make me angry. mostly at myself.

Full air cooling, ambient can go up to high 30’s celsius in summer and performance will suffer.

mtpelion.4562:

Personally, I’m not paying $50+ for a tiny bit of new maps and a personal story update so I’m waiting until HoT goes on sale.

Raiding, Specializations, Masteries, etc. are all things that would have been added for free if people hadn’t kept asking for an expansion, so I’m not interested in paying extra for them (especially since I’m not even interested in most of them).

Though I know this, I must say I find HoT enjoyable. now some changes have been made I’m completely happy. The maps are huge (yes HUGE, I need ~20-30 min to map a old map, I’m still looing to clear maps in the expansion after quie some time in.) and the content even while gated for some prt Is making th maps interesting to play. The maps are liek silverwastes in their setup with map wide meta events and a HUGE amount of minor quests and tasks, all building up to the meta events. The specialisations are now easier to unlock, and the masteries while having unlocks behind a fair wall of XP are very nice….. I enjoy playing the new maps and Hope to enjoy the new stats in the near future when I’ll shift focus back to fractals, and other things I like.

well…

I’d appreciate the commander to be added it would be usefull in WvW, and the mentor tag.. Well it’s nice but today I had someone wearing the tag asking a very basic question in mapchat…

I was blunt and said: If you’re a mentor you should know the answer to this question, and the tag dissapeared nearly instantly…

Both tags have their use and shouldn’t be misused… now wait for guild missions with whoe guilds tagging up in various tags

I have 15 characters with 200 heropoints from tyria, I am glad I now only need 5 challenges and I might actually be soloing them…

I have doen a few heropoints yesterday… stood waiting… asked for help in LFG whcih appeared in 10-15 minutes, then killed the champ on the skillpoint and moved on….

I unlocked the better part of my reaper this way…. I had only 50 (60?) more HP to go for the last 2 shouts… but have seen the reaper in actionn a little

On the one side this wil save me a LOT of work, on the other side…. I do not care really if I unlocked them in 1 map or 4 maps….

I have my bank account. It is level 4… at least it says so.

I’ll see if and when I want to upgrade…

Doubt this guidhal will smell of rich mahgany…

Well I’ve got 18… so? You’ll get there eventually: to get 18 chars I played 3 years not 2 days…

well…. it happens…

well during the content which originally unlocke the ascnded recipe’s were expensive and the zealot’s were worth a few silver a piece , only a few people bought a couple… 2 months ago they STILL were cheap, until the release of druid and the skyrocketed.

Well let’s waste my time by playing a game…. I like gaming it’s my favorite pass time…

Hey It takes time to complete this NOOOOO!!!!1

Please make i so I don’t have to do anything… I just want to pay cash and have full completion!!! Else my pass time will take too long!!!

/sarcasm

Azure.8670:

rev / scrapper/ reaper

Very nice, If you have it working on your warrior please show it….

Arms, discipline and berzerker.

I’ve been running a S/S warrior for 3 years now and I finally can do nice dmgs.
Stack release was a HUGE improvement but to have decent access to burning on melee and offhand while ONLY losing a block and torment is a nice tradeoff..

I have sinister and rabid ascneded armor on this warrior, and sinister trinkets, I use sinister weapons and use Pizza and toxic crystals on the full sinister
.
I use aristoracy runes and strength sigils, the other sigils are optional, I tend to choose and switch between malice or corruption and smoldering as I use it in all situations, Untill now I mst say I prefer the stacking sigil. But it’s personal I guess, it adds a lot of dmg when fully stacked…. allowing for a glass build 3000 pwer/3000 cnd dmg or 2700 power/3000 cond dmg with the rabid set whe fully buffed. I rely on banners with regen for added sustain 1 strength whcih I take everywhere and 1 tactics whcih is for selfsupport (adding heal and to buff might duration during long fights

Reason for these traitlines is:
Easy changing between ranged and melee options
Retaining some adrenaline after f1 bursts and
fast hands, warriors sprint

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfTjMdQLI29BWeAnIWgCsjmQAIlpcEuBDh3Xbtd3C-TxxCABO8EAaUJIAnCAmV/xZlf6t/Ay6DIFwiKrA-e

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I use perma tools on several character
I use orichalcum tools on all lvl 80’s and from the moment where i can when I level
I use frostbitten tools when I have some boxes lying aorud and the correct one pops out.

I never use lower tier tools, as I prefer to not thik and just have to worry about a backup for the ori tools on character. As ori tools cost 4 silver means 4 copper a hit. so for any material better then copper, orichalcum tools are ok. But if I need copper I’ll use either a perma pick or just buy the stuff from the TP…

Problem: WvW vs PvE,Dungeons,Fractals

WvW tends to ask for tanky solutions, and dungons fractals as they are now ask for DPS solutions, WvW will see some healers, but spikes are so large, healing will not change the fact people are insta-killed.

PvE/Dungeons/fractals do not need tankyness in most, if not all cases: they require max dps for fatest completion.
For world bosses and true noob/newb-ility in dungeons some toughness might seem nice, but aggro patterns of some bosses seem to focus on toughness… (could change with HoT….) and you’ll face more aggro if you’re using tougness, if this is a problem: do not join lvl80 zerk/meta and in most cases exp groups as they’ll likely be glass, l80 will see more bit or most tanky builds.

RAIDs are fairly new territory and gear will likely change per leg added…

WvW
WvW tends to be a fairly high pressure situation where you’ll need to survive in case of melee characters or midlines, but for ranged characters…. well… you could run berserker…
Changing either your armor or your trinkets set could be all you need…

WvW Casters:
1st Berserker has been meta in WvW for ranger, mesmer, necro (axe/support) and ele’s… if you feel uncomfortable or when you get mashed too much (most comanders will focus on casters in the 1st 2 or 3 pushes) get some toughness: get 2300-2600 armor on light ranged classes max if needed else your dps will suffer and your support will make no lasting impression.
Celestial Ele is used regularly, some classes have a lot of benefit from cavaliers (toughness/power/ferocity) and knights (toughness/power/precision) trinkets or armor (OR, not AND!)
(counter Melee trains)

WvW Melee
For melee’s (warrior/guardian/necro dagger(GS?)-melee(revenant/scrapper) and others wanting to use a melee class ) :
2400-2700 armor (flankers, focus groups, hit squad, medium, scouts)
2700-3400 armor (main melee-train, hammer stun infighters, heavy) will do nicely, to do so check sets as Knights, Cavalier, Soldiers, (and if needed valkyrie) and combine those with as much zerk (or assassins (for more precision) as possible until you have a feel it’s balanced for you some people want some more vitality and add some valkyrie. One thing to keep in mind is your critical chance should stay above 30% for WvW (unless you run a dedicates support build not build around DPS (mace bunker guardian (clerics with nomads or zealot depending on your wish of location)
(counters: Area denial (siege or casters))

WvW Roaming (1,2 or 3 (somtimes up to 5) ppl):

See Metabattle or use your own PvP build(s). If you are fond of PvP: roaming could be the thing for you, but the new maps will need to prove themselves for roamers. As roamers are generally running 1vs 1 or small group vs small group this reliance on PvP builds should work out perfect. Roamers tend to be stealthable classes or small groups with 1 or 2 characters having acces to stealth, with more reveals available this could become harder
(hard counters: engineers, rangers and any other class with patience and stealth traps in greater or equal numbers)

Havoc Squads: (5-10 man “infiltration” groups)

Generally with 2 or more (condi)mesmers and 2 or more thieves, (condi)engineers, dagger ele’s, dagger/condi necro’s are often used for infiltration and if capable can stay out of enem hands for quite some time. reliant of stealth anda mix of conditions and DPS these are mostly group specs thought up by the squad themselves for maximum sustain and most flexibility, you will need to be able to do anything if your specialized characters in group are killed… often these parties focus on ressing their dead because they need to run too far… this tends to be a weakness. they often use modified PvP builds. Their goal interupt supplies/ capture camps, tag buildings to close waypoints and shank respawned players, and occasionally try to cap stuff…
(counters: guild parties or other havoc squads, the zerg is way too much honor, unless they cross paths)

PvE/ Dungeons/ Fractals

For PvE/Dungeons and Fractals(1-39) -> Go Zerk. above 40 run whatever you stay alive with and can still dish out a punch. Some people swear by zerk, I sometimes run my own builds…
Heart of Thorns is said to be less forgiving vs Zerk builds. I do not have an opinion on this matter….

RAIDS
No meta exists, people have seen a few raids completed on youtube and all present speculationis based upon these few completions. most gear for the 1st leg was glassy with 1 or 2 exceptions, sinister/berserker/zealot and celestial are the conbinations I heard most. As there is no real information and my personal experience in raids is limited to 2 tries with random pugs during a beta weekend where noone had prepared themselves…. Our group had 3 ppl in ascended armor with a “semifunctional build” and 2 condition users, no cc-ers…. We have seen only the split (and finshed the 1st split) only to killed by an Enraged Guardian a short while after completing this 1st split…

Aquiring armor:

• Dungeon armor stats are bound to certain dungeons, you’ll need 23 paths ran for full bonus to get an armor (same dungeon)
• Karma armor stats are bound to the vendor, UNSALVAGEBLE, migh change with HoT
• WvW armor (UNSALVAGEBLE, after HoT launch the should be salvageble for wvw tokens, WvW sometimes drops ascended chests (RARELY!)
• Crafted armor acces to all stats provided you have lvl 400 (or 500) crafting also gives acces to ASCENDED gear, which will allow for WVW and Agony Resist (Fractals) infusions…
• Fractals tends to drop exotic armor with uncommon stats (including magi, shaman, dire, soldiers) and at _high levels 30 (or 40+) has a chance for armor boxes (ASCENDED) as you can change stats now on ascneded armor it can be nice to aquire armor like this BUT at lvl 50 droprate for Asc boxes is ~12% which is fairly low… but higher the any other content.

Unsalvageable armor will give problems in retreiving runes….

savacli.8172:

For the most part most the “average player” has just one Berserker set for PvE. Open world is fairly easy and forgiving since it’s a blob-fest the majority of the time. Silverwastes might be a little bit different depending if you’re farming in general or going for achievements. In which case you may opt for different gears, but that’s mostly a preference.

But I digress…

If you are sticking to one PvE Berserker set I would encourage you to focus that gear towards what’s needed in dungeons and fractals that your frequent rather than trying to put together an all-around gear set.

Depending on your class you’re generally looking at the following runes:
Scholar
Strength
Flame Legion
Rage

For Sigils:
Force
Night
Strength
Battle
Frailty

Ultimately though it boils down to what you feel most comfortable with and what you feel you can make most use out of.

I agree fully BUT in low cash situations I’d suggst:

• Pack
• Ogre
  or even
• Ruby Orbs (16-20s /piece)
  
  for PvE
• Stacking sigils (Bloodlust for zerk builds)
• Fire or Air
• In some cases the +7% crit chance also helps…

• Fields of Ruin: the small area left top with the skill point, nice and quiet Secluded Glen
• Fields or Ruin again: small area with the fern hounds north of Wildlin Narrows, just south of mithric cliffs
• Fields of Ruin: Gwen’s Grave.
• in Diessa Plateau: the strawberry farm behind the town of Nolan
• in Bloodtide Coast: the small area in the whisperwill bogs (Rhian’s respite)
• the green parts of wayfarer foothills (Norn starting area)
• Caledon forest as a whole.

just get a second mesmer… or use an engineer or (soon to be scrapper)

So same-/anyone want’s a character now and just instantly unlock everything?

Why do you refuse -to play- the game? Th game is a time sink. you want to spend time playing a game. If you do not want to spend time playing a game pls ask yourself if you shouldn’t be doing something else.

Having 9 full map completions and 15 total unlocks of heropoints and waypoints, I think I did a lot of exploring. just unlocking each waypoint and heropoint takes 20-40 minutes per map-segment (Queensdale can easily be completely fully completed within an hour (being somewhat longer then most other maps), but if you really just mindlessly set yourself to it , doing Hearts as well and PoI’s will make it 45-75 minutes a map with 1 or 2 exceptions.)

This will mean you need to experiment on which task gives you most gain, sometimes killing gives you + 1 or 2 % completion and a task fetching stuff 10 + % so you need either 50- 100 kills (easy during events for example or to run 10 boxes, well preferably outside events if only 10 or 15 spawns are available else you’ll be bound by respawns (generally 1.5-2 minutes.))

Just a flesh wound.3589:

No star
No karma
No exp
No map completion goodies including gift of exploration

Fair enough imo if that’s what they want to to.

I do not mind the fog being lifted (-as an option- : I like the fog It shows I still need to discover…), BUT:
Implementation could be achieved:

• Optional (= very important) Lifting of Fog giving limited acces to each map segment. (like the starting WP’s for F2P people) You can see where everything is now.

• DEFINATELY NO HERO POINTS This will unlock options way to fast
  -AND-
• No star
• No karma
• No exp
• No map completion goodies including gift of exploration

Maybe this would be a good start.

the few mats which take longer really are not needed in the thousands…

In wvw with outfits It can be nice to know what ppl are playing before you notice the person in the heavy armor outfit is the next PU mesmer coming to get no fight after you manage to identify who and what (s)he is by seeing him prestige.

Sometimes it would be rather handy, I agree…. handy but not critical… if you get him selected you’ll see anyways.