Guild Wars 2

It tends to be the amount of effects, and the system trying to cope with the load, to reduce load lower the quality and quantity of p[layers in view using wvw settings, it culls the amount of players and effects so you need less power to keep viewing.

Your systems capacity also goes down when the system is running hot. If your computer’s location’s ambient temperature rises, the system tends to have more problems removing excess vheat… (this is a very important problem to consider with high performance spec low and mid-end laptops, especially if you do not clean the ventilation often, in this situation a cooling stand may aid you. and of course cleaning the vents/cooling system…

Also having OC components should make your system more volatile, and will make instability occur more often when ambient temperature rises (when OC-ing a system in winter based on air cooling you’ll notice you will have more problems in summer.

Sometimes the heat load can be reduced by limiting FPS. I’ll leave this up to you.

No Mounts

Skill sfor mounts are impratical and will debalance whatever balance we have now
Speed for mounts is unwanted as it debalances whatever balance we have now

Having them sold on the TP would be P2W and therefore unwanted
Having them ingame would make them available for everybody, half performance on a lot of low end systems and clutyter screens

Having 50+ mount threads a year which are all spinoffs from the “I saw at <game> now I want it here as well”-mentality, and hopefully should make ppl realize eventually we play GW2 because they are not <game>….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/If-you-won-a-million-dollars/first#post5049184

ever seen the damage it does?

2: main hand and FGS?

Orpheal.8263:

……..
GW2 should get mounts somewhen, Anet could make some great money from them by selling “Mount Skins”
The Game could receive a great new Prestige item for people which dislike Legendary Weapons and rather would spent their gold for a permanent personal mount that allows them to move permanently 25-33% faster, so that you don’t have to waste sigils, traits, utility or runes anymore just to move faster and could use instead of that something that suits better your build and is in general more useful, than providing only the movement speed boost to travel faster around.

……………..

Mountable (Mobile) combat mechanics already exist:
Charr Tank in story (less mobile unless you actually count the NPC function of the tank as movement) (GW2)
Siege weapons (also mobile in the form of Golems) (GW2)
Siege Devourers in EotM… (clearly movable) (GW2)

but considering all mounts as you suggest are P2W….

People were completely outraged by the watchwork mining pick.,.. Some even left.
Now you want a speed buffed mount? For gems? how would you use combat mechanics? mounted? the same as you have now?

Even when the Eternal Fire freezes over and The Mists will have been blown away there is no chance this will happen… ever.
They will be nerfed untill they are just another (big) mini.

Natto.5819:

I was watching some videos of Guild Wars 1, and I saw some players riding a giant scorpion mount that shot trebuchet shots. So with the first gaming having mounts, and none in Guild Wars 2, I was wondering if mount are really part of the lore of this game or not.

The Siege devourer, this one mentioned above and the Junundu wurm are the only 2 map bound mounts I remember, in gw1…

SMOKE: (enigineer/thief)
smoke+ blast = invis
smoke+ projectile = blind?? (not sure)

WATER: (engineer, elementalist,ranger)
water + blast = aoe heal
water + projectile = healing bolt

FIRE (warrior, guardian, elementalist, ranger, engineer)
fire + blast = might
fire+ prjectile = burning projectile
fire+ leap = fire aura

LIGHTNING (Elementalist, ?)
lightning + blast = swiftness

DARK (Necro, Thief)
dark fields + blast = weakness

LIGHT (Necro, Guardian)
light fields + blast = retaliation
light+ projectile = condi cleansing
light+ leap = retaliation

CHAOS (Mesmer)
chaos+ blast = AoE chaos armor
chaos+ leap = chaos armor (tend to be usefull on condi warriors)
chaos + projectile = confusion

Which are the main ones I know…

I really hate the light one though with blast, as it is used often Guard Staff #3 in combination with static fields (ligthning)… and you want the statics to be blasted for swiftness.

Oh and I know about whirls but I tend to ignore them….

I do not know…

1. 12 character slots
2. 16 copper feds
3. 10 sets of perma tools
4. most armor sets except the blue ones..
5. quite some weapon skins,
6. a few keys ~50-70 I guess
7. ~40 bags slots for ~14 of 16 chars
8. 7? full bank slots
9. 3 storage expanders
10. nodes for home
11. couple of finishers, 4 or 5 or so
12. a lot of other skins..
13. 2 mail cariers
    should be a good base list…

I do not buy booosters, or RNG items tough I bought some dye packs…

but I bought quite a lot (of gems) with gold as well…

^LOL

/15 char.

I might be wrong, I rest my case. Posts deleted.

Still a legendary is rediculous.

rocking chair FTW, norn/charr size or human size.

It will leave an empty slot which is unusable untill next beta which you’d have acces for, or it will be removed if a new stage in the BETA arrives. You cannot use it for a temporary slot…

Aeolus.3615:

I avoid jumping puzles becouse im bad at them, but i also avoid gw2 pve becouse game is awfull at that side, IMO it is bad as a trinity game, if not ful dps gona get bashed, players ignore looking for tools, rage if theres a glitch that party is not using or if some one does not know how to glitch it.

Being trinity game might be bad and feel old, but having a press key for high damage game is not having a clever DPS game, its a huge placebo to atrack players and anet pretends player are doing a great job, Anet bring the worse pve game to themselves, they created the atitude of most dungon farmers.

There is a big difference between “you need to be zerk and we all go down together”- parties and speedruns, where any taken damage is a bad thing.

While running staff ele your health below 90 % means a los of 2 + 10 % damage modifiers … which is a serious blow to DPS output and normally tends to be avoided. active defence and reflects/blinds aegis should be able to make a party invulnerable to damage.

I had speedruns where my only damage was jumps down stairs or triggered traps due to my own fault. Most Zerk meta runs do not have this mentality. Speedrunners res as well if something goes awry, this will never happen in zerk-meta parties, they just DPS on…

The soft trinity A-net uses might be bvroken, but of the 3 points being DPS, CC and support, the DPS and Support work find and CC is -mostly- useless.

Support can be booning and buffing but also contains healing.
DPS will hopefully be expanded to be DPS and DOT shortly.
The rework of CC’s should make CC minimally viable and maybe even moderately viable

I both know what you mean and do not know what you mean.

I can read I tend to respect the LFG’s

I run mostly l80 Exp, shortened runs. I have and still run Speedruns, I also run casuals & carry runs, mostly me making this decision is based upon my mood. I have however run some dungeons with ppl from one of my guilds (Being a WvW guild)…

While some players run speedrun builds, some use casual DPS builds… In my guild If ppl run dungeons they take their WVW builds.

These are generally high or over the top defence and or support builds. Damage is enough @ 1800-2200 POWER. I first didn’t understand them, I joined and ran glass staff bomber for AC runs, I was used skipping anything not neccesary. They ran in, ignoring traps and therefore constantly group healing while running through mobs, killing everything with decent mightstacking and protection and walls. I couldn’t take the punishment and did DIE 1 or 2 times and I switched armor sets to an old celestial set I had lying around and had the most relaxed run ever, we took a bit longer then speeduns 15-25 minutes for AC paths, and facerolled everything. I got more loot then I could carry, I have 146 slots enough to do 3 speedruns in a row. But doing 1,2 and 3 it completely filled up and I needed to salvage twice…. I got a couple more bags with t3,4 crafting mats. (yes linen and some cotton ) and had a lot of fun.

I’d appreciate a little more dps but in the end I think it was a different experience. In WVW there is no skipping… You cannot ignore the enemy zerg when trying to cap a keep or a tower. The mentality was different, and it was fun.

Trust me: I do not die (often or at all) in Zerker runs, but IF you have ppl who can facetank graveling burrows and just clean all bleeds 8-10 times in a row…. you are done when you are lagging around with your Ele. and yes I can bomb a graveling mound with a MS, but it’s different….

If you do not believce me, you go and run into a dungeon do all paths with 4 ppl on comander and suport builds. I did learn 1 thing: never move away from the commander… Which tends to be a valid rule in wvw as well

Generally warrior, ranger, necro and guard are pretty easy to level
thief is more difficult , ele and mesmer can be a little frustrating,
Leaving engineer which I found not so difficult to lervel, but mastering was too much for me at start, now with a lot of experience (combo fields & finishers) on other characters I enjoyed my engineer more.

You can make 5 characters on a new account.
I will say only this, get an easy proffession and a somewhat difficult one at start
I started out with ranger (day 0), necro (day 0), ele (day 28) and warrior (32), with guardian (48) a little later

1st character will take ~30-60 hrs to level, additional ones will be faster.

I have 16 lvl 80’s now I have 9 characters with map,

3 warriors (2map)
3 necros (2map)
3 rangers (1map)
2 eles (1map)
2 guards (1map)
1 mesmer (1map)
1 thief (1map)
1 engineer

I’ve deleted a mesmer and an engineer (both l80 ~6 months ago,)

Some people tend to be biassed against rangers and necro’s which is a remnant of the past. No class is bad, none are truly OP. Engineer, mesmer, thief and ele tend to be more difficult… levelling, short term and long term.

Have been running necro for 90+% of my WvW time, and I really do not care about stability.

Yes if you get static-ed you tend to die. If you do not know how to dodge or are out of dodges when rushed you have a problem, (sidestepping really tends to help though, most ppl dodge forward or back.)

Any stability is a bonus but not mandatory….

and tbh it isn’t mandatory with 3 health bars … >:)

anduriell.6280:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

I think ~3.5-4k dmg is possible.

I also think ppl are going to call this one fake or impossible, but I got some things to say,

Yes, get to that kind of damage is possible but using 25 stacks of vuln + 25 stacks of might from other players and a light armour mob. I get crits of 7.5K with the guardian, 30k RF in SW with the ranger.

But those aren’t the real number, you are using a lot of help from others, and other classes outperform the ranger in damage when in the same conditions.

And I guess I now showed 7200 dmage is attainable, and I guess 10k for one arrow should be possible as well… though the circumstances would need to be very controlled to do so. understand this is no continued DPS, but 5k/shot, or maybe even 6k is not to difficult.

Novuake.2691:

Your suggestions are terrible and you should feel terrible.

Whose suggestions? Which suggestions? And Why? And why should we or they or he feel bad?

If you are going to take time to write something please make it contribute to the thread.

that’s not true either 20 might should add 600 power on the 3000 I have so It would add 20% damage.

for the normal fired shots this would mean (i’ve taken 4500, it will do)

4500 * 1.2 =5400 (max might)
5400 * 1.05 =5670 (+5 added vulnerability)
5670 * 1.085 = 6151 (ascended armor and weapon)

yes ~6.1k dmg / shot while buffed (AND AT RANGE! ).

for the spike shot this would mean

7372 * 1.2 =8846 ( max might)
8846 * 1.05 = 9288 (+5 added vulnerability)
9288 * 1.085 = 10078 (ascended armor and weapon)

I think that’s about the max.

For 1 arrow.

Which is way better then GS auto and at 1500 range instead of 140.
(well at least in single hit comparison due to the low rate of fire.)

I used point blank shot, the auto attack.
Rapidfire does half the damage of a point blank shot per arrow , even though it does it fire 10 arrows not 1 in quick succession.

These numbers were all made:

1. without vulnerability from others. (own 15-20 vulnerability do apply)
2. without might stacking above own level, (5 from pet and 2 or 3 from Roa)
3. without spotter (eagle eye/ piercing arrows (= normal trait for my ranger)

but WITH:

1. appropriate slaying food
2. appropriate slaying sigil
3. full 25 stacks of bloodlust
4. fury
5. 5-8 might (Cannot bring myself to the patience to build up every mioght then activate signets…)
6. signet buff(s)
7. Exotic Armor (runes of the scholar) and an Exotic Longbow (see pictures for LB)

SO this number could be buffed more by:

1. stacking full 25 stacks of might (should add ~1250-1700 additional dmg)
2. having a target with full 25 vulnerability (+5-10% more damage) (opening strike gives 15-20 vulnerability (depending if your pet can close the gap fast enough)
3. lucking out of a decent crit while fully stacked and buffed
4. ascneded armor and an ascneded longbow (+8,5% dmg)
   I expect a 8.5k or maybe even a 10k crit should be possible. -with 1 arrow-

I think ~3.5-4k dmg is possible.

I also think ppl are going to call this one fake or impossible, but I got some things to say:
Yes this was done under the influence of food & utility , in Orr, Cursed Shore (lvl 80), with an Exotic Zerk Longbow with sigil of force and sigil of Undead slaying.

First Picture: Not using secondary stacking sigils (would be difficult using force and undead slaying…), just a plain 6/6/0/2/0 build…

Max dmg 4226 on long range shot

Second Picture: using max stacks of bloodlust (farmed them on my GS, just to show it can be more extreme yet)

Max dmg 4918 on long range shot

STILL NOT USING SIGNETS, ROA OR PET MIGHT!

3rd Picture:
Not getting the perfect shot of but I did manage one with the signet buff:

7372 damage with 1 arrow from 1500 range.

It would really destroy your levelling experience now would it?

I have 16 lvl 80’s 9 with full map, 8 of them done with the old system, including WvW

highest hits ingame are ~7-8k dmg form normal skills and maybe 12-18k from exotic combo’s

under the effects of weakness when fumbled they’d be 1750-2k (3,4-5 without fumble) and 3-4.5k max. (6-9k without fumble) Which is a decent reduction IMHO

I agree a decent condition or mitigation should be introduced comparable to resilience. If you can ignore condi dmg by use of buffs, why shouldn’t we be able to ignore DPS completely?

Only damage cap now in effect is Weakness.

Weakness denies crits and fumbles 50% from all hits having them do 50% dmg. Unrestricted.

Using weakness on enemies woould be usefull for obvious reasons, though (World) bosses are less vulnerable

Rentapest.6503:

I think giving Ranger’s a staff is a stupid thing to do. And if this is the only specialisation available, I think I’ll have to either delete my Ranger and not play it or find another game to suit my needs.

I have enjoyed GW2, but have been outraged at how useless Ranger DPS is compared to other professions and how they still havven’t sorted out the many many issues with pets.

I specifically created a Ranger to play as RANGED DPS! But my Rapid Fire will never compete with a Warrior’s Hundred Blades, or the DPS that any of the other professions can do!

And instead of improving this, you’re gimping it and giving us a useless staff support spec. -.-

• Improved Ranged DPS
• Improve pets! Make the DPS pets survive long enough to actually DO any dps to champions etc.
• Give us some useful stun-break/stability skills. Rampge as One should be stun-breaker, instant cast.

1. Ranged DPS is bothe very long range AND resonably powerfull, 3.6-4.5KJ per hit on max range is quite nice.
2. Pets are as powerfull or squishy as you choose them to be, they’ll be upgraded by ~100 points in all 4 basic stats when HOT arrrives as the sttribute points of your pets is a vanishing stat.
3. you have lightning reflexes, quickening zerphyr, protect me, signety of renewal as stunbreaks, which should be enough

And I’m loking forward to some healing or support for ranger. It would greatly improve the value of ranger in dungeons…

I just calculated if you’d click ten times per second per second and do nothing else these bags would cost you 1 hour and 7 miinutes to open. problem is you’ll be shifting bags regularly. and you’ll need to get the stufff sold or salvaged or forged.

Say you’ll average 1 click a second and you’d need the 320000 clicks I predicted: you’d be opening bags for the next 88 hours and 53 minutes of game time. Enjoy your game.

you just created yourself a small problem, as you will need 120000 slots to open all those stacks, even with your character and a full bank account you’ll be having problems sorting / salvaging / forging this stuff…

I wish you luck struggling through the 40000 bags, requiring at least 320000 clicks to open and process, not counting things as luck as on average each bag give 2-3 items some are easily disposed of through deposit collectible, but luck and sigils will frustrate you. Especially with the new update…

Enjoy your riches.

I run OPEN build runs. or EXP build runs,

Meta is the trashcan for all ppl with the wrong understanding of this game

And It is just good it exists; How else would you want to seperate the “Oh help I need to kill this before it kills me” from “I’m gonna run this path in close to record time with no significant damage due to my understanding of the game” ?

So I do not think this term’s use should be slowly pumped to a halt…. Just let ‘m struggle, like fish outside the water, until they know it’s just l80 exp which matters.

And trolling is so old it’s not even a classical art style anymore… It’s more like caveman behaviour… tbh I’d thought It went extinct about 65M years ago… guess there are still some dinosaurs left.

Most content can be done by experienced ppl in in blue or green gear as long as sigils and traits are good, losing only a little bit of time. This time lost is due to max dmg of bvlues and greens being 10-20% lower then the dmg of ascneded/exotic gear. when you are able to kill a boss in 8 seconds atm ppl in green gear will do so in 9.5 seconds, maybe 10….

The actual proffessions shouldn’t matter too much either as long as you have 1 or 2 reflects 1 or 2 aoe blindness… you’ll be facerolling most dungeons except maybe CoE, HotW and Arah… I see people complaining well you bring nothing to the party,

and they add warrior has banners and empower allies, guardians have strength in numbers (NOBODY uses strength in numbers in meta), rangers have spotter (most rangers are kicked ASAP, like necro’s) and they form a party only to show: NO FOOD NO UTILITY and most of the time no dungeon gear… losing 100 power, 70 precision and 33% dmg modifier and 10% dmg reduction and STILL they do not see the error…

The necro will be effective. and they would be as well if they could understand…

Remember this.

Understand the developers must be able to work during beta times… if somethingh is seriously broken it needs to be fixed… Having 3 beta’s and all people stuck at the same things due to no programmers and devolopers online to fix it. would be a waste of a lot of time from a lot of people…

There is a big differnece between the necro with the axe/warhorn and staff and the dungeon spec necro

I get kicked from zerk -meta- ruuns and am invites and asked If I’d pls stay in speedruns…

Don’t worry, most ppl do not know what they are talking about. with the release of attribute points support necro and pure dps necro’s will both be viable. Vampiric traits are very powerfull to keep you alive, especially vs big groups, and with the now suggester vampiric for all you might become a very worthwhile part of the meta, in any case the chills, vulnerability, blinds and other conditions will help you a long way in the DPS struggle.

Max DPS =/= best or fastest. Max DPS meta = useless comparision information tbh…
When fighting a melee enemy a repeated blindness (well of darkness) will make sure you have several seonds of uninteruptable DPS, noone will lose health, stacks and be CC-ed if they cannot hit you right? Other wells may help for AOE healing, vulnerability, and boon stripping and damage….

when we no longer have to rely on dagger for DPS and get a sword with true cleaves and other melee opportunities we seem to be good to go…

I’m 40 closing in on 41

I have been gaming since I was 8….

I liked playing on monochrome 320*480… now playing on 1920*1200 with 16.7M colors…
1st pc I used had 2 180kb FDD’s, now I have 2.5 Tb of storage, my last pc using a FDD was scrapped 10+ yrs ago.
1st pc I used had 64 Kb of memory, now I have 32 Gb
1st modem use ws at 180 baud… now at 120Mbit/sec.
1st pc I used was at 3,77 Mhz if I remember correct now at 3.8 Ghz.

I am from the generation which thought CD’s were things with epic amounts of storage when I first saw ‘m, I could burn my own CD’s in my caddy fed 4 speed burner…

My father boughty the first PC I sat behind which was a big box with an integrated screen , He really wanted to buy a real HDD drive but it cost 1800+ US-dollars for 10 Mb in the early 80’s….

PvE… Well you level and unlock more content. if you want to do tequatl be aware of the fact it is a level 68 WORLD BOSS. lvl 80 is only max stat for player. all levels above 15 are endgame content tbh, you might want to include fire elemental, frozen maw shadow behemoth and the jungle wurm.

Even the end game gear shows you cause you’ll need t2,t3,t4,t5 materials tro craft your stuff, and some t6 for your legendary.

Levelling is a pain atm due to trait s being only available for buying but this was neccesary mostly due to “new views from the developers”

Dungeons well dungeons range from lvl 35 to lvl 80 (when talking explorable) they are generally easy and good income. ppl farm them to buy skins and gear. Most bugs have been fixed, most skips have been fixed, but in the end dungeons became easier, easier and easier, mostly due to “new views from the developers” including ascneded gear, which required a LOT of Nerfs

Silverwastes , Orr, Forstgorge, southsun Cove, Dry Top are the highest level maps, and even though some have more events, they were more content focussed before, Orr had a nice chain of events, and the temples triggering effects, bosses, but the megaserver destroyed most of these experiences, due to overscaling, and the fact the temples never reset anymore. getting traits from these temples has been a pain, mostly due to “new views from the developers”: farms were shut down, content was altered, megaservers destroyed the chance of travelling to an active eventon different servers if you did want to do temples.

WvW holds lvl 81,82,83 and 84 guards, but they live very short vs 30-80 experienced players. ATM it isn’t balanced and it doesn’t really matter that much. they are going to -balance it- by removing some buffs, but still ppl playing quite some time will notice they’ll do more dmg due to more WVW ranks, ascneded armor, experience in tactics and communictaions, knowledge of builds and so on. And as some changes are underway trying to open WVW for more players , I fear thse changes fail and cause even more crowding on high level servers where queues can be 100+ regulary… but it is a must implement mostly due to “new views from the developers” Ascneded grear was nice, but cuased a powe r imbalance, between the PvE player with WvW interest and the WvW hardcore player. due to the neccesary choices between armor and builds. especially with regard to ascneded stats and the subsequent costs

PvP is a mystery to me. I do not really care for it TBH. The completely idiotic vision of this game being a e-sport is a hallucination in some ppls head I cannot understand, but due to the mindless focus on this part, other parts of the game have been abandoned, ignored and deprioritized, mostly due to “new views from the developers” where all stuf needs top be balanced in PvP to put it into PvE, which destroyed a lot of inetersting gameplay in PvE, due to builds being destroyed which were meta in PvE and due to being OP in PvP but also the fact conditions seem to stay imbalanced in PvP showed frantic modifications again in PvE where conditions were nerfed and nerfed again, which after long sessions of feedback was moderately compensated.

I love the game, but I fail to see the vision behind the pipedreams of the people who tell the programmers and developer team where to focus attention. This game has sold 7 million copies and I expect less then 15% still to play the game. I fear I think positive though.

Challenging group content was released before in the marionette, in tequatl, in the krait tower, in the queens gauntlet, in the zephyrite sanctum, in triple trouble.. Only a few of those events remain. But they were nice and decent events. they added someting to the game, a lot of very interesting content from LS S1 has vanished, some was inplemented in fractals… A full dungeon cou
ld have been build with this content, with 5 man paths but also with 12 or 20 man content or 50 for that matter. There has been a lot of content, and you missed some… I guess..

There is endgame content, as you can do all content and not be ’’overclassed, or outranking the content"…due to level scaling…

I have 9 times world, 16 characters at lvl 80, I have condi builds, DPS builds, Speedrun builds, WvW builds, Fun builds, legendaries, the better part of my characters with ascneded gear and trinkets and some even with armor….. with agony for lvl 39 or even 40 + fractals, builds and gear… alternate gear, and so on…

But there is enough. enough to last me 6500 hours in 1000 days of playing. I’m a Bunny in PvP and only silver in WvW but I did quite nice.

I hope the expansion will arrive soon, but in my terms , not those of A-Net…

So unless you were an AP grinder from start (you could have 25-38K AP by now)
It should take you ~6 yrs and the purchase for HoT for AP’s to get to 36 k when playing a bit more then casual.

I’m at almost 18K ap… (17,8 something) And I played 2 yrs minues 2 or 3 weeks holidays.
In fact I missed only 2 events… 1 being the karka invasion of LA (crashing instances and so on) and the other.. well… I was on holidays aty the time… some LS S1 thing as well.
I also missed 4 days due to an operation…

Well 1000 days, now 95 more… and we’ll be at 3 years.

Oh and with 16 lvl 80’s the first onedid get 10% of the playing time
The second did a bit better, with 12+%

oh and anothe 5 min afk time -.0

I would really appreciate it when the LA map would be returned to the same or better glory…

I just hope we can visit the bunkers, the aeroport and the other new structures and defences. so it will be more then just eye-candy.

I will see… Don’t mind the wvw changes. It will make it a bit easier on the abilities and I’ll run 15-20 supplies now.

at 16 lvl 80’s I say, well about 25-40 hours should be enough to get to lvl 80…

now we could get into a lot of questions…..:

Which line of processors from AMD? (CPU-Z?)
6970 is not extremely high end which one, do you have the most recent drivers?
on what motherboard,
on what resolution,
do you use a second screen?
driver info? (GPU-Z?)
Does your mobo allow PCI-E 16 v2.0?
Does your GPU?
Does it switch to v2.0 in low settings? or does it downthrottle?

What operating system? recent install or old?

7200 = rotations number, not the size nor the speed, fopr your harddisk.
the ram is ok. Gw2 can use 4 Gb maximum as it is 32 bit

if you have a lighter system (older, or whatever, make sure you do not use any resident (preloaded programs if you do not need to.) if you are just going to run gw2, disable virus checks, and all other things you will not need. also deinstall stuff you never use.

Clean it. also physically, use some bottled air. make sure it can vent well and your fans are clean.

Check your drivers, get the NEWEST drivers you can. For ALL parts of your machine…

I have a Hex core i7 at 3.8 Ghz and 2 GTX 780’s in SLi, with 32 Gb DDR3 and I sometimes drop into 12-18 FPS in WvW zerg vs zerg battles… so you understand.

To show animations on 120-160 ppl at the same time tends to be taxing for any system, and bottlenecked by the servers as well..

17 char slots
16 lvl 80’s

9 MAINS with 100% map
1 warrior DPS (SPEEDRUN/ PVE) (favorite)
1 ele DPS (SPEEDRUN/FRACTALS/PVE)(alt armor: Support(WvW)(favorite)
1 necro Healer/DPS (WvW) (favorite)
1 warrior Condi/DPS Hybrid for FUN (PvE,WvW) (favorite)
1 necro Condi/DPS Hybrid for FUN (PvE,(WVW)) (favorite)
1 ranger DPS for (WvW, Dungeons(l80 exp), PvE) (favorite)
1 guard Support/Heal/Tank (WvW/Fractals)
1 mesmer DPS/Condi Hybrid for FUN (PvE), alt armor: Condi (WvW)
1 thief DPS/Condi Hybrid for FUN or DPS for FUN (PvE,WvW)

7 alts
Often used:
1 guard healer/dps (Dungeons (l80 Exp)) (very often used)
1 ele healer/dps (Dungeons (l80 Exp)) (very often used)
1 ranger DPS/Condi Hybrid for FUN
1 engineer DPS armor, DPS/Condi Hybrid armor (dunno yet)
Rarely used:
(1 warrior Support/Heal (WvW/World Bosses))
(1 ranger Condi trapper (WvW))
(1 necro TerrorMancer (WvW))

15 of these 16 have ascended trinkets
14 of these 16 have at least 1 alternate armor
12 of these 16 have ascended weapons
9 of these 16 have world completion
5 of these 16 have ascended armor pieces
2 of these 16 have full ascended gear
2 of these 16 have a legendary
1 of these 16 has a second ascended armor
0 of these have ascneded underwater weapons.

I play most of them quite frequently I played over 6000 hours though my most used character has less then 20% of the total time.

Some things I noticed, I have 3 necro’s, 3 warriors, 3 rangers, all third characters are seldomly used as I carry gear or builds on the other 2 to make them well… too much atm. I expect this to change a bit when HOT arrives.

he would be able to join you, but he’ll not get any rewards or acces to the achievements.

When you hit 80, you unlocked every possibility in the game, so do whatever you want to.

Do Dungeons/Fractals/WorldBosses/SilverWastes/Dry Top for cash, get golden title
Use this cash to get better gear, unlock lining story season 2, level crafting to 400 and afterwards to 500, create some alts.
Buy skins and dyes on the BLTP, get emperor… create your unique characters.
Do world exploration, for the gift and the star.
Try some Edge of the Mists for Karma, to get obsidian shards
Go PvP or WvW for fun and to unlock the neccesary level for legendary crafting
Create a Bank guild
Get dungeon master and Dungeoneer
Go title Hunting
Go easter egg hunting.

Whatever you seem nice.

Rauderi.8706:

They are some pretty weapons. Shame about the creepy faces on half of them. =P

Isn’t that Melandru?

Melandru is the goddess of nature, earth, and growth

Only problem is everybody seeing problems: If you do not care or cannot handle 11-20 or 21-30 then do not do those.

After doing a level 1 you’ll get 1 daily box, leaving you the ability to do youur daily, for those who do not mind it’s 3/10th of a asc. ring… I have ~60 pristine reliucs lying around for emergencies.

It will be 1000 days past (pre-)launch… (today I’m at 998 days) We’ll see what happens, I’d like a present, a free Black Lion Ticket for all would be very nice… Beeen online about 980 days of those 1000

But I expect some dates, a timeline so to say, about beta, pre purchase, and beta weekends and launch (Wich will be (my best guess) 97 days from now, 3*365 days, I expect…) 97 days is 3 months and a few days. last week of august…..

I just leveled a engineer, she’s lvl 80 now did fight shadow behemoth and tequatl and ran to cursed shore, 5% Map and 1,5 hours old, l80, ascneded trinkets & back, exotic armor , runed etc.

Slow leveling?

LOL!

When you played this game for over 6 mothns now and haven’t already speed;levelled a character youu should be abnle to level 1 or maybe 2 characters now in ~1 hour. (ToK, click, clickclick and so on… buy trinkets/weapons on TP done, use a BL box to ghet a bl merchant in your starting instance: done!

l80 0% map… Mine even did the l1 instance in l80 gear… though without most of the trinkets, only 2 ascneded rings… love golem banker, and some creative buyiing beforehand.

My question:

what is it you want?

more barbies?
more babies?
more boobies?
more skimpies?

My opinion:

I think Gw has enough as is and it’s okay as is.

I would have liked some alternates outside…

Also having a thread and seeing -few male chars whatsoever,- only sexied up women and girls seems a strange world, and some of those women and even the girls would be taken into custody or reported to child wellness for indecent exposure -in many countries-….

Even most babies figures, those “Elin” seem to look like little kitten / sex objects to me, which should trigger some moral grounds for disapproval… a creative game is good, but this goes a whole leap in a wrong direction…

Morpheus Kajiir.2975:

Ok I’m just going to put it out there; I’m not heavy into gaming. But I did play Guild Wars and liked it for the most part. Now I just got Guild Wars 2, and the complex factor just totally turned me off to this game. I have a life, I only game as a hobbie. Now I just saw a youtube video of some guy crafting a legendary weapon, and he admits it took him 2 years to get all the materials to craft it. Not a complete matching set of armor and weapons, just a sword. 2 YEARS?! I just can’t wrap my head around that. Is this what this game is about? With what little time I do have to game, it could take me 4 years to craft that sword. Is this really what this game is like?

Like a legendary isn’t mandatory, it’s the same in power as an ascneded weapon. No benefits in gameplay…

Making exotics is enough for 99.7% of all content, except for high level fractals.
All exotics can be bought with wvw tokens, dungeon tokens, karma, crafted (LVL 400), received as drop..
Then there is ascneded, ascneded trinkets are available for some investment, in TIME. you do 10 runs of fractals an dyou can choose a ring, you log in for a month and you buy and amulet, you do guild missions for 2 weeks and you buy an earring…

Then there is ascended weaponms and armor. thise were added to the game as time and material sinks. they rerquire maxed crafting (LVL 500) TRhey are timeconsuming and marginally better in content at level 80. theat 4 regions in the game and 3 dungeons, and fractals.

dungeon runners will warn you dedicated dungeon weapons wil outdamage generic used ascneded (bloodlust / fire (~5-6% added dmg) and as example vs undead slaying and force (~15% dm g vs undead only (= only in Orr and Arah)) and as you will not make 3,4 or more ascneded weapon sets you’ll make 1 generic (always used weapon AND you will make exotics for specific tasks)

Legendaries are end game skins for ppl who find them very important… In practice most are very bling, though only a few are to people’s liking (generally), and the only advantage of legendaries over ascended is the fact you can select STATS. you can change your legendary from a zerk weapon to a dire weapon with 2 clicks when out of combat, as often as you want. You CANNOT change the sigils on the fly, so for dungeon you will STILL USE DUNGEON WEAPONS! maybe you’ll transmute your skin, but i do not thing anybody made 2 the same legendaries just to craft dungeon weapons. They are in NO WAY more powerfull then other weapons, making them the most expensive skins in the game… (well mostly)

I was lucky enough to have bought the heavy set when it was released, The average price then was 5-30 gold/recipe for all the pieces, with the heavy pieces by for the most expensive as the drops were a bit rare.

I bought the light and medium set later on paying 375 for the light and 275 for the medium, I’m stil hoping druids will get some healing abilities.

I use the light ascneded set atm on necromancer.
I’m still workikng on making the heavy set for a guardian, it could double as an armor for a shout heal warrior.
I’m stil waiting to craft the medium.

Also I do understand why it became so expensive:

Due to everybody shouting power/ precision / healing is useless, you will not make a healer in this game they are not needed, and if you do want a healer you’d want healing as a main stat…. Nobody farmed the pieces, drop rates were low anyways. Everybody focussed on zerk/sin. The few people who actually bought these have a very interesting set.

The reason nobody wanted them and the below average droprate resultd in recipe’s worth above 250-400 gold on the TP,

I paid ~375 gold for the heavy armor recipes…all Last time I checked cause somebody asked me they were 2400 gold.

The set isn’t complete…. There are still no zealot trinkets. Zealot trinkets and zerk armor would allow for decent healing. roughly equal to the ppl wearing zealot armor and using zerk trinktes atm, I do own a guard with the exotic armor and trinkets, but it is not soo much better… the loss of ferocity will destroy the dps balance, leaving me equipping zerk trinkets regularly. (trinket would add a further 200 healing making maximum healing ~1200-1300 without food, but including runes.)

IMHO good uses for zealot armor:
water ele,
support/heal guard,
shout heal warrior,
support necro.
no actual use for medium classes though engineer could benefit. I do not play engi though.