Guild Wars 2

Arenanet is working with AMD to get performance increased in a offical post.

Also AMD has lost battle ater battle after battle with Intel for gaming for the last 4 years…..
It should be a clear indication that if you want max prformance in games you should have bought a Intel Processor.

You cant blame Arenenet for AMD’s lack of power people sorry. and running on 4000mhz or 5000 mhz is only a very small increase in power for gaming, its proven in alot of gaming benchmarks that mhz aint the holy graill.

300 mhz in a I7 gives around 2 /5 fps gain.

I left AMD after the AMD Athlon x64 3000 and bought the I7 920 2.6 mhz, iam still using it and still it performs good enough not to warrant a better upgrade.
Altough iam looking for the I7 3750K iam still waiting for price drops.

Mininum system requirements only indicates that it will boot GW2 up, not that you can play with good fps.

The minimum system specs should be:

I7 extreme 920 – Radeon 4850 <—-60fps overal on high settings.
WvW i have 40/60 untill we zerg then it drops to 10/30 fps.

I was trying to check out a new system, but if i read posts about GTX 670 and I7 3750K not getting 60 fps in WvW i decided to wait it out and see what happens the upcomming months.

Ati confirmed their 8000 series in 2013 Q1 or Q2.
Intell prices of their 39xx series willbe lower also then.

Play some other game in the meantime or eat low fps in WvW / Big Events.
Also they are working on Engine improments 10000% so have patience or leave and come back when its fixed.

But when your running a 5 year old system you should not be playing PC games.

What i dont understand is what is holding you back ?
You think second place doesnt get the amount of attention ? talk to other alliance’s who play on diffrent time zone’s ?

Its always the forum crying baby’s here, waiste that energy into a good informative posts about your server and what your plans are.

Look around you and ask what guilds wants to make a switch to make your own server a 24/7 WvW active.

There are big community’s of guilds like TA, they are not the only one you know.
But come on make some kitten effort if you wanne beat #1.

You think TA have Gods playing ? offcourse not, they make mistakes, just like any other players.
There is no secrets in WvW, its pretty straight forward, it aint like WWII where you needed to focus and spend troops on 5000 diffrent fronts…
Its making sure your server knows whats going on at all times, a simple:
Bravost Attack – 30 ET’s Keep door at – 70%.
^thats info that should be spammed and people should respond.

But the 1st think servers should ask themselves is, what big guilds of other time zone’s can join us to get 24/7 WvW going.

Europe has it 1000 times worse with only 2 french servers owning 100% of the maps when EU sleeps.
They dont have Ausie’s / Asian’s or other time’s to pick from as easy as their USA brothers do.

All diffrent time zone’s are present here on USA server’s you just have to communicate and talk on Vent / Teamspeak to ge tthem aboard.

Maybe ask Arenenet to make it so they dont lose their guild points so it makes it even easier to merge guilds into 1 alliance.

But for the love of all that is holy stop hating on HoD and accuse them from cheating or wathever things you have in mind to discredit a whole server population.

Toubzky most WvW players left Far Shiverpeaks some time ago, your fighting remnants and left overs, you may thank your canadian beavers for that.

This friday it seems my old server Far Shiverpeaks will face 2 french servers :P
Maybe Vizunah will stand a chanse now on day time when they can team up with their other Canadians and EU French ^^

Glad i transfered to USA, EU rankings are 100x more derped then their USA counter parts.

Best thing to do when building a pc is spending alot of time at Tom’s hardware site and compare components.

Iam building a new rig myself very soon.
Mobo
CPU
Memory
are 1st and maybe i wait it out and stick to my Asus Radeon 4850 who still pulls amazing kitten in PvE at 60FPS on high settings.

The rumors of Ati’s new line up are out in the open (the 8xxx series) and they have around 30% to 40% more power then current Nvidia’s flagship like the 680.

If you still have a little patience and still have an old video card i would wait a few months before buying a new GPU.
Its a win win if you ask me, Nvidia will drop in price with their 680 / 670 and Ati comes out with new eye candy.

I woulnt recomend anyone buying a AMD CPU tough they have lost battle after battle after battle with Intell past 3 / 4 years.
And you will have much more power in a I5 / I7 then any AMD on the market.

Goodluck !!!

Or do like i did and move to a USA server, Stormbluff / Henge of Denravi / Jade Qauri are all good servers for Europe player to play on.
I moved away with my friends and left Far shiver peaks behind as i was getting tired of the non excistend canadians who fill up their queues 24/7 and say they rock

i have almost no lag so i dunno what people are talking about playing overseas, also i have a 100Mbit connection maybe thats why i dont seem to have such lag ?

Anyway, want to play on servers with 24/7 players ? transfer over to USA and never look back at the mickey mouse top eu servers.

Its a valid tactic to prevent oposing servers to mass build sieges…its a PvP map get over it.
I would do anything for my server to hold of enemy’s who want sieges.
Dont like it ? start camping it yourself or ask Arenanet to delete PvE in WvW.

What do you expect in a competitive WvW envirement ? holding hands and sing songs together at a jumping puzzle oO ?

Its a valid tactic to prevent servers from building sieges.

Scouts report where main forces are going then you attack the least defended spots, this goes for many servers.
Teaming up is a myth on most cases as you attack what you can with the leasts resistance to screo as much points as you can.

Responding to attacks is what makes a diffrence and stops other teams from scoring points.
Sometimes that means 2 servers vs 1 that can be your server or 1 of your opoents who gets double teamed.

But in no way servers team up on skype / irc or whatever communication is out there to 100% team up versus one other server, that would nerf your points per day very hard.

But some servers need to scream this stuff as their kitten just got slapped into the ground.

Even extreme rigs have troubles running GW2 in optimal or highest settings.
But looking at your rig you shoulnt realy expect alot of candy in gw2.

But look around for some FPS issues posts (alot of them ) and try to check what can help you a little to get more fps.

For me fps seems to drop and go up randomly as i have a feeling the engine isnt optimised yet.
Alot of work Anet needs to do to resolve the major fps drops.

But give them a little air to breath iam sure their tech support and technonerds are all over it

hey all another FPS issue here and would like to know if you also have the same issue as me.

PvE 60 fps smooth as butter.
WvW entrance 60 fps smooth as butter.
Walking out of the starter location 60 to 50
Walking close to the 1st tower 40 – 50
Nearing Stonemist keep 30 – 40
Inside Stonemist keep 10 – 15
^ even with no people or enemy in sight this happens

Adjusting settings Ingame or in Catalyst have zero effect.

I tried diffrent drivers

11/12 catalyst
12.1
12.3
12.4
12.6
12.8

Zero effect on fps….

System specs are and yes not the best but kitten in PvE this rig runs like a truck on steroids at 60 FPS and Shatterer at 40/50fps.

I7 extreme 920 2.6 ghz turboboost to 2,9ghz
Asus Radeon 4850 O.C. 10% / 15%
6 gig ram DDR3 1300mhz

Temps are hot i had to install a north south bridge chipset cooler to keep temps below 70 celcius.

Just wondering if anyone else face the same problem when starting in WvW and then walking to Stonemist to see their FPS drop like Crazy with no way to get it back up again.

AMD has been getting a hard beating my intell for years on end now, if you like gaming dont buy AMD systems.

The last processor i used from AMD was the AMD 64bit x2 3000.
The processor after that was my Intell I7 extreme 920.

AMD has lost 2 years of battles, while not lost the war yet, they need to step up and produce better gaming procs before they are wiped out by Intell.

Serious gamers dont play on laptops and expect good performance…
Even if you buy the best gaming laptop money can buy your performance will still be much lower then spending that money for a desktop.

Why do people keep saying gaming laptops…its a waiste of money -_-

Its becomes your servers problem when 40 people are doing pve to farm some coin.
Do that stuff outside WvWand give your slot to someone who wants to assist your server to win battles.

PvE is ok just dont let them drop anything so bots and farmers dont get anything from doing that.
WvW has 150/160 slots per map and queues vary from 1 to 6 hours, ashame you dont think about those people who want to participate for WvW instead of PvE where there is plenty of stuff to farm.
Go to Orr a much better place to farm coin.

WvW is a 24/7 game 7 days in a week, without nightcrews your server is going to be matched versus them sooner or later.

I see no harm that servers ask for 24/7 WvW.

preventing the other team to get mass siege equipment for free, whats the problem ?

Attacking Tier 3 keeps means putting up Trebs / Cata’s

Deffending a Tier 3 keep means stealth rush in AoE in the middle of a zerg and clear the Sieges out.
Both have cons and advantage’s

Lucky Arenanet made weapons that can be used as range for any melee class and vice versa

Name me 1 game where a warrior or any other class can survive a 40 man instand nuke

Adapt to the situation.

The reward you get is a bulk of suply’s much needed to upgrade your keeps, if you only bother for exp/karma then your realy bad.

The top servers builds 3 balista’s 3 arrow charts if not more to keep suply camps + suply routes gaurded, efven in enemy territory.

Bad servers who dont even bother taking suply’s and assist the people who bought sieges want that exp/karma back so then can walk dolyaks 24/7 for easy ride.

Think about that for a moment.

Phoenix.3416:

snarky.8935:

So recruit some guilds in different time zones. WvW is supposed to be a 24/7 battle.

It’s a bummer that you don’t have forces to defend/attack at night but it is no reason to region lock servers.

If Im on a EU server it should be EU players or timezones close to not so far behind

If what you said was true I would have american servers in my possible server wvw fight list, we are separate for a reason.

And then you have people who work at daytime and play late night…whats the diffrence ?
We would end up making these posts again.

There is 1 sollution and thats getting 24/7 WvW going, recruit guilds / players from diffrent time zone’s and you have 24/7 defence / offence.

Or do like i did and transfer over to USA like any serious WvW player does, Europe is not intersting enough to get 24/7 WvW going.

So you have options availeble i suggest you think about those and make a decision on what you want.
Swallow the night cappers or move to a server that is recruiting Europe players, your choice

There are guilds from europe and other regions comming to USA already, soon the top 5 USA servers will have 24/7 coverage inside WvW maps.

Give it time

What has to be done now is lock High/Full servers, lower the cap for those servers to prevent more and more imbalance.

This will force a 1 way traffic out of Full/High servers to medium servers.

I am amazed this hasnt been done yet with 1 week WvW battles…

If a see a rich kid with commander not worth leading i /ignore and wont deal with rich kids anymore.

On the other hand that commander is epic and lead people, even random joe follows the orders and thats what it was intended for.

Do i care about a rich kid failing to lead ? not at all matter of fact i can only laugh at them

Like always this will be abused and it aint realy fair for servers who have a big pvp community.
IF they get matched versus a medium populated server then their queue times fo 6 hours would increase to 12 hours.

It solve’s nothing.

Transfer to a WvW server that has an alliance and good WvW guilds is the only solution at this moment.

I sugest taking the oppertunity and move out to while the transfer are still free.

Problem is alot of people look at the ranking list and dont care and dont give any second toughts about queue time.
I had days i stood in a 6 hour long queue to get my dose of WvW action.
This is something i wont endure + we are doomed to play versus Vinuzah Sqaure for god knows how long and we dont get any diffrent time zone’s to FS either.

So for me the choice was easy, but it shoulnt be this way i know

Came back on Froiday to Far Shiverpeaks, had such a long queue that i knew we had 2000 extra players at least.

Tranfered off again to the server i was playing on in the USA.
Any serious WvW player leave Europe, the only competition that i fair is 24/7 servers, i sugest Far shiverpeaks do the same as me and transfer off to NA servers.

Eve has one of the best servers on the market for modern mmo’s as far as i know.
The major question is how much do you wanne pay for your game to get rid of lag ?

This generation of servers just cannot handle 500 players using spells and effects in a small room.
There prolly are servers who might handle this, but they cost money…so much money that if a company could invest it the game would end up costing over 1000 dollars.
Maybe you can affort that price for a game, but 99% of the other people cannot.

So the good servers for mmo’s will always have this problem untill better and less costing servers get on the market.

Maybe in about 20 years from now we have servers that can handle 1500 players in a small room
hardware changes fast and become chealer and cheaper, so who knows.

But one thing is for sure, you cannot blame Arenanet for client lag, its our tech generation.

Ive learned the hardway that WvW is never going to be balanced the sooner people learn it the better people understand WvW.

Far Shiverpeaks has no night crew and loses all their bases in 1 night of sleep, its kitten unfair but nothing we can do about it but retake it during the rest of the day.

Free migration = deadly 1 hour queues are becomming 6 hour queues at prime time.
I left my Server Far Shiverpeaks for 2 reasons:

1. Queue time at prime was 1 or 2 hours, after the winning servers got posted it increased on a day by day bases, ive stood in a 5/6 hour queue at prime time…….

2. Fight versus servers that play WvW 24/7 made my decision final to move to USA servers.

What we are left with now is massive exodus to winning servers creating massive queues and massive destruction for WvW community’s that had a tight WvW alliance.

They cannot play together unless they abandon their own server to play on a low populated server.

Anet can never get this right it needs to played like it is, casual and hardcore shuffle the cards and hope for the best.

Imposible to queue up with a guild / full friends after a day of work, takes untill 22:00 hours to get inside WvW if you queue at 1700/1800 hours after you got home from work.

Give it time…….lots and lots of time

It will balance itself.

Server A low populated loses 50 matches in a row
Server B low populated oses 49 matches in a row
Server C low populated loses 48 matches in a row

Now you have a close to equal server match.

Its imposible to make all brackets balanced and buffs / debuffs / have only created more imbalance or never work as intended.

But free transfer isnt making things better.

Some guilds will never leave the server they settled on.
Some guilds will jump ship fast if the server doesnt provide their needs
Some players never leave the server they settled on.
Some players jump ship fast if the server doesnt provide their needs. <—-i am one.

I want to commit myself long term to mmo’s a good server lays down the basics of what is needed for my enjoyment.
Same apply’s to guilds.

What can be done is a karma / exp buff to assist low populated realms when free transfers are closed.

Grub give’s a siege reward to if you contribute enough.
You can also buy some at the vendors at spawn locations.

Horrible idea to put pve stuff inside pvp zone’s.

It only provokes flames not to mention when more and more people are trying it your server is losing to many people participating in a battle and that creates a shift in power and advantage for opponents.

Hope the pve players understand that nothing is more fun them griefing pve players
I dont do it, but i smile when i hear it
If a 1 or 2 people do it np’s
If 20 people are doing it its realy sad
if 30 or more people are doing it your making putting a handicap on your server and let it fight with 1 hand at the back tied up.

They should have never ever put PvE stuff inside a WvW zone…
Not only does it add to the already horrible queue for people who only play this game for WvW.
But seeing 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 people around that puzzle is game breaking not to mention your server is down with alot of force.

I have no respect for pve players inside a WvW zone that do not contribute to battle in one way or another.
Maybe of it was 1000vs1000vs1000 it would be diffrent story, but missing alot of people inside WvW has a major impact in balance.

At least they make it hilarious ^^ looking for lost cats when an army is banging on the gate’s.

But I knew before GW2 was released Piken Sqaure was a RP server (unoffical) !
Nothing you can do to prevent this other then quickly migrating to another server ^^

Like Tzash already said, if 1 server is totaly dominating team up with the other team and make them go defensive.
Good coordiantion, enough suply’s and a little investments for sieges goes a long way.

24 hour matches dint realy put alot of balance between servers
Free tranfers isnt helping it either in 7 days matches

But it some point more balance will come and even then there will always be a winner and always be a losing server.

What people want are epic battles that can put a smile on your face, for some servers that smile is far away untill some more time is given to let it resolve and settle down.

This varies incredible in server choice.
Some servers provide good leadership less zerglings and epic oponents.
Some servers provide the total oposite, bad leadership massive number of lemmings and zerglings and weak oponents or totaly unbeateble oponents.

Your vieuw of 6 hours WvW is likely very biased as you have seen nothing yet in WvW then a few attempts of towers / keeps.

Ive been holding Stonemist versus 2 others servers for 5 hours both cramping up in our Lord room and pushing them back out the 2nd walls.

I find the GW2 community better then any other mmo, except Eve’s community who seems to be extremely helpfull.

But GW2 is like WoW / Warhammer / Aion / SWTOR / or any other fantasy mmo and thus you get their garbage with it, but also their good and polite players and guilds.

So far i realy like it.

Also the reward for WvW for me is the action the attack and defend and repel enemy’s.
To each his own offcourse, it cant make all people happy

Get 24/7 time zone’s covering your server
Or move to 24/7 coverage server if your serious about WvW.

I did it and iam not looking back altough i left a few people behind, but i like to play WvW and losing 100% of the map was making me sad.

Having a blast again in WvW now tough

Ive already transfered off to a realm that provides multiple time zone’s.
Soon you will see a few servers who totaly dominate WvW due to this.

But its the only way to make things fair and balance it out.

You cannot punish diffrent time zone’s
You cannot punish players who work on diffrent work shifts

Get guilds / players with diffrent time zone to your server or transfer like i did to a server that provide 24/7 WvW.

Any serious WvW player will be doing that anyway from now on.

I made a mistake and tought it would balance it self, it will not as your rotation against other servers is an ungoing proces.

It sucks to leave your server, but it sucks more to to lose 100% of your map when you are at work or sleeping.

What ive done is moved away and stettled down on a 24/7 server where all time zone’s are present.
If you care that much about WvW its the only sollution at this point.

People might be undergoing mass migrations to those servers, nothing worse then losing 100% of the map when your server owns the place at prime time.

I have found the sollution to nightcapping there are a few options:

#1. Get guilds / players from multiple time zone’s to your server.

#2. Move to servers who provide 24/7 defence.

#3. Let servers balance themselves, altough this can be problematic as you will always have people playing.

I transfered from a servers i played on since beta to a new server that provided 24/7 WvW.
I aint going to stay on a server and hope for the best, my commitment to GW2 will be longterm, its best to make a good decision now then to regret stuff later.

I play in Far Shiverpeaks to…and i know VS and hate them for capping 100% of the map.
I also hate the hours and hours and hours of queue WvW has.
ButkittenWvW is just to awesome not to do.

Your opinion is your opinion, i dont share your opinion in any way.

Time will balance servers, something Far Shiver can do to prevent the french from capping our lands at night is inviting other time zone players/guilds.

it is the only way to make WvW fair.
But even then things can change real fast, fighting 2 servers at once means losing ground, so yes WvW isnt fair it was never intended to be fair.

But it can be balanced in the way that you dont wake up and lost 100% of your lands

I migrated to USA today, to a server that has 24/7 WvW going on and i might not come back to Europe, unless we have 24/7 WvW servers going.

I did it a few times but at one point you see a massive train walking beside the Dolyaks, and thats gamebreaking in WvW.

^Davion is right, the only way for a server to counter off time capping is to recruit off time players.

USA seems to have the most 24/7 servers atm, Europe seem to have 1 or 2.

The sollution to prevent a server to lose all keeps / towers = migrate to other servers who provide 24/7 time zone’s or recruit players from time zone’s diffrent then yours.

Debuff / Buffs / immunity’s ive all thinked about it and you cannot punish diffrent time zone’s if they do not match yours.

How bitter the reality is for Far shiverpeaks versus Vizunah Sqaure, the only way to counter it is getting people to do the same.

It will also create a massive problem soon with the free migration still going, people who see this comming are moving away from their server to other servers.

And yes me included, Far Shiverpeaks was my home since Closed Beta’s, but this problem isnt going to solve itself.

I had the same problem stood in the queu for over 4 hours finaly got in and after 15 minutes i disconnected……dint even boot GW2 up as i knew i woulnt get in WvW anymore.

A 5 min time frame or maybe even 3 minute timeframe for a disconnect should be implemented with the hours long queues

Most WvW guilds in Europe are already transfering to USA it seems, better to have more 24/7 worlds then 1 total in Europe.

Just migrated to USA server to check some stuff out.
Lag is not noticable, got perhaps slightly higher ping but not something i realy notice.
Balance of the server i tranfered to seems alot better.

Europe servers will have a hard time recruiting USA / Austrailian players, while most European players dont care alot where they play i think as long as there is fair play involved

It seems the future of good WvW builds wanting to compete on more allround servers are needed to migrate to USA.
Eu just isnt apealing enough to get serious 24/7 WvW on a balanced level.

Things might change, but so far USA seems to the way to go for me and our guild.

Stop talking sence versus Vizunah Sqaure, they wont admit thats its lame or unfair, and blame us for having a job and the need to sleep before getting a full day of hard labour.

We all should report to our goverment and ask wellfare and play 24/7 to prevent their wicked night crew from capping 100% of the map.

I can already see a dark future in WvW where USA servers are going to recruit Europeans / Australlians and Our own Europe servers have no real WvW guilds left.

Honestly if we get matched again versus the french iam jumping the sinking ship and play on USA server or just quit.

Aint going to give up my job to beat a few poor french that skip sleep to gain such an enormous advatage each day.

And the best part is Far Shiver is ranked #2 so we are doomed to play versus them tillt he end of time…unless they themselves get matched versus 24/7 servers.

Question to other servers in Europe:

Are there any more servers in EU that do night capping ? realy realy curious to know this as they might end up playing against each other.

Reading reponses from players claiming to be the best when they nightcap is hilarious.
Not targeting Austrialla players here mostly EU.

What will happen real soon is 80% of WvW players transfering to fully packed 24/7 WvW servers.
There are only a few servers who provide this, but i bet this is getting worse and worse

Soon you have 2 or 3 servers doing WvW and all the others are deserted, great future WvW has.

And yes then they need to put EU servers VS USA servers.
24/7 servers versus 24/7 servers.

Only then real balance can be acuired.
But can it be done ?

Yes that is a something for EU only i play on FS.

But how about USA / Austriallian time zone’s ?
What is their prime time ? should we pick USA as prime time and shaft Australlians ? or should we pick Australlien Prime time and shaft USA players ?

Unless you can only play in your own Continent Europe / USA / Australlia this is very very hard to get right.
It will take a combined offer from all guilds and players to make fair decisions and transfer to servers where each time zone is present to WvW 24/7.

As long as free transfers are open no real balance can be made…
People just keep tansfering to better servers

rematching after this week will only show increased queue time for winning servers.
Most solo players and maybe some serious WvW guilds transfer to the winning side.

So the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

Free transfer should have been disabled before the 1 week long matches.

Temper.7265:

Maybe NA servers with this problem should go on a Oceanic/EU recruitment drive so they have 24/7 representation for a 24/7 WvW ?

I do know that some Oz guilds foresore this happening and decided to stay clear of the prefered unnofficial Oceanic servers,so that they could have some decent competition.

Maybe the larger 200+ member Aussie guilds would consider splitting their guild onto two servers ?

I dunno,there was plenty of talk about this subject pre-release in Ausssie circles,was there for the NAs’ or EUs’ ?

Yes this seems the only way to balance servers.

Merge USA / Europe / Australlian guilds on multiple servers.
That means WvW 24/7 like only 2 or 3 servers have now.

Maybe if Arenanet cannot balance this people need to migrate their guilds to a more allround server.

But how and wich server ?

You do not want all those guilds on 1 server…
You want them on at least 6 servers so you get to face some new oponents after each reset

This will be very hard for guilds to play out and if that discussion gets going Arenanet needs to assist on that matter by not takign away their guilds points etc etc.

It takes a combined effort of both Arenanet + Guilds from all time zone’s.
But where to play ? Europe / USA ?

So many things that can create problems

Exactly Garas, that my main worry also.

Far Shiverpeaks is ranked #2
Vizunah Sqaure is ranked #1

We have been matched alot versus them and this is the 1st full week match
Friday servers get rematched for another week.

But atm i think only the number 3 gets switched and i think thats the germans of Riverside who seem to switch with Desolation each time.

So if Friday rematch is

Vizunah Sqaure
Far Shiverpeaks
Riverside

We are facing the same kitten again -_-
But it will mean massive angry mobs as we are fed up with their night crew on midweek.

We can sport a few people night playing in the weekend we have free time and no work, but come sunday night…..its all over again and back to where we are now.

I cannot see this going to end well…..