Guild Wars 2

I would stronglly recomend the i7 3770k if u want to record, u can also move to 2011 socket and i7 3820, or even may be 8core AMD 8350 will blow away the i5 in any high quality gaming streaming or recording, specially in heavy CPU bounded games like GW2.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Rampage.7145: any videocard still using ddr3 is NOT a game card, example the 6670 has 2 versions, a ddr3 version thats HORRIBLE for modern games, and a ddr5 version thats quite acceptable for low res gaming (720p or below), I say this as somebody who has had both versions and sold the ddr5 version because a buddy needed it, The ddr3 versions still being used in a system i connect to an hdtv to watch movies and downloaded tv shows on, as it works wonderfully for that.

its like back a few years ago when some company put out a 2gb 8400 and 8600…..the cards couldnt make use of that much ram, not to mention it was VERY VERY slow cheap ram…..

you are better off with a 1gb ddr5 card then a 2gb or 3gb or 4gb ddr3 card.

Dude read the mother kittening thread before mother kittening post! The whole system is for sale at 350$ is the 6670DDR3 a deal breaker? hell no! it is just fine for GW2, it will run the game on mid/high setting at 30+FPS. Would the 6670 DDR5 perform noticeably different? NO!!! OFC the OP is not asking for a modern game like BF3, crysis, hitman max payne, he is asking for GW2!!! and at that price of 350$ u won’t find a better performing system. Jesus i know a gddr5 card would be better!!!! it is kittening obvious, would that change the fact 350$ is very good deal for that PC? kittening NO
Faster memory don’t mean anything if the GPU is not fast enough to process the info, OFC if the there was a 7970 GHZ edition DDR3 it would be kittening problem!!! but for a low end card like the 6670 the memory being ddr3 instead ddr5 comes close to a irrelevant factor.

Set shadows and reflections to none those are the most intensive options u can turn down to increse ur FPS.

It is still not the point, the point is it will still run GW2 ok since 1 GW2 uses arround 400mb of memory on a single monitor, 2 the memory benefits the most the texture quality and texture filters like AA or AF, so GW2 texures are not really impressive in terms of quality, game dosn’t even support AF and the AA lvls are minimum, this means gains over memory speed will be minimum for a game like this.
But yeah overall u are right in theory, but in real world in a game like gw2 playing on a single monitor 1gb ddr3 is more than enough and anything over that won’t give u a noticeable performance boost.
P.D: not talking about the video chip only about the memory.

Indeed i played tera before GW2 and performance was just on a different league. If u are experiencing performnce issues in GW2 with a decent spec i recomend u to try out tera, since it is free now and it will run smooth. If u have high end CPU GW2 is fine, u will still experience crap performance but it is tolerable.

hoegarden.4287:

2Gb ddr3 for a graphic card is not that much today. Most recent ones already have ddr5 installed, so 1 gb ddr5 is already better than 2Gb ddr3. Ram doesn’t have a very high frequentie. For a desktop, it is pretty low. Anyway it will run paint at 60fps without problem

U probably don’t know anything about videocards or PCs in general, but it is ok it is not a crime to be ignorant… saddly

I think it will be ok only10-20% of the ppl plays WvW anyway… for 350$ is pretty good bang for the buck for GW2. Besides the phemon will handdle WvW just fine u should consider go to a much expensive i5 only if u plan to be in WvW 24/7.

Videocard model? And laptop brand/model
Some laptops are a pain when it comes to drivers, manufacturers just don’t care about support.

U can still try tera for now, it is free to play. Untill u get the money to upgrade or they fix the game.

It will make close to no difference in GW2 tbh, i have mine maxed cuz i use it to ram disk some games, other than that 6gb is more than enough for any modern game.

It is not gonna change at least not for 2 or 3 years, so u can upgrade to a more powerfull CPU or go play a properlly optmized game like Tera i guess

Aluano.1826:

OP you have a GTX 560Ti and you have 80 fps in most areas on max settings? I got a AMD 7970 and i5 2500K @ 4.5 GHz and I never go above 50-60 fps on max settings :/

U have 100% more GPU performace and arround 40% more CPU so most likelly 1 of u is liying :P

The game is arround arround 16gb

My idea is to use MSI afterburner or fraps to test if the same problem happen while using those programs.

I think u are totally right why is the profanity filter there? if u cannot curse, one thing is to make racist comments of insulting some player directly and a totally different one is just to random curse on chat. They should just get rid of the profanity filter then. I think profanity should be allowed at all times cuz most of the ppl who play this game are 18+ and if u are not u can chose to enable the profanity fillter as easy as that.

If u have a 450/500w generic PSU i would recomend the hd 7750, cuz id dosn’t require any extra power than the PCI/e slot. If u have a good 80 plus certified power supply u could go higher. I think anything higher than a hd 7870 would be overkill for that CPU tho.

MomentusXT is no match for a SSD, velociraptor is even worst, what u want from an SSD is not high read/write speeds only, what really matters is the low reading latency and ultra fast seek times, using memory as ramdisk is an ok idea but it is kinda not as practical as having a good SSD with the OS and games on it, it loads everything ultra fast, it is just a diferent league from any HDD.

Mmmm no, the 5450 will run the game but only with everything turned down to minimum setting, i would recomend u to buy a new power supply 600w will be more than enough even 550w if u don’t plan to overclock the CPU (which u should for GW2).
The HD 5450 is like the lowest end card avaliable for an office PC if u don’t have integrated graphics, it performance is as low as the intel 3000 integrated chips which is the minimum requirement for GW2, so i would never recomend this videocard for games. A 600w PSU can be found for about 40$ may be cheaper so i think that is what u should do, specially having the hd7770 wich is gonna run the game at high settings easy.

U can live without it if u can stand long map change load times, personally i don’t, but if by performance u mean only Frames per sencod then SSD is totally irrelevant, u will get the same performace.

The game will run in LOW probably ok, ur CPU won’t bottlenec the 520m cus it is a very low end card, almost as slow as the intregrted chip inside the i5. U will have a smooth experience with all the eyecandy turned down, don’t expect to have good frames in WvW but it will still be playable most of the time. So in conlcusion the game will run fine, just don’t expect it to look pretty.

The 5450 hands down, but it will not perform good in this game, u kinda need lot more horsepower than that, at least a 5670 to make the game enjoyable at low/med quality.

U must pay for the service, u won’t find a similar service for free, beliave me. If u go trial it will disconect u from the server every 20 mins, trial only works for personal testing, u can test if u get less lag, if u feel a improvment u go and pay for the service, if u don’t feel any improvment while testing using the trial then u obviously don’t buy the full service. U play 20 mins it disconects, u have to start the game all over, after 20 more mins it disconects again, that is how it works. When u buy the service u can be logged in for whatever ammount of time u want.

It is a global issue, is not your hardware, they just kittened up something. Gotta love the fact instead optimizing the game they make it run slower everytime.

I cap it at 30 FPS on my laptop while overclocking it absolutelly helps keep the temps down, but i think it is kind of nonsense thing to do on a desktop, just get yourself a 30$ (212EVO) CPU cooler and problem solved, if ur case do no has propper ventilation just leave the lateral door open, no big deal just clean inside 1 per week.

What is ur actual hardware setup?

I would go for a laptop with the A10 processor, or A8 at least, the A4 will struggle in GW2. Those are avaliable for arround 500$
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Envy-dv6-7210us-15-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B009A178G4/ref=sr_1_6?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1359963892&sr=1-6
Something like that would do much better in GW2

Yeah battleping works, it should reduce ur latency in most cases, battleping is a DNS service, what it does is imporving the way the data travels arround the world from ur home to arenant Datacenters. Normally specially when having long distances, ur ISP will route the data trough many servers arround the world before reaching Arenanet servers, this causes extra latency, and most likelly packet losses. With battleping the data from ur computer travels directly to battleping servers and from them to arenanet servers, this reduces the latency considerably and improves data quality, resulting in overall less lag.
Notice internet connection speed is not imporatant, many ppl think buying a faster internet connection will solve latency issues and it will not, latency won’t even improve a bit by increasing ur own connection speed.
Services like battleping are best option for ppl outside the US.

I’d like to second this post, currently LF a very hardcore WvW, i don’t care which server, just need very good organization and constant WvW activities, don’t want to read in guild chat LF ppl for fractal 10.
I have 3 WvW capable chars, fully geared
+warrior, heavy damage speck 25k killshots
+guardian, support build based on shouts, boons/cond removal from alies
+Thief, high dmage, perma stealth, decent survavility, roamer, speced for tactical 2/3m groups
Also please only respond this post if u really run a guild under marcus standards, it is a expensive transfer, i don’t PVE so i don’t really have a lot of gold, don’t make me waste my time.

Yeah it is a good laptop game, i wish i could ask for a refund on my diablo 3 copy, “dude i paid 60$ for this and a free to play beta game is better, can i have my money back please?” sigh

Yeah if u upgrade the videocard u can run the game, but frames won’t be nice cuz the CPU would be crppling the GPU performance. But u should be able to at least run the game and may be playing a bit, paired with a good CPU the card should run this game at high settings at 30+ FPS easy
HD 7750 100$
HD 7770 120$
GTX 650ti 150$
Those are the budget options i would recomend do not go any lower, just as i listed the cards the more expensive 650ti will perform better than the hd7750 ofc.
Check out this article it will give u a very good idea of what to get according on how much u want to spend:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-3.html
also there is a videocard hierarchy chart there that will show u how the compare to each other.

I have seen some C2duo running this game at acceptable frames, check ur system is running properlly, nothing is overheating, everything is working at propper clock speeds and at good load rates. It is a fairlly old system so there is a huge chance dust and overhealting is also crippling it’s performance.
Download hwinfo64 to monitor ur system, while running the game, i u need some help with that justy run the game on windowed mode for a few mins while HWinfo64 is monitoring the system, then print screen the whole sensors page and post it here, something like this:

It is a bit old i don’t think the GPU upgrade will give u a enjoyable experience without upgrading the whole motherboard+CPU. Nevertheless, u can get a good radeon hd7750 for 100$ it will serve u well for gaming. And just wait untill u have money to upgrade the rest of ur components, or just gather 400$ at least and get yourself a whole new budget system capable of playing this and other games just fine.

What CPU do u have?

I don’t really see they implementing full dx11 compatibility, since well, is rewriting the game pretty much, just not gonna happen, may be when they launch a paid expansion or something like that to try hook up some players who left the game due poor performance, other than that i see very unlikelly the FPS problems getting solved soon.

U just better wait a bit for the new intel and AMD CPUs to go out, u can get a radeon 7750 (it is cheap) for now it won’t bottleneck ur CPU a lot and it will be clossfire compatible with the next gen APU coming out soon. Also if u go intel route the 7750 will still play any game at decent settings. Upgrading to intel at this point is kinda a waste, since their plarforms are gonna be totally replaced soon which is gonna leave u with no further upgrade posibility avaliable.

HT should be off all the time if u use that i7 for games only, it helps a bit, if u use it for video encode or 3d rendering just leave it on, but make sure u unpark ur CPU cores. Google “core parking” and learn how to unpark ur cores in w7 or w8.
HT on or off shouldn’t affect the game performance at all just make sure if u leave it on u unpark ur CPU, this is only because windows is a kittenty OS and it cannot properlly adress the tasks on the CPU efficientlly, u must turn that option off in order to force the OS to ultilize ur CPU at it full potential all the time basically.

570 scale better cus they are way slower, 690 bottleneck the CPU much more, during CPU heavy situations u just won’t see any improvment using a 690 over a 550ti, only if u run 3 monitor or 3D setting u can actually get some juice from high end SLI in GW2, other than that is just overkill for such a CPU bounded game. 600 series are by far better then 500 in everything, performance, memory respose times, compatibility, way lower temps and power consumption.
But again in GW2 u can expect FPS drops no matter how high end ur GPU config is, it won’t help a single FPS during those frame drops. U will get very high FPS normally during PVE, but as soon u get into some CPU taxing situtaion those FPS will drop to 30 or bellow no matter what.

The problem is the game itself is not Nvidia or AMD, the crossfire/SLI scalling is working 100%, But the cards will remain in idle cuz ur CPU cannot keep up, If the CPU cannot feed them then the cards won’t imporve ur performance is simple as that. Anything above a gtx 660ti is overkill for GW2 because there is no CPU capable of keep up, and don’t fool yourself thinking LGA 2011 will solve that, cuz in this game a 200$ i5 2500k performs as well as the 1000$ i7 3960x it all comes to the single thread capabilities of the CPU, more cores/threads mean nothing to this game.
Don’t compare to other games and plaese stop complaining to Nvidia/AMD for low performace issues cuz there is nothing they can possibly do about it, it is all on Arenanet side.
AMD CPUs performs even a little worst than sandy/Ivy, Arenanet just didn’t tested the game enough, it all comes to a big time desing flaw of their graphics engine, probably when they realized the game performing horrible (during beta) there was nothing the could posibly do about it. So a fix for this could take years (if ever gets fixed), they would have to rewrite the whole game using a new engine capable of muticore render the game (which is not trivial only a few engines on the market do this) basically.

Guardian has retaliation and, protection, regeneration, warriors don’t i play both and a guardian even while having lower HP can survive a lot more than a warrior overall, guardians don’t really need a huge HP pool, since they have a lot defenses, boons and condition removal, warrior lacks of most of this things. a guardian buffing his party with retaliation can deal even more damage than a full berserker warrior in most group vs group situations. Why do u think warriors don’t have any viable PVP builds? while guardians have at least 3 or 4?
A warrior shout build can hardlly be compared with a meditation build, if u play warrior u would understand why. I play them both and honestly besides showing higher numbers on the screen when i hit something, there is nothing my warrior can do better than my guardian.

AMD actually has a lot advantage over intell tbh, they offer a upgradeable platform, which means u will be able to put chips in that motherboard from 2014 and 2015 generation, so it dosn’t actually make any sense to go for a 130$+ processor for gaming, all their procesors are overclockable.
With intel u get a bit more or raw core performance but if u want to upgrade to the new 2013 line u will have to get a new mobo, then in 2014 if u want to get the new gen a new mobo, and again and again, same story. Also every single cheap processor intel offers is locked so u cannot overclock them.
Just think if u had a 4y old AMD mobo right now instead ur intel mobo u could just upgrade your CPU without need to upgrade the rest of the components.
U can never go wrong when buying AMD for gaming, just get the highest en Mobo u can afford and u will be set up for 3 or 4 CPU generations.

I have an h80 and a 212 on another pc I KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING WHEN I SAY THE 212 I’S A BIT LOUD, it is actually annoying enough to bother me when i try to sleep with that PC on, it is not like a zalman or noctua quality fans, but again is cheap u can just replace the fan for 2 quality fans which will perform batter and if noise is a problem to u those will solve that issue aswell.

SSD is also great for some games, i would definitelly get an SSD, also systems boots up and loads very very fast. An SSD is like the best part of my PC, once u go SSD u don’t go back!

Water is silent, but performance wise the 212 cooloer is about the same than the h70, but it is a little loud to me personally, i mean is 30$ can’t be perfect, but still, i would go for one of those and get 2 custom fans, may be the coolermasters 12" turbine fans those are silent and performs great.

It may be aswell a driver issue, try clean all the drivers and get the 13.1 for a fresh install. I guarantee GW2 supports crossfire properlly, so the problem definitelly has to be on your side. Did u tryed unpluging the cards and plug them back in?

I would recomend the fx 6300 processor is way faster, cuz of the new architecture, has a modern memory controller which is nice and can be overclocked to 5ghz, it cost is arround 120$ which is probably as cheap as the phenom, also for the memory i would recomend 8gb 2×4gb Gskill 1866mhz instead 16gb 1600mghz, the faster the memory the better, some games can be affected by memory speeds, not GW2 but some others do.

Somoe.3621:

Rampage.7145:

Somoe.3621:

Rampage.7145:

Warrior DPs is not the problem only high damage skill is 100b, warriors are not even competitive on PVP due their lack of CC, heals, condition removal, and overall melee disagvantages compared to other classes like guardian or thiefs, D/D elemetalists only thing a warrior can do is add good damage using GS 100b only all the other weapons damage are actually pretty average. If only mobs had some kind of artificial inteligende to avoid skills like 100Blades u wouldn’t any warrior arround at all cuz they are outclassed by any other class allready. Heavy damage is the only thing they have left and it is only efective against kitten mobs or PVP noobs

How do Warriors lack CC and have more overall melee disadvantages than Guardians? Warriors have multiple gap-closers, multiple ways to keep enemies in melee range, and most of their CC doesn’t push enemies away from them (like it does for Guardians). Warriors also excel at burst damage so they’re able to jump into a fight, kill someone, take a few hits, and then back off when things get tough. Damage focused Guardians on the other hand are more about DPS and need to continuously be attacking their target. As a result, they have better healing and Condition removal that allows them to stay in fights long enough to kill someone.

Warriors aren’t very viable/popular (outside of pub-stomping with 100b) in PvP because of the meta, not because the class is poorly designed for melee or overshadowed. Warriors are the offensive/fighter heavy armor archetype while Guardians are the defensive/bunker heavy armor archetype. Currently the meta supports bunkers because all sPvP maps are conquest where you want a class that can hold points. As a result, you also want a quick, high burst damage class that is able to take the other team’s bunkers out. In this situation a fragile assassin (Thieves) is preferable to a tanky burst fighter (Warriors) because bunkers do less damage meaning you don’t need as much survivability.

Warriors are amazing in PvE/WvW and fine in sPvP.

U are very wrong i mean in theory u should be right but in real world u are wrong most warrior gap closing skills are buggy which makes them useless for PVP they are glitchy due latency issues probably but still useless for PVP overall, guaridan GS gap closer is by far better than anything warrior has. Only CC viable weapon warrior has is the hammer most likely which is good, just not as good due traits lacking of synergy, there is hardly a hammer build around there that can compete against guardian hammer or D/D ele for example. Guardian retaliation/heals/Cond removal just makes them unmatched for melee combat, warrior has a only good burst but when u think u go for a 100b combo against 2 enemies there is no chance u get out of that situation alive when in the other hand a thief can 2 vs 1 and stealth out killing one of them at least then warriors burst is totally outclassed again.
If u don’t play warrior please avoid this kind of threads i personally have 6, 80s thief, gurdian, warrior, ele, ranger, necro, and tbh they all outclasses the warrior in most situations, being dungeons the only exception where mobs stupidity just makes the warrior the best choice.
Guardian has many viable melee PVP weapons mace/shield mace/focus, scepter/shield, scepter focus, GS, hammer, Sword/shield, Sword/torch, Scepter/torch. Also for PVE, AOE retaliation guardians can probably add as much damage as a warrior+they can heal/support a bit.
So please i would understand an engenieer complaining about their rifle not being as effective as warrior one, but a guardian complaining about melee warrior is just nonsense.
My main character is the guardian btw i play active at PVP/PVE/WvW and i can tell u there is nothing my guardians does, the warrior can do better, raw damage may be, 3 secs burst but those things are pretty useless for most gw2 game scenarios.
U are very wrong about the meta in my opinion, if the meta was deathmatch warriors would be as outgunned as they are rifght now, capture the flag about the same… Only way warriors would be viable at PVP is the meta was killing a mob faster than the other team. Warriors can only do well in PVE cuz of the mobs mechanics are just kitten and in WvW cuz 90% of the players are not PVPers, so they don’t even equip stun breakers, if u think warriors are awesome i dare u to lvl one and try go solo roam in WvW, then watch every single class out there taking u down 1 vs 1.
Damage means nothing in GW2 when u stop thinking like WoW players u will realize how bad the warrior really is.

Sigh, your post is completely wrong but I just don’t have the patience to try to explain everything to you.

Right u would need another game to try explain anything, in this game what i said are straight fatcs, what u did is bullkitten

Ashur Etil Lani.4518:

hharry.1967:

Distaste.4801:

Warriors are wanted because they have max base health and armor(why? No one knows) on top of some seriously insane(why hasn’t this been balanced yet?) DPS before you even account for gear/spec. I run into people saying we need a guardian or warrior all the time in fractals and it simply isn’t true. Don’t get me wrong, they can certainly make things a heck of a lot easier(especially guardians with reflect and Aegis) but they aren’t really needed.

The main thing you want in a party member is that they aren’t idiots. I will take a competent squishy over a no-brain cell warrior/guardian any day of the week. All the health/armor/block in the world can’t save someone that has no idea how to utilize their skills correctly.

Cause they cant remove conditions so they need to have the best at all (hp, def, damage), dumb if you ask me.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Soldier
With 6 of these runes equiped wariors are among the best condition removers in the game. And as the op is talking about dungeons all pvp examples are a bit superfluous imo.

No, guardian is a about the best class in the game with those equipped, rangers can do shots too, in fact may be only 1% (none of the warriors i know at least, and they are more than 100, so actually might be less than 1%) of the warriors out there use those cuz most of warriors focus damage which is the only thing the excel at. Again the PVP examples are not superfluous cuz if u nerf warriors damage u nerf them on PVP aswell, what they should work on is giving mobs a decent AI so they don’t stand still in front a 100b combo…

Somoe.3621:

Rampage.7145:

Warrior DPs is not the problem only high damage skill is 100b, warriors are not even competitive on PVP due their lack of CC, heals, condition removal, and overall melee disagvantages compared to other classes like guardian or thiefs, D/D elemetalists only thing a warrior can do is add good damage using GS 100b only all the other weapons damage are actually pretty average. If only mobs had some kind of artificial inteligende to avoid skills like 100Blades u wouldn’t any warrior arround at all cuz they are outclassed by any other class allready. Heavy damage is the only thing they have left and it is only efective against kitten mobs or PVP noobs

How do Warriors lack CC and have more overall melee disadvantages than Guardians? Warriors have multiple gap-closers, multiple ways to keep enemies in melee range, and most of their CC doesn’t push enemies away from them (like it does for Guardians). Warriors also excel at burst damage so they’re able to jump into a fight, kill someone, take a few hits, and then back off when things get tough. Damage focused Guardians on the other hand are more about DPS and need to continuously be attacking their target. As a result, they have better healing and Condition removal that allows them to stay in fights long enough to kill someone.

Warriors aren’t very viable/popular (outside of pub-stomping with 100b) in PvP because of the meta, not because the class is poorly designed for melee or overshadowed. Warriors are the offensive/fighter heavy armor archetype while Guardians are the defensive/bunker heavy armor archetype. Currently the meta supports bunkers because all sPvP maps are conquest where you want a class that can hold points. As a result, you also want a quick, high burst damage class that is able to take the other team’s bunkers out. In this situation a fragile assassin (Thieves) is preferable to a tanky burst fighter (Warriors) because bunkers do less damage meaning you don’t need as much survivability.

Warriors are amazing in PvE/WvW and fine in sPvP.

U are very wrong i mean in theory u should be right but in real world u are wrong most warrior gap closing skills are buggy which makes them useless for PVP they are glitchy due latency issues probably but still useless for PVP overall, guaridan GS gap closer is by far better than anything warrior has. Only CC viable weapon warrior has is the hammer most likely which is good, just not as good due traits lacking of synergy, there is hardly a hammer build around there that can compete against guardian hammer or D/D ele for example. Guardian retaliation/heals/Cond removal just makes them unmatched for melee combat, warrior has a only good burst but when u think u go for a 100b combo against 2 enemies there is no chance u get out of that situation alive when in the other hand a thief can 2 vs 1 and stealth out killing one of them at least then warriors burst is totally outclassed again.
If u don’t play warrior please avoid this kind of threads i personally have 6, 80s thief, gurdian, warrior, ele, ranger, necro, and tbh they all outclasses the warrior in most situations, being dungeons the only exception where mobs stupidity just makes the warrior the best choice.
Guardian has many viable melee PVP weapons mace/shield mace/focus, scepter/shield, scepter focus, GS, hammer, Sword/shield, Sword/torch, Scepter/torch. Also for PVE, AOE retaliation guardians can probably add as much damage as a warrior+they can heal/support a bit.
So please i would understand an engenieer complaining about their rifle not being as effective as warrior one, but a guardian complaining about melee warrior is just nonsense.
My main character is the guardian btw i play active at PVP/PVE/WvW and i can tell u there is nothing my guardians does, the warrior can do better, raw damage may be, 3 secs burst but those things are pretty useless for most gw2 game scenarios.
U are very wrong about the meta in my opinion, if the meta was deathmatch warriors would be as outgunned as they are rifght now, capture the flag about the same… Only way warriors would be viable at PVP is the meta was killing a mob faster than the other team. Warriors can only do well in PVE cuz of the mobs mechanics are just kitten and in WvW cuz 90% of the players are not PVPers, so they don’t even equip stun breakers, if u think warriors are awesome i dare u to lvl one and try go solo roam in WvW, then watch every single class out there taking u down 1 vs 1.
Damage means nothing in GW2 when u stop thinking like WoW players u will realize how bad the warrior really is.

That is the thing they desinged the game thinking of ppl with low end hardware and a posible future console port. So the game is just unable to properlly use our hardware, a 700$ machine ca run the game as fast as a 5000$ one, the game just no scale up according to the hardware it makes terrible use of PC hardware.
So answering ur questions:
1. Yes becuse what i said above, game wasn’t really made with 1gb+ Videocards in mind.
2. Everybody has the same problems, is just a big time game desing flaw
3. No, u can help with it by reducing ur shadows and reflections to 0, besides that there is nothing we can do.

Warrior DPs is not the problem only high damage skill is 100b, warriors are not even competitive on PVP due their lack of CC, heals, condition removal, and overall melee disagvantages compared to other classes like guardian or thiefs, D/D elemetalists only thing a warrior can do is add good damage using GS 100b only all the other weapons damage are actually pretty average. If only mobs had some kind of artificial inteligende to avoid skills like 100Blades u wouldn’t any warrior arround at all cuz they are outclassed by any other class allready. Heavy damage is the only thing they have left and it is only efective against kitten mobs or PVP noobs