Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Hoping someone can provide some help with this. I’ve spent so many hours trying to fix this and nothing has “worked”.

System:
CPU: Intel Core i7 930 (no OC)
Motherboard: GA-X58A_UD3R Rev 2 (latest BIOS)
RAM: 6GB
GPU: Geforce 580 GTX (factory OC, latest BIOS)
OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit

This all started after one of the GW2 patches before Halloween. My system started to completely lock up and I would have to restart it. This was my first problem with GW2 since launch. It was happening randomly.

I moved to new drivers (removed old ones first and used driver sweeper in safe mode) and instead of locking up the screen would flash black then reload the graphics and you would see this in event viewer.

“Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.”

So I once again removed drivers and cleaned up in safe mode, then installed an older driver (but newer than my original drivers). In the process I did other general maintenance to the PC including a defrag, repair GW2, checked all my HDD’s for errors, malware, virus scan, ran memtest for a few hours. Everything I could think of

Everything worked fine for about 2 weeks, then mid way through Halloween another patch came out and I started having the same issues again.

I cleaned drivers and went back to newest nvidia, under-clocked my video card so that it was running as a stock 580 GTX. (remember it was factory OC). Still had crashes.

Hoping I could fix this still. I backed up most things and did a format on my SSD, and re-installed windows 7, new motherboard drivers, all windows updates, and newest nvidia driver beta 310.33. I also installed MSI kombustor and did tests with that which seem to be running fine.

Game still crashes.

It can run fine sometimes for 2 hours then crash 3 times in 10 seconds. Sometimes it will crash 10 minutes into my playtime then be fine for awhile. I can’t distinguish any patterns to when it occurs.

I’ve gone through the sticky threads and made all changes to the nvidia control panel that Anet recommended and others i have read on separate forums. Tried changing various in-game settings.
At this point right now I can’t think of a single thing other than replacing hardware.
I just find it odd these problems usually occur depending on drivers and recent GW2 patches, and would rather not have to pay for new hardware especially after the company I worked for just collapsed and I don’t have employment!

DirectX attached.

I bought a pair just then … so annoying!

lol, even just the idle motion of your character breathing etc you can see the ends of the stump/branch thing twitching about…

That’s a bit special :O
Hope they fix it but I doubt it…

Nope, the T3 weapons have a unique appearance and can only be bought from that vendor. I’ve got the greatsword and the rifle, they look great Probably get the shield next

There is also a concept art of Caithe and she basically looks human too :P

Already a thread on this here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Warrior-greatsword-dps-never-use-hundred-blades

The “glowing ice weapons” are called Corrupted weapons. They can be made by weaponsmiths with the recipe that is bought from a vendor in frostgorge after killing the Claw of Jormag. There is a Corrupted weapon for every weapon type.

There is also the destroyer weapons which are made of lava and have a smokey particle effect when drawn. They are basically crafted the same as any other weapon but you add Destroyer lodestones to the crafting screen (30 for the greatsword)

The weapons bought with tokens from AC also have a particle effect during the night only giving them a ghostly apperance.

I’ve also seen a sword that has been covered in flames when drawn, not sure what it was.

Also there is these etheral “mist” weapons as well which can be created in the mystic forge.
http://www.gw2db.com/items/67096-vision-of-the-mists-of-nullification#related:screenshots

There is probably more, these are just the ones I have come across.

Mortal Slice – Healing de-buff :P

haha

Mix of Nightmare, T2 and T1.

Almost got enough Karma for the T3 cultural weapon ><

I think it included runs you did earlier that day. Just try again tomorrow and see what happens.

No, I wouldn’t suggest stacking only for crit, there is no cap, and yes that would make you too squishy.

Yes, the forge has many uses besides legendaries. There is plenty of documents things you can do with it in the wiki, i suggest reading that.

No, 4 green daggers will not get you an exotic, if you are lucky it will spit out a rare, but you’ll probably just get another green

You’ve learnt to play your ranger properly, that’s why you are winning

Someday, you’ll learn to play your warrior properly and win at that as well. Not being mean, just how it is!

I’ve been using something similar since about a week after launch. Once you go shouts you never go back :P

lol – just craft draconic armour at 80

Pretty sure the order of whispers doesn’t give you extra crit chance….

sorry – it does give precision.

Mix of knights and Valkyrie stats imo will give you healthy toughness, vitality, power, precision and +crit dmg. I don’t see the point of stacking towards one stat in this game yet :S

I’ve done a few explore mode dungeons and you spend most of your time using rifle, I only switch to axe / axe when it’s safe to do so. The concept of “blocking” and “tanking” don’t really work to well in this game, support, definitely. I worry more about effectively using my shouts and rezzing people that I do about trying to do, or prevent, damage.

Do you need both your axes to look the same?
There are some pretty amazing exotics like destroyers, or corrupted skeggox, which would match the legendary axe almost perfectly. (another frost/frozen weapon)

Knights and Valkyrie ftw, I just mix parts from both stat types.

Dodging while spinning also seems to not stop the skill. I find it very useful personally.

You can use the legendary dagger skin and apply it to the stats of another exotics using transmute stones btw. So looking at the stats at all is almost pointless. I wish they made them no stats so people would stop whining about them….