Guild Wars 2

it is like that for last year as well, live with it.

Ansau.7326:

Just because it is mine it doesn’t make it less valuable than others. At least I bring own experience and personal testing, not a text I’ve read from some random guys.
The fact you don’t find it worth doesn’t mean it isn’t. In fact, it’s the most detailed comparison existing on the internet. But you insist on taking it personal… So good luck, the evidence is there.

About Tomshardware’s test, it’s still not relevant nowadays. Not the proper testing, in a pve map, and too close to release, anet didn’t do all the optimization in the first month and then forgot about it…
Just the first fact is enough to make the test invalid no matter how the game changes.

You seems to miss the point completely, I am saying that your personal test can be bias since you do not have two machines to make comparison. How detail can be it when you did not stat the min FPS and max FPS of different clock rate, how detail can it be when you didn’t stat the average FPS, how detail can it be when you are merely testing one type of machine. Your test is much more bias and much less creditable than a dated article provided by them. Again, like I said, they did a retest on released version but you again keep saying it is too close to release date, they did make comment that the release version is a few FPS better and so is for amd but far lesser extend. They did say they will revisit if there is a major optimization for FX processor and since I have a amd machine, I know there isn’t much optimisation for AMD part.

You are simply stating that intel overclocking can be significant but I am saying it isn’t significant. You may think a couple of FPS makes a huge difference, but what difference does it really makes when it is already running at comfortable FPS level.

You know, everything you said are base on your words, not base on any 3rd party data.

Strictly speaking, my i7 disagree, the gain is not significant.

Edit: Btw, the article I provided, they did retest on the released version, you really do not read eh.

Ansau.7326:

SkyShroud.2865:

There was a guy in another thread uses the same argument like your’s, citing dated article without any substantial technical arguments. Allow me to tell you why the article continue to be relevant despite being dated. Even if anet did any forms of optimization to the engine, that level of optimization does not exceed the 2 cores limitation. As long as that optimization does not exceed the 2 cores limitation, it will continue to be related to single core performance. As long it is related to single core performance, IPC will continue to be relevant. Likewise, since 2012, there isn’t any major changes to the CPU architecture thus all in all, the article will continue to be relevant.

You further claim that PCI-E (you didn’t state what version) is crucial to gw2, if you are comparing PCI-E 1.0 and 4.0, I really don’t know what to say.

Regardless, even if you lack the technical understanding, the link to that forum I have provided already explained what is IPC and how IPC matters to gaming performance but I guess you totally do not bother reading it while continue to insist overclocking intel processor will result in greater gain than amd’s.

Don’t embarrass yourself further.

And here is where you fail miserably.
The 2 core limitation is not true. The game can stress all cores of a 4690k oced to 4.5GHz to 70-90%.
And yes, since 2012, anet has done some optimization, as Johan said here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n). They try to take away thing from the main thread and in 3 years they’ve done some work, which makes that test irrelevant, as back then a lot more was going on the main thread than now, aka

About pcie speed, no you don’t have to go to pcie 1.0. At 3.0, there’s still an improvement from x8 to x16, and moving 3.0 x4 there’s a huge drop of performance.
I did some test last year:
- x16 had 110fps underwater, 70’s in empty map, 50’s in more heavy graphic situation and 23-24 in heavy cpu situation.
-x8 had 100 fps underwater, 60’s in empty map, 46 in more heavy graphic situation and 22-23 fps in heavy cpu situation.
- x4 had 77fps underwater, 45’s in empty map, 36 in more graphic situation and 20-21 in heavy cpu situation.
Last week I could experience again the effect of pcie speed. Took off the gpu to clean it and I didn’t put it right, opened GW2 and I was getting 30-35 fps in LA. Looked at pcie speed and it was 3.0 x4. Reseated the gpu and getting 50-55fps when working at x16.

The funny thing is all your arguments are based in tests showing nothing relevant. Really a general guide talking about how intel is better at ipc than AMD? Isn’t that obvious? Why saying intel has better ipc than amd makes the overclocking in intel irrelevant?
I told you that gw2 performance test was not valid and I gave you 2 solid arguments (lack of optimization and test done in a pve map where the cpu is not stressed). Then you tell me about no architecture improvements, where from Sandy Bridge to Skylake there’s about a 25% improvement in the IPC, plus faster RAM speeds and lower overall latencies.
Still you haven’t said anything worth to prove your points, or to make mines unvalid.

Here you have more proves why you’re wrong.
I did some tests last year. I’l show you how core speed affect the framerate in gw2 while in citadel. On the left there’s all the tests of a 4690k at 4.4GHz and on the right at 3.6GHz. So a 22% increase of core frecuency gives me a 12-18% more framerate. And this is without an optimized system, as ram was at 1600, pcie at x8 and gpu at stock.

Unfortunately, if you have any programming knowledge, you will know that level of optimisation isn’t much. What they did is just merely moving non-renderer stuffs off the renderer thread, like network and sound etc to the other thread. They have two threads, that’s what the other thread usually do for a old school engine. This two threads are also why it uses two cores. Of course, there are other smaller threads but usually destroyed once they done doing their workload. At most, the optimisation give a small increase of FPS but that small increase of FPS is hard to be noticeable, afterall, gw2 do add eye candies to the game over the years and that cancel out the gain. Anet never optimise the engine to the point that it uses data parallelisation to scale so it never go beyond performance of two cores. To give you a example of a modern game that scale, I recently played Homeworlds: DOK and it scale pretty well, it increase in CPU usage as more units appear on the field, likewise decrease when units reduce.

Furthermore, threads do not have to maintain at one core, it can flow between different cores. Simply because threads are destroyed and recreated when need during runtime, there is no rule that say it has to maintain at one single core. This create a illusion that it might be using more than 2 cores performance if you just merely looking at one point of time instead of the average of long period.

Also, you insisted that intel benefit more from amd overclocking. The dated article already shown how much gain a amd can obtain by overclocking, way much more than intel gain. Furthermore, I explained why overclocking intel will not result similiar gain as amd’s by citing IPC.

Again, I have to say I have two machines, an i7-4770, yes, same generation as your’s but mine is i7. The amd is a Phemon x4. Overclocking amd have much more significant gain. Though mine amd is older, you can easily find a thread about a amd user in this forums and ask them how much gain they get from overclocking amd. It will not be just 12-18% like your’s, it is like 50% and more. To make the comparison fair, you will have to find a amd user that have the same stock and overclock frequency as your’s.

And again, I have already made a point but you refuse to accept it, heck, you also ignored Behellagh’s more precise explanations.

Also, I can see that your arguments are base on actual experience that happen to your machine which is a intel, do you ever have a amd and if you do, did you ever overclock it and run gw2 on it?

Edit:
Intel also uses SMT while amd uses CMT. This two different approach will also result how threads are handled and thus how effective the core is used. Amd dropped CMT and moving back to SMT with their next processor, Zen, which will result in a major architecture change.

Edit2:
It bothers me that you state the IPC improvement over a few gens, not just one gen, all while attempting to confuse the argument of overclocking intel vs amd. That is pretty dishonest.

yea, that sucks, dcing in the middle of the story.
it will be great the game attempt to reconnect instead of kicking you out immediately but it might have some security concern but is game so i think the security concern is not that big.

ikr! im still waiting for that lodestone bag

Ansau.7326:

SkyShroud.2865:

I have an intel and amd machine, of course, just saying it without any established reviewers benchmark test is pointless so here the link.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html

A thread in the tech forums, a simple 1 minute google.
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?90486-Intel-vs-AMD-(CPU)-in-2015

A test done in 2012, when the game was not even released worldwide, doesn’t say anything. Specially since back then the game has seen quite amount of optimization improvements. And even more when this test is done in a pve map, the Norn staring map. This test is unvalid.
Then you show a general basic guide telling us even less. Like I could take it seriously when it tells us an i3 is just a tad better than a FX 4000, and the reality shows in several games an i3 can smash a FX8000.
Another example is pcie bandwidth, where several reviews show it doesn’t matter that much, and yet in gw2 it is crucial.

Anything found on internet cannot be extrapolated in gw2, unless tested specifically in the game with the proper methods.

There was a guy in another thread uses the same argument like your’s, citing dated article without any substantial technical arguments. Allow me to tell you why the article continue to be relevant despite being dated. Even if anet did any forms of optimization to the engine, that level of optimization does not exceed the 2 cores limitation. As long as that optimization does not exceed the 2 cores limitation, it will continue to be related to single core performance. As long it is related to single core performance, IPC will continue to be relevant. Likewise, since 2012, there isn’t any major changes to the CPU architecture thus all in all, the article will continue to be relevant.

You further claim that PCI-E (you didn’t state what version) is crucial to gw2, if you are comparing PCI-E 1.0 and 4.0, I really don’t know what to say.

Regardless, even if you lack the technical understanding, the link to that forum I have provided already explained what is IPC and how IPC matters to gaming performance but I guess you totally do not bother reading it while continue to insist overclocking intel processor will result in greater gain than amd’s.

Don’t embarrass yourself further.

Ansau.7326:

SkyShroud.2865:

A overclocked intel will not have significant gain in terms of performance.

Intel has a higher IPC compared to AMD thus if the current intel is capable of processing all of gw2’s data, any further increase of speed will make little gain.

These statements are false.

I have an intel and amd machine, of course, just saying it without any established reviewers benchmark test is pointless so here the link.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html

A thread in the tech forums, a simple 1 minute google.
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?90486-Intel-vs-AMD-(CPU)-in-2015

A overclocked intel will not have significant gain in terms of performance. On the other hand, a overclocked amd will have a significant performance gain. Like I have said, the intel is better than amd in terms of single core performance, however, that doesn’t mean that “speed”, literally, is faster.

Intel has a higher IPC compared to AMD thus if the current intel is capable of processing all of gw2’s data, any further increase of speed will make little gain. AMD on the other hand will get significant gain from overclocking because data processing is completed faster which then reduced the waiting time for the other data. To put it in laymen, intel has more service counters than amd in one center, so intel has more than enough counters to handle X number of customers gw2 delivered in one day but for amd, they had to increase their speed to handle the same number of customers due to their limited counters.

The guild trader is trading a pile of luminous dust for one commendation, are you serious?

Fast single core matters.

I have a amd and intel machine. The intel machine works better than the amd’s. Amd is known to have slower single core performance.

The network message shouldn’t contain graphical codes, it simply contain actions data which your computer procoess to display the appropriate things on your screen using the graphic data installed in your harddrive. If the network is slow, you merely have a slow respond to your actions, people might be teleporting, walking into walls, etc. It shouldn’t affect your FPS.

Again, gw2 is made using modified gw1 engine, it is not multi threaded unlike the newest of games. At most, it is only partially parallelized.

Wintersday over, no other festival events, people back to farm what they can.

Obviously, wvw isn’t gw2’s main focus. Gw2’s main focus are PvE and Esport.

No WvW upgrade needs sand but you will need sands to upgrade your guild hall to have enough level to get your WvW upgrades.

Gw2 engine is a modified gw1 engine, imagine how old gw1 is.

The game is not multi core optimized so it will never use more than 2 full cores performance because game of those era limit themselves to 2 thread, as for why, google it.

Funny is that it is a dx9 game and I can run a dx11 game with awesome graphic, many NPC in the background while having much better FPS. If you attempt to set gw2 to higher graphic, your FPS will be affected and not because your graphic card cannot support those graphic, it is simply because of how much CPU workload are needed just to load those graphics.

SAB…..the lost gem

i think only reducing decoration cost

Well

You gain some you lose some.

Megaserver indeed solve population problem for PvE though that problem had a soft fix which is to guest to the highest populated server which many were already doing back then.

Regardless, megaserver did solve population problem for PvE and sadly, resulted in other things lost in the process. In this case, it directly harm the WvW game mode as guilds were further encouraged to “mega-lised” due to megaserver. New players naturally have zero idea what is all those kitten about megaserver, this further suppress the already declining WvW mode.

Also, any pre-existing server community run events also received major impact from this change. Obliviously, these activities are run by server-based guilds.

Now, WvW mode is finally at its exhausted stage. Old guild and new guilds that interested in WvW continue to attempt to promote WvW but since anet persistent to continue to enhance PvE and PvP, so those attempt are futile.

Pug guilds become the “in” thing now where like-minded pugs gather at one central place to look for people to do the same things with, a glorified LFG. Is there community? Nope, what we have are simply a group of people who happened to share a common goal at the point of time thus happened to do the same thing at that point of time. This group of people do not know each other or are they interested to know more about one another, they simply gathered up to achieve something and then go back to their separate path from there.

Sariel V.7024:

On that note, how is the average Joe supposed to figure out that Troll’s Revenge exists? Is he just supposed to get lucky with a few jumps and then assume he can go further?

He is expected to google.

Nah, it was adjusted because the leather has lesser uses than elderwoods or mithril thus the market price for leather was dirt cheap.

Anet made it “4” during HOT to quickly raise the value of the said mat because guild halls need plenty of those mats.

There used to be server community. Server community used to band together to do open-world event. For example, back when sunless was revamped, different server players come together to kill sunless and there were many threads like server kill this and that.

Now, mega server is here, community? Not so much. Even at the start of HOT, it was the different guilds that gather together to complete those events, well, for the hype. Now, with the hype dying down and people getting to know how to do all those events and the so-called fix, you do not need guilds or organiser to organise those for high success rate.

Roxanne.6140:

I see some guilds with no rep policy and the members talk to each other without repping and do alot of things together.

I don’t think there are many guilds out there who organizes everything on a regular manner. There are so many activities in HoT that requires organization. Some guilds do this and other guilds do that. If you were only allowed to join one guild, you would be missing out on a ton of activities. I don’t think it is a matter of taking advantage of a guild, it has to be both ways.

Key words: both ways
In reality, there are way more one way than both ways.

Cerby.1069:

SkyShroud.2865:

Little Leota.5849:

To me, repping a guild is a matter of honor. If I’m going to take the time to join a guild and find out about them, and they about me; if I’m going to invest my game time, gold, and mats with this guild, and they’re investing their time helping me, then I want to be proud to represent them.

It’s nice that guilds don’t have to require 100% repping anymore, and it gives their members a lot more freedom. But, as a guild leader, I’m watching to see what my guild members do, or don’t do, when thinking about to whom i should offer promotions. Just as I would rep my guild in order to show my pride in, and loyalty to, them, I would hope to see the same from my guild members.

I think it would be difficult to develop a tight-knit group if everyone is always off doing his or her own thing, with no thought to loyalty to those who ‘have your back’ so to speak.

I dunno, maybe I’m old fashioned in that regard.

Gw2 is heavily casual, loyalty or more accurately, camaraderie do not exist in many. It is a sad thing for gw2. Many people simply hop from one guild to another, just to pass time, achieve their personal goals and that’s it.

Agree with Leota.

I’ll go one step farther and say that I also think it is stupid that you can join 7 or so other guilds and be in all of them at the same time (especially ones on other borderlands). It’s for reasons like this that Loyalty and camaraderie no longer exist. The game doesn’t reward these behaviours, and it actually goes out of it’s way to make players who do uphold these things look stupid. The game is pretty much about going in on a daily basis….doing your dailies and then if you have time then doing the same stuff you did yesterday or the day before that. It just feels like an individual grindfest where everything is a tool and method to grinding more…now guilds are just a tool and method toward personal grind. I feel stupid for being nice to and helping guildies. I feel stupid for supplying materials to a smaller…or any guild. I feel stupid for thinking that guildies stick together and support eachother. I’m wondering to myself why I don’t just join the largest richest guild available….forget what borderland it is on…forget camaraderie and loyalty I should just use it to further my farm and not care either way how it goes. Then when I’m on WvsW I’ll just send messages to the guildchat, selling out my BL for a few silver pennies. This game just feels so disconnect now….
Why should I be nice to someone who is in the guild but not representing? I feel guildies should always be nice to eachother and have eachother’s backs against any outside threats. If you are in the guild and not representing though….how does that make you a guildie in the ‘community’ sense? You are just a random person as far as I’m concerned. As soon as you start representing though I feel the need to treat you with great respect.

Wait if guilds and everything we do is redundant then what was it we are grinding FOR again?

I feel you. Helping guildies and naturally, you expect those guildies to help other guildies but many received whatever help they can get, ditched or even backstab you, then went somewhere. Then, after experiencing several of that, you simply get demoralized and no longer want to help.

A lot or should I say most people when talking about rep, it is all about tangible benefits. There are couple of guilds deliberately enforce rep rule to shoo off people who merely looking for tangible benefits or people simply wanting to join a guild to take advantage of.

A lot of people say gw2 community is friendlier than other communities but honestly speaking, that is just the surface, it is not any different from any other communities but is just that other communities are more honest than gw2’s.

anet has abandoned wvw….

wvw overhaul is coming later this year…….later…..thats too late

Little Leota.5849:

To me, repping a guild is a matter of honor. If I’m going to take the time to join a guild and find out about them, and they about me; if I’m going to invest my game time, gold, and mats with this guild, and they’re investing their time helping me, then I want to be proud to represent them.

It’s nice that guilds don’t have to require 100% repping anymore, and it gives their members a lot more freedom. But, as a guild leader, I’m watching to see what my guild members do, or don’t do, when thinking about to whom i should offer promotions. Just as I would rep my guild in order to show my pride in, and loyalty to, them, I would hope to see the same from my guild members.

I think it would be difficult to develop a tight-knit group if everyone is always off doing his or her own thing, with no thought to loyalty to those who ‘have your back’ so to speak.

I dunno, maybe I’m old fashioned in that regard.

Gw2 is heavily casual, loyalty or more accurately, camaraderie do not exist in many. It is a sad thing for gw2. Many people simply hop from one guild to another, just to pass time, achieve their personal goals and that’s it.

or u can mine for them and help cool the ore market down

There is little benefits for players themselves, but, at the same time, many players too are not that comfortable with this cross-chat thing or are they educated about the existence of this cross-chat thing. Repping has always been for the benefit of the guilds and not the players themselves.

Likewise, many people have this prejudice that because some guilds enforce rep in the past solely for influence, it must means that all other guilds enforce rep for the same reason. /shrugs

Regardless of whatever reasons a guild enforce rep, one can explain it in a very simplistic way and that is if players can choose which guild to join, guilds too can choose who to accept and if players can’t accept the requirements to be part of the guilds, then don’t and leave it at that.

do anyone notice that TS is not replying in the thread?

to balance pve means to buff a class, to buff a class means to unbalance it in other aspects

theres always a class that is better than another class when come to certain things
however, if u refuse to accept that and insist to keep using that class for every single thing despite the very fact that it is easy to max another class, that is your downfall.

raid is only “hard” because anet intentionally force people to use the classes that are best at doing specific things, well, to satisfy the try hard group of players that don’t play hardcore games that have heavy death penalties. exactly because anet try to satisfy this group of wannabes, your favorite class will inevitably be left behind.

as for others, they simply adapt to anet’s changes and life goes on

or when your personal score is higher than expected

already using condi shatter in pvp

problem is…the nerf that is coming isnt very pleasing

There are many games releasing this year, Blade & Soul is pretty much considered a old game, same generation as Guild Wars 2, is just that it wasn’t released in english during 2012.

There are games like Black Desert Online, Crowfall, Lineage Eternal (Not sure if this year), Camelot Unchained, Star Citizen (Next Year I think), Division.

time….

anet already wasted a lot of development time by doing things like…..

revamping the trait trees system…
remaking wvw maps….
create contents that only used once or twice (like LS 1)…
revamping the guild system….
creating eotm (yes is a waste, many of people were under the impression that eotm suppose to be a waiting room and not a actual gameplay map so thought to be small and simple but it is a actual gameplay map)
anything that involve remaking, revamping, redesigning “RE” are development waste.

anet doesn’t have the time they used to have. not with the current state of the game and how many new impressive games are releasing this year.

will be interesting to see people fighting in midair

the mini are made of golds

Sooooo many games coming out later this year….

A lot more people gonna quit within this year, gw2 gonna become less populated compare to now later this year. Gw2 main selling point currently is b2p but couple of b2p MMOs too are releasing this year

Gw2 had so much potential, really much potential but I am not sure what happened, I guess the guy in charge of gw2 gotten too ahead of himself?

I’m too looking forward to all the wonderful titles coming out this year, this is a amazing year with DX12.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Bomber.3872:

Since gw2 release I spent over 400€ only on gw2, even more money since gw1. For me yesterday’s update was like a hit in the face. Actually now most of the money and thousand’s of ingame gold I spent changed into a total useless waste.

So as soon as I saw the patch notes yesterday I wrote (a friendly!) support ticket (ticket number 2047273), asking for a refund. I couldn’t add a screenshot so basically I wrote the following list and asked if it is possible to refund them or at least partial refund some of the items.

- 4x Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic
- 1x Royal Terrace Pass
- 5x Molten Alliance Mining Pick
- 12x Consortium Harvesting Sickle
- 1x Thresher-Sickle 5000
- 5x Chop-It-All Logging Axe
- 20x Watchwork Mining Pick

I don’t get it, are you insane? Why the hell are you buying 20 Watchwork Mining picks etc? And why is no one asking in this thread about this? You act as if it is totally normal. Then you complain about 2800 gems. I don’t understand…

It is too expensive, yes, but it’s also a big QoL improvement. I am not sure if I just wait for a discount. I spent quite a lot of money to GW2 but 35€ only for 5 slots is very steep. It’s almost the price of the expansion…

Well, lets assume he has 20 characters.

Yea, i was wtf-ed too, 700 gems for one slot and max 5 slots.
There is a lot of shared items like keys, food, etc.

Too little slots and too expensive.

lol, anet just admit they spent 3 years not polishing the game.

well, there are a lot of dx 12 games releasing this year and plenty more the next year with unbeatable graphic and more interesting gameplay. personally, im looking out for those new games.

honestly…..some of the things mentioned were expected to come with the expansion but anet come up with some excuse like it is too big for the expansion. /shrugs

edit: anet also admit they have been doing experiment…loool

Well…

anet just admit that they spent 3 years not polishing the game, lol.

i heard the wvw patch come in feb, not sure if is true

Well, you can always disable gliding in JP area.

However, the thing is that, anet has and must implement all the features across guild wars 2 and not restrict to one part of the game. Otherwise, that is wasteful development and not consider a expansion if you are not expanding the whole game itself.

Come and join Henge of Denravi! We are PPTing hard into T3 so we can get some real fights across all timezone. However, we still need lots of NA players to keep us there! We have the guilds, just need the players

just block the person that sending the invite

Gorani.7205:

The guide also shows how insanely unbalanced the whole scribing profession is, because just by looking at mats, no small or medium sized guild can have fun funding a guild scribe.

Ermm….

It depends how you look at it.
Looking at the guide, it is not the ideal guide for guild that gonna fund a scriber.

Rationally thinking, while you are leveling your guild hall, certain scribe items will be required for the upgrades, particularly the papers. Achieving a win-win situation where you get to level scribe and build up your guild hall, you will want the scriber maxing the scribing experience bar first by refining mats and then crafting the papers before moving on to schematics which will be used by the guild. Doing so, you level your scriber while the guild also profit from the scribe’s products (I see what you did there).

For guilds that have yet to upgrade their guild hall much and wish to fund a scriber, do not use this guide.

Hi,

In order to facilitate a better, accurate, specific and honest recruitment description, we have abandoned our old centralized thread and created two separate thread for SEA/OCX and NA.

A bit of Guild’s History
[TIME] is an sg-based PvX guild that was created on 18-Feb-2013, reformed from Kairos [kI] which Guild Leader is inactive. The founder of [TIME] chose to reform instead of joining other sg-based guilds available at that time because those guilds don’t seem to be promising and true enough, all but a few are dead while the few that remains are far from their former glory.

Large Guild
Like all large full-rep PvX guilds, especially a SEA-based guild, we have our own share of dramas throughout our long history due to the vast numbers of people from different backgrounds but unlike some of those large guilds, we don’t get crippled by the dramas and been proven multiple times by those involved that our guild is a better guild than many of the guilds they went.

What you will find here
Our guild community is diversified while spanning across multiple timezones and thus we engage in great number of activities while only certain specific activities are scheduled and most others like FOTM and dungeons are done on ah-hoc basis.

Click to see details

Who are we looking for
We are looking for human beings

• Not here to take advantage of us
• To be involved with various activities like PvP, WvW, PvE, Social, Events, etc
• Understand that you will play alone at times because everyone is pursing their own goals and may not coincide with your’s
• Basic common sense or social behaviors like apologize if wrong and not simply running away.

Requirements

Main Contacts
Just pm or mail me, SkyShroud.2865

i bought it for 30usd thus is acceptable….to some degree
but 2016 is a brand new year for many dx12 games…. anet need to pick up or be replaced but since gw2 target casuals though current trend don’t seems that casual any more but w/e, casuals won’t change games that often unlike the gamers.

though i wouldn’t put HOT into the same category as expansion
it is not complete and some people notice that while some people argue that the expansion is just a foundation for the many things to come but to those who say that has no idea what it means to be incomplete. incomplete simply means that there are missing contents, contents that we suppose to be able to access but not there because anet simply delivered a incomplete product on a rushed unplanned schedule.

Hi,

[TIME] is a large singapore-based international guild with 90% rep rule on Henge of Denravi server, we have been around for 3 long years and have been active for that long as well. If you are just looking to do PvE and PvP, you do not have to make a transfer. If you are looking to do WvW as well, it only cost 500 gems to transfer to HOD. If you are interested, drop me a PM or whisper.

Still recruiting!

I think, the likely thing you will want to upgrade is SSD. HDD is cheap and great for storage but for PC and Gaming experience, SSD is always better. Use HDD to store stuffs while SSD to run your applications.

Some people say that 8gb is plenty but honestly speaking, I find 8gb not enough for certain games if you want to keep your pagefile turned off, you will need 16gb for those games. Otherwise, with pagefile turned on, 8gb is good.

Also, if you intend to upgrade RAM, it might also worthwhile to consider upgrading your processor/board so you can make use of DDR4. Eventually, DDR4 will replace DDR3.

Casing wise, if you are talking about front USB, Yes, most are 3.0 now while some are mixed but is not hard to find a adapter cable for USB 2.0 to USB 3.0.

Overall, your rig is good. The only thing you should consider is SSD, processor and ram.

SpandexPudding.6372:

Well, I’ve been apart of the game for quiet some time now, I just got my “faithful” title and I’ve been talking about how amazing the game is and how its now free for people to join! I had gotten a good friend of mine to join the game, and so far so good.

The thing is, the F2P mode is lacking so much content..if you’re gonna make the game free for new players why take out basic things that pretty much all F2P games have?

I get it, it used to be that you had to pay for the game to play it, and its got a LOT of content. But come on, map chat, trading in the market, messaging players items/gold. Seriously?

His own quote, “Feeling bullied into buying the expansion.” basically says it all. Its like in order to fully enjoy the game you have to ultimately buy it anyways.

This needs to change, I was extremely upset to hear him say that he might just drop the game because of this. Perhaps he’ll want to buy the game if the game showed more…content? He’s limited in certain aspects, and its completely unfair to new players. You want people to buy the expansion, don’t go and limit them to what they can do!

I dunno if I’m the only one with this opinion, but I am very disapointed.

Well, they are doing exactly what they suppose to do. The idea of F2P model here is for players to try the game, if they like it, they will buy it. It is like a trial account and like all trial accounts, there are limitations. If the limitations do not hold enough impacts, then, players won’t buy the products.