Guild Wars 2

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

The Arcane Eye base is very reminiscent of that one Star Trek NG episode where they have a hidden base overlooking a primitive village. The villagers are unaware that there is a secret base studying their society, hidden away in the mountain. Asura are totally capable of doing experiments like that.

You sure you’re not talking about the movie Star Trek: Insurrection?

Just click repeatedly where the exit button is supposed to be.

You don’t get it Mike. There are also tons of people (like me) who absolutely love the demolishing of traditional roles in MMOs. No more waiting an hour for that healer to be available for a dungeon. No more tank&spank encounters where your only job is to watch your hotkey bar and hammer a certain rotation.

For every player who stops playing GW2 because of the missing holy trinity there is another who will play it exactly for that reason.

I told you already. You like holy trinity MMOs? Go play one of the dozen available ones. This is not the game you’re looking for.

You must be looking at a wrong Xeon (make sure it’s E3-1230v3) or you are being ripped off. The Xeon should be about 60-100€ cheaper than the i7.

If you can’t get the Xeon at a reasonable price your next best bet is the i5 4670k.

Just play the game. Everything in it will come to you as you just… play it.

No secret to it, really.

Set a long term goal by all means, but don’t bind your every gaming moment towards it.

Otherwise if and when you will reach that goal you’ll be so burned out you can’t enjoy the reward you got.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Crafting gives you that sense of achievement, but can be more expensive in the long run. Honestly, if I were to do it again I would buy rares and farm dungeons until I got a full set of x gear. Overall, it doesn’t cost anything to buy dungeon gear apart from time, and with your karma you’ve been saving up until now, you can likely get a couple exotic trinkets from the temples to deck yourself out in full exotics.

This. Rare armor, masterwork trinkets, with lvl 78 exotic weapons and then dungeons/karma armor bit by bit. I wouldn’t waste any time on exotic trinkets though, as it’s more time/money efficient to go straight for the ascended, especially if you’ve been diligently doing your dailies/monthlies as you should have.

Yes! I hope they’re done with the marionette shows for good. This is how they should handle all dialogue from now on

I’d still prefer no cutscene at all, but this is still miles better than personal story.

Hate to break it to you but RL stock markets don’t work like the TP. Commodity market is a bit closer, but even that follows quite a bit different rules.

I am a bit angry because of people who wants to turn this yet another holy trinity MMO, despite the fact there are several of them out there already.

I don’t know what you are talking about. You aren’t seriously choosing enemies by clicking on them in a zergball?

Probably. When, is another question.

As above. There is absolutely no way we know how many votes each candidate will get, so Anet can decide either way and never be caught

However, if they’re smart they post us “statistics” where either one is at a very marginal lead, encouraging both supporters to chuck in even more money. Tested and true by various TV shows.

Finally, I don’t know how the gaming PC business is in Croatia, but it might be worth checking if there are any builder shops that specialize on gaming PCs. Those guys usually can advise on getting the best components with the money you got.

Impossible to say without knowing the exact components. If you have any more to spare, switching the CPU stock cooler to a more efficient one helps a lot.

Other than that, try to aim for bigger, slower fans instead of smaller, faster (RPM wise). The noise is usually less and more bearable.

With careful selection of coolers, power and case, you can bring the noise of the setup at idle to levels where you can barely tell the computer is on.

That said, when you’re running the game at full details the fans will inevitably kick in at some point and the noise will go up.

That’s a quite a bit of ignoring right there. When I want to purely imagine stuff I’ll rather play PnP.

Doesn’t help with the Xeon, though as it’s locked. You can overclock the bus speed, but I’d advise against that.

Ace.1726:

Thanks for the advice. What is the most current socket number? Is it LGA1155?

Haswell boards are the most recent and they are LGA1150

Big Tower.5423:

That wont work, as it will work way better on norns than asuras.

All the characters have the same size hitbox.

While I agree it’s perfectly possible to do the JPs as max sized Norn/Charr I have to say it’s way easier as a small Asura.

Better camera collision handling should fix most of that, but it still doesn’t fix the fact it’s easier to land that tiny asura on small floating islands / pillars.

The Xeon is effectively the same CPU as 4770k with no overclocking. It will run GW2 very smoothly with the GTX760. You should be able to get a stable 60FPS with everything (maybe except shadows) maxed in most areas. WvW zergs will clog you down no matter what, so don’t sweat it, but tune the WvW culling settings down as you like.

Also, when you don’t need the overclocking features you can go with the much cheaper H87 motherboards.

I have to say, by sticking on a certain set of weapons you are both gimping yourself and setting yourself up to be bored.

Swap around, try new things and the gameplay will keep feeling fresh.

mtpelion.4562:

He takes almost no damage when he is not in his “knocked down” state though, so regardless of where you target you should be protecting the Golems by destroying the Ice Spears as fast as possible.

This.

I cry a bit inside every time I play the event and see a dozen players doing nothing in P2 but autoattack the Claw with a ranged weapon.

And then suddenly you realize the karka summoning is often quite pointless, unless you do it very early in the game with most survivors still alive.

Nice idea but far too exploitable

He wants to protect those behind him, I would suppose. It does make sense.

marnick.4305:

lcpdragonslayer.7895:

As someone who has spent hundreds of dollars on gems (and will continue to do so), I can tell you that the gem > gold exchange rate is still too low to make it worth it, so there are plenty of people like me who won’t convert gems to gold and just use the gems for expansion slots and RNG boxes and whatever else is on sale. A reasonable rate for me would be around 5g per 100 gems. Right now if we were to convert gems to gold we’d get a little over half that, around ~2.7g per 100 gems. $10 would get me a little less than 22g, which is what, the price of 8 charged lodestones? Lolol no thanks.

The gold price for gems will continue to rise until such time as us real money spenders see it’s worth it to convert gems to gold.

My opinion exactly. Currently gems aren’t priced right, which means I simply don’t convert. Didn’t convert a single gem yet. Maybe if the price rose a bit more.

You obviously didn’t read the posts above. It doesn’t matter how much gold you get by selling gems. The purchasing power of that gold will still remain approximately the same, except for fixed cost items such as commander icon, etc. vendor sold items.

Because they are not just any slabs of meat. They are FINE slabs of meat.

I tried once hiding with a large pile of rations. Got bored to tears. Go active and kill other players, but pick your fights. If/when you eventually die, go to town as a Mist Walker and keep earning points.

You might not be the last survivor, but you will still earn a truckload of points and have much more fun than by just sitting in some bush.

If you are not into overclocking, I will recommend getting a very basic H87 motherboard and a Xeon E3-1230v3. Sounds dumb, but it’s actually the best non-overclocking bang for your buck. These should not set you back more than about 300 Euros give a take a few.

After that, invest around 100 EUR in a case and power. 500-600 Watts will be enough, but quality is important here, don’t go cheap on the power as it will be one of the longest running parts in your computer.

Next bit, the graphics card. I would recommend investing into a GTX760, which are just out in the market. I favor ASUS DC2 models for their quiet operation. Cost is around 300 EUR.

Next up, get a ~120GB SSD drive, cost around 100 EUR. On top of that, a big enough HDD to hold all your files. 1TB is usually plenty, cost around 60-70 EUR.

This should leave you enough money for a Windows 7 or 8 license, around 120 EUR, 8GB of RAM and an optical drive.

This setup will serve you for a long, long time. The only thing you might want to swap in a year or two is the graphics card.

EDIT: Didn’t notice that you probably also need a monitor and mouse+keyboard + maybe headphones? In that case, you can shave off some on the CPU (go for a lower range i5) and the GPU (GTX660) to afford a 24" full HD display and others.

Could be a new guild mission type? God knows we could use some more.

Julie Yann.5379:

This is why I don’t buy keys. Why the F would anyone pay real cash for a small chance of maybe getting something shiny? I just can’t figure out the thought process behind that.

How about paying cash to support the MMO you like? Granted I’m not saying everyone should chuck 60 bucks on RNG, but 10 bucks a month or something doesn’t seem so bad to me.

I’d rather spend it on “sure thing” like the infinite tools or similar and not RNG, though.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

depends on if you are winning only because you are a jerk.

How does being a jerk help you win Sanctum Sprint?

King Amadaeus.8619:

Tom Gore.4035:

If you are losing money in WvW you are doing it wrong. Really wrong.

If you do it “right” you really lose money….

I am gonna guess ole Tommy don’t shell out cash for many upgrades lol….

Yes you could probably argue that.

But in my opinion in their current form of WvW the upgrades aren’t worth the money spent on them. I wrote a very long post about more realistic sieging and supply lines ages ago, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. In the meantime, flipping the camps, towers and keeps over and over again is by far the most efficient method of getting exp/karma/coin in WvW.

lcpdragonslayer.7895:

The problem is, if the conversion rate is 100 gems = 5g two years from now, 5g might be worth the same as 2.7g is worth today, so we might want 10g for our 100 gems then. The amount of gold is not as relevant as how much in-game ‘stuff’ we can buy with 100 gems.

Which is exactly as it should work. If you could get everything in the game by spending 10 bucks on the gem store, Anet would be bankrupt in a year.

Zil.3071:

whose idea 2500 points….. this minigame takes way to much time zzzzzzzzzz

Yeah it seems a tad high. It’s a just a few achievement points though. I wouldn’t sweat over it.

Have to add that if you time it right, you will land almost simultaneously with the arcing arrow. With some luck you’ll proc sigil of fire, dealing anywhere between 10-15k damage in a timeframe of less than a second.

Hammer for sure, also Longbow

Wait, warriors are cops? Shouldn’t that be guardians?

I’m sorry but if I do the math it will be cheaper to just convert gems to gold and buy the skin you want.

This is assuming the skin is the only thing you actually want from the chests.

I’m a bit disappointed as it seems we don’t get to explore the depths of the collapse.

I highly doubt the content team has anything to do with the client. That said, I highly doubt there is a client team currently active. No optimizations, etc. for the client in ages, almost since launch.

That said, it might be worth contacting the customer support and ask if they could revert the item back to PvE.

I’ll have to say this is one of the best things you can do in WvW.

I usually preload with longbow 3 and then finish it with a hammer burst. Remember to bring stab/invul.

Alright I’ll be waiting. That’ll be something to compete with.

Well to be fair you can also get a full set of exotic armor with Karma. Also, decking your character in full exotics is not going to cost you much. Ascended on the other hand…

Sadly it seems you’re the only one competing, which makes you a winner and a loser all at the same time.

I still fail to see what is impressive about a setup shop. Now go catch some player in WvW or SPvP “pants down” (frenzy) with all the buffs you can, kill shot/evis him/her and record that.

Oh wait, that would actually take some effort and trial/error.

Obviously ANet will need money to run and develop the game. I for one will support them by buying gems, because I like the game and I see they’re pushing out content at breakneck speed now.

marnick.4305:

Aristio.2784:

The only reply I have for you is:

I don’t do Fractals. I don’t want to do Fractals. I can never get this achievement done. I’m okay with that.

You can solo the colossal kite achievement if you wanted. It’s not difficult.

You can also solo the OS achievement, if you want

Xta.7458:

So what keeps you in game?
i allways liked that i have lots of options in the heat of battle..
to go fully offensive or change to def’ in seconds… that i have abilities agaits X
and abilities agaits Y..

right now i feel i use the main attack (1) while keeping the rest (2) damage abilities on CD.
its just really bothers me, because outside of that, the game is really looks great, i just afraid that i will get bored fast after X time of doing the same.

Funny you should say that. After playing GW2 for a while I am now bored to tears playing WoW or other tabtarget combat games. There’s no going back for me for sure.