Guild Wars 2

I actually liked Abaddon, and hope we see more of him. Whether in the present, or in the past through a fractal.

Crystal Oasis was my favorite song in GW1, hearing it “reimagined” was an unexpected treat. I look forward to seeing it on the soundcloud.

Gnat.9405:

As a long time devotee of GW1, this has been one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in a video game.

Thank you.

I agree 110%. If GW2 keeps going in this direction, it’ll have a bright future.

Agreed, I really look forward to it being a dungeon or a fractal. Heck, if they made it like the Royal Terrace or the Airship, I’d buy that pass so fast…

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I think he means to make it part of the open world/accessible without having to listen to Marjory and Jory drone on and on. Or simply to return to it in the future in some way.

Yes. And have permanent rewards like dungeons and fractals do. I mean to say, that better not be the last time we visit there.

Glint’s Liar is in a single grain of sand in the desert. It’s a pocket-dimension, so it should be fractal-like in appearance, as the original one was as well.

So, I just finished Echoes of the Past, and I’ll be sure to not include any spoilers here. On that note, the unique instance at the end, The Lair, you know, where there are actually “echoes of the past,” was very well done. So well done, I’d strongly recommend it be made into permanent content, such as a dungeon or a fractal. The fights were engaging, the puzzles were fun, there’s great lore to be had there, and the visuals were stunning. What more could you ask for in content? It’d be a complete waste to do all that work and not make it into something brilliant that lasts.

On the same note, the “Fall of Abaddon” fractal also needs to be done. Making us pick between two great ideas doesn’t mean that the one that didn’t get picked was not a great idea.

Remember, it was Abaddon, God of Knowledge, that gave humans the power of magic to make them stronger. I believe that Abaddon was a just god that cared about his people, and he thought magic was the way to empower and protect them. The other gods disagreed, and the rest is Nightfall. This is the one reason I particularly like Abaddon as a character, he’s not just an evil villain. Because he had seemingly good intentions, anyone could imagine them doing similar actions. Of course, his punishment drove him into madness and fuel his quest for revenge. Not too unlike Dhuum.

#2: Primary Story Telling (not the story itself): GW1 had an emote-driven cinematic system. GW2 went backwards and has… two people awkwardly facing each other, just reappearing and disappearing. So many times does this just ruin something, like the Battle of Claw Island, Cleansing Orr, or Fighting Zhaitan or just a simple conversation involving more than two individuals. People are visual animals. You made the game beautiful, now let me see it. Simple Fix: Don’t ever use this “interview-esque” cinematic system ever again. And I mean it, NEVER. It can’t be salvaged.
#1, my most hated thing: Not enough skill customization. The system needs to be more like GW1’s system that had a lot of choice. This is most egregious in regards to Elites and weapon skills. There is almost always one or two weapon skills on a bar with significantly reduced usefulness compared to the rest. Very Simple Fix: Double the amount of weapon skills and let me choose accordingly. Example: Make there be a total of 6 sword skills and let me have 3 on my bar at a time. Refrain from limiting this choice by making trait-specific skills.

Hated honorable mention: Armor inequality between the sexes in humanoid races, and Mystic Forge Precursor RNG.

And there you have it. I encourage discussion, whether you have a better example than I did, or think I’m completely wrong and explain why.

5 things I think are worst about GW2:
#5: The optimization in the game’s engine interferes with the game’s scale. 20-30FPS, when in a large group, sucks. It severely reduces the grandness of large-scale WvW and Open World events when you have frame-rate lag and can’t even load all those players. And all of it traces back to the game’s primary computing thread maxing out a core of even the fastest CPU. It would do the game a lot of good, especially if you want to make bigger events, if you fixed this problem. I’d pay the cost of an expansion, if it only fixed the game’s optimization. I won’t joke and say there’s a simple fix for this one. But even if you have to pay Intel and/or AMD for consultation, you need to do something. The Megaserver shows me that Anet/NCSoft are interested in the game becoming bigger and grander. But there’s no point to making more people in an area if the game’s engine can’t process it. In computing terms, this is called a “bottleneck” and GW2 has one that needs to be fixed if the game is to grow. There is no excuse as to why the game’s engine is so bad. I’ve heard so many arguments ranging from “The CPU tech isn’t there yet” to “Need DX9 so people can play on Pentium 4’s” and none of them are legitimate reasons as to why the engine is the way it is. Here’s a related honorable mention of something I hate about GW2: FXAA is not a substitute for SSAA or MSAA.
#4: Secondary Story Telling: This is about side-quests, area lore, and even the living story. It’s very obvious which parts of the game that had more effort spent on. The events and quests in Ascalon are great. They give good information, have great lore, and are, most importantly, fun and interesting. And then you go to Kryta and it’s bad. You can’t possible compare Bria the Necromancer and the Ascalonian Ghosts vs. The Charr and the Humans vs. Charr to “Defend the Garrison” and Seraph vs. Centaurs and Bandits. Kyrtan side quests are generic and cookie-cutter; Ascalon is involving and compelling. Temple of the Ages was such an important place in GW1, yet, all it gets is a PoI, a Skill Point, and 1 quest. Was adding an NPC to weigh in on the existence of the Human Gods, since their shrines at ToA were destroyed, too much to ask for?

The living story is great, except that you fell into some bad-story making decisions. You’re putting lore that should be in the game (like Scarlet’s backstory) on a website as just a character Bio instead of part of an introduction to a new character. And when you meet her, she explodes onto the scene as a character more powerful than any other, and wields an army bigger than The Pact with zero explanations in-game until she’s about to die. A great comparison can be made in GW1. Imagine you’re trying to stop Nightfall and you show up at the Mouth of Torment and there is Varesh and it’s your first time ever hearing of or meeting her. Scarlet’s objective: Releasing a bad-guy, can almost happen without her. But you couldn’t even imagine the story of Nightfall without Varesh who had the same objective: Release a bad-guy. Varesh was a person who had a story, Scarlet was an after-thought in an attempt to bring about a means to an end. Simple Fix: I have to know a place and a character before I care about them.

#3: The Story. The story of The Pact is terrible. It’s literally a disgrace compared to GW1’s. The only time I actually cared, was when I was defending Trehearne with our NPC comrades while he was Cleansing Orr. That’s the only time I ever felt something. Well, other than… *sniff* Tybalt. I cried. Anyways, so many NPCs died minutes after meeting them, I couldn’t care less. And there is literally zero information on the story to be found elsewhere, such as side quests. Characters and Events need to be fleshed out for me to care, and in GW2, the only person is fleshed out at all is Trehearne, and he’s barely passable as a character I’d care about. As opposed to Kormir, General Morgahn, Varesh, Kurzicks vs. Luxons, Glint, Turai Ossa and the Ghostly Hero, Prince Rurik, etc. Simple Fix: I have to know a character before I care about them.

Here is a list of my five best things in GW2 and my five worst things about it that is weighted for its importance in the game. Going to make this as concise as I can for the Devs while being specific. Bolded text is most important.
5 things that I think are best about GW2:

#5: The casual progression system. Being able to do all the content is important to me. Being able to do all the things my friends do, be it dungeons, gear, world bosses, whatever is crucial. Playing a game in which you don’t have to choose between productivity and fun is important to me.
#4: Character customization and re-customization: Please read my most hated thing about GW2 before commenting on this one. Being able to reset my skills, traits, weapons, armor appearance, armor stats, etc. are so important to me in order to keep a game fresh. GW1 did it better than GW2 does it, but I still have to give credit where it’s due, especially when you look at other MMOs. Being able to do what I want, when I want, look how I want, and play how I want is critical for me. This includes the wardrobe, transmutation, and dye systems.
#3: The UI. While the HUD isn’t adjustable like GW1’s was, the UI, especially the inventory, and Hero’s panels are incredible compared to other MMOs. CONCISE and navigable are the terms here. And every time I open the collectibles pane, I hear an angelic choir.
#2: Mentoring and Event System. Being able to play in the entire world and not one-shot things while doing real-time events with other players, including friends who are new to the game even though I’ve played for thousands of hours, is very important to me.
#1: Rewarding strangers for cooperating. Chests, resources, quests, skills interacting with non-party members, combo fields, etc. By rewarding people for helping strangers, it encourages a good community, and having fun with friendly people is why we play online games.
Honorable Mentions: Black Lion Trading Post (both the Auction House and the Cash shop), Megaserver, World Boss Event system, Daily and Monthly Achievement systems, Achievement rewards, Jumping Puzzles, Skill curve, Level curve (lack of), Wallet system, No subscription, Game uptime, GW1 references, PvP Normalization, and WvW.

Immensus.9732:

yeah the only mmo i remeber releasing numbers is WOW and that because they wanted to show off their record amount of players they had playing wow

That’s because the only reason people play WoW is numbers.

Disdroid.6109:

929 gold in 2.5 hours. There’s only a small number of items where thats possible even when you get lucky. Either the Item’s a legendary or its one of the top traded items who are on a steady price like iron or alike.
There are some stockmarket tricks that you could be able to pull off in a system like our tradingpost. All of which require enormeous amounts of gold for sufficient manipulation which would explain why he needs “clients” who add to his 1.5k capital.

Just 1.5k Capital? Surely you jest; that’s not enough money to pull much weight on the TP anymore. Having more clients does improve profit margins, even if they only toss in a few hundred gold or half a plat. It’s like running an investment firm of a sort.

Most of SBI’s community is headed by females.

mtpelion.4562:

Making money on the TP involves “flipping” in one of these forms:
A. Buying an item and selling the same item later at a higher price
B. Buying an item and selling it’s salvaged parts for more than the item, or
C. Buying an item and crafting with it, and selling the crafted result at a profit (all parts considered)

I, and no one I know, defines flipping to be that inclusive. And there are more ways than your definition of “flipping” to make money.

Vol.7601:

Wanze.8410:

Vol.7601:

Toroxus.9256:

mtpelion.4562:

Question: Do you ask each of your clients to find 2-3 other people to invest?

Not going to lie, it sounds like a scam based on what you’ve said here.

Your attempted temptation to garner information about how we make gold was not successful. And even if someone pegged it right, I wouldn’t confirm it. I’m not here to tease, I’m here to say: There’s more to the TP then boring flipping that gets, at most, what? a 100g? That’s just a waste of time; menial labor.

So you only spend 1-2 hours/day on the TP and yet you scoff at 100g? So what exactly is your gold rate? 400 gold an hour?

This all just BS. You have no credibility. Post a screenshot of your current gold on hand/investments and then you’ll have some. Cause right now it just seems you are saying BS just for the sake of it.

It will be something along the line that he doesnt sell the items himself that he buys or he breaks down (salvage) or creates (craft, forge) new ones with it.

Could be that ‘super secret’ method that the guy posted on reddit awhile back that involved crafting rare greatswords and then selling them on the TP while utilizing multi-boxing.

If I thought flipping is boring, why would I think that would be any better?

brittitude.1983:

Toroxus.9256:

brittitude.1983:

With the gem conversion option, s/he would need more than 707 gems.

What a staggering co-incidence.

I’m not sure what you mean. It was clearly posted in your previous picture showing your character and gold. My telepathy doesn’t work unless I know your real name.

Ah, but I’ve speculated gems with less than 700 gems before.

brittitude.1983:

With the gem conversion option, s/he would need more than 707 gems.

What a staggering co-incidence.

Ways to make gold.
1. Farm, sell mats.
2. Craft, sell item. (could be either buying or farming mats)
3. Flipping items.
4. Speculating items.
5. Salvaging items for mats, sell mats.
6. Gold -> gems -> gold (this would be difficult with conversion rates)

The only thing on this list I denied doing was #3

Vol.7601:

Toroxus.9256:

mtpelion.4562:

Question: Do you ask each of your clients to find 2-3 other people to invest?

Not going to lie, it sounds like a scam based on what you’ve said here.

Your attempted temptation to garner information about how we make gold was not successful. And even if someone pegged it right, I wouldn’t confirm it. I’m not here to tease, I’m here to say: There’s more to the TP then boring flipping that gets, at most, what? a 100g? That’s just a waste of time; menial labor.

So you only spend 1-2 hours/day on the TP and yet you scoff at 100g? So what exactly is your gold rate? 400 gold an hour?

This all just BS. You have no credibility. Post a screenshot of your current gold on hand/investments and then you’ll have some. Cause right now it just seems you are saying BS just for the sake of it.

I see some people can only think of flipping as a way to make money and refuse to branch out into other markets. But whatever, I only have the money I profitted this morning. The rest I tossed into the TP with another player an hour ago and hope to get 130% of it back in the next 8 hours.. As for my pocket guilds, you’re insane if you think I’d literally give away my trade secrets. And I didn’t scoff at 100g, once upon a time that’s all I could put on the TP, but now it’s just not worth my time compared to other amounts.

Edit: Just for laughs:
Spent an hour doing TP this morning, made a very good haul, by my standards at least, and made 929.6259g profit. The other hour was doing math for this afternoon’s investment.

mtpelion.4562:

Question: Do you ask each of your clients to find 2-3 other people to invest?

Not going to lie, it sounds like a scam based on what you’ve said here.

Your attempted temptation to garner information about how we make gold was not successful. And even if someone pegged it right, I wouldn’t confirm it. I’m not here to tease, I’m here to say: There’s more to the TP then boring flipping that gets, at most, what? a 100g? That’s just a waste of time; menial labor.

Vol.7601:

“Play some short-term stuff, watch long-term investments. Take other people’s money (willingly) and invest it, and give them and myself profitable returns from it.”

So what’s happening here?

That’s for me to know and for you to boohoo because I’m never gonna tell you. Like I said, I’m not going to give anything specific because doing so would interfere with my ability to make money for myself and my clients. (Who, again, only pay me with gold)

Wanze.8410:

So you are flipping items for profit. It doesnt matter if its long term or short term.

I am not buying items and then selling them back later.

Get an i5 k. Find the i5 that can support the highest overclock frequency and overclock it, like the i5-4670K or the i5-3570k. i7s will perform worse on games unless you bind the threads or disable the HTing, which means there’s no point in buying an i7. I have an i5-3570k @ 4.5Ghz and i generally get 40fps in LA on max + 4x SSAA @ 1920×1080 on a GTX 580.

Wanze.8410:

So what is the difference of flipping an item and playing tycoon? What does a tycoon actually do on the TP?

I spend maybe 1-2hrs/day on the TP. I pop up a spreadsheet on one monitor, graphs and charts on the other, power up the calculator on my desk, and play around for a bit. Play some short-term stuff, watch long-term investments. Take other people’s money (willingly) and invest it, and give them and myself profitable returns from it.

Of course, I’m not going to give you anything specific because that would interfere with my ability to make money for me and my clients (who only pay me with gold). I think flipping is the worst way to make money and probably the most boring thing that people willingly do.

Nick.6972:

Don’t sell Tier 6 mats or ectos. Don’t spend karma. Save gold.

/thread
Oh wait, he forgot: “Play the game and enjoy.” Do all those, and you’ll get whatever you want in the game in time.

zilcho.7624:

Why is rampant speculation allowed in this game?

Because it’s a free market.
/thread

Imagine people bought bread for no other reason than the expectation it will be worth more tomorrow. Buying a loaf of bread would get pretty expensive really quick, would it not?

Not if you’re a bread manufacturer, then it’s a miracle day.

This sort of thing has wrecked real-world economies throughout history. It’s something every modern government works hard to limit and control.

Capitalism is a free market, which, you’d note, is what the entire modern world uses to trade: Supply and Demand set price.

But for some reason, MMO’s embrace this behavior without reservation. Why?

Because it stabilizes and make the economy more dynamic
.

To be clear, I’m not talking about profit-seeking. (Farming mats and selling them, for example.) That is a normal, healthy activity which adds real value to a game’s economy. I am talking about flipping items on the TP. It serves no purpose and only raises prices well beyond what a player can hope to farm naturally.

So then if the price of bread isn’t based on demand, how is our baker at the top of the post supposed to make money?

I’m interested in how it changes the game itself, in general. How it effects players who choose to have a minimal exposure to the economy. If I want ascended gear, how does the materials costing thousands of gold add to the experience? Speculation is directly responsible for this situation, thus I ask what it adds to the game. (If that makes sense.)

Because other people want those materials and the supply is limited, thus, economics makes the price go higher until enough people can’t afford so it stabilizes. That’s exactly how every item on the shelves in a store works, from bread, to cars. And if there was “speculation” of massive wheat crop failure, (aka, supply reduction of bread), you will see it’s price skyrocket on shelves. People think the price of bread will be so high in the future (because there is no supply) that they buy it while they can still afford it. Maybe they’ll sell it later for pancakes. That’s real-world speculation, and it’s very very logical.

On SBI, we down him every night. One thing I have to admit though, is that the 2 hour time that you basically squat on him is really lame, but kinda forces me to farm the zone. Otherwise, the fight is a ton of fun. It’s 110% organized on SBI TS, and we immediately go around to all the world bosses afterwards and grab them all.

Everyone is welcome to join if you abide by respect rules and the GW2 EULA. But like I said, be there 2 hrs early on weekdays and earlier than that on weekends because the map will be hard capped.

The idea of the living story is great. I’m currently appalled at the quality of the current story, but I’m going to wait for the last chapter of the book before I judge it.

morrolan.9608:

A game with the extreme reliance on RNG and gambling boxes that this has is not one where the devs display a lot of care about the players.

Are you kidding me? This post must be satirical. On the off chance it’s not, I highly suggest you play any other MMO before ever opening your mouth about one again. "extreme reliance on RNG?’ I literally laughed.

Malediktus.9250:

HT is good, W7 is smart enough to allocate the stuff. Think of all the programs who run in the background besides GW2.

Yeah, and think about all those programs, which should be none in terms of those that use CPU power, trying to get processing time from a core already processing the game. HT is NOT good when it comes to programs, like 99.9% of games, that use 4 or less threads at a time. All HTing will do, is load another thread onto a core that is already processing a thread from the game.
It has never been shown that HTing a 4 core processor improves the performance of 4-thread programs (like games). And, unless you control where threads go manually, it can seriously destroy performance at times.

Pandemoniac.4739:

Toroxus.9256:

Well, I never said to remove Flippers, notice in my post it wasn’t my wish. But from my point of view, flippers damage the economy by raising prices.

I’m not sure that “flippers raise prices” is an incontrovertible fact, but regardless, higher prices mean you can sell the stuff you find for more gold, so why is that a bad thing?

For the same reason higher prices were so bad in Guild Wars 1: Inflation.

pulupulu.9730:

I am curious, Xfile, is your hyper threading (bios setting) on or off?

i would like to see a comparison of hyper threading on vs off in heavily populated area.

I have heard some games actually get worse performance with hyper threading on.

This game can’t use HT, thus turning it on is actually worse for your performance since 2 threads could get allocated by HT to the same core. 4 Cores is the best bet for GW2, and 99% of all games today and in the foreseeable future.

I’ll be short and sweet. Rated in order from MOST egregious to least.
1. Lack of skills, skill diversity, skill builds, and the hunt for skills. (signet of capture)
2. The face-to-face style of the cinematics is shameful. Return it to GW1’s style.
3. Terrible optimization that needs correction.
4. More detailed and in-depth lore that is optional.
5. Gender-equality in armor. Females aren’t objects, and males aren’t ugly refrigerators.
5.5 Better armor variety (even updated GW1 models would be sufficient)

Well, I never said to remove Flippers, notice in my post it wasn’t my wish. But from my point of view, flippers damage the economy by raising prices.

Wanze.8410:

The Ore Node is the closest to a pay to win item in the gem store yet. All people reasoning that gem store items are not worth the gold to convert to gems miss the point entirely as this was never intended.

However, Anet cant or will not control the prices of copper, silver and gold ore making any debate about when purchasing this item becomes profitable when farmed every day obsolete.

What are you talking about? The Infinite Tools actually save you money if you play at least moderately within a few months. And what are you thinking? Why would COPPER go up in price? If Anet wanted to have a “pay to win” they’d put a Loam on the gemstore that would reduces the cost to make silk bolts by 50%. To that end, I randomly ported into Dredgehaunt and there were 2 silver and 2 gold veins on my screen. Alas, there was only 1 iron.

How are flippers good for the economy again?

sirsquishy.8531:

If you have an old school Monitor (Tube), Set the Res to 1280×800@60hz. Bring up a Grey-White Screen. And Have anyone look at it from the side of their eye (Peripherals). 90% of the people I have tested can see Flicking at 60HZ. Now if you set it to 72Hz, seems people that are near sighted are the only ones that can still see the flickering. Then at 80-120hz anyone I tested could not see the flickering.

The same can be done on LCD’s, But remember LCDs are not the same as Tubes (They dont project Light outwards, its from the side of the panel). Some LCDs that have bad inverters or bad LED power lanes will have a flicker that is similar to Tube Monitors at 60hz. Again can only be seen to the side (Very few can actually see it straight on…even with the Tubes. But almost every could see it from looking out of the corner of their eye).

So, I doubt its a FPS issue, as much as its a HZ/Lighting issue.

Well, then someone call consumer reports for every monitor or TV that I’ve seen dip under 60fps. AKA: All the TVs on the shelves in stores, and every computer monitor. I wonder if I can see the difference between 60 and 120Hz. I know those fake “120Hz” TVs just look like 30fps that’s blurry, but I have yet to actually get my hands on a real 120Hz monitor.

First off, I don’t see flickering even when I force the FPS to be 1, and I think that’s because it wouldn’t make much sense for an LED/LCD to constantly redraw when there is nothing to redraw on screen. Or it could be that the response time of these monitors is 1ms, which is 1/1000 of a second to redraw the screen compared to the 1/60th of a second to redraw the frame. So technically, in order to see the redrawing, or flickering in your test, on these screens, my eyes would have to see at 1000fps, which I think we’ll both agree is not the case.

sirsquishy.8531:

A human’s Eyes cannot detect Frame Rate above 32FPS. (Science Research says 24, But my own research…I Say 32FPS).

If your eyes bother you below 60FPS, you need to investigate your Monitor. There is probably a refresh rate issue going on that causes the Light to Flicker to your eyes, causing Headaches and eye pain/Discomfort.

I know this is strange for the internet but: I formulated my hypothesis and tested it myself before I spoke. I can see the difference between 50 and 60 fps on monitors that display at 60Hz and were confirmed by a friend’s semi-high speed camera. 30Hz is like a slideshow and will give me a headache eventually. On the other hand, my BF can’t see the difference between 30 and 40 and I know most people can’t, so I can’t really push the “I DON’T GET 60 FPS AND IT’S TERRIBLE, GET ALL THE KING’S MEN TO FIX IT” point too hard because I’m not that selfish.

By the way, I found that CL 7 makes the game more stable in terms of audio over CL 9.

Not to get into a whole list of the things I love and things that make me one more dredge in a dredge fractal away from throwing my keyboard out the window, but if I were to describe this game in a single phrase (because a word wouldn’t work) it’d be this:
This is the only MMO that rewards you for having fun with your friends. There’s no fighting over quest items, or loot, or experience. No rolling over boss drops. I don’t think I can ever play a MMO that has me fighting over quest items, or boss loot ever again. I’m never going to race to last-hit a boss so I get loot. I’m never going back to a game that doesn’t have mentoring, a trading post, dodge-roller, or magic casters who can move while casting.

But then again, we have terrible optimization, absolutely shameful storytelling “cutscenes” in which 2 people just face each other, and a complete lackage of skills. Hey, you take the good and the bad. Have to see the bad for what it is in order to fix it, right?

Stormcrow.7513:

Vol, don’t waste your money getting an upgrade. Your CPU is fine. The game cant handle the content and ALL cpu’s will eventually bottleneck.

I agree, save your money for a new CPU when Anet fixes the problem. When they do, if ever, you could buy a nice rig.

Like I said in another thread. I have a GTX 580. Modest. I have everything on maxed at 1920×1080 AND forced 4x SSAA and 2x SGAA Alpha and it’s not maxed. On the other hand, my i5-3570 @ 4.5Ghz is maxed. Which is funny because it’s the best gaming CPU available. Even still, the primary thread of the game maxes out it’s associated core, even though that core is operating at 4.5ghz and I only got 50-60 FPS in LA because of it. It’d be fantastic if the game was either more processing efficient or could use hyper-threading so the i7’s would actually have a purpose.
I know 60 fps sounds like a good number, but that’s the minimum before it starts to bother my eyes, and it’s even lower in a huge crowd.

Dear Anet,
I love everything about the TP. This is coming from someone who uses it a lot, and no, I don’t turn gems into gold. I could list off everything I love about the TP, from the fees (yes, some players are from GW and know why we have fees), to the amount of fun it can be if I want to play Tycoon (which I love to), to how optional it is for my friends who don’t like to play Tycoon. But that list would be enormous, so let me instead list things I don’t like:
1: The text when the game’s UI is set to small.
2. Flippers

So I just have two wishes:
1. Fix the font size.
2. Don’t become blinded with all the mud-slinging that goes on in this section.

Sincerely,
Toro

I have a GTX 580 and a i5-3570 @ 4.5Ghz, which is the best CPU in the world for GW2 (+/-1%) for reasons that only a true gaming technician would understand. And I get about 50FPS in LA on everything completely maxed at 1920×1080 with forced 4x SSAA and 2X SGAA Alpha.
Naturally, like everyone else in this game, even with the thread running at 4.5Ghz, the primary game thread maxes out it’s associated core, and caps FPS.
You don’t need Tri 780’s to get there. You just need a beast CPU.

The Ascended armor is perfect. Anet doesn’t want to game to be only for hardcore players and alienate casuals.

Swagger.1459:

Zero. I’m not going to sacrifice or waste my game time, effort, gold or cash crafting. Until I can earn them as rewards through regular gameplay of my choosing without an unreasonable grind and purchase them off the bltc,

I agree 100%. I hate grinding and wasting time. Luckily I don’t have to do that in this game, so I’ll probably get 2 complete ascended armor sets over the next few months.

Essence Snow.3194:

If you didn’t convert them to bolts then we are talking about 18,000 crystaline dust, 1,800 skill points, and the main kicker 3,600 forges b4 the update on Tuesday.

And hail Anet for allowing me to double-click add items into the forge. And you’d notice that on Tuesday, after gossamer fell, I posted about making mass forging more…. labor efficient. Go figure, I got rewarded by researching, doing math, and working at it.

Astralporing.1957:

Toroxus.9256:

I invested in Gossamer and made tons of money. So much for being livid.

Yes, obviously market speculators would be extremely happy with the situation. Unfortunately their happiness comes at the cost of everyone else in this game.

And how is that? The only way speculators make money is when people’s greed makes them willing to pay the highly speculated price.

vikkival.2459:

1-3: Money sinks. Annoying but necessary
4: Oh no OP, don’t be a Scrooge haha

Quoted for truth.

Essence Snow.3194:

So your telling me you converted all those scraps, forged at least 1,200 skill points, 6,000 piles of crystaline dust, and a min of 2,400 gossamer scraps on Tuesday b4 the patch hit?

I’m sry I’m just not buying what you are selling. The skill points alone warrant questioning it.

No, I’m telling you I converted all those scraps, used a ton of skill points, and salvaged a lot of ecto and bought a lot of dust. And in the end, I got somewhere between 400-500 stacks of gossamer scraps. I started selling them immediately to keep funding this process until:
A: My hand really hurt from clicking so much.
B: It was no longer profitable.

Really nothing remarkable there for someone who plays on the TP. 1k+ skill points is not a rare thing. I have way more than that still and I know people who have and did have more than me.

TPMN.1483:

Don’t worry folks if it hits 1g/ silk bolt

That would never happen, and if it did, it’s entirely greedy people’s fault for wanting their ascended armor faster than Anet designed it to be done.

I invested in Gossamer and made tons of money. So much for being livid.

Diabolus Anur Kaya.8379:

I have 8 level 80 toons but I am only crafting ascended for my main which is also the only one I do fractals with

This is pretty much the case for me, and while I’m working towards the infusion slots, I’m not raging on the forums about not having them, when I seemed to make do just fine in the past year.

LordByron.8369:

You may want to check prices of +10 infusions…
If you find a cheaper way to get to 70 AR tell me….

Not to mention the 7+% difference in stats (consider infusions…).

I checked the prices of +10 infusions and I am not moved by your argument. I get my agony infusions from fractals not the trading post. That method actually MAKES me money. I’m not going to consider stat infusions because then I’d have the consider 600 vials of powerful blood or what-not, and that’s a whole different thread.

And not to mention, I didn’t need that stat boost to play the game before, and since the difficulty of the game has not changed, the stats I need for it haven’t either.

Stars.2179:

I don’t need ascended armors. I WANT ascended armor for all my characters, therefore I NEED the mats – I’m willing to farm for them over the year though so no biggie.

If you want something, you want the items to make it. If I want to buy a new graphics card, then I want the money to afford it. But I’m happy to see you’re willing to take te slow and steady approach to a best-in-slot gear set. Welcome to the crew. high-five

cranked.3812:

Mass upgrading silk to goss could do it I guess?

Bingo.

Doesn’t pay anymore. It was very profitable up until last Monday

Correction: It was very profitable up until the patch hit on Tuesday. And yes, I more than doubled my money. Limited myself to starting with 300g on Monday night and left with 2k a few minutes after the patch hit on Tuesday.

And just to stay on topic:
I’m not buying a single silk scrap for my ascended armors because there’s no point. It’s against the grain of Anet’s plan of ascended items. Why should I buy silk when I’m time gated? I get almost enough everyday to do the silk processing. Unlike some it seems, I’m not in a fever-pitched rush and raging on the forums because I need a few extra stats IMMEDIATELY, even though I do 40-50 FoTMs every day.