I’m not big on overclocking things, but I agree on lowering reflections and shadows. Also turn off best texture filtering. The game will slow down any computer when there’s lots of players on screen. In WvW, try lowering the culling options by one level.
Exactly, they gave you alternatives to get the wings. Going out of your way to complete every achievement is not ANet’s problem.
I had money to blow so I used about 12g to get the 3 wins, but once I traded in my tokens, I only lost about 2g.
The Wiki says the average is 57 games, or 28.5g but I’m not sure how they worked that out.
The wiki does the math for you. How are you not sure? Once you have the 3 wins, you can just trade in all your tokens and you will realize that you didn’t actually lose a lot.
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You’re not forced to race or play dragonball to get the wings. Wait until the story achievements come out to finish your 10. Moa racing if for players who have lots of money and want to spend 30g on the minipet.
its not fair man. If one pistol will shoot then im gonna play with rifle or something. Its two hand and better damage than pistol. wth i didnt understand anything. Please someone explain this
Pistols are great damage dealers. But their damage comes mainly from conditions. I stick a sigil of earth and sigil of accuracy in your pistols and with ~1550 condition damage, I can have around 6 stacks of bleed(120dmg*6), poison(250dmg), burn(720) on you constantly. My auto attack is around 185 so add the conditions up and that’s about 1875dmg/sec. Does your rifle do that much damage [plus conditions ignore armor? Add Piercing shot trait firing into groups is deadly.
The listing fee is non-refundable. It’s to stop players like you from relisting things whenever they feel like changing prices.
As you level up past 60, there is a gear stat combo called rabid that fits what you are seeking. It has condition damage, toughness, and precision. I use it myself on my weapons and armor. There is also the runes of the undead for your armor too that has synergy with condition damage and toughness. I also round out my stats with carrion stat combo which is condition damage, vitality, and power in my accessories. Oh, the sigils that you put on your main weapons still work when you switch to kits. Most engineers seem to only use grenades for max dps but I find it too much of a hassle. Mix and match the kits you like using. Max damage isn’t the goal in this game, it’s about survival.
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I’m sure they are for something upcoming which has not been revealed. There are the plaques and the free Polla doll in the gem store, and the patch notes mention Marriner’s Horn which is an instrument that I don’t think has been released yet. It all points to something related to the founder of LA, Cobiah Marriner.
Try guesting over to other servers.
I looted it off a random harpy mob yesterday in blazeridge. I wasn’t sure what it was at first since I was expecting the wings to come from opening chests.
I was in blazeridge farming the area north of the wall where shatterrer spawns. No one goes there except for the boss and there’s a good 5 or 6 that you can do in a big circle.
ANet has provided alternatives to everyone. You can farm the 100k taffies, loot the wings from coffers, buy the wings off TP, or a mix of farming and buying taffies from TP.
So sell everything you are looting from farming and buy the backpiece off the TP. It’s now 23g.
If you must get it through the taffies, then who said you have to farm it all by yourself. The TP is there and if you look at zhaitaffy prices are dropping fast as and it’s only been 3 days. By next week or so it will probably be 1 or 2 copper and you can buy 100,000 taffies for 10-20 gold.
Pick the traits that fit your build not the stats. Equipment will make up for it. It’s even better if you find a trait line that has the traits and stats you want.
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For the latency one:
-Alt-tab when in game and go to start menu→run
-type in resmon and press enter, it will bring up resource monitor
-go to network tab and look under TCP Connections for GW2.exe
-There will be 3 GW2 processes, you will be able to see the latency there
Magic find only helps with looting from bodies.
Healing turret is great for healing because of the AOE heal from overcharge and detonating with water field. Plus you don’t have to switch out of your bomb kit to do it.
No, because it was soulbound to your deleted character.
Agreed, it’s about scaling. When you have little to no healing power(or any stat), most of your healing comes from the 145 healing base. As you stack more and more, the healing base becomes less useful because it makes up a lower proportion of your total healing.
Use one to make a mini colossus, keep one for yourself and then sell the rest. I don’t see your problem here. You make a profit no matter what unless you are buying the coffers for the purpose of selling mini knights.
Mini colossus are account-bound.
I know they are. I didn’t say to sell mini-colossus. I’m saying to sell your stack of mini knights because there will be lots of people wanting to make their own colossus.
You can switch weapons when you have maxed out the stacks. I see people carry an extra weapon with them to switch to after maxing out stacks.
For pretty much all other sigils, it doesn’t matter where the crit or attack comes from. It will still activate as long as it is not on cooldown.
It doesnt matter if you switch moas. Its 20% chance for each place.
You’re right in that the odds are always the same. I updated my post to say expected costs rather than odds.
Think of it like a graph of a wave that intersects a horizontal line. That line is the long run expected profit of 44s per race. The wave is the Moa’s current profit/loss which can be higher or lower than the average profit because of winning/losing streaks. In the long run, they will always average out around the horizontal line. Each Moa has the same odds of winning, but they are always on different points of the long run trend. If you stick with only one Moa, then you will ride the highs and lows of the wave and end up with the average. If you start changing Moa’s, then you change your point on the wave and will in a way “reset” yourself odds. If you’re Moa is on a losing streak, then you may feel inclined to change to a “luckier” one. If so, then you just moved from the low point in the wave that is expecting to swing upwards towards a point that is high and is about to swing downwards.
Here’s an example of the waved trend graph
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Moa racing runs on statistics and there’s no luck involved. You will never make a profit in the long run playing because this was made as a gold sink and the expected profit is less than the cost. If you are going for the 3 win achievement or the mini, you should try to minimize your costs. The best strategy is to simply bet on the same Moa everytime. This will minimize your expected cost as switching Moas can only increase it.
Here’s the stats:
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The difference between faith and gambling?
One is where you are aware of the risks and the other is where you simply ignore them.
Or you can save up for next year or the year after that. It’s a long term goal like legendaries or other holiday rewards. This game was not meant to simply exist for one year and then get shut down because GW3 gets announced later this year.
Are you sure next year we won’t have an all new currency? What is your evidence?
Since we’re in the first year still, I can only draw on all the MMOs that I’ve played. There may be a new reward/activity added each year to spice things up, but I have never seen a recurring event change currencies. I didn’t play GW1, but anyone who plays GW1 please chime in on how ANet does holiday events there.
Box sales go towards recouping development/publisher costs. Gems sales go towards maintaining the game after launch.
@Devata
Do you think that whatever real goodies like rylock figure did not cost them money to make and ship to you? You make it sound like you paid more and got the same thing as players that only bought the regular edition. Players that used real money to buy gems and then bought the CE would be supporting the game after launch because they are buying gems. Plus they don’t receive any extra real goodies like a rylock figure.
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It’s true that you can determine the cost of a legendary in real world money, but it is a poor measure of its value. Because you can trade real world money->gems->gold, you can tell how much it will cost you. But since you can’t bring that gold back to real world money, value becomes distorted.
It’s like if I wanted a new car that is worth $10k. I can go to the dealership and buy it. The cost is 10k and the value is 10k(let’s pretend there is no depreciation) because I can resell it right away for at least the cost. Buying a legendary with gold earned ingame is like this.
However, I could also hire some car builders to construct that same $10k car and it may cost me $12k because they have to build everything from scratch and do not work for the car company. Buying a legendary with real world money is like this.
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Or you can save up for next year or the year after that. It’s a long term goal like legendaries or other holiday rewards. This game was not meant to simply exist for one year and then get shut down because GW3 gets announced later this year.
The coffers are guaranteed to drop candy, fireworks, tonics, or food. Clearly stated in the item description along with a very rare chance of a skin. Sounds like kids who throw tantrums when opening presents because they didn’t get the exact toy they wanted. Isn’t it more fair that everyone gets the same odds instead of getting better odds because they have a bigger wallet to throw away money?
Oh wait, they gave a pack of minis to players who spent real money on gems. It’s not the toy you wanted, but it’s the thought that counts.
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Use one to make a mini colossus, keep one for yourself and then sell the rest. I don’t see your problem here. You make a profit no matter what unless you are buying the coffers for the purpose of selling mini knights.
And people enjoy the game different ways. What you may see as enjoyable, others may not. Don’t think that cause people aren’t doing things your way, that they are not enjoying the game. We are all different and enjoy different things. I see this argument all the time on these forums. People need to realize that everyone finds different things enjoyable, so stop telling people that they are not enjoying the game or not playing the game right, just cause it is not the way you play the game.
Then all the ones who whine about the coffers should stop telling everybody that all is bad and ArenaNet is the greatest demon in the world, too. There are people who enjoy this event. And I for myself think that this time the coffers are really great. Cause they drop a lot and there is every time the chance to get a ticket. Far not as frustrating as the southsun-crates.
I agree. The drop rate could be unchanged such as opening 100 coffers is about the same as opening 1 southsun crate. But you know what? I like opening lots of things and I am having fun.
Like all holiday events, this will be an annual event. Even if you can’t get it all now, there is next year.
I think the free version of FRAPS limits videos to 30 seconds.
This is about entitlement. I believe that the Dragon Festival in GW1 is an annual holiday, so why would this be any different? I’m sure people were complaining about how they couldn’t get all the toy minis in wintersday as well. For players that started the game after wintersday or halloween, why aren’t they complaining that they didn’t get those rewards? Because it will come back next year.
The moa races can be expensive, but there’s no need to complete them for the shattered wings. There appears to be several more story achievements coming along so you can skip it. If you really need to have it, you can wait til next year when you hopefully have more gold.
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Maybe it’s related to the statue of Marriner and all those new plaques popping around LA.
The wings in my opinion are not meant to be acquired by most players in a single year. We are already getting immediate rewards from the hat thing from fireworks and shattered wings from achievements. This event is a holiday and it will be recurring each year. Think of the wintersday event. They only gave you enough materials to make 2 of the 5 toy minis and a backpiece(at least I was only able to make 2). Immediate rewards along with something to look forward to next year.
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I spent about 2 hours to complete the kill 300 holograms achievement yesterday and ended up with around 100 chests and got a few hundred candy, 30 fireworks, and the mini knight. I don’t feel a great need to farm these chests but just because they are easy drops doesn’t mean the chances are higher than southsun crates. It feels more rewarding to get more chests to open though.
I was just reading the spoiler free mini-guide to Dragon Bash and noticed how some events are available now and others will start on the weekend. It can be quite confusing for people that don’t read stuff outside of the game. I suggest they create an ingame calendar like the one in WoW. It can be in a browser window similar to the trading post. I click on a certain day that and it will pop up info similar to what is seen in the event guide here. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-dragon-bash/
Of course the usual kinda stuff like guilds being able to mark down events should be implemented too.
The point is that everyone had to buy the game at some point. You paid a little more for the CE edition and got some real and ingame things. Even if you consider ingame items worthless, you still got something real. I bought the regular edition and only convert gold to gems. I think it’s nice of them to reward loyal supporters of the game even though I won’t receive it. Plus, you can always get the minis in the gem store on your own.
My question now is why aren’t people that bought the CE and also spent real money on gems getting something even better?
I have difficulty understanding your problem.
-Did you not get something extra in the collector’s edition or did you throw them away?
-Did you know you can convert gold to gems?
-Are these mini’s providing legendary bonuses that allow them an unfair advantage over other player?
Thanks for the response. Many players do require direction and I believe you can do that without spoiling things is by adding heart NPCs to the event and have scouts/heralds/letters point out where they are. In this way you can have your achievement log simply be “complete 10/10 event related tasks”. Once a new phase of the event is added along with new content and achievements, you can add or remove these heart NPCs. Once the event ends, you can completely remove them. In addition, these heart NPCs can be used to offer rewards like the flower backpiece in Southsun instead of just having it pop up out of no where on your screen.
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I know, I talked to the NPCs and found out about Canach before I read the achievement list. Oh, here’s a link to a dev post regarding where he called it a bug, but more likely an oversight by them. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try and avoid looking at it.
Here’s the quote:
“There are various bits of story spread throughout the Southsun Cove content. Some are in idle scenes, whereas others are nestled in journals, conversations, or achievement lists (which, due to a bug, did not obscure later events and revealed some spoilers ahead of time). Having a few story cinematics at key moments would have certainly helped players piece together the plot, so in the future we will likely use them in ways similar to the F&F releases.”
He means the achievements for content that is not added into the game yet. In the last Southsun event, we knew from day one it was Canach because of the achievements when we were not supposed to find out in the second phase. This would cut down on spoilers and confusion by players that are looking to complete achievements for content that doesn’t exist yet.
I use an AMD card so I don’t know if Nvidia cards have it as well. I leveled all the way to 80 with this setting on in my catalyst control panel and one day turned it off to see if there was FPS improvement. Made the game and icons look much sharper. It’s as if this setting just blurs the screen. Just wanted to let other players who weren’t aware to turn it off.
His CPU is fine. Myabe just a little better than my i5 760. I think it’s a graphic setting that you’re cranking up too high for these slowdowns. Do you manually configure setting in your catalyst control panel? Because it can override game setting. Make sure morphological filtering is off. It blurs the game up.
If you call into question whether this is an achievement or not then you have to do it for everything. It’s like if they made an achievement for running all the dungeons solo. Whether you want to consider it luck or skill, it is still an achievement to accomplish because there is a challenge factor. Talking to NPCs does not.
I’m guessing you are running a radeon 5850 1gb. I have the same card and I keep it at default 765/1125mhz and the game runs just fine. My CPU is i5 760 with no overclocking and 4 gigs of ram. I don’t know how you are monitoring the GPU usage and heat, but if you are alt tabbing and to check the Catalyst control panel then that is inaccurate. As soon as you alt tab out of the game, the card powers down to lower clock speeds. I believe your overclock speeds are near if not the max setting that Catalyst allows.
I can max every setting at 1080 with rendering at native and the game runs 30-40. I find the 2 biggest things that eat up performance is best texture filtering and reflections. Reflections for some reason eats up FPS with no real quality difference except around water and FPS still goes down even when theres no water around. I thought it might be armor shine, but that comes from shaders settings. Turning those 2 off I get 50-70FPS. Zergs eat up a lot of performance as well in WvW or Southsun champ farms. It will drop to 20ish but not unplayable. My WvW culling settings are at medium/low. There’s no need to see everyone in the zerg, you just need to know it’s around you.
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have you tried to /w and name?
Even though all I see is zero damage when I hit it, it still goes down in health and dies when people are hitting it.