Guild Wars 2

MrH.2591:

The game gets very choppy during world bosses and WvW, no matter how good your hardware is. Dropping down to 25fps with high end hardware isn’t acceptable. The reason they haven’t bothered upgrading the engine is because of people like the ones in this thread who claim the game runs “fine” on their low spec laptop, when in reality they’re getting 15fps which is unplayable but they’re used to it so it seems OK. WoW upgraded from DX9 to DX11 during an expansion and it greatly improved the frame rate, so there’s no reason Anet couldn’t do the same.

So because ANet focuses on making their game as compatible as possible across multiple specifications, it’s unacceptable?

Get the stick out of your kitten .

If I can get 40 fps at world bosses on a budget gaming machine that cost me £400, then I’d imagine anyone getting less than that on a more expensive machine is being bottlenecked somewhere with their hardware, or simply trying to do too much at once/at too high a resolution

What’s poorly optimised about the game, exactly? I use a budget gaming machine and get solid frame rates even in large wvw zergs at max graphical settings

A lot of people seem to assume it has to be an either/or thing, the point of this topic is “why not both?”

My frost/ice themed sylvari ranger

Victuswolf.5286:

I would pay 1000 gems for a hi-res Wolf mini pet that’s the size of the wolves in game.

Save yourself 1,000 gems and make a ranger.

Honestly I just use titles that thematically fit my character, my thief is dark traveller, my guardian sunbringer, etc.

My Revenant will likely use Mist Treader.

Titles really don’t mean a thing to me other than something pretty to add to your character, similar to all the other customisation we have

Time for another 20 page argument

Try transferring at different days of the week and even times of day, several friends that regularly transfer tell me success varies based on current levels of activity on the server

Mo Mo.1947:

I can’t figure out what the fourth dye channel is! (The one on the bottom right) I’ve changed it on multiple characters of multiple races and can’t figure out what that fourth dye channel changes. >.<

Nothing, as far as I’m aware. I’ve done the same as you

It looks surprisingly good in silver, in my opinion.

I love the red panda, instabought it for my girlfriend, well worth it, will be getting it for myself, too.

Tacit Ronin.2097:

OK, the set is awesome, but I have 2 small issues.

1. the 4th dye channel does nothing.
2. you cannot change the colour of the flames. This may seem dumb to some as they’re fire coloured, but I’d like to have it changed to ghostfire for my Guardian. being able to change the colour of the ‘glow’ would also go a long way to making the sets more unique looking.

These 2 issues can remedy each other btw Anet

Blue firey glow + Cobalt on a guardian would go really well together.

pls anet. PLS

Question: Anyone know what the bottom right dye channel does? doesn’t seem to change anything for me

it’s so orgasmic. looks great with the black wings as a backpiece, too

Many people use surnames to give their character a unique flair, you have twenty characters to use in a name which is more than enough for several words

Another solution would be to allow armour skins and transmutations to ignore armour type completely, so you could skin heavy armour in to light/etc, but still only actually equip heavy armour.

Let players worry about clipping.

I’d appreciate a feature like this (or give character creation a “map select” option so you can preview what a character looks like out in the world). The many hues of the sylvari skin all look very different in the actual game compared with character creation

I’d love for them to release a new weapon in general. There’s so many possibilities out there for a new weapon that could work with all the professions.

they need to put this in the store already

lots of people using the GoT AHK script since S5 is due next week

Perfectly fair. don’t initiate a vote to kick without actually getting to the bottom of what’s happening. I’d have kicked you, too.

I love all the details that have gone in to every map.

Even a map like DR has amazing stuff that is often overlooked, for example when I asked my guildies about the planetarium in DR, most didn’t know what the heck I was talking about.

RoseofGilead.8907:

It’s probably the Sylvari cultural armor, tier 2 light for males. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sylvari_cultural_armor/Light

that’s the one. thanks!

So I was helping my girlfriend complete her level 10 sylvari personal story and noticed the NPC, Renvari has wing like seeds on his back. I was wondering if this is from armour (and if so, what that armour piece is) or if it’s simply unique to the npc

it’s the age-old issue of fashion always being focused more on the female characters.

Female leather, of course, looks awesome

Every MMO I’ve ever played in over a decade of it I have got bored of the BGM within weeks and muted it.

GW2’s music is absolutely bloody amazing, and I could never imagine playing the game without the music on. Every region has it’s own musical flair that lets you know exactly which part of Tyria you’re in.
Every track is memorable to me because of how well they portray what they are supposed to, from the relaxed, soothing music of the shiverpeaks to the intensity of combat, I love it all.

Fear Not This Night is simply the tip of a very large iceberg

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Yea outfit fanboys xD those who dear to say that outfits are better then armor sets.

both have their advantages and disadvantages, it’s all opinion based

The way some of it is worded makes me feel like it’s very close to release. I’M GETTING ALL TINGLY. TAKE MY MONEY ANET

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

We are getting free armour sets now, so why complain about them selling outfits?

I’m not?

What free armour sets are we getting? I’m lost. I don;t know the last time new armour sets with unique designs were added to the game except carapace/lumi, which involves quite a grind to achieve.

New armour sets added to drop rotations on mobs would be awesome (But I expect we’ll see some new armour designs from drops in HoT)

Hopefully they release all of them at some point. They look great

So as can be seen in the numerous threads regarding Balthazar’s regalia and other outfits released previously, there’s a huge divide in the community over releasing armour skins vs releasing outfits.

A simple solution is proposed and seems to me to be the clear and easy way to keep as many people happy as possible: Release these in the gem store as both costumes AND armour skins. I’m sure that not only would it keep a larger portion of the community happy, but it would also be good for gem sales, too.

If there are technical limitations or reasons as to why this solution isn’t viable, it would be great to get detail on this, as many community members are getting frustrated over the lack of armour skin releases in comparison with costume releases of late.

Zanshin.5379:

Are we even sure this is gonna be made available to the players?

I’ve wanted this outfit since it was datamined a month and a half ago, if they don’t release it I will be very sad

In the thread posted about the changes to the personal story, it was stated that the mechanics of the dungeon will remain the same, so I doubt they will be changing anything

Ralanost.8913:

There are female charr. They usually have a unisex look to their clothing. Why wouldn’t they want an option to appear more feminine if they chose to?

I’ve always thought this about asura, too.

My girlfriend has made some truly cute asuran characters, but all their armour/outfit models seem to be male only, which is a bit meh.

There’s absolutely nothing prestigious about getting lucky with RNG or adding on to your credit card bill.

Legendaries, to me, are just another weapon skin

Gaag.6538:

so, u guys advocating for outfits , what would you say are the benefits of “outfit” as oppose to “skins”?.

the main thing is being able to have a look that’s outside of your armour class. For example I like big awesome plate armour, but I mainly play medium armour classes, so with outfits I can achieve the look I want without being forced to play a class for that armour type

Well, this thread went downhill

Tigaseye.2047:

Another thing is that, surely, they have designed female Charr to be about as conventionally unsexy (from a human POV) as they possibly could?

They could easily have made them big-eyed, long-legged and busty/hourglass-shaped.

But, they didn’t – they made them, basically, look like a tomcat with horns.

Therefore, I can’t help feeling that sexy human clothing looks a little incongruous?

most MMO’s would have gone the cat girl route.

Dante.1763:

rapthorne.7345:

Not quite sure how an anthropomorphic cat can be sexy, but that’s just me. I don’t understand the whole furry culture thing

Honestly i wish people where more like you.. I dont understand it, but at the same time im not gonna be negative about it other than “I dont get how it can be sexy” I really wish more people where like that!

doesn’t take much effort to be respectful towards other people. In fact it probably takes more effort to hate on others than it does to just not be bothered by things.

Not quite sure how an anthropomorphic cat can be sexy, but that’s just me. I don’t understand the whole furry culture thing

Ryumi.7109:

Excludee.3850:

Ryumi.7109:

300 fps on lowish settings, i care more about performance than graphics x)

Your monitor can’t even refresh that fast, though…

Nope, but I still get more than enough fps for 144hz monitor even in the most fps nuking situations

I also play CS:GO and there you can really tell the difference between 144 fps and 300 fps xd

seems a waste. On average the human eye can only really notice up to 150fps

crafting giving exp doesn’t skew the value of anything. people spam crafting certain items to reach 500 as efficiently as possible does. Thank GW2crafts.net.

a way around this would be to buy gems on one account, convert some of the gems to gold, mail the gold over and reconvert in to gems.

You will lose 10~15% value in “conversion fees” however.

Otherwise the only thing I can really suggest is ensuring each account has gems stockpiled for future sales/store updates and resisting the urge to spend them all.

I myself have made a habit of converting my gold earned from in-game activity in to 100 gems per day (salvage mats from world boss drops nets me enough for 200 gems a day, but I like having gold spare, too)

I get 40~60 when playing normally (Max settings but antialias off, as in my opinion it doesn’t make things look any better)), and 30~40 at world bosses (Except frozen maw, the snow effects there on top of the crowd pulls me down to 15~20).

I am rocking a budget gaming system that cost £400 or so. nothing amazingly spectacular but still gives great performance in every aspect of GW2

I’d love to see more emotes in the game, the few we have are a bit stale. They used to release special emotes for certain events/promotions in GW1 (It’s also worth noting that GW1 had so many more emotes than we do).

I’d happily pay a few gems for a new set of emotes, or even interactive emotes you can perform with another person (after they opt in, of course)

I’d personally perfer to have no content for a few months and get the expansion faster than slow down HoT production for a few extra living story fillers

To keep everyone happy, they should release these as both skins and costumes, so the people like me who like wearing things not suited to their armour class can be happy and so can the mix and matchers

Gaile said it’s a 24 hour event in LA when the event turned on, so I’m guessing it will end at midnight server time

All I have to say is that if you relate a tragedy that resulted in hundreds of lost lives with some silliness in a game where we run around making kitten y noises, you need a slap.

I knew people on that plane, and I’m perfectly fine with the event and realise there’s no connection at all except for planes. Grow the kitten up, shut the kitten up and get on with your lives

Also, to the people whining about crucifixion: I’m pretty sure crucified people would not be imitating plane noises and wearing aviator caps from the 30’s

Thanathos.2063:

I would take a Guardian and give him a land spear.

this, pretty much. Guardian is our Paragon