So a couple months ago, when I was cleaning my 4 year old computer I built, after I was done I turned it on and it turned off after a minute because cpu wasn’t seated properly so it would overheat and turn off to avoid damage, but at the time I thought it was PSU issue and I turned the switch from 115 to 220 and then turned on computer, I think I did this twice, first time it smoked a lil bit and 2nd time I heard a zap sound (you know what it sounds like if you’ve done what I’ve done before). I think I tried second time because I was testing to see if PSU was still working, because when cpu overheats you normally have to wait awhile to try again, kind of like xbox issue with rrod I suppose, but I was impatient and did 220 setting again.
Anyways I went to best buy and had them test my psu, it flickered once then didn’t do anything out of like 9 attempts, by jiggling cord and whatnot. And then I asked them to test motherboard to see if I fried that, and it came on for like 2 seconds and stopped working, we attempted it a few times as well and then they told me they don’t have the supplies to do thorough test after that.
So right now I’m playing GW2 on a laptop, but I miss playing games smoothing on desktop, and was wondering, do you think that it would also have affected my RAM, graphics card, CPU, CD ROM drive and hardrive? I’m thinking that motherboard cant be that expensive now after 4 years, but psu will still cost a bit. I was thinking about buying a new motherboard and psu, but I’m not sure.
I don’t think RAM CPU hardrives graphics cards have capacitors and just not sure if they would have fried as well. I’m in a lil tough situation moneywise, but I wouldn’t mind spending a lil bit of money.
I have to say when I was at best buy they were talking about my motherboard not seated all the way, I have 3 screws holding it on each side, its going to be flimsy so I don’t see need screwing in 3 more screws, I have the big gtx 280 graphics card so its a bit annoying to work with inside my computer. Does anyone know a way to like tell if a capacitor is fried or not?
Sorry for all my questioning, but my main question would be: Whats your take in my situation? Should I buy a new motherboard and psu or should I just keep playing on my laptop until I can afford to build another computer?
I been playing 2 team free tourney for like a week and all my games been really close. IT just sucks when you go on a massive losing streak… doesn’t matter how close the games are when you lose game after game it makes you want to rage quit.
To be honest the last 10 solo que pvp 2 team tourney matches have been really close, but I seem to lose them and even if matches are really close if you’ve been on 5 game losing streak you just want to win and it doesn’t matter how good of a game it was… you lost plain and simple.
thanks for telling me how to untarget, I never knew that and that’s pretty helpful. But how do you guys target in pvp game do you press tab quickly? do you use closest foe? do you click on them?
Will this culling patch also affect PvE, say events with a lot of monsters and people at same time like maguuma and orr events.
Hey guys I was just wondering how you guys target people. Like say for an example the enemies are 2 thieves 5 minions and 2 players, do you click on them or press tab really fast or what?
Also do you think there should be a key besides esc key to remove person from target, say you gotta get away with rtl and you don’t want to target the target.
I’ve been playing this a lot, I don’t see that many mesmers compared to warriors and thieves, I actually see more warriors and me personally I have issues playing against warriors when I play my thief because stupid 100b.
As for thieves it really isn’t that hard to play against them all you do is move in circle and if you know there going to try backstab you just keep attacking the air of where you think they are at.
100b warrior is so stupid, I get immobilized and BAM down, and some people think they got backstabbed or whatever but its actually a warrior doing 100b on you, not a thief killing you.
I like how people derailed your thread and never answered your question. I know for hotjoins if you leave it wont affect you.. So I’m pretty sure if you leave tournament game and wait for the game to end before logging back in it wont affect you either because the game never ended and everything is recorded at the end of the game.
When they do the new ranking system they should make the disconnecting from tournament count same amount of deduction as a loss or more because with technology now people just don’t magically disconnect.
The community is too full of sprinters trying to leave everyone behind. We need more coaches.
Also, always be the first one to speak if you solo queue, a lot of people tend to just clam up when the match starts. Even saying “hi” breaks the tension of being on a new team. If you have an idea for a strat, throw it out there, even if it doesn’t work.
An ounce of communication in this game is worth a pound of victory.
I agree with you.
I’ll just cap then zerg with my team if they are zerging. My builds are mainly team based so I avoid 1v1.
Know what I think, they should get rid of 8 team tourny and just have 2 team tourny with option to keep going. Because this new solo que for 8 team tourny I’ve never gotten into a game. And to be honest when I bought GW2 I was expecting a Halls of Heroes, and its very disappointing how bad GW2 pvp system is.
You should keep facing teams if you want… There should be no reason why you would have to go back and reque your team.
All I gotta say is S/P theif cant do jack kitten in 1v1. But if its 2v2 and my teammate is heavy hitter type than we good. I use the stealth teammates and heal, trap with immobalizing them and move fast signet. My goal is to keep stealthing so they have to retarget us.
No matter who it is that complains about solo que….. It’s always the rest of thier team that was terrible.
To be honest if this is your view then you either hardly ever solo Q or you have been very lucky with teammates.
OP is right. There is nothing wrong with having noob teammates. The problem is that alot of the time your team will just zerg point to point and often you will see 3 people stood on a point capping…..there is nothing you can do when this happens. It really does suck.
And that is presuming you actually have 5 players…
If the ranking system works and you always play better than they do (thus contribute more than the average player doing this) you will eventually not play along side them.
Also, what he said is right…the people complaining always say how the rest of their team was worst than them. Truth is you have 4 other teammates, odds are..one of em is not going to be as good as you….sometimes your the worst. I swear everytime one of my lower elo friends on LoL CRYS ALL DAY to me how they’re stuck in elo hell…and all they get is bad teammates and thats why they’re stuck there and i should duo with them….guess what….they end up being the worst person on the team and often cause us to lose (or i have to carry their butt). So i do beleive this mentality is silly…some games it will be bad teammates, some games it will be you….if its never because of you EVER, then you will eventually move past them and end up fighting alongside players equal in your skill.
This ofc is assuming this ranking system actually is working. I have no idea how their system works.
I agree with you. I see a lot of whiners and I swear the game gets close or interesting towards the end but the fact is, your too busy telling everyone they suck or whining and if you didnt spend so much time in it we could’ve won.
I dont mind losing here and there because your not going to win every single time, but I just cant stand whiners or people that give up in tournament. I’ve only gave up once and that was because the other team was extremely good, they were a much higher rank and had everything and was just camping our spawn point and we was down 1 player. Was pointless to even try when they camp your spawn point.
But yes it has turned into a hotjoin I encourage people to do 2 team tourny because you get chest, you dont get it in regular pvp. I have tried solo que in 8 team tourny but I’ve waited 30 mins and it just ques out because it takes so long someone that it ques me with leaves or something I suppose.
The issue with tournament and ques is that not everyone is doing it so your just playing with whoever is available. The hidden matchup system I suppose would include your wins and losses streak.
Also I would suggust not to create a random team or a guild team if your new to pvp and your goal is to farm chests and win, because most other fully created teams will be of high ranking and if no other low rank team ques up, have fun getting crushed, believe me its hard to get good when a high ranking team just conditions the heck out of you and crushes you leaving you no options.
Hey guys, I havent seen a thread on point systems so I just wanted to make a new one and post what I think we should get points on, feel free to put your input in this as well.
I think they should change the point system from Skrimisher to Finisher. Because its a lot harder to do a finisher than to get skrimisher. To be honest whenever I run into someone already down I just do as much damage as I can on them because its an easy 15 points even though I never downed him.
Cannon on raid of capricorn also should be rewarding points. Also should be fixed so you just use it and not have to position yourself correctly (I’m talking about it kicking you out of using it, I personally dont mind getting the cannonballs), it should be similiar to the ones in WvW.
can you please penalize in someway players leaving in tournament I like spirit watch, but I notice a lot of people leaving if there team sucks right away. And its very hard to comeback when its 4v5 or 3v5.
Maybe keep track of people leaving a tournaments.
Its very very hard to win 4v5 or 3v5 when you play against everyone same rank as you.
Very fustrating when you start game 4v5 as well. With not many players to a team 1 person makes a HUGE difference compared to a 8v8.
I have noticed in hotjoin if you leave game you do not get penalized for losing and it doesnt count as a game played. So you can in theory have a 100% win ratio. I’m not sure if its same for tournaments as well.
I dont know what it is, but a lot of MMO’s have a ton of issues making new armor (NOT weapons), hairstyles and other character based looks besides color. I hate MMOs that have impression people just want more color and cooler weapons. I want cooler LOOKS and ARMOR.
That is why I really loved GW1 because there was so much armor and it wasnt easy to get either, you had a couple sets of 15K armor and ecto armor and whatnot. And well, there was also a lot of cool hard to get weapons like Crystalline Sword and Celestial Sword.
Yes I agree they are much more of a grind now.
Here is the list if anyone is wondering.
Daily Kill Varity (13 types of enemies)
Daily Underwater Slayer (25 enemies)
Daily Gatherer (20 things)
Personal Story Completer (1 story)
Daily Healer (10 rezes)
Mystic Forgesmith (10 items)
Keg Brawl Stealer (5 steals)
Group Event (2 events)
Daily Mist Invasion (10 kills)
Thats a hell of a lot of stuff to do compared to the PvP daily
3 Captures, 3 Matches played, 5 Kills, 1 Top Stat Awarded.
The PvP daily only takes a few minutes. You will get 3 captures in a single game, you will get 5 kills in a game, and top stat is very easy to get as well, just use the trebuchet or repair it or kill forest creature everytime he appears.
Now I wouldnt mind doing all that random wierd stuff, but theres A LOT of random wierd stuff to do, you made the daily list a lot longer than normal.
And just to be honest any idiot gamer will never figure out how to use the mystic forge because theres no guide telling you how to use it in game. They dont explain it as well as Diablo2 explains how to use the horadric cube.
Yeah pretty seems about right. Like after 3 or 4 days JQ just does alt xp farm runs. Look at the pie chart for T1, its like domination.
Amazing what JQ can do when playing against NPCs. Seriously outstanding.
See you next week, “champs”.
Yeah I mean, SoR and SoS they so tired of getting steamrolled by JQ they just stopped playing WvW. You wonder why they always complain about not fielding enough numbers. Its because they know they aint got no chance in hell so why even log into WvW when playing against JQ.
Theres not many R50+ peeps out there. Maybe they was in que for like 30 mins and the system automatically makes another hi rank team like urs after 30 mins and you were just unlucky to have to face that team.
Nothing is perfect bro.
I’m sure if they gave us something really nice whenever we do this to other servers. We would do it all day long. No matter what server comes at us. No other server is comparable to us.
Yeah I dont get this at all. Plus when you do 3 round tournies the teams get HARDER as well.
I agree me too, I really like PvP but I’m looking for motivation and I can see after reading a lot of other threads a lot of other people are also looking for the motivation.
I play D/D ele, also played EQ. And I’ve been through a billion of patches. And all I can remember is patch = nerf and everyone is always upset afterwards but me after being through a billion of them, I really dont have any feelings. I know the devs reviewed the pros and cons and made the best choice out of it all.
Haters are going to hate. They just dont understand that we are in a leige of our own and no other server out there is even comparable to us.
I agree 100%, im so sick of seeing PvE commander tags in JP, they have no common decent sense to turn it off while in WvW.
They are heal tankers, you go backstab burst thief and end it before the battle even starts. If you miss your burst you lose because you can’t out run them, if you are a sustained dps you lose because thats the exact build they counter, if you are a bunker you can “beat” an ele but you have nothing to secure the kill before they run.
Hi burst theives wont kill an ele if ele knows hes there. If you get suprise and can manage to kill in 3 seconds then yes but once you pop out of invis and dont instant kill your finished.
If you want to kill D/D ele play ranger or engineer. Classes with snares and roots with range will kill a D/D ele or kitten him off.
When I think of Guild Wars 1, if anything I remember the most its the halls of heroes. Now why doesnt this game have it? One thing that would make PvP more competitive and make elite pvpers strive for is everyone hearing. SO AND SO has keep the halls of heroes or whatever it was in GW1.
One major thing I dont get is why paid was better than free and its just 2 teams not 8 teams. You should get a lot better reward for winning games in BIGGER tournament not smaller or just 1v1.
I understand they have a new system now and no more paids so dont state the obvious. I’d just like to see bigger tournaments.
Yeah, it’s buggy like hell, and you have to position yourself perfectly to use it, it seems. Still good fun when it works though!
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Hey thanks for telling me you have to position yourself. I shoot then get automatically kicked out of cannon and I move a lil bit and reeneter it and I dont get kicked out of it again. Its extremely buggy I noticed because if you try too far left it will say it cannot shoot there but it appears green as if you can. Its a lot of fun to use even though the point system is very very poor for it because in hotjoins thats a major zerg level, where people just cap beach then dock then beach again so fun to hit everyone at sametime.
SoS guilds are xfering because they invested too much money for alts in JQ to spy and take our seige golems outside.
All I have to say is maybe if you put more time into actually playing WvW maybe you’ll perform better.
I do not think those that want a competitive bracket will ever get a competitive bracket if it is score they are focusing on. Look at the current brackets now.
T1 – JQ up by 40K
T2 – BG up by 25K
T3 – FA up by 45K
T4 – Maguuma up by 30K
T5 – SBI up by 27K
T6 – Closest bracket BP and AR neck in neck
T7 – Darkhaven up by 35K
T8 – SF up by 45KSo I am not sure what people are really looking for. Moving up and down brackets just ensures one week you will most likely stomp your competition when you have moved down or either get stomped by your competition because you cannot compete in the higher tier (look at Yak Bend for that reasoning)
Agreed.
Dude theres no competition in T1, SoR and SoS cant even take one of our towers in our lands in EB. We had SM for like 2 days now. Already toke SoR keep. Theres no competition in T1 for real. After 3 or 4 days people dont even care and just do xp camp runs all over SoR and SoS because we already won. Thats what happened last week and thats happening this week and every other week.
I mean when we toke SoR keep yesterday, we were just having fun and going through a reinforced wall and PvPing the wall down and toke it.
The thing I notice is whenever SoS or SoR is trying to flank us even though they are bigger they run away and get ran over. I just dont get it.
I wouldnt really consider them unfair, its class based after all every class is good in its own way.
TBH I hate finishing necros because they just going to fear you. And that takes away invulnerable finishers. You do different things on different professions.. The necromancer has the best down state finisher block that I would like.
Another thing, whenever I do hotjoin and fighting 2v2 and warrior health is really low in down state, I hate it when people use finishers on them if not right away because they just going to get back up before the finisher ends… A lot of hotjoin peeps just dont know this.
I notice not many people use it, but I started using it the other day and its quite fun but the thing about it is, I dont get points like I do using the trebuchet. I would like to see this offer points so people actually use it and so that map adds more stuff to do and think about.
Also I noticed sometimes when I use it, I press 1 and it automatically kicks me out of using cannon, even when I dont press anything and wait for timer after I press 1.
I play the PvP for how fun it is, and to show off a bit doing /rank in PvE. And I’m happy that its hard to get rank. It gives you respect when your playing PvP. When your rank 50+ people will like you even though they dont know you, when your level 50+ in PvE people dont even care about you.
I feel different, because this game it feels like there are no tanks, and there are no raids. This game is missing a lot, it feels more like a competitive game than a MMORPG style type of game. Theres a lot of SOLOING in this game for one thing too, in your typical MMORPG theres more group game than solo game.
I just bought some PvP armor so my toon looks cooler in PvP, but all it says is “can be used in mystic forge”, I have other items that “can be used in the mystic forge” I’ve finally found the forge in Lions Arch by asking around to find out where it is. But my main question is, where in game is there an NPC that tells me how to use it? Because I click on it and I have no options to pick from, and all it tells me to do is put 4 items in it. I only have the PvP armor I want but the other three items im clueless. Can someone please tell me where the recipe NPC is or where the NPC is that tells you how to use the mystic forge.