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Yes it is optimized, after playing both GW and GW2 for years on laptops and assorted home built desktop systems I recently had the opportunity to play on an Alienware 17 R4 laptop. This laptop makes GW2 a brand new game. Now standing in the middle of the fray, no matter where I see everything going on in real time. I can also see all the spells incoming. Along with all the sounds of battle, and outside of battle all the sounds I have never even heard before. I was so impressed I bought one, and now we have two of the same laptop running at the same time. Normally one on PVP and one on PVE, with no problems at all. Though the AlienFX interface from AN could use some work!
Are expansions more important? I doubt that due to the constant work being done by AN on all the current aspects of the game.
Thank you much Arena Net. This has taken care of the jerky nature of my graphics. I was actually able to jump in the middle of the double herds of Pocket Raptors and kill them all since I could see their movement the whole time. Very pleased with my frame rate now. As you know I didn’t have constant crashes, so I don’t expect to have any now! But I will let you know if I do, BTW the last crash was leaving the Labyrinth so if you want me to test that you could bring back the Mad King for a week or so and I will dedicate all my time to testing!!!
Thanks again.
Overall I loved the Beta, knowing fully well that it was a Beta. Yes there were problems with “bugged” events, well they are being called bugged but perhaps we as a group didn’t do something correctly. An example of this was the colossal vine events where the vine tenders have to be killed. The first day it was immediately labeled bugged because the vine tenders didn’t stay dead. Though, with the cooperation of other players when we took them down at once we were able to kill the vine and advance.
The glider was nice, I spent more time than I should have just flying about.
I tried the Revenant last Beta and wasn’t impressed, I know a lot of others were, so I tried it again and felt the same. I will wait until HoT goes live and progress a Revenant normally so I can get a feel for the Mechanics.
So I created an Ele (my prime) and it was a lot of fun even though the armor and accessories wouldn’t give me the same Ele I normally play. I am definitely looking forward to HoT live to be able to play my Ele.
I also liked the fact that others were playing their normal professions and the synergy seemed to come natural for wandering groups and Pugs. It was a very enjoyable weekend, once again really looking forward to HoT going live.
The one serious problem I had was the Mastery system. Yesterday I leveled up, got the Mastery point, but was unable to spend it. No matter how many clicks or tries on other Mastery’s I could not get the point spent. So the achievement bar was stuck at 80 and with almost every kill, or event completion I got a popup telling me (i believe) that my mastery was complete click here to spend mastery point. Very annoying, especially when a pack of pocket raptors is exactly where the popup occurs. So that took some of the fun out of playing. Perhaps there should be a Wiki that the developers only use to convey information on what is supposed to occur with popups, Mastery points, Glider use (a lot of questions in chat about how to use the glider), Events, etc. Not a giveaway necessarily, but enough information to know when something is working correctly or not. For whatever reason I found the glider very intuitive, but others had a real problem launching until they were told how.
I also like that my toons now have a voice in these group discussions, nice work there.
All in all Kudos to Arena Net, I can’t wait to explore the upper and lower portions of this area, job well done so far.
This is a problem with Scarlet and her Minions obviously.