LaFurion.3167

That chaff roller beetle one looks so good!!

Okay then -.-

Request to please get mechanical mounts or mount skins please. Anet has shown that with the skimmer -> hummingbird skin they are okay with totally changing the mount and how it looks and even rides. I would LOVE to see maybe an asuran or charr mount that is 2 or 3 seater. It would give the mount that unique aspect that all mounts have. Single seat mount or skin is fine. The forged warhound is amazing yes but it still has quite a distinct animal feel to it, and is more of a metallic feel rather than mechanical. Plus the lore of the game (charr and asura) pretty much allows for some nifty ideas. Maybe an asuran hover craft skimmer? Maybe a charr helicopter or flying machine type skin? Who knows :D. Would be cool? No?

I am absolutely positive that the game is set to ultra wide. In game is fine, it's just the character selection screen suffers. Evidently, the wider the screen, the more the character selection gets cut. Yours is 35" and suffers from a little clipping, mine is 49" and suffers from a loooot. Although my gf seems to be ok with this so she might take the 49" and play with it. Its still an amazing screen. Any ideas/thoughts on the sides stretching? Again all settings I'm sure I've configured correctly.

Hello all. I know very few people here will be gaming on an ultra wide monitor. I would like to post my insights AS WELL AS ask for some technical help in relation to such wide monitors and gw2. I bought a 49" ultrawide curved gaming monitor. 120htz, super high def, basically the best on the market (or what I could find in new zealand), cost about $2000nzd. Now I will start off my saying this; apex legends runs like an absolute beast. The wide field of view literally makes you feel like you have eyes on the side of your head. There are no quality drops except for numbers when you hit someone that are stretched horizontally. For guild wars 2 however, the experience was slightly less amazing. While the game on such an ultra wide monitor still looks amazing, the sides of the monitor are noticeably stretched.. not a lot, but still not normal. It's definitely still beautiful though. In this regard, having the un broken landscape of a monitor far outweighs the triple monitor setups that I have seen, by a long shot. Coming from a 32" monitor I could tell however, how "short" the monitor felt. This is probably just years of being on that monitor; would probably get used it it after a few days. It is a pity however that such wide monitors are so short. I hear that in a year or two, they will start to be made higher (effectively stitching 2 32" monitors together instead of the 27" ones). But the quality of the ulteawide, alongside the total immersion experience again outweighs the short feeling. Character selection was where it was a huge problem. The character selection screen would only display the torso portion of my char characters, cutting off at the jaw on the top, and knees/feet at the bottom. It happened with all races except asura. All other Ui in the character select was as normal. I did some research and apparently there is no fix for this unless anet does some fixes for ultra wide in selection screen. Load screens only used the middle part of the monitor too, effectively displaying what a 27" one would display (quality was fine though). Side note - My biggest problem with the monitor was how bad quality video players were on it. HD videos would play on low quality, very fuzzy and obviously 480p even when I made 100000% sure that it was set to 4k, 1080, or even 720. And some websites such as Netflix, and also select videos from YouTube were clipped off, requiring scrolling up and down to "see" the screen. I wonder if any one has input/experiences with these kinds of monitors? For guild wars, character selection screen aside, I was a little disappointed in the stretching that occurred at the sides, even if it was minimal. I am aware that this is basically relevant to maybe like 50 people out there in the world, but am still curious and grateful to hear your thoughts/experiences. I hope I don't come off as bragging either. I'm 27 and have played on PC since I was 12. Not a single time have I played on anything above 60htz, even for fps games! So this year I have decided to just go hard at work, save up a lot of money and basically buy the best that money can buy. I have been playing on like 20fps in wvw for too long... less sometimes. It's about time to upgrade from 60htz, and gw2 is such a beautiful game. Also if there are any anet devs reading this, could you please fix the loading screen for ultra wide monitor users :). Thanks all!

this does not appeal to me... done a tiny bit of research into it, it buggy, still in progress, being done by single people instead of company, potential to break ToS, more bugs etc etc. Yep, I am aware that the game is very very CPU intensive. So I wonder if there are any of you running builds that can maintain 100~fps and if so what build? :)

Its amazing that this guy still only maintians 36-45~ fps in actual blob fights..... I am wondering if anybody can maintain 100+ fps no matter what O___O

Hi all just curious what are your FPS you are getting with your set ups. I'm currently saving up to buy a sick new build. My current one uses a 1070 graphics card and I only get around 14-28 fps~ or so in blob fights, probably less than that in reality. And because I'm on 60htz it feels really really really really really choppy... I worry. Will be spending around $6k on monitor and build, 2080 ti, all the good stuff.... Ive seen some amazing GW2 wvw performance videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpHeQmbqs0 for example), but my experience on how OOOOOLD this engine is and how hard it is to get good frames in this game worry me.... Are any of you guys able to maintain a constant "high" fps like in the video above? What builds do you use?

I would pay a sub of 30 nz dollars a month for oce servers. In wvw currently o have 200 to 250 ping. I cannot dodge dead eye deaths judgement . No matter how fast or "well timed" my dodge rolls or blocks are deaths judgment server side hits my character. I am also unable to about face dodge roll.... example. I cant use about face and immediately use withdraw or roll for initiative on thief. Server registers my character as still facing a certain way, so if I don't wait 1 second after turning it will just take me on the opposite direction that the about face put me in. Its 2019.... I want to play games on 30 ms.... not 200 - 300 ms in wow, guild wars 2, pubg.... stupid..... I was born too early:(. I would pay so much for oceanic gw2 server...

I have multiple builds. Most of them are funneled into using the same utility skills or weapons due to them being miles better than anything else. Yeah you technically CAN use scorpion wire... in pve pvp or wvw.... but why? It's so unreliable. Things like this prevent them being used at all. With power creep the need to take the best skills is only magnified. Like how 100% of thief builds are better off running dagger storm in wvw or pvp...

Core skills and several out dated skills need desperate attention. It's really bad. While leveling I can feel it a lot. I'm never excited to get a hero challenge done because the spells on my bar are irreplaceable. Things like utility goggles for engineer is pretty bad for the cooldown... things like scorpion wire for thief simply need a projectile speed increase. Warrior mace offhand and sword offhand need a full rework. With the recent "trade off" for elite spec stance that anet has taken, I hope that all of the outdated skills will be updated!

Hmm I guess, but we already had an incredible amount of increased freedom with the griffon imo

Maybe skins will come out soon... but apart from being really annoying st certain flying spots in cities, somewhat to do? Maybe anet should make flying mount content? Dunno how this would work though hmmm

Hi all. The skyscale collection is so long for me that I am only doing a few parts of it every few weeks. It's pretty nice having this content to always go back to on the side after wvw or my other projects. However I remember with grifffon my experience; was awesome to get and unlock, then after like 2 minutes of flying (even after masteries maxed) I got an overwhelming sense of what do I do now?? The other mounts were awesome. They had whole maps dedicated to unlocking them, and all chained into each other. I guess it's slightly diff with the flying mounts in that they are not a necessity... Anyway my question is after skyscale, what is there to so with the mount??? Or is it just an epicly long journey then.... nothing???

Makes me sad. This thread will just disappear. No arenanet answer or reply...

My thief was my absolute pride and joy main toon. Even being from New Zealand playing on 250 ms in wvw and pvp I loved thief. I crafted bolt and incinerator just for him to complete THE thief look. I bought endless harvesting tools for him because I was always on him. I played core sd a lot but was really looking forward to dagger dagger and dagger pistol daredevil when I got bored of core thief. Dead eye never appealed to me, particularly after the absolute nerfing of the elite skill to ONE second (lol mirage dodge is better than this). Then the swipe change happened. Okay it was bad but I still tried to play it. Unplayable. What's the point of a brawler class when you can't brawl? I'm so weak plus hit like a noodle. 6.5k crits on light armor while using scholar runes. Single warrior skills hit me for 8k! So I played condition rev. I ended up playing it for months and months without looking back. Now slightly burned out, I look to change my main again. Look back to thief, and where it is now.... the class is basically only made for those who want an uphill battle. It's at a disadvantage in every way. So yeah. I crafted astralaria and am maining warrior now. I'll never go back to thief unless something huge changes and we are at the very least, FUN to play. Because its not fun. I'll move my asc and leg gear and the endless gathering tools to a new project. Probably holo or engi where I can actually do damage and have every boon in the game at every button press. I won't look back to thief. But I still hope for something... anything. Right now it's been so bad for months, years with no change in sight.

Question is this; i started the skyscale on my revenant. I have done up to and including all the eggs. Can I go to suns refuge on my warrior and do the rest of the mount on it? Or does most of or the rest of the mount HAVE to be done on revenant only? I.e. am I locked into doing skyscale content ONLY on my rev? Just starting to feel a little burnt out on rev so was wondering if I could do it on my other toons. Thank you!

I have all living world s4 stories though. I own them, i was active while they were active.... So do I only need to unlock suns refuge so its my instance to talk to Gorrick? Or do i need to do the start of each story part to take me to said maps? Ive tp to friend to all the maps and stuff.... cant talk to him. its really putting me off that living world requirement is gating me from the mount lol

Because I'm not quitting lol I'll just take my sweet time as stated above. Begrudgingly, but still do it. Even if I hate it....

I'll try. But it's not just the living world holding me and a lot of others back. Nothing warrants the truly frustrating design and implementation of some or the collections achievements. I'm hearing horror stories. And how people have to race or compete with each other to try and get stuff done. Its totally not fun. Cant even go at my own pace!

That is very unlikely. Why?? Did they specifically say they would not?? I feel so cheated having to do all of the lws4.... I hate story.... I prefer wvw or open world chilling you know? Most of my toons don't have any story completed except for required for Griffin and beetle... now I have to do all of las4 before I can even start on 2nd time gate??

Literally got burnt out after playing an entire day, up to and including the eggs. Haven't bothered to long on because I don't want to be time hated... will just play wow or apex until my new PC arrives in a month or so, maybe I'll be craving gw2 then? Can somebody let me know if arena net will remove the time gate in the near future? I saw that the pof mastery is enabled again which is nice... but already I've lost so much exp from that one day of playing all day and not getting any I feel cheated. And I could really use spirit shards too... only have 17 and need to craft full asc wvw gear for one toon... I've also seen them say they will look into some achievement for jormag or something?? That plus I'm waiting to see what the other collections will be like. Have fun going ham at it guys... I've learned my lesson. Will treat this as astralaria version of the mount and take my damnedest sweetest time. Hopefully they make it easier in the next month or so. PLEASE anet remove the living world season 4 requirement.. do I have to complete all of them to talk to gorrik? Ridiculous! Teletported to friends suns refuge and couldn't talk to him.... more gates... ugh...

damn... crazy. what is this suicide stuff i'm reading about? is it really that bad?

Ok. The new map is amazing. Its so beautifully made, and I love it. The events are pretty fun, and a "dragons stand" type copy seems to have done quite well for itself. Story was okay as well (even though I'm the kind of person to just skip through story, i still got chills during it. HOWEVER. I think 99% of people will agree that story aside, the main highlight of this patch/episode was the new mount. And it's INSANE. It's so incredibly difficult to get, and that is ignoring the fact that it is time gated. During the 10 events per lane collection, I was zipping around the map on my masteried out mounts, tagging every single event and it took me so long. Today was my day off. I woke up at 12pm my time and played for a non stop 8 hours after cooking some fried dumplings for myself. My girlfriend is asleep all day since she stayed up all night. I literally just spent around 7 hours getting to where I am now (have just finished the egg collection, which in itself was a bit of a pain but oh well). And i STILL HAVE MORE to do... so much more!!! Holy hell. I know people that will not or can not do this. For the past week I have been pumping my friends that I introduced to guild wars up for this new mount, saying its gonna be amazing and stuff, and expected them to jump in and get hooked into gw2 again, but this is insane. I'm an experienced player, 251 mastery points (nothing impressive i know), full ascended gear on a few toons, and know how to play my toon but damnnnnnnnnn even events on the map are difficult. Doing it all day, for 8 hours, has only gotten me up to the eggs! I didn't have that much difficulty for the 10 event per lane thing; was pretty lucky there. MAYBE my gf will go for it, coaxed along by me and helped by me. I've managed to get her into it and she enjoys the game quite a lot. But my other two friends? No way. The mount is INSANE to get. SO hard. It feels like the skyscale is harder than the griffon to get, is this just me? Why.... for what possible reason is it THIS difficult. I could understand a time gate, but making it so difficult is crazy. Even as an experienced player, I found it difficult and straining. And I did literally stop to take my time and slow down when I felt I was getting too grindy; I loved the map so much, stopped to just take everything in, all the graphics, the fire, the brand storms all that jazz.... Please change this. Rant over. Feel free to discuss! Time gate is not the focus here, there are plenty of those threads.. just how annoying and difficult the collections is....

Don't remember when its started happening but it is a definite problem. Wasn't always like this. Suppperrrr slooowwwwwww to load and be able to go through tabs and scroll down and click/highlight items etc can you guys please fix it? It's the same for me and my girlfriend so i know it isn't just me. I used to be able to just open it and browse straight away but now i have to wait for like 20 seconds for it to be "fluid". This might have started after the salvaging rune update if I recall correctly