Cragga the Eighty Third.60

Just a heads-up, if you're still watching: those Zodiac skins are back in the statuette shop!

1-8 on the Numbers pad. (Zero is mapped for Mount Ability 2, I use keyboard movement controls and it's handy to hit with my pinky when drifting my beetle, and is also mapped as 'swim down' which is really intuitive considering similar mount ability actions.)

Been a little busy this year, so I appreciated the beginner-level map event option. I was able to avoid some of the lengthier events while simultaneously ranking up my weekly key farmers, and still get my Lunar dailies in. :)

Just pointing out something. It's not as simple as 'just get it in PoF.' It's on the Season 4 maps, and can't be got until AFTER POF. For some new players, that will mean buying Season 4. (Did you need all the maps to get it, or just Kourna? Feels like a long time ago...) So, cut the beetle renters a little slack.

I think that most shoulders start at Level 15. You can always craft your own while you wait.

Thanks everyone again! I managed to install all the upgrades without blowing anything up! :D 24 mb RAM, 500gb hard drive, MSI Graphic Cards GT 1030 2G LP OC. Second SSD drive to be added later. @Dusanyu, sounds like the GTX 750 ti would have been a little better, but I had already bought the 1030 when you posted. And it's fine, it 'optimized' GW2 when I installed the driver, which involved cranking every setting to max, and it runs very well. Such fun to see the whole landscape rendered at once, and the reflections on the water, and everybody's fashion wars! I am used to a flock of grey people whose individual styles only become visible after I stand next to them for a while. (And can listen to stuff on Youtube in the background without the former painful slowdowns!) Feeling good about my future in Tyria! Now I get to start moving my personal files over from my Mac, and installing other programs. ^^ I got a keyboard sharing switch and plugged both into my monitor, just need to press a few buttons to switch from one computer to the other, so the transition should be easy and I can still play any Mac games I miss. Time to read a Windows for Dummies book...

Thanks, everyone, especially Infusion for all the GPU info! I decided to go light, with the GT 1030 GDDR5, since it fits my small budget and seems a safe choice for power needs. GW2 is my main gaming focus, and that will be plenty. Looks like I should also be able to run Alien Isolation ~~and Elite Dangerou~~s, two games I have heard a lot about. ^^ All the parts should arrive well before the MacOs Feb 18 cut-off date, just hoping I can put in RAM, NVMe and GPU all at once go without anything blowing up or refusing to work. =) All this has been a great way of learning what to look for when I get my NEXT computer. Thank you for the tips!

You haven't wasted the time, things go in and out of the statuette shop all the time. Contents usually change when the Black Lion chest contents change. Just make sure to keep checking what's in stock, I am sure it will be back eventually!

Have you considered Paypal? The Paypal payment method opens a browser window, so you will not actually be entering any information through nvidia OR Anet, just through Paypal. Another way might be to get a prepaid debit card with only what you plan to spend in the game. That way, even if someone gets your number, you will lose very little.

Tyria has been my second home for almost four years now. I will be sad to bid it goodbye. But I am on a Mac Mini from when they were still making them with 2014 specs, and still running Yosemite, and I knew that sooner or later the game would grow beyond my computer. The iffy Mac support has always made me feel like my days were numbered, anyway. Once I'm locked out, I will probably format my GW2-dedicated SSD and see if I can run Boot Camp off it well enough to keep playing. (Or at all) If not...maybe see you some day when I get a PC. Apple is not the Apple I fell in love with way back when, and was debating switching anyway, and considering the state of the internet, what with Google, Facebook and Amazon, I can no longer find much hate for the Microsoft Empire. Gonna try to finish Exordium and get in as much roller beetle racing as I can meanwhile.

Do you key farm? (Needs a character slot, though!) Once a week, you can play the Level 10 adventure on a new character and get a Black Lion chest key. If you are hardcore and want to get more than one key per week,you can rank the character up doing map completions, for a 1/4 chance of getting a key from each map fully explored, and you also can get keys from the beginning of the Level 40 story, and from the Level 60 story. Delete the character and start over for the next week. You only have a rare chance of getting something seriously cool from the chest, but you get useful utility items and occasional wardrobe unlocks that may unlock gem store or Black Lion skins or other craftable weapons and armor for you. (Make sure you craft as much of the cheap stuff as you can, nothing less fun than using a rare wardrobe unlock and getting a steel dagger.) You also get Black Lion statuettes, which you can save up. They can be traded in for unlocks on all sorts of cool skins, unbreakable crafting tools, and many other good things. The items you can purchase in the statuette shop change pretty much whenever the contents of the Black Lion chest change. Anyway, that's how I spend a lot of my game time. You may want to try roller beetle racing, too, at least until you unlock all the prizes.

For something like that, you need to go to https://help.guildwars2.com and click the red button that says Submit a Ticket, going directly to the support team. (The forum is more for community support than official help, you will get real results by submitting a support ticket...here on the forum you will only get player advice.) I'm not sure what the wait time is on submitted tickets these days--good luck!

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Have you tried a -repair to the client? It's okay now. I noticed one of my characters was invisible in the character select screen, too, and when I tried to load them they never appeared, just their weapons hovering in the air. They could spin in place, but not move. Weirdest bug ever, and now seemed obviously just my problem. Relogging actually fixed it, without having to go as far as a repair.

It was great to get back into Central Tyria, and finally getting some time in Asura culture again. (So much charr and human for so long!) I haven't finished yet, but am enjoying it so far. The dragon response missions seem more like something I would want to replay than the strike missions were. (There almost always seems to be a lot more complaining than the product deserves. )

I adore my Skyscale, I still love my Raptor, and now that it can go underwater, I finally feel some affection for Skimmer. Sadly almost never use Griffon and Springer these days. But as time goes on, for some reason I love roller-beetling more and more. ^^