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I would not buy a X570 board unless you need multiple PCIE 4.0 SSDs. You can get very well featured B550 boards < $180 such as * ~$160 MSI B550M Mortar (highest rated on Hardwareunboxed/techspot for <$160), $150 B550 Gaming Plus (note cheaper ALC892 audio codec , 1G LAN) , ~$180 B550 Tomahawk (if you plan on getting 16 core in future with overclock) * ~$130 Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro-P (not regular mATX Pro , the new one with 10 powerstages for CPU and 2.5G LAN on box which is **B08L74NCPQ** on Amazon) , ~$155 B550 Aorus Elite , ~$170 Aorus Pro if looking at 16 cores in future * ~$150 Asus TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS , $185 for B550-F GAMING only if you plan on 16 cores * ~$175 ASRock B550 Steel Legend Plus you won't need to worry at all about the chipset fan on basically every X570 board. I also would not get a SSD smaller than 500GB. There's NvMe drives that are running ~$70 for 500GB with close to top tier performance such as Hynix P31. , let alone slower SATA (Crucial MX500 or Samsung 850 evo / 860 evo for example) and QLC based NvMe drives such as Crucial P1 / Intel 660p. There's supposedly a Ryzen 5 5600 non-x coming in 2021 for ~$220 so if your budget is tight I would wait. Ryzen memory compatibility has matured a lot since the first gen. You can get 3600 CL16 or 3600 CL 18 and be fine , you don't need 3200C14 or 3800 MT/s. see https://www.techspot.com/article/2140-ryzen-5000-memory-performance/ I also would not get any Navi-based AMD GPU because up til recently there was non-existent DX9 support which meant people were forced to use dx9 to d12 conversions or dxvk for Linux. The RTX cards from Nvidia whether they are Turing 2000 series or Ampere 3000 series have had better support for legacy titles. Would be looking at ~$220 GTX 1660 Super at a minimum, maybe RTX 2060 Super (basically RTX 2070) if you can get it non-gouged (it's supposed to be around $330-380 not $600) or RTX 3060 / RTX 3050 Ti when it comes out for two monitors at 2k (1440p) if you intend to turn up settings. GTX 1650 Super / GTX 1660 are generally for 1080p. * GALAX's internal roadmap had RTX 3060 positioned near RTX 2080.

Do you have effect LOD off (Effect LOD limits detail of particle effects.) and post processing off? Character Model Limit may also help. Post processing adds a bunch of bloom effects. If it's for PVE purposes then maybe turning off "Show All Player Names" would help you in addition to turning off "Always Show Squad Health Bars". You also have to add the flashy backpieces that have been supposed to tank FPS. They don't seem to be affected by Model Limit.

Except Draconic Lodestones don't drop for the most part except from Drakkar's Hoard? edit: also there's no known recipe for Volcanic Stormcaller weapons as of now

> @"Manasa Devi.7958" said: > The 3 metas with the lowest completion percentages are also the 3 only ones that don't need full completion for the reward. This may be a factor. Couple this with the cost and the last 2 episodes having no voice-over (people waiting for it). P.S. this is the wrong section for Living Story

The only concern would be security/chargebacks, but if it uses the same system as the order for the game (via digital river) it should be no issue.

> @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > damage against boonless foes is stupid, if they want to make it usefull make it deal > 10% increased damage, reduced by 1% for every boon on the foe. then having and removing boons matter. (This comment didn't age well.) _Now_ it's clearly meant for PVE (where boons aren't plentiful generally) as a damage boost, but it is also taken in WvW for boon rips on CC (along with sword auto). For a short time when Vicious Expression had 25% bonus in PVE it was hotfixed almost immediately. > @"Tseison.4659" said: > > about giving tp to thieves, i agree that was an insult indeed. mesmer just keep losing its uniqueness. dont get it wrong, my thief is happy to have it lol > > Thieves never deserved it period and now that they do, this essentially proves that Anet doesn’t care about Mesmers anymore and would rather give all of our uniqueness to every other profession and leave us with mediocre kitten. That leaves what little left of the Mesmer community to impatiently wait for a better E-Spec come next expansion and I’m afraid if we don’t get anything as good as the other two, Mesmer’s will be an extremely RARE sight to see in EVERY gamemode. > > I blame poor balancing, designing and also the people who complained about our class way too much just because they can’t go up against a good Mesmer player... Giving portal to thieves was a terrible idea due to their stealth uptime and evades. What thieves needed in PVE was some damage bonuses on mediocre weapons because the initiative mechanic makes it such that cooldowns don't matter as much. Mesmers aren't that bad in PVE (esp. in 10 man instanced content) or WVW (pretty much boon rips right now) but in PVP they are rarer for obvious reasons. The chrono shatter revert brought back more mesmers but they're still not that common in PVP/WVW.