Tony.8659

So we get a new update today (2/11) but Anet still does not want to add the Shiver emote to the PVP/WvW reward track. Anet please comment. It was ok with the Rockout emote but now it's not? Thanks for giving us a choice on how to obtain this emote it seems there is only one. Thanks for forcing us to grind for this simple emote. I'm pretty disappointed in Anet now. I will be surprised even if they look at this post. smh It's like they took that phrase from The Mandalorian "I have spoken, this is the way"

Well after seeing how the emote actually looks, I'm not too interested.

This is no way worth 37 achievements. Maybe 15. But they really should add it to the reward track when you complete it.

Maybe Anet will come to their senses and have an update on Tues. that will add the emote to the reward tracks :D I really loathe doing 37 achievements for one emote., some I find just a grind and not so fun.

> @"Friday.7864" said:

> So I have a 2600X and was thinking about upgrading to a 3700X.

> That's a big jump in single core performance, nearly 40%. Wondering if it would make enough of a difference in GW to justify the upgrade tho...

> Anyone did something similar, would love any kind of input :3

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Hello, actually I upgraded from a 2700x to a 3700x this past Nov. I can tell you yes there is a difference. Some areas you gain 10-15fps, but when there is a world boss or in WvW your FPS will still take a hit. Though not as bad as when I had my 2700x but it can still dip into the 20s, depends on how many people are in that one area with you. I'm very happy with the 3700x upgrade well worth it. My specs are: ASRock x470, 3700x, 16GB ram 3200mhz CL14, RTX 2070 Super, Alienware AW2518H 240hz.

Ah yes now I see the most recent update. Jan 30. Reward track added for Bjora but no emote for the completion. With that I say good job Anet. I see what you want, you want to force us to play the new Bjora map area for that emote. Thanks for giving us players a choice. With the rockout emote it was fine in the WvW/PvP reward track but now it's not?

Oh what is bugged?

So we need to do 37 achievements for this emote. Anet why don't you give us the option to complete it like you did for the rockout emote in WvW?

So I see now it's available to buy: https://www.razer.com/customs/mouse-mats/browse/-brand-/guild-wars-2/-sort-/newest/-item-/15/-

But really Anet, 34.95 - 39.99 for a cloth mousepad? LOL I had Razer mouse pads in the past but never paid over 24.95, extremely overpriced thanks but no thanks!

Bought myself a Gamers Nexus mouse pad, same as Razers, speed edition, $19.99.

This should have been tomorrow, if you look back at the last 3 years it started on a Tuesday the 2nd week in December: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wintersday

My guess maybe they are adding another new dungeon or making a new course for the Skyscale. If it does start December 17th I hope it last until January 7th. To me this is my favorite event all year I get dressed up as Santa to in game :D I can do the events over and over and never get tired it just puts me more in the Xmas mood and seeing DR all nicely decorated and the wonderful Wintersday music ^_^

Yes I remember reading that, it's been almost month I thought they would here by now. I'm sure production of the merch. was well before the Icebrood Saga announcement

Any news about the Razer Mouse pads? I would like to buy a few. Currently using one from Gamers Nexus same style as Razers but I want a Guild Wars themed one.

That I know but sometimes I'm in a public group and most of them including me just slip off. With that I just leave. It would be better if the boss is more difficult and remove the puzzle to get there.

As the title says, this to me is just annoying. That's reason I only did this once, that and the boss is a joke. Anet remove the puzzle but make the boss more difficult to fight. That is my suggestion.

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> > @"Tony.8659" said:

> > Or Arenanet you can you know lets us replay the streams for the codes you give out. It's not that hard really. Leave your stream up so all can replay it. I am off actually and will be able to watch it. Now I wonder how this will work, I can screenshot all the codes and give them out myself to all here if that would work. Being the codes work for everyone. Or I can just link it to my dropbox for anyone to take.

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> I thought it was a one time use code so dident bother with it not as quick as the young wippersnappers.

I'm not sure. if it's for everyone watching the stream then it must work for everyone.

Or Arenanet you can you know lets us replay the streams for the codes you give out. It's not that hard really. Leave your stream up so all can replay it. I am off actually and will be able to watch it. Now I wonder how this will work, I can screenshot all the codes and give them out myself to all here if that would work. Being the codes work for everyone. Or I can just link it to my dropbox for anyone to take.

Thank you for that. I myself am using a 2700x soon a 3900x when I can find one lol. But your right about the micro stutter. I used to have an intel 3770k and it had micro stutter. Even when I enable ultra shadows it is much smoother with my 2700x, but I think there is just a tad of micro stutter because of the demand of the shadows on everything static.

Anyone? I'm very curious to know.

Well they can make something like that DX12 program I linked. It would be much better if Arenanet made that in-house. Being that it does run much better with the DX12 wrapper. Like I posted earlier WoW is much older than GW1 and GW2 yet Blizzard has the game using DX12. Anet just needs to make some kind of official DX12 wrapper. Hell I would be willing to fund that via Kick Starter if they did that :)

But Arenanet can invest in the game and try to use a similar approach like the dx12 program I linked. I'm sure they can do a much better job with that. I mean if WoW can do it, I'm sure Arenanet can do something. Example of WoW with DX12: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/278587-new-world-of-warcraft-optimizations-send-directx-12-performance-soaring

Hello, for those of you that have a Ryzen CPU, and if you upgraded to v1903 is there any performance difference between the 2 that you noticed? I'm using a 2700x CPU but still on 1809 because i'm running Windows 10 1809 LTSC and with LTSC there are no feature upgrades. I can't say here how I got LTSC but you can figure it out ;) Any info would be helpful thanks :)

I'm going to upgrade my 2700x to a 3900x as soon as I find any in stock. But I totally blame the developers at Arenanet. They refuse to even try to make this game use more than what it seems like 2 cores? I know it's an older game still looks amazing but come on, we have CPU's with 6 - 8 cores out for quite a while and now 12 cores and in Sept the 3950x with 16 cores. They need this game to make use of more then 4 cores. I would like to see it use 6 - 12 cores, if it did I'm sure the game would run so much better. Come on Arenanet, put more effort into giving this a shot, there is a program out there sort of like a hack that uses DX 12:

But I don't feel like it's stable enough to use plus I use SweetFX to make this game look so much better, and don't want any conflicts with that DX12 program. So sorry Braile this is how it is for now, it's not your CPU it's this game which is unfortunate, and will be unfortunate for me as well when I upgrade. I'm sure Arenanet can do way better than this example video I posted but there is a difference between DX9 vs DX12 performance.

Example on how DX12 uses more cores:

Well clearly Anet had more than enough time to try to use Dx12. There should have been a team assigned to try to bring DX12 to GW2. Look at WoW it uses DX12 now and that game is from 2004. There is no "can't" they (Anet) can "try". They need to take advantage of multi-core systems. Once that mod seems stable enough I'm going to use it. Also there is a work around to get Reshade to work with this mod, but I need to wait until it's perfected.

DX12 API for GW2:

Now if a modder can make something like this work, and with proof, I don't see why Anet can't do this or try to make this DX12 API much more stable and work perfectly. Reason I can't use it is because I use Reshade to make GW2 look so much better, and Reshade only works with DX9,10,11.

There is a difference:

They won't add them? That makes no sense Anet at all. Could have made a pumpkin theme and for Wintersday a snowball themed beetle. Is it so hard? I mean they are always adding glider skins and other stuff to the gem store. So going forward any more new mounts will be left out then. I must say Anet good job there.