Should I get Guild Wars?

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-07-25 12:59pm

Picked up the game yesterday, made a Necromancer, and trying to decide on what to make his secondary profession, I'm thinking Ranger for the beastie taming and arrow melee.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-25 01:06pm

N/R I see a fair bit, with N/W and N/Mo close behind. But really, there's no set superior choice, it's entirely dependant on your own playstyle.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-26 07:20pm

Got the game from my friend at a bargain of $20 CDN. He got tired of it after a few months. He has a level 20 character... probably two or three of them. I'm starting a new character though, playing Mesmer class, probably going to do Mesmer/Monk and concentrate on Fast Casting.

Any tips on improving the game's performance? Lowering the settings doesn't help much, and when I use autodetect the settings are set to high textures and medium shadows. I think my processor is bottlenecking, I have 256 RDRAM, P4 1.3, Radeon 9500. If I can't improve the performance, I won't be able to play. The game starts, but as you walk every few meters there is a huge lag and the hard drive goes crazy.

How do I join the SD.net guild?

Brian

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-26 07:22pm

That's probably just GW downloading all its resources. Give it a few minutes.

And just post your char name here.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-26 07:25pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:That's probably just GW downloading all its resources. Give it a few minutes.

Okay I will try it, but the lag happens while I am walking, not while it is on the loading screen. If this is the vaunted "dynamic content download", I'm not too impressed. I only have a 5400 RPM HD and a large page file though, so it might be my fault. I am defragmenting my hard drive, it is 17% fragmented, that might help.

And just post your char name here.

Aluria Windwalker. Yes, I play girls in RPG's. No offense to guys, but I would rather look at a girl's ass rather than a man's for hundreds of hours

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Brian

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-07-26 08:38pm

I am trying to figure out what the hell causes my memory to evaporate after an hour on GW. I've removed every unnecessary program through CTL-Alt-Del and scandisked and defragged my harddrives but it still loses memory after an hour.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-26 09:15pm

Enigma wrote:I am trying to figure out what the hell causes my memory to evaporate after an hour on GW. I've removed every unnecessary program through CTL-Alt-Del and scandisked and defragged my harddrives but it still loses memory after an hour.

Maybe its bad programming causing memory leaks. How much memory do you have? Get cyberrat (I think that's what its called) or powerstrip, you can set the minimum memory that you want before they clear the memory. Maybe a bigger pagefile, or what really helps is set higher priority to programs and not background services.

Brian

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-07-28 05:37pm

brianeyci wrote:
Enigma wrote:I am trying to figure out what the hell causes my memory to evaporate after an hour on GW. I've removed every unnecessary program through CTL-Alt-Del and scandisked and defragged my harddrives but it still loses memory after an hour.
Maybe its bad programming causing memory leaks. How much memory do you have? Get cyberrat (I think that's what its called) or powerstrip, you can set the minimum memory that you want before they clear the memory. Maybe a bigger pagefile, or what really helps is set higher priority to programs and not background services.

Brian

I have 1GB of PC2100 RAM.

Where can I find cyberrat or powerstrip?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-07-29 01:08pm

*Gasp* Pant* Pant* Made it...*pant* to...*gasp* The Temple...of...*pant pant* Ages....with my *Pant* monk.

That is frigging insane. Has anyone done the undead hordes quest? that's Ca-RAAAAAZY. our party got wiped and auto rezzed like 4 times. Idiots wouldn't kill the Damned Cleric which kept HEALING THE BONE DRAGON! GRRAAAAGH!

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-29 01:54pm

Chardok wrote:*Gasp* Pant* Pant* Made it...*pant* to...*gasp* The Temple...of...*pant pant* Ages....with my *Pant* monk.

That is frigging insane. Has anyone done the undead hordes quest? that's Ca-RAAAAAZY. our party got wiped and auto rezzed like 4 times. Idiots wouldn't kill the Damned Cleric which kept HEALING THE BONE DRAGON! GRRAAAAGH!

I soloed it (with henchies). Crazy. A smite monk would rule it, but alas, I had no points in smite at the time.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-07-29 02:35pm

Im having great difficulties with doing the crystal desert atm, keep getting shitty parties so i can't do the quests.

Its starting to break my spirit...

this break with my broken pc should do me some good though...

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-29 02:44pm

Enigma wrote:I have 1GB of PC2100 RAM.

Where can I find cyberrat or powerstrip?

Try here.

The game lags for me, but I have a P4 1.3 and 192 MB RDRAM (PC800) and Radeon 9500. I'm getting a wireless router to try on my laptop, maybe the video card isn't as good but it should at least be able to run it without massive lag.

My Mesmer is quite sexy now, with her veil covering her face and green getup. Sexier than the elementalist -- don't need to show a ton of skin to look good. Know where I can get the higher level mesmer items, and does anybody have any mesmer items to give me, particularly a maxed out armor? I've saved 4 silver dyes, almost enough to dye a whole set of armor.

Brian

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-29 03:42pm

Crystal Desert is indeed quite difficult... hopefully I can get my comp running well enough to play within the next few days and I can help you out.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-07-29 04:03pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Crystal Desert is indeed quite difficult... hopefully I can get my comp running well enough to play within the next few days and I can help you out.

Hey, you need to help me out with Villany of Galrath. I don't even want to imagine what the trip to kessex peak is like.

EDIT______________________

I have a friend who is going to be applying to the guild in the next few days Shadowglade Ashenbo.

He's cool to let in. Trustificate the Chardok. CRAP! I told him to /w severa. I'll have to tell him to /w Autumn petal or something. CRAPCRAPCRAP

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-29 04:22pm

Chardok wrote:Hey, you need to help me out with Villany of Galrath. I don't even want to imagine what the trip to kessex peak is like.

I still don't have Temple of the Ages. The area with Galrath isn't too obscenely difficult IIRC, it's mostly the trip there that's the problem. I wtfblitzed down there during beta and he wasn't too hard, I just couldn't take him because of all the death penalty I'd accrued en route.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-07-29 07:16pm

I'd love it if someone was willing to help me out with the Gates of Kryta, I've been stuck there for several days with shit parties.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-07-29 07:19pm

Captain tycho wrote:I'd love it if someone was willing to help me out with the Gates of Kryta, I've been stuck there for several days with shit parties.

Sanini Would be happy to help out. You are on at night, are you not? Sanini is lvl 16 now, so she has nearly UNLIMMMMIIIITED POWWWAH™!!!. you and I could probably do the gates with henchies. See you tonight, hopefully. If not, then sometime this weekend, anyway.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-07-30 12:15pm

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:
Chardok wrote:Hey, you need to help me out with Villany of Galrath. I don't even want to imagine what the trip to kessex peak is like.
I still don't have Temple of the Ages. The area with Galrath isn't too obscenely difficult IIRC, it's mostly the trip there that's the problem. I wtfblitzed down there during beta and he wasn't too hard, I just couldn't take him because of all the death penalty I'd accrued en route.

oh i did that mission :d

i had the most amazing party to help me with it though. we kicked arse so much in that mission

The end part is nigh on impossible.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-07-30 01:01pm

Zac Naloen wrote:
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:
Chardok wrote:Hey, you need to help me out with Villany of Galrath. I don't even want to imagine what the trip to kessex peak is like.
I still don't have Temple of the Ages. The area with Galrath isn't too obscenely difficult IIRC, it's mostly the trip there that's the problem. I wtfblitzed down there during beta and he wasn't too hard, I just couldn't take him because of all the death penalty I'd accrued en route.
oh i did that mission :d

i had the most amazing party to help me with it though. we kicked arse so much in that mission
The end part is nigh on impossible.

Well THANKS ALOT ZAC

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-07-30 01:20pm

How does tonight sound, Char? I wasn't on last night (up late finishing a load of laundry).

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2005-07-30 01:47pm

Chardok wrote:
Zac Naloen wrote:
Brother-Captain Gaius wrote: I still don't have Temple of the Ages. The area with Galrath isn't too obscenely difficult IIRC, it's mostly the trip there that's the problem. I wtfblitzed down there during beta and he wasn't too hard, I just couldn't take him because of all the death penalty I'd accrued en route.
oh i did that mission :d

i had the most amazing party to help me with it though. we kicked arse so much in that mission
The end part is nigh on impossible.
Well THANKS ALOT ZAC

i did it before joining the guild

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-07-30 07:06pm

Actually Char, might not be able to make it tonight, since I have that D&D game.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-07-30 08:58pm

Well I figured out why my wireless connection was messing up. Anybody who experiences disconnects every now and then (making gaming impossible) on a wireless network check +http://www.overclockers.com/tips1190/ out. You don't even need to use the program. You just need to disable windows zero point service in services.msc, but the program does it automatically for you. More info +http://forums.techguy.org/history/t-379051.html . If you don't use a wireless, obviously don't waste your time checking the links.

Anybody going to be online tonight from the clan who can invite me... er guild. I want a frickin cape

Brian

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-31 12:18am

brianeyci wrote:Anybody going to be online tonight from the clan who can invite me... er guild. I want a frickin cape

Brian

I'll try to jump on briefly tomorrow and drop an invite.

Vicious · Post by **Vicious** » 2005-07-31 02:52pm

I just got the game yesterday. Made a N/E, named Neryn the Lirach. Currently lvl 8 in Seared. Any chance I could get in? I'm GMT -6 (or -4), whichever is Ohio.