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IF YOU EVER WANTED TO BUY AN INFUSION ON THE TP NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT THE TP DISCORD IS HAVING A MELTY MYSTIC COINS VALUE IS PLUMMETTING JUDGMENT DAY HAS COME FOR THE 1% THAT CONTROL YOU AND THE MARKET
GAMBLE MORE

>>577242808
Something somethinng baby tengu wondering how cow is flying in ascalon

saw ROY with his analnet tag on tonight browsing the labyrinthine cliffs gamba vendors. didn't have time to screencap him because he was only there for about 10 seconds. he was on a character called Royroir. is that a reference to Deroir, the accidental provoker of jessica price? kek

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>he gamberded

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look at this dumb bitch desperate for attention

I love making money from stupid retarded idiots who have no self-control.

>>577246536
is this a fetish thing or a business thing because if its the business thing i want to know more

by talkkng about it

>13 year acc filled with fhds
i just made norn charr sylvari asura

what i do with all the event tokens

>>577257061
idk all the cosmetics look like buttcheeks bro, straight ass

>>577215359
>barely changed
nigga, the value of globs increased by 10 silv-
>check out history
>its true
what the fuck, well now my accomplishment of getting 1500 gold feels moot

what the fuck happened to the memory of battle price

The tiny crown on the gemstore is nice
>>577259206
WvWers realized the junk in their inventory has monetary value

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is this bad or good ?

>>577259939
Pretty decent

>>577246240
Jimothy's getting gassed by that FHD

ive sold medallions for a while min price is 1s 30c how the hell some people can put them to sell under that

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>AMAZING NEWS
got 4 keys instead of the usual 3 i have to do this literal shit one more time and i can delete "craft the whole gen1" from the things to do before death

>>577267303
What do you plan to craft?

>>577267665
kraitkin frenzy sunrise then something for the twice told legend i guess spear

>>577268056
gw3 it gonna flop so hard are they crazy

>>577267889
Frenzy and Sunrise are both good, very versatile for class builds
>Kraitkin
I think I've only seen this thing once in my 13 years playing this game

>>577268223
They're betting that they suddenly have 85 Million USD to repay on May 31st, 2028.

>>577268387
plus interest

>>577268056
I feel like this is a feasible amount for an MMO, maybe the whales can make up the difference after the initial game purchases

>>577268056
I don't understand this chart I can't find the serving size and the grams of sugar

I started playing a year ago and foolishly thought I'd be able to make bank on my hoarded (only 2500 but a lot for me) ectos.
The supply is simply too great. It's not going to budge much past 30s. I guess I'll wait a week and sell anyway.

>>577268056
Why the Korean shekels? Don't tell me they're involving Koogs with the development

>>577270327
>he doesn't know

>>577268056
>End Date 2028-05-31
So they're expecting to sell (ignoring interest) 85,000,000 / 60 = 1,416,667 copies by that date?
I guess that means the release date has to be, at the latest, late 2027?
Total assumption from someone with no business knowledge. Maybe they can move the end date with later agreements.

>>577270558
They don't have to sell that many copies, there is still revenue from gemstore sales

>>577270558
>inventory with 3 slot
BUY SLOTS
>3 ppl instances
BUY MORE SLOTS
>3 shit skin
BUY SKINS

Honestly if GW2 and GW1 are making enough money that NCSoft only has to put in 85m to get GW3 over the finish line that's pretty impressive IMO

>>577268056
This probably factors in the next GW2 DLC as well. I predicted january to march 2028 and this is now more evidence.

>>577271773
There isn't going to be another GW2 expansion until, at the earliest, August 2028. I agree that a Q1 2028 release is likely for GW3.
Either way that loan seems completely unremarkable. It's normal business.

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>>577271773
>the next GW2 DLC

>>577268223
Will it truly?
Where else are the GW2gger players going to go?
They will seethe, they will cope, and at the end of the day they will swipe and migrate to the next installment of their boomer nursing home MMO.

>>577270704
Sure, but that would push the release date even closer towards today.

>be power thief underwater
>crit 3k on mesmer
>mesmer hit 11k with 1 hit
>dodge bladesong
>dodge bladesong again
>hit by a fucking third 3k/hit bladesong
let me tell you a story of a fucking permaevade thief thet get hit once and die cuz mmmagik

>>577270558
>>577268056
85 million is the upper cap for the loan, not guaranteed they'll actually reveice that much
they'll also have GW1 and 2 revenue to use to pay it back
in another post some NCsoft guy said they expect the GW3 preorders to be rolling in late -27 early -28, and said to expect the game to launch around the end date of the loan (may 2028)

>>577268056
Not sure why everyone is freaking out about this loan. Its a pretty good sign that it's even under 100m, it's peanuts in the grand scheme of AAA development. Just look at the upcoming gears of war being over 400m lmao.

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hee hee i'm not buying gw3, just going to rot away for the rest of my life in gw2. or if gw2 goes offline at the end of the year, my lifespan will increase by a couple more days. could (you) imagine another 20 years of P-wording halloween and fourfarts gamba? yeah, no, i won't make it that long, either.

>>577268056
So the qrd seems to be
- Anet is deep in debt and has been bleeding money for a while (likely due to GW3-related spending)
- NCsoft is throwing them a rope because they're flush with cash from Aion piggies
- GW3 needs to make big bucks or the studio gets taken out behind the shed
seem like the usual story for this kind of thing

wvw is garbage today ç_ç

So what's the point of doing all these world bosses, what is the money ticket that's so good it's making vets go back to 13 year old content in huge zergs to kill these bosses every day? I know you get loot but none of it seems *that* good.. are people just salvaging to gamble for ectos or hope they get heroics to sell?

what's a heroic?

I mean exotics

>gw3 uses UE5
it's over

>>577242602
GeForce Experience shat the bad so I was forced to upgrade to GeForce App. Redid all the tuning (including latency mode off). Game somehow looks and runs even better than before (80-100 FPS with everything maxed out). One problem. Turning the CHARACTER causes a lot of stuttering/jittering. Turning the camera itself is fine. Moving forwards/backwards and strafing or any other animation is fine. But rotating (whether in place or while running) feels like playing at 15 FPS (drops don't show up on the counter). What the fuck is going on?

>>577278413
Forgot to mention. Pivoting while holding the camera in place is also fine. Only pivoting the camera and character at the same time causes this.

>>577278131
can't be worse than the dogshit engine gw2 has been limping along with

>>577279265
>dogshit engine gw2 has been limping along with
the engine is dogshit because they fired all the old staff to hire lgblm^666+

Gw3 is going to have revealing outfits... right...?

>figth willbender
>he fail burst 2x
>he hop on warclaw and dash in the sunset
meanwhile im still there incombat like a moron w/o hostile npcs around :^D

>>577279497
outfits than reveal your misogyny and transphobia when you complain about them

>>577277265
what are you getting all of that from? this loan in total is worth less than 4 (four) percent of the company's equity. the interest rate isn't even all that interesting either.
this is loan seems like the equivalent of going "hey buddy, can i borrow five bucks?"

>>577280431
Articles that seem based on gook stock market filings from this/last week.
And I'm not even scaremongering, this is just normal stuff.
>this loan in total is worth less than 4 (four) percent of the company's equity
Four percent of NCsoft, Anet is a small part of that between half a dozen other subsidiaries and the in-house studio. Like Lineage 1 and 2 pull in more money than GW2.
Hard to say what would happen if GW3 flops, doubt they would shutter GW1/2 entirely.

can you level alts with crown pavilon boss event?

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Anons, just started GW2 and started a warrior with the plan of going bladesworn later. Need yours input while im only level 20 - should i reroll?
I really enjoy melee combat, but core Warrior feels boring as shit right now, even tho bladesworn looks sick.
Would something like mesmer, revenant, or any other class offer a fun, engaging melee playstyle that doesn't feel as dull?
Not interested in Guardian btw

>>577283962
Yes. That's how I leveled my rev last year.

>>577283974
>revenant
Absolute dogshit class to level. You'll feel like you're 1/3 of a class until you unlock all three spec slots at like level 60, and then you'll feel like you're 2/3 of a class until you unlock an elite spec since it was developed alongside it's first elite spec, Herald.

barbed charr penis

>>577283974
Guardian does what Warrior promises.
Take the blue pill.

>down ranger
>invisible mesmer kill you
>down another ranger
>invisible thief kill you
>down the first ranger again
>invisible thief kill you
>down thief
>invisible ranger kill you
the cringestone gamemode

>>577283974
Stay in for the warrior stonks, trust me. Core warrior is pretty mediocre to play but I love every elite spec for it - especially Bladesworn. Revenant is fun in its own way, but it is very one note with the way how it is played across all of its elite specs because of how the legend mechanic works for it. If you want a fun melee playstyle, I would suggest to you Soulbeast and Untamed from Ranger

>>577286692
>3h to open a tower alone
>4 finally come to help
>kill lord, ring up
>whole enemy zerg spawn from some charr butthole
>they take the tower

This level 500 chef quest is pretty interesting. Shame they only thought of doing this when the rest of the disciplines already had 400-500 done.

>>577283974
woyer has pretty fun and strong especs at 80. nigga most classes are gimped dogshit leveling to 80 but just remember the journey to 80 is like . 01% of the game.

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you can never has too much treasure

>>577288082
500 Jeweler never ever

>>577283974
Pretty much every class sucks when you're below 80 and don't have an elite spec. The game hasn't really been designed around playing that way for a long time.

IMO, and again all of this goes out the window at 80 with a real spec:
- Guardian will be more fun from 1-79
- Elementalist with Dagger/Dagger will be better IF you can get used to Ele
- Thief is love it or hate it and you'll either find it really fun or nearly unplayable
- Ranger will be about the same as Warrior
- Revenant, Engineer, Necromancer, Mesmer will all be worse than Warrior until you're at max level with some elite spec unlocks

you know when the golem go brr and no one is around?
well that is le edgy teleport hacker
why?
its simple, im a fucking thief with maxed golem
the golem explode you become invisible
so before it end you port add add some invisible
and port
and invisible again
then somehow you still have someone behind your butt you are still in combat you are out of initiative

>>577283974
warrior is actually in a unique position where every elite spec build is pretty fun and pretty strong in open world

>>577270327
you're playing a korean MMO retard

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bruh

BRUH
R
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>leaving Sparcus for last

>>577283974
Base Warrior is fun as fuck. Maybe pick a class better suited to your shit taste like Reaper Necro.

oof owie my ectoplasms....

>>577298818
>he slaps your gf's ass.

wdyd?

>>577300165
some jerk in my guild was like "Oh, I bought 200 boxes with some random crafting materials." Two minutes later he links the queen bee infusion and the chak infusion.
bastard.

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best drop one monocle

is a raptor enough to get the festival treasure hunt daily? i don't wanna spend 10 silver for mounts every day of the festival

>>577301236
you dont need mounts for that

>>577301236
just use the crystals, you dont need any mount

>>577301236
Mounts were a mistake.
New players approach everything developed five years before mounts existed with "how can I cheat this with mounts"?

>>577304150
I was just watching festival guide videos because it's my first time and saw everyone flying around on dragons getting bundles really high up so I assumed the expectation was that you had a flying mount

Started playing xiv with a buddy and holy shit there's a lot that I've taken for granted in gw2.

Biggest one is mounts, they feel awful and have far more gaudy skins than anything here.

>>577304681
Mounts feel like shit in every other MMO, aside from dragonriding in WoW which they finally did a decent job with.

>>577304681
theres a reason wow copied gw2 1:1 for dragon riding, no other mmo comes close for mounts
glamour system is also full retard on xiv which pisses me off but at least there is far less RBG eye cancer compared to gw2

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>fish requires mackerel bait

>>577304681
look at xiv's graphics
no one will talk about how outdated it is

>>577306617
Oh no not your white fish fillet. Faggot cunt wasnt playing when you couldnt buy mackerels directly

why is he like this?

>>577308102
not my fault you were too dumb to wait until they made it better :^)

>>577308840
but I didnt engage in fishing until after they made that update

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Oh wow GW3 at Gamescom, finally we can see footage? Oh what's that? It's super secret behind closed doors.

>>577306161
If anything Arenanet did anything right, they fixed the mount problem that plagued MMOs.

>>577313076
we get journo and eceleb impressions first and then they'll upload the demo later at some point

which armor type do fem norn typically look good in? i have one character per class but i was thinking of making another since ive never played norn

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>>577318902
Heavy > medium > light

hello
are there any attractive women npcs to look forward to in the expansions
thank you

>>577318902
Cloth has the boob window shirt
Heavy has the ass crack back

>>577319063
Jhavi? There's not much reoccurring characters in the storyline, so you kind of just see people mainly isolated to their specific expansion arcs

>>577319063
>HoT
Faolain is really good looking in HoT. Really brings out that xenomorph aesthetic.
>LWS3
Anise. Major spoiler: Livia, my wife from GW1
>PoF
Devona never looked better. Also Kormir, but nobody likes you Kormir.
>LWS4
Sayida, maybe. Warden Amala. Kuda. Caithe gets a pretty cool makeover.
>IBS
Oh man so many hot charr wives.
Cinder, Malice (<3), Crecia, Almorra, Ember (<3). Even Varina if you're desperate.
>EoD
Ankka, Mai Trin, Joon, Soo-Won, Sayida comes back.
>SotO
Peitha, Zojja, Dagda if you're into that, and my actual wife who is a major spoiler: Livia
>JW
Anise. Malice, my love. Caithe. And again, my lawfully wedded walking spoiler: Livia
>VoE
Sayida, Ember shows up but in a lesser role, Kuda.

That's about all I can come up with off the top of my head. Aside from the core cast who follows you through LWS1->EoD, I skipped over them since they're in basically every expansion.

>>577319063
>HoT
Blademaster Diarmid

>>577268056
How much of this is going to advertisement?
We all know they're going to pay streamers to play GW3 to hype it up.

>>577320819
>PoF
>Devona
wait what the hell

>>577321481
Oh yeah, I probably should have spoilered that one too.

>>577320819
>spoilering Livia but not Devona

>>577321569
In fairness to me, nobody actually knows who it is even after finishing the whole campaign unless they're real deep in lore or read the wiki.

>>577313076
Is that confirmed?

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>17k chests
>no infusions
Anet... why have you forsaken me...

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uh... what the frick

>spend all 200 ectos my little baby noob self has saved up to this moment
>nothing
we live in a society...

Which is dumber, ecto gambling, zephyrite gambling, or mystic gambling?

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>>577323792

>roze got banned for joking about shooting up anet headquarters
damn
what a retard

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>>577268056
I expected something like that. Next year is all about fixing shit in GW2 and active development of GW3, then beta, with release sometime before May 2028.
Some kind of content drop for GW2 around autumn 2028 to give players something to do while they develop GW3 content.

>>577270558
>85,000,000 / 60 = 1,416,667 copies by that date
more than that since steam and consoles gonna get their 30% cut.
But still 2+mil copies is not that much in grand scheme of things. Popular indie games hit that number in a week and we're talking about first western mmo in a decade.
Release date gotta be around loan end, chinks themselves said that.

>>577304681
>far more gaudy skins than anything here.
What XIV does to mounts GW2 happily does with retarded shit like portable hot springs and other chairs and glowing gear everywhere.
Also boss telegraphs are much cleaner and more readable than GW2, but you're probably too early to even see that shit properly yet.

>>577306798
XIV character models mog gw2 so hard it's not even funny.

>>577326112
>Also boss telegraphs are much cleaner and more readable than GW2
NTA but god damn the visual clutter in this game is horrible as a new player, and from what I have read trying to turn off some player effects also turns off some boss aoe markers for some reason.

>>577327323
Also the fact that it runs like utter shit on high end hardware because of the new shadows, so you either deal with that or put shadows on low which looks much worse than the old high setting.

>>577327428
I've got a 4080 and an i9 and high shadows drop my fps to 18-30 where I used to get 120+.

>in wvw at spawn 250 fps
game windowed 1024*768, gpu not even 20%
>3 way zerg
fps drop by 200+, gpu still the same
and one here would say the usual "is cpu heavy not gpu heavy" and id reply ok, but why the fuck then if switch to fullscreen the fps drop by a fuckton and the gpu is still way under 100%
it have any sense?
no.

Anytime I go down in a convergence, I feel like Oogie Boogie at the end of NBC

>have gigapussyblaster 9000 cpu with 10 gorillion cores
>$10k GPU
>piece of shit game still tanks FPS because it only maxes out like 3 cores max
and theres your answer

have you tried buying a CPU that is specialized in single core high power?

Man, these ectos did not go up as much as I thought they would.

>>577330570
This may sound like a random question but: how spacious is your hard disc and RAM?

>>577325478
>While we do not interfere with game design, we have established and are actively pursuing a collaborative relationship on technical aspects.
There it is; that's why they moved to ue5. They're outsourcing to NCSoft for the Aion 2 tech. That explains how they were ever going to manage 2 engines at the same time between gw2 and 3: they won't.

>>577323285
Did you just hit 80 for the first time?
The expansion Hero Challenges give 10 points each. If you have VoE you can max out a spec in probably 15 minutes.

>>577333210
I have VoE but no other expansions, I kinda wanted to wait to go through the other expansions before going into VoE but maybe I will do that.

I find it really weird they artificially inflated the costs and hero challenge rewards by 10x, I don't see any reason why they would do that except to say "fuck you" to noobs like me, and it just devalues central tyria hero challenges for no reason.

>>577332248
They moved to UE5 because it opens the hiring options, along with tech support from NCS.
With how volatile game job market is no one is going to waste 5 years of their life on some obscure fuckass engine, but everyone knows UE. It also means that in ten years people will still be able to work on it and update it and shit. Compare it with recent news about Dragon Age: Inquisition - bioware straight up said that they cannot remaster that game because they fired everyone who knew how that engine worked ages ago.
I'm not happy about it but I understand why everyone is converging on one engine.

>>577331308
They went down last I checked. 32s50c or so before the event, down to 31s earlier today.

>>577333387
VoE hero points are free to get

>>577333910
Surely people will eat through the supply glut and it'll go back up...

>>577333387
you don't have to do the voe story if you tp to a commander on one of the maps. once there, you can just ignore everything but the hero points.

>>577335363
Almost certainly, but I doubt it'll hit 50s like last yeae.

>>577333387
>>577335514
Ah, some of the HPs might be a bit tricky to reach without a mount. The game kind of expects you to have at least one.

>>577333387
If you have a Teleport to Friend you can just join someone in the LFG on one of the VoE maps, teleport over there to grab the HPs, and then leave without skipping ahead to the story.

The weird difference between core HPs and expansion HPs is just an artifact of the game launching without a long-term plan. There's too much content in core to just get rid of them, but they also just don't really have a place to be useful for anything besides Core map completion (which is somehow still one of the main pastimes for a huge chunk of players.)

>>577335845
>huge pastime
It's just key farming.

>>577333805
That'd be a solid reason if UE6 wasn't fundamentally changing the backbone of the engine. It's a much bigger difference than it was between UE4 and 5. People ten years from now will be just as clueless about UE5 as they would be about gw2's engine. Plus they still have to push content through the old engine anyway if they plan on keeping gw2 alive, and in 10 years the engine will be 10 years more dated than it is now. How far down the road is the can going to be kicked?

>>577336348
I like all my mains to have 100% map completion, including expansion maps.

>>577335845
>Core map completion (which is somehow still one of the main pastimes for a huge chunk of players.)
it's just comfy. it gets late, i sit down and do a map or two while chilling out and listening to something. seeing my completion percentage steadily rise is 'rewarding'. perfect way to wind down before bed.
i've been considering using my last char slot for a human necro and going for another round. if i could sell the gifts, i absolutely would, and then i'd probably do map completion even more than i already do.

>>577330937
did a test ages ago with stock cpu vs oc vs 3d vs i9 n other shit with single e multi core benches and all that crap
basically all had the same fps the variaton was low
i posted it on lereddit and it got moderated by a faggot so i lost all the pics

>>577336650
I don't understand what you want them to do. If they use their own engine, they have the problem of no one outside of the company knowing how to develop for it. If they use UE5, it will become obsolete and they'll be faced with the same problem (according to you; in reality this is not comparable to the in-house engine's problem). They can't hire UE6 devs because they don't exist.
Is the answer to not do anything at all?

i bet if they opensource the game code all bugs will be fixed in a few days by someone with pink striped socks dude that rewrite it in rust

>>577337454
They should hire an autist to build better tools for their engine to make it easier to work with, and another autist to pick away at optimising each part of the graphics. That's what they said they're doing with implementing PBR into GW2. Fork the engine and do that x10 for the new game.

Instead what they're doing is maintaining a core of blue-haired dykes while hiring a bunch of contractors and outsourcing to their parent company. So 5 years after release they'll be complaining about spaghetti code all over again.

>Play FHD
>Can't properly lift a greatsword
Surely there is a way to fix this right?

>>577338892
in keybindings
if you bind Toggle Walk/Run to a key
and press that key
you no longer drag your sword behind you when you move.

>>577339169
Man that sucks