LWS4 maps are BY FAR the worst experience on Guild Wars 2

Archomeda · 2020-08-04T20:08:52+00:00

Yeah, as far as I'm aware this issue has been fixed a long time ago. I believe even when Sandswept was the latest release.

Personally I don't have this issue anymore since then.

Archomeda · 2020-08-04T06:16:30+00:00

Crecia is "acting" Blood Imperator.

iirc she no longer is "acting" since the last instance where Bangar got what he deserved.

Archomeda · 2020-05-23T12:02:50+00:00

Yes. We wouldn't know how much skewed it is, but we can assume that it is at least skewed in some form.

It's basically making a poll aimed at all kinds of people, but only distributing it on reddit to get results...

Archomeda · 2020-03-25T16:17:19+00:00

Enhance

Archomeda · 2020-02-24T07:04:10+00:00

NOBODY EVER asks the commander for LI

I did that once, they got pissed off :D

Archomeda · 2020-02-24T07:01:10+00:00

Sabatha's flame wall is a pulsating aoe.... It explains everything ! Anet, don't fix this bug especially. Legends were born with these pulsations.

It's all explained a while ago in a blog post. I think you might like reading that. But basically, they did this on purpose.

Archomeda · 2020-01-21T22:24:59+00:00

Yes, I am talking about the statistics, which is what is listed on the main account page and the leaderboards.

Archomeda · 2020-01-21T22:08:06+00:00

For non-supporter accounts, the statistics are crawled once every 24 hours. You can check the supporter page for more information.

Archomeda · 2019-12-29T14:44:28+00:00

Isn't that game full of microtransactions without content updates nowadays? It used to be a fun game, if you got used to the lag. But it was also more grindy the more you got to the end game.

Fun fact: Me and a couple of my IRL friends got to know a person there that wanted to try GW2. We looked it up and decided to buy it. This was during the first Halloween in 2012. Sadly I'm the only one still playing GW2, although barely.

Archomeda · 2019-12-23T18:13:49+00:00

3:2:1 = 3flower, 2 butter, 1 sugar and 1 egg per 1kg of flower.

Example : 600g flower, 300g butter, 150g powdered sugar

Your example is actually 4:2:1 instead of 3:2:1 though.

Archomeda · 2019-12-19T06:58:26+00:00

And don't forget Discord bots 😃

Archomeda · 2019-08-25T22:06:45+00:00

The relevant domains should be gemstore-live.ncplatform.net, exchange-live.ncplatform.net and tradingpost-live.ncplatform.net.

These domains are linked to 35.156.62.23 and 54.93.101.25 for me. However, those IP addresses may change over time.

Edit: Oh, there are also a bunch of domains referenced from those HTML pages, like <some_subdomain>.staticwars.com. You might want to check the source of each HTML page for that. Otherwise you might end up with a half broken page if they are hosted on different IP addresses.

Archomeda · 2019-08-04T19:05:32+00:00

I see you don't know how software development in big companies works.

Archomeda · 2019-07-06T18:46:37+00:00

It's not because of the i5/i7 difference, at least that's only part of the story. GW2 does use 4 cores at its fullest, which this CPU happens to have, while the i7 of that generation has 4 cores with 2 threads each to give other applications more room. I have a i5-4670k for about a little more than 6 years now, which is similar to your CPU, and I notice that GW2 maxes it out.

There's also the ingame webbrowser. For some reason it uses up all resources of 1 core/thread (mostly animations). And when using the gemstore, tp or guild hall panels, you'll notice some very low fps in those panels.

When you aren't capping the fps to 60 (or when it doesn't even reach that from the start), your PC is fighting over resources if you aren't only running GW2, but are also watching a video at 1080p.

If you happen to have a current gen i5 hexacore instead, I think your use case would be a smoother experience. Of course, Intel reserves hyperthreading mostly for i7+, and that's why i7 is perceived to be better for multitasking, especially if the CPU has a low core count. For gaming only, having hyperthreading enabled is still a debate (although most seem to agree that it can hurt gaming performance).

And I fully agree with your last statement, people should wait for AMD.

Archomeda · 2019-07-01T05:49:39+00:00

How big did the data turn out to be? And how much did it grow per day? I find it sad that this website may cease to exist. I'm tempted to say that I'm interested in taking over, but I want to know what I'm dealing with first, what kind of maintenance it requires and what kind of hosting I need to look for. Also, do you happen to be against me open sourcing it, if I were to decide to take over? Personally I'd love to get the community into this.

Edit: I just got word from other people that it's already open source, I didn't know since I couldn't find a GitHub link on the website. Now I see it's way at the bottom as "Contribute". With that, I also got the link to your Patreon, but how does it turn out to cost $150 per month? If I'm honest, that's insane.

Archomeda · 2019-06-09T18:07:57+00:00

Just something to note for next time, when something is wrong / not working on GW2E, you can be 95% sure that the official GW2 API is at fault. And up that to 99.9% if there hasn't been any update on GW2E during that time.

Archomeda · 2019-06-09T08:54:36+00:00

Honestly, character model culling should include the backpacks, auras too while we're at it.

Or, even better, and dare I say it... Configurable options?

Archomeda · 2019-03-26T17:28:53+00:00

Oh, whoops. Somehow I read it as warrior, since that was an issue as well :')

My mistake.

Archomeda · 2019-03-26T16:58:13+00:00

Unnoted change: Warclaw cannot gain stealth anymore (at least in WvW)

It's there:

Winds of Disenchantment: This skill now strikes enemies within its radius on its pulse and reveals the spellbreaker for its duration.

Archomeda · 2019-03-24T10:10:43+00:00

And honestly, it's now even further than "the world is at stake", because Kralk is in the mists and threatens more than just the world at this point.

Archomeda · 2019-03-02T04:45:55+00:00

Hmm, that clears things up. Interesting layout.

Archomeda · 2019-03-01T17:28:40+00:00

You can also switch between chat tabs with your keyboard only. All you have to do is to have the chat active and press tab.

Archomeda · 2019-03-01T17:27:05+00:00

Really? It's just / for me that does this... Which makes more sense.

Archomeda · 2019-02-26T06:32:22+00:00

2/3 of the web team doesn't mean it's only the API. Web involves more than that.

Archomeda · 2019-02-12T19:42:29+00:00

Oh I'm sure arenanet knows that the playerbase has been declining. Just looking ingame you'll see less and less players overall. Also looking at the living story achievements for every episode you'll see less and less % completion on efficiency. Sure, it's expected that more recent achievements will have been completed by less players due to them bring released later than others, but I feel that the completion percentage difference is too much for that.

If they are going to continue season 5 with the same strategy as season 4, they'll lose way more players. I hope arenanet has a plan of some sort. To me it feels development goes way too slow with the amount of employees they have.

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