20th Year Update Announcement

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Hello, I also had this problem. Seems like since the update added a hard cap at 180 FPS, this is causing problems. I changed my "Frame Limiter" setting (under the Graphics tab) from "None" to "Monitor Refresh Rate" and everything seems back to normal! exciting! but no more bajillion fps 8D

Hey.

I have the same issues, but for me it works on a different thing. I need to limit the framerates at 60fps. My 240hz monitor works better like that and in the past I never had a such problem (I never limited my fps before with the same monitor)

It's kinda weird.

I've got the same issue. I've had to reduce my graphics to 60fps instead of using monitor refresh (240). I don't have the skipping issue, but 180 is an odd number. Not sure why 240 wasn't considered an option.

maybe the topic of the new weapon upgrades deserves its own thread, but ive been wondering if for certain attributes and use cases +4 is just as good as +5. expertise reduces energy cost 4% per rank, so 5 expertise is 20%, which makes a 5 energy attack cost 4 energy. +4 would be 16% reduced energy cost, so does the game round it up to 1 energy? I havent been able to test this yet.

for leadership there should be not even a small difference between +4 and +5 right?

for all others +5 should generally provide an advantage over +4 if i'm not mistaken.

The problem will be supply and demand for SR 5. Like a number of players, I need dozens. The same goes for the staff, spear and blade versions. And that's not counting the price, but simply reconciling supply and demand.

It's probably a rehash of the Utopia project, like the PvE Elites. But for SR it's a bit of an overkill, to be honest.

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maybe the topic of the new weapon upgrades deserves its own thread, but ive been wondering if for certain attributes and use cases +4 is just as good as +5. expertise reduces energy cost 4% per rank, so 5 expertise is 20%, which makes a 5 energy attack cost 4 energy. +4 would be 16% reduced energy cost, so does the game round it up to 1 energy? I havent been able to test this yet.

for leadership there should be not even a small difference between +4 and +5 right?

for all others +5 should generally provide an advantage over +4 if i'm not mistaken.

According to this chart from wiki you shouldn't see a difference in 4 expertise vs 5 until you are casting at 15 energy or higher

party beacon used outside , probably something news

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party beacon used outside , probably something news

Maybe you can beat Abbadon in a dance battle in Party Mode. 🤔🥳

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Party_Mode wiki page since 2011.

it's true. (but not for Disco Balls or Craft of the Fireworks) That wasn't the case before?

Anomaly. Party Beacons can be used in explorable areas, although the description states they are for in-town use.

ok i go sleep

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it's true. (but not for Disco Balls or Craft of the Fireworks) That wasn't the case before?

Anomaly. Party Beacons can be used in explorable areas, although the description states they are for in-town use.

ok i go sleep

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i have see that after i have post xd but maybe he exist a secret about it never find

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And you'll want to keep an eye out for some other rare drops.

are those the 'of the profession' weapon suffixes? because im not sure what else that could be refering to

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And you'll want to keep an eye out for some other rare drops.

are those the 'of the profession' weapon suffixes? because im not sure what else that could be refering to

I am curious about this as well. Too soon for him to give it away though.

Me with news mods

So far the skins that drop for me while soloing doa (if ppl want to hunt those)

Quicksilver / Fox's greed / Dragon's envy / Scorpion lust / Tiger pride / Snake's envy / Storm ember / Hale death / Unicorn's wrath / Peacock's wrath

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So far the skins that drop for me while soloing doa (if ppl want to hunt those)

Quicksilver / Fox's greed / Dragon's envy / Scorpion lust / Tiger pride / Snake's envy / Storm ember / Hale death / Unicorn's wrath / Peacock's wrath

Make 4/5 runs but i doesn't had a lot of chance with loots, well done !

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Make 4/5 runs but i doesn't had a lot of chance with loots, well done !

ty ! favor is a big change, i can do 0 gold 0 gemstone by clearing ravenheart gloom but it literally rain drop while favor, around 5 gemstones and 10 to 20 golds (counting 1 to 2 locked chests)

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For some reason that energy +7 while hexed sounded very strange. Might just be me xD

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For some reason that energy +7 while hexed sounded very strange. Might just be me xD

I was very curious as to what I was missing! The merchant might find that mod intriguing though!

Update caused a player spike... ya don't say.

Classic MMORPG hits its highest player count in 13 years after huge 20th anniversary event

It's 20 years since MMORPG classic Guild Wars launched and anniversary celebrations have pushed it to its highest player count in 13 years.

www.pcgamesn.com

That's just Steam statistics, not gamers connected outside Steam. It also seems that the article was created to advertise the Steam store. But after the exodus of summer/fall 2012 it's always good to take.

Note that with enough human players in the game, the prices of some items are finally coming down. Not all, of course. But I like the fact that armbraces are only 30-35e right now and that ectos are also going down. This would be even more the case with a sales hotel (snif).

Guild Wars Server Population & Player Count - MMO Populations

According to this website, this is the current players, based on the anniversary. 14K is a pretty decent count imo, for a game that hasn't released any real new content in over a decade.

5,727 is the average estimate of daily players.

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Guild Wars Server Population & Player Count - MMO Populations

According to this website, this is the current players, based on the anniversary. 14K is a pretty decent count imo, for a game that hasn't released any real new content in over a decade.

5,727 is the average estimate of daily players.

How much of this is alt accounts / bots?

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Note that with enough human players in the game, the prices of some items are finally coming down. Not all, of course. But I like the fact that armbraces are only 30-35e right now and that ectos are also going down. This would be even more the case with a sales hotel (snif).

sadly ectos always goes down to 3k/ea when shing jea festival is open, also rune sup and all other materials

about armbraces, they were 110e to 130e/ea 4 to 5 years ago if i remember right, then a guy decided to launch 50 accounts running doa non stop and it kept going down, i might be wrong thinking that but i believed armbraces would go up with many returning players... Sadly you can still see the 50+ accounts botting doa h24 in polish/russia/spanish district, looks like those bot really wants to destroy armbraces till the end

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Guild Wars Server Population & Player Count - MMO Populations

According to this website, this is the current players, based on the anniversary. 14K is a pretty decent count imo, for a game that hasn't released any real new content in over a decade.

5,727 is the average estimate of daily players.

How much of this is alt accounts / bots?

I guess we could make some estimates by looking at the activity in weeks when there are "bottable" weekly bonuses (like HA, RA, ...) and compare it to other bot-uninteresting weeks.

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I guess we could make some estimates by looking at the activity in weeks when there are "bottable" weekly bonuses (like HA, RA, ...) and compare it

90% of bots are in pve i don't think pvp event cause a significant pike

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Guild Wars Server Population & Player Count - MMO Populations

According to this website, this is the current players, based on the anniversary. 14K is a pretty decent count imo, for a game that hasn't released any real new content in over a decade.

5,727 is the average estimate of daily players.

how do they get their numbers?

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Guild Wars Server Population & Player Count - MMO Populations

According to this website, this is the current players, based on the anniversary. 14K is a pretty decent count imo, for a game that hasn't released any real new content in over a decade.

5,727 is the average estimate of daily players.

how do they get their numbers?

Basically nothing precise..

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how do they get their numbers?

https://mmo-population.com/about/

Basically nothing precise..

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so my bullshit detector apparently still works

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Yeah that website is a load of nonsense, presenting data in a very untrustworthy way.

I know this from a page called something with gw and something with legacy, forgot the exact name.

a similiar thread exist in forum, people drop new skins in nm, hm, from mobs, from chest, what area drop X skin etc,

new patch dont add only content, , collaboration has been added, which was not necessary before because we already knew everything (or almost everything in my opinion :p) although there are always people who prefer to remain silent