New item added to the OP. Vendor trash?
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#1. Celestial Shield
Req 9 tactics
-2^stance
+44^stance
#2. Plagueborn Focus
Req 12 ES
20 HCT earth
10 AL vs earth
#3. Golden Maul
Req 9
15^50
#4 Marble Hammer
Req 10
15^50
#5 Zodiac Staff
Req 13 fire
20 HCT fire
20 HRT-all
Shield #1:
Embossed Aegis
req 8 tactics [edit: yes, it's 16AL]
-2^enchant
+41^stance
Shield #2:
Guardian of the Hunt
req 11 strength
-2^enchant
-20% cripple duration
Kinda puzzled by the second one. On the one hand, it's dual perfect mods, and even a combination that can't be recreated within the inscription system. On the other hand, the req is high and reduced cripple duration isn't a great mod.
Also, a random question: Any thoughts on how much a 20/20 wayward wand would cost for various attribute lines?
Hi all,
I'd appreciate a price check on a couple of gold wayward wands:
Wand #1:
Wand #2:
I've got an old Ky's Chalice that I think looks lighter than the screenshot on the wiki. Does anyone have a known-post-nerf one I can borrow to make a screenshot pair?
Also, would it be possible for whoever did the Scar Eater screenshots to do another set? There's so much bloom I cannot see any difference in the staves.
[Edit: I've also got a Soulwhisper's Guardian of indeterminate age that might maybe be a different shade than the wiki screenshot. It's hard to tell. Does anyone have a known-post-nerf one to compare it to?]
New update! See edit at top of the original post.
evo: I'm sorry I have very little insight into the issue. According to the Microsoft documentation, there are two more things you can try: (1) If another program that loads dsound.dll is running at startup, kill it (or disable it from running at startup) so no other copy of dsound.dll is loaded into memory at the time GW is started. (2) Check the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\KnownDLLs and remove dsound.dll from the list if its present.
[Edit: DSOAL-GW1 was updated to r420+gw1_rev1 on 6/26/2021.
Since many people didn't care for how abruptly sounds diminished with distance, I've updated DSOAL-GW1 to add a fudge factor to make sounds carry farther, so their diminution with distance better accords with perceived in-game distance. This departs from the authentic “GW sound as originally intended” experience, but most listeners consider it a large improvement. If you don’t like the default, you can change the fudge factor by setting the environment variable DSOAL_ROLLOFF_FUDGEFACTOR to any floating point value between 0 and 1.0. The smaller you set this value, the farther sounds will carry. A setting of 1.0 makes no change to the rolloff strength as set by GW, and thus gives the authentic experience. A setting a 0 totally disables diminution of sound with distance (which sounds terrible and is not recommended). The default setting is one-third (0.333…).
Download link for latest version: https://github.com/ChthonVII/dsoa…r420%2Bgw1_rev1
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DSOAL-GW1 is a fork a DSOAL that has been modified to work with Guild Wars 1.
DSOAL is a DirectSound-to-OpenAL compatibility layer that is able to emulate DirectSound3D and EAX in software.
Put simply, this makes it possible to activate GW’s “Use 3D Audio Hardware” and “Use EAX” options and to hear GW's sound effects as originally intended.
Some history:
When GW was released in 2005, the audio component of Microsoft’s DirectX API was something called DirectSound. DirectSound had a 3D audio component called DirectSound3D, or DS3D, that could pan and amplify/attenuate sound sources based on their position relative to the camera in the game’s 3D world. PC’s with a high-end Creative sound card also had access to EAX, an extension to DS3D with a suite of hardware DSP effects for occlusion, obstruction, reverb, echo, etc. Like most games of its era, GW’s audio system was designed around DirectSound and DS3D, and owners of high-end PCs could get the “definitive” audio experience with EAX.
All that ended in 2007 with Windows Vista. Vista completely broke DS3D and EAX. Rather than fix it, Microsoft deprecated DirectSound and pushed developers to adopt its new XAudio2 API for future games. With DS3D and EAX broken, GW hasn’t sounded “right” in any version of Windows since XP.
Download: https://github.com/ChthonVII/dsoa…/tag/r420%2Bgw1
Source Code: https://github.com/ChthonVII/dsoal-GW1
Installation:
Ambisonic Setup (recommended for systems with 4 or more speakers):
HRTF Setup (recommended for headphones):
Troubleshooting:
Set the following environment variables:
(Use a real directory that exists, and you have write permissions for, rather than C:\blah\blah\blah\.)
If a log file isn’t being created, then the corresponding .dll isn’t getting loaded. The .dll files may be in the wrong place, or you may need to fix the registry entries or add -dsound to GW’s command line. If all else fails, try installing to the system directory.
The ALSoft log will show whether your .ini file and any presets for ambisonics or HRTF are getting found and loaded.
Credit:
The overwhelming majority of the credit for this belongs to Christopher Robinson (kcat) and the other openal-soft developers who have spent years working on open-alsoft and dsoal. They built a fricking transcontinental railroad; I just laid the last mile of track to hook up GW station.
Comparison to Other Methods of Restoring DS3D+EAX:
There are other options for restoring DS3D and EAX functionality, but DSOAL is generally superior.
Using DSOAL-GW1 for Other Games:
Will DSOAL-GW1 work for other games besides Guild Wars? It will probably work, but provide no benefits over mainline DSOAL, and possibly hurt performance a bit. DSOAL-GW1 is only useful if a game shares GW’s rather idiosyncratic approach to DirectSound buffers. This might be the case if you are experiencing missing sounds after a few minutes of gameplay when using mainline DSOAL and your log file is full of errors that say, “DSBuffer_SetLoc Out of software sources.” If you try DSOAL-GW1 and your log file is full of warnings that say, “Assigning a source for software buffer that was previously deferred as per Guild Wars hack,” then DSOAL-GW1 is probably not suitable for that game.
- Chthon
Just got a morning star axe with no inherent mod. You want it? Nevermind. It' snot 404 gold. Sorry, I failed to read carefully.
I think I recall reading somewhere that some max gold items with no mods whatsoever (no prefix, no suffix, no inherent, no inscription slot) are valuable, while some are vendor trash. Would anyone mind explaining which skins are valuable in this condition? (Today's find was a war hammer (lion).)
I've heard that max gold items that have neither an inherent mod nor an inscription slot are sometimes valuable, and sometimes vendor-trash. Could someone explain how to distinguish one from the other?
There is still one thing i want to say, I set the game in windowed mode,
do you think that helped getting rid of the bad connection?
No. Graphical issues are completely independent from network connectivity issues.
Alright, let's do this.
General Note #1: In this post, I'm ONLY trying to help troubleshoot the local problem with your PC, router, and/or other network devices. There's nothing you can do about the problem in Frankfurt, so I'm not even going to mention it again in this post.
General Note #2: My main goal here is to rule out some possibilities to narrow down the source of the problem. We'll likely have to go round again with more detailed troubleshooting once we've got a better idea where the problem is.
General Note #3: We need a procedure for consistent experiments. Here's that procedure:
General Note #4: I think I need to describe what a good pathping versus a bad pathping looks like. Look at the example from my earlier post. Note the following four values:
If all of the four values above are OK, then your local network is likely free of connectivity problems. If one or more of the four values above is bad, then you've got a problem on your local network.
Experiment #0: Reboot
Give the router a hard reboot. Disconnect it from power for 5 minutes, then turn it back on.
Experiment #1: Maybe the ethernet cable is loose.
Unplug both ends, then replug them.
Experiment #2: Maybe the ethernet cable is damaged.
Unplug the ethernet cable and replace it with a different cable.
Experiment #3: Stop All Torrents/Streaming
Ask everyone in your household to (temporarily) stop all torrent/streaming activities.
(Note: The default configuration on most torrent clients should prevent it from getting anywhere close to saturating a router. The only way this should be a problem is if someone turned off the limits on bandwidth and/or concurrent connections.)
Experiment #4: Rule Out Your PC
Recruit a friend with a laptop.
Have your friend verify that they have an OK pathping (see above) using a wired connection to their router at their home.
Have your friend bring their laptop to your home.
Unplug your PC and plug in their laptop using the same cable.
Experiment #5a: Rule Out Other Devices
Disconnect all other devices besides your PC from the router.
Note that you may have a lot of things besides computers connected to the router.
You might have:
To make sure that you've disconnected everything, you must log in to your router's administrative panel and make sure that the list of connected devices contains only one entry for your PC.
(At this point, you might find neighbors leeching off your wireless. If so, change the password.)
Experiment #5b: Rule Out Other Devices One-at-a-Time
If Experiment #5a eliminated the problem, then try #5b. Otherwise, skip #5b.
Try reconnecting the other devices one-at-a-time to determine which one is the source of the problem.
Follow these steps:
Hopefully this should gives us some clue where the problem is located.
31e for Shinobi Blade q9 -> 15^50
The other thing is, i have a physical cable from my computer to my router
I call it "lan-cable" is that the same as a ethernet cable or is that different?
Yep. It's the same cable. That means that something is horribly, horribly wrong with your PC, your router, another device on the network, or some combination thereof. There are a million different things it could be. I don't have time right now, but I'll try to write up a diagnostic plan for the most common ones in the next few days.
i tried to play the game every day in the week since Saturday last weekend and yesterday i had literally no problems, ok a little lag here and there but i didnt even recognized it, i couls play smoothly the whole day.
My guess is that the problem in Frankfurt was (temporarily?) resolved. Going from net 87% packet loss down to only 25% packet loss ought to feel like a huge improvement. Now, 25% loss is still really bad -- most people would consider it unplayable -- so hopefully we can get the problems on your end fixed so you can experience 0%.
OK, looks like you have two problems here. Either one is bad enough to independently ruin your gaming experience. And I'm sorry to say that only one of them is something you can fix. I'll start with that one.
Problem 1: The connection from your PC to your router is over 25 times slower than it ought to be, and you've got 25% (!!!!) packet loss. I could stick an ethernet cable into a potato and get a better connection. My best guess here is that you're connecting to your router over wifi, and suffering terrible interference. (If this is a hard-wired connection, then something is very, very wrong with your router, your PC, or both...) You have two possible solutions: (1) The easiest and best solution is to simply plug in a physical ethernet cable. Problem solved. (2) The other solution is to use some software to scan for the frequencies and strengths of nearby wifi signals, then change your router's channel to a less crowded frequency. Unfortunately, this may not even be possible in some densely populated urban areas, since there may be so many routers nearby that there is no uncrowded frequency. (You could also try to call a neighborhood meeting to organize everyone's wifi frequency usage into the optimal configuration given their spacial positioning, but my experience has been that neighbors are generally too stupid to make this work, and a few non-participants make the whole thing impossible.)
Problem 2: There's 83% packet loss between telefonica.de's 62.53.19.144 and amazon's 62.69.146.84. Judging from the node names and a reverse IP lookup, it looks like something's wrong at a peering exchange probably in Frankfurt. You can't fix this, since it's not on your end. And A-Net can't fix it, since it's not on their end either. You'll have to wait for telefonica.de and/or amazon to fix it. If it's a hardware problem, hopefully these companies will sort it out soon. If it's a temporary too-much-volume problem, you'll just have to wait for it to subside. If it's a chronic too-much-volume problem, maybe someday the company at fault will decide to upgrade to higher capacity hardware.
(Aside: To help you understand why packet loss is such a problem for online games: If you click on a position in the game client, your client sends a message off to the server saying, "I want to move my character to position X,Y." Well, if that message doesn't make it to your router, then it's not going to make it to the server either. So, if you've got 25% packet loss at your router, then the server will never hear 25% of your attempted commands. Your client thinks you're moving, attacking, using skills, whatever, but the server never hears it. Since the server's view of the game world is authoritative, these actions never happen. Your client may preemptively animate them to keep things smooth, but then it has to roll them back when the expected confirmation from the server doesn't come -- that's "rubberbanding." Going the other direction, the server sends your client update about the state of the game world -- your character is at position X,Y; now your character is at position X+1, Y; now your character is at position X+2, Y-1; etc. If 25% of those messages die at your router, then your computer doesn't seem them. The result is a herky-jerky view of the world where things teleport around without appearing the cross the space in between. All of this is ameliorated to the degree it can be by making the client and server smart enough to deduce when a message hasn't gone through and to resend it, but that deduction is slow, since it requires a response from the other side or a timeout to elapse -- so, even if a dropped message gets resent, the resulting experience is still really laggy. The bottom line is that packet loss is the absolute bane of online games.
You might be wondering why you don't notice these problems when streaming video or browsing the web. Packet loss effects these, but not nearly as badly as it effects online games. Videos are streamed with a buffer of several seconds. So long as a dropped packet can be resent before the buffer runs out, you never even notice it. Resending dropped packets causes webpages to load more slowly, but usually not beyond the threshhold where you take notice. But games require the illusion of real-time interaction, so the delay imposed by a resend is very noticeable.)
21e for Shinobi Blade q9 -> 15^50
11e for Shinobi Blade q9 -> 15^50
and
6e for Stormbow q9 [insc]
I tried that but somehow it doesnt work, when i put the command in it just says the target system couldnt dessolve.
Let's try this again with more detail:
Step 1: Find out the IP for the server you're having problems with. You can see the IP in the top left of the loading screen as you enter a zone, and also by mousing over the ping dot. For example, the IP of Kaineng Center American 1 is 107.23.59.8.
Step 2: Open up a Windows command prompt.
Step 3: Enter the command
pathping {that IP}into the command prompt. To be clear, you need to replace {that IP} with the IP of the server. So, for example, if you were having trouble when visiting Kaineng Center American 1, then you'd use
pathping 107.23.59.8(Also, ignore the "1. |" at the start of the line. That's just a line number that GWLegacy's forums software added.)
Step 4: Copy/paste the output of the command to a text editor (e.g., Notepad). (Note: The copy/paste implementation in the Windows command prompt sucks butt. If you can't figure it out, see here for an explanation.)
Step 5: Blank out the IP addresses that may reveal private information about you or your local network configuration. Here is a screenshot of some pathping output. In it, you can see that first there is a list of all the hops from you to the target server, and then there is the same list with statistics for each hop. Blank out the IP addresses in the lines for hop 0 and hop 1. (In this example screenshot, they are 192.168.1.33 and 192.168.1.1, respectively.) Just type over them with XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX or something. Remember that each hop appears in two lines -- you have to blank it out in both the top and bottom lists. If you have a router, then also blank out the IP addresses in the lines for hop 2 and hop 3. (In this example screenshot, they are 58.69.80.254 and 58.69.255.1, respectively.)
(Note: This is a "quick and dirty" explanation that probably blanks out more than necessary. I'm not attempting a full explanation because anyone with enough background knowledge to understand it can probably already read a pathping.)
Step 6: Post the redacted results here.
Sounds like an intermediate node is dropping packets.
Check the IP of the server you're connecting to on a loading screen.
Open a command prompt and run "pathping {that IP}".
Post here. (For privacy, blank out the IP addresses for hops 0 and 1. If you connect to the internet via a router, also blank out the IP addressess for hops 2 and 3.)
Thank you hGt!
Does anyone else have any comments on this stuff?
(Also, I fixed a couple of errors about item colors.)
Please share your thoughts on the following. I know some of it's rare, and suspect a lot of it's junk. "Merch it" is also a very helpful response, since I need storage space.
Here's a pair of max (7-17) req8 daggers.
Sadly, I don't remember anything about how I got them. They're from before I went dormant 7 years ago. Quite possibly from before Nightfall, but I'm really not sure.
Since I've come back, I've decided that it's time to clear out my storage and standardize my heroes with optimal (mostly collector) gear. Towards that end, I've got a lot of stuff to get rid of. I'm expecting that 90% of this stuff is merchant/salvage trash, and I'm totally happy to hear "this item is merchant trash." My main goal here is to avoid accidentally merching something I shouldn't. Price estimates are nice, but even just "that's not mechant trash" is useful to know. I've marked things with low requirements red text.
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Please close thread. Sold to rawr rebel for buy out. Thank you!
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Had this shield since before I went dormant. I think it's time I finally sold it:
Darkwing Defender (inscribable, blue text)
16 armor, req 8 tactics
phys dmg -2 ^ stance
45 hp ^ stance
Price check thread is here.
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Please close.
Thank you to everyone for your thoughts & insights. I think I now have a much better idea what this item's worth.
I've put it up for sale in this thread.
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Please price check:
Darkwing Defender (inscribable, blue text)
16 armor, req 8 tactics
phys dmg -2 ^ stance
45 hp ^ stance
Also, since I am recently returned and way, way, way out of touch, would someone please tell me the current exchange rates for [gold <--> ecto] and [ecto <--> armbrace]?
