Two Important Beta Events Begin in Guild Wars 2 | MMORPG.com

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Two Important Beta Events Begin in Guild Wars 2 | MMORPG.com

Guild Wars 2 opens two important beta events this week - the elite specializations event and the WvW changes coming.

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botrytis

There are 3 tests and the third is DX11.

Aeander

Unfortunately, I still don't have access to my PC after hurricane evacuation. But I do very much look forward to getting back to the game. And I immensely look forward to this entire set of elite specs. They all look great and really put into context how basic and underwhelming the Willbender/Harbinger/Virtuouso were by comparison.

Baitness

I was more interested in the introduction of the DX11 client. It improved performance more than I thought it would in some cases, and less than I thought it would in others.

It is also too little too late. The performance of the game, even with the DX11 client, is just not good enough. It is an improvement mind you, it is just that GW2's performance is so poor that it is not nearly a large enough improvement. I am seeing gains fps gains of about 6-12 in populated areas, leaving GW2 far below 60 FPS unless you use the lowest settings for visible characters (which seems to only display 10 characters at a time, which kind of kills the MMO feeling for me).

A tiny step in the right direction is still a step in the right direction, but I was hoping for more. I am glad Arenanet is finally putting some work into their engine, but they need to put lot more in. This game looks like it came out 9 years ago (because it did) but performs worse than all other MMOs that I have played, despite all of them also looking nicer.

I still hope they can resurrect this old engine into something decent, because I adore the team play and class design. This is not remotely close to being worthwhile for me right now, though. Please let this be just the first step of many to fix the performance problems this game has.