The Best Settings for New Guild Wars 2 Players

[@TiroDvD]

Chat Chanel "Story" - say, party, and npc. Use it for when you are playing newly released content e.g. Story mode. You block out the world to prevent spoilers but can still get some help if physical nearby other players.

[@Vallun]

You could take that further and make it an "RP" channel with only say chat, NPCs, and emotes

[@sumoslamer180]

On the topic of action-camera. I disagree with the statement that action-cam may be limiting. With a proper set-up of keybinds and targeting setting, not only is the action cam as good as standard, it is much better. Ex. While in standard cam you strafe left to right or walk backwards with about 50-75% of your run speed. On the other hand, action-cam makes the movement work in 360° where when you press the 'strafe' buttons or 'back' button, your character will turn to that direction and run that way at full speed with zero down time for turning. If you attack, on the other hand, you will instead strafe or back-pedal so as to be able to attack towards the target. Also, targeting in action-cam is instant and based on the cross-hair. You can still lock onto target, but it is unessesary since melee attack anything in range, projectiles are aimed at a target but do not follow it (missing is entirely possible with both standard and action cams) and target specifics will target the closest enemy to the cross hair or character if no target is selected or is out of reach, depending on whether action cam is on or off. Imo the added mobility alone is enough to make action-cam supirior. But in the end, it is still a preference, but let's at least agree that it's not a choice made due to mechanical issues.

[@plaguetree6920]

Even as a 10 year veteran who participates in all game types, I found a few helpful tips. Always nice to be reminded of how much customizations can improve the game experience.

[@userunknown1030]

yeah this game has the worst control lay out i have ever seen reason why i stopped playing i don't care to have to change every setting one by one just to be able to even start playing that is poor design.

[@sseetthh]

@@userunknown1030 get good

[@wildmanviper]

Thanks for the video. Im a returning Veteran player and this was very helpful to fill in the gaps of the new settings but also to learn about what settings control certain aspects instead of guessing based on description.

[@psyjinx]

I hang out in new player areas to lead jump puzzle tours. I'll be linking this a ton. Love ya, man.

[@gailbrookhart1777]

Really nice. If you are a newish player reading these comments before viewing the video, bring pen and paper to take notes! Lots of stuff you will want to remember for the next time you go into the game to make tweaks.

[@veryberry39]

Bold of you to assume I don't have my game up to make tweaks as I watch the video!

[@greenya84]

Thank you for video. Only want to add that LOD is "Level of Detail". Basically each object in the game (characters, buildings, trees, walls etc.) has multiple representations: LOD 0 (which is most details version), LOD 1, LOD 2... depends on how many developers have decided to use. But the idea is that LOD 0 is used for close to the player objects, and higher number is a lower level of detail of that same object. So in-game option "LOD Distance" allows to influence on this distance -- when to switch to next object LOD.

[@Kieranh778]

Also worth noting: DPI Scaling forces the HUD & text Scaling from Windows OS. This will likely cause all GW2 HUD elements to be blurry /interpolated. Uncheck to see and use the 'Interface size' option instead. This uses the application specific 1:1 Scaling. Especially cleaner for text if running windows 10

[@talizorahnarrayya5916]

is that also a problem on W11?

[@minux1434]

I have the same question as NeverZ, I've tried out of curiosity but it stays the same . I'm on Windows 11 too.

[@MunitionsDudTester]

Great vid. Those camera tips almost makes it feel like a new game.

[@VII_Spiritual]

Thanks for the info bro, been playing for a week its been a fantastic journey. Hope to see more vids :D.

[@xanianjamfalcon]

Welcome to the game!!

[@attackins1470]

You are on the right channel then! Been playing since March 2021 but came across Vallun around November(iirc). His build videos, especially the Guardian(specifically Celestial Paladin) builds, have completely changed my play experience and I cannot recommend them enough. How he explains the gear choices, ability combinations, tactics, etc. is absolutely amazing and helped me get a better grasp of the game, and he really motivated me to try other professions(other than Guardian) that I hadn't really had an interest in previously.

[@dsinc36]

Dude! Thank you for showing me how to move my minimap to the top! That's where I prefer mine and I did not know you could do that in GW2.

[@ChaiDoodle]

As someone who had horrible lag/ect, enabling DX11 beta could also help you. It solved a lot of my issues with my GW2.

[@yordypobletesanchez2497]

Está información vale oro, un año y medio jugando con las confirmaciones predeterminada, perdí la cuenta de cuántas veces morí en wvw o en pvp. Muchísimas gracias por el video.

[@coconut199]

Horale buen partido de seguir jugando

[@squeetnut]

As a Brit I feel obligated to inform you that Greenwich in the GMT is pronounced Grenitch. Also as a Brit, I feel obligated to say sorry for the dumb pronunciations.

[@rudytjhia8199]

please say a bottle of water

[@Vallun]

that one isn't so bad, having learned worcester

[@squeetnut]

@@rudytjhia8199 a bo'le o' wa'er ;)

[@squeetnut]

@@Vallun hahah, yeah Worcestershire (wustersher) and Leicestershire (lestersher) don't exactly make sense.

[@rudytjhia8199]

@@squeetnut @Vallun all the english i learn is a lie

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

My biggest gripe with the graphics settings is they don't let you save your own settings. You get the three basic options which are great to change on the fly, especially when there are tons of people on the screen at an event and you want low settings. But the problem comes when I want to switch back to my own settings. There is no option to do so. You have to manually change things back and forth which is a massive inconvenience.

[@kingklump]

I have a pretty decent PC, but changing some of the graphical options that aren't really needed helped things a lot. Thanks!

[@AJ-te7jx]

Thank you for these videos and having a chill vibe lol.

[@JuanjoGonzalez]

This is a great video. Thanks for the effort!

[@marcelhong8947]

Thank you so much! Just starting out in this game and this is super helpful especially I'm using the same class!

[@stumpeeez527]

This video has been very helpful just started the game today

[@AlexisHvt]

Wow, thank you so much for this video! I have played GW2 since 2013 and I didn't know the existence of some features such as DAY/Night cycle time :O

[@PuhHunter]

DX11 is fully releasing on May 10th, and since I read that on a forum post i've had no really terrible issues with it at all

[@ryukjoga]

I hope so, i want to use it because of the performance increase, but i've had some really bad visual glitch like wrong colors showing up and textures missing.

[@crunkledore]

Huge help, even for a veteran player. Thank you!

[@ivanbond1531]

ow nice! I share it for my new gw2 friend. Cheers

[@Evernix1]

Thanks a lot for this!

[@Uatemysoul]

This video helped me to actually get into WvW. Before the Team colors thing I maybe managed 6fps in a zerg now I can actually fight.

[@davidb8815]

I just thought I'd give this game a go and felt a little intimidated by the massive amount of options, but this is hands down one of the best vids I've seen breaking this type of info down. Thank you for this. I actually had to load up the game and go through each of these while I kept pausing the video and the improvement to the interface is already drastically better

[@ryukjoga]

Ty!! This is very helpful. I still struggle with the auto targeting option, sometimes it's worth having it on like in pve, but in pvp it make me leap back when i try to leap away...

[@tetteykn110]

Thanks keep doing the good job you are really helping people.

[@바보Queen]

wow leaving the inventory bag up for consumables is cool! game was severly lacking in adding things to hot bars

[@veryberry39]

Thank you for this! I just started playing recently, and honestly I'm not sold on the game at all, but my boyfriend loves it and so I'm trying to like it more so we can play together. :P The "player chatter" setting, which I found about a week ago, was a freaking godsend. If I had to hear my sylvari say "I want that!" one more time, I was going to delete her out of spite. IT'S IN YOUR BAG, WOMAN. YOU **DO** HAVE IT. YOU WANNA KNOW WHOSE FURY IS RISING? **MINE.** (Okay I'm done now.)

[@chaoscvz5887]

Shaders to medium was a great tip.

[@rhodan74]

Nice explanations. As a bling enjoyer I use dx11 and reshade though :)

[@Vallun]

absolutely should use DX11 if you can, but it isn't exactly out yet

[@atakez]

I started playing yesterday. The game is great, excited to hit max lvl as well. Is there any point in buying last expansions? Playing crusader (I main WoW- playing ret paladin mostly).

[@Vallun]

all expansions are worth, the content doesnt become outdated because the level cap doesnt increase, more builds to play with more specs

[@minux1434]

Man, I've been playing for years, I know some settings are relatively new. But the one about rewards 5:10... Man, perfection. It's sad however that it shows you a glimpse before hiding them :'( Edit: I noticed that you can hide the glimpse of the chest when you receive it by simply unchecking "Temporarily show UI for notifications" as is shown in the video.

[@udaythambimuthu3176]

I had an issue after updating my GPU drivers (or maybe I didn't notice it as much before). Whenever i would spin the camera, the shadows would spaz out and I would see outlines of shadows in walls and shit. I have a GTX 1660 XS Super (and apparently it happens with 3070s too). Tried everything in game and in the NVIDIA GeForce experience app (have everything set to application controlled, same goes for Catalyst control centre, it avoids a lot of headaches). Turns out it was OpenGL/Open3D. Open the NVIDIA control panel and just turn it off, make sure your monitor brightness and gamma settings and stuff are also application controlled. Took me 3 hours to figure out that bullshit.

[@Lanzetsu]

I will try ASAP I get home today, if I can see the animals from the Jade Sphere in the Catalyst with this setup without melting my VGA or decreasing the performance I will love you (since I am subbed already =P)

[@SteinarHagalsson]

Hello. Thx for you nice clips. I am new at GW2 and have a lot of issues because I came from PS5 elder scrolls online. 1) when you are using WASD how can you reach 1-5? For me it feels bad because I have to take the fingers of my moving keys. I just use the action camera. So you have right clip for target and left click for spamming. Do you think this is a problem? 2) which class and build is easy to handle? I just play with spellbreaker and I die so much. I am not able to win a fight. I was a good player in other games. But here it doesn’t work :/

[@Vallun]

I have two vids to answer these questions: 1. Gameplay mechanics kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYmtkneLoMSJg7s 2. Spellbreaker build kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJqmeZqFmrVnZ8k

[@ihadnoideathatgoogleallowe6551]

I'm about to get a new pc. I say it's a high end one and I'm excited to play gw2 in high settings and high fps. I've been playing in a shitty laptop and been contended playing at 38 fps for 6 months at the lowest quality 🤣 I only get 60 fps on core tyria maps where I'm the only one playing. I'm looking for settings guide and this one is just right in time.

[@udaythambimuthu3176]

Depends on the GPU, CPU, and having an SSD (an NVME m2 SSD is ideal) all make a difference. Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date, whatever graphics controller software you have is set to leave GW2 alone (Nvidia GeForce experience/catalyst control centre, they try to fight the same settings to "optimize quality/perfomance", but all it does is mess with the game's settings and cause headaches.

[@noelsantos8434]

Hey Vallun, nice video, i have a question, i was trying how it feels the "instant cast" and the "fast with range indicator" on the ground target options, but if i select them instead of normal, the n4 skill on harbinger shroud wont do the leap to enemy instead makes the toon leap where it stands, what am i doing wrong? im not using key binds thou(maybe thats the problem?)

[@Puppet33]

It will go to your mouses location. So if you are clicking the skill it will default it where you stand

[@ryukjoga]

@@Puppet33 Oh, good point, he's probably clicking the skill lol.

[@Metanoia85]

excellent video :3

[@georgefron7163]

The difference you show at the start is a bit missleading as one is taken at night, and the other during daytime. Lighting is different depending on day/night. U should have put both night/day.

[@Vallun]

I wasn't willing to wait another day night cycle to get them at the same time, but the main difference is how fluid I move my character with good settings

[@georgefron7163]

@@Vallun oh, you actually read comments. Here's my sub :D

[@UndeadR]

Thanks!

[@TheDovahlemon]

Hey Vallun I am rather new to the game and am wondering about classes that aren't too crazy to learn that I could take into all game modes that can make the learning curve a bit easier and not be too overwhelmed, I played a Demon Hunter and Warrior in WoW and a Samurai and Red Mage in FF14

[@Vallun]

warrior is great, but maybe you'll like revenant if the energy resource doesn't bother you too much, if it doesn't revenant is definitely good for all game modes

[@TheDovahlemon]

@@Vallun cheers might try out warrior as well as bladesworn looks like a vibe

[@kevinlee4449]

I too played DH and Warrior in WoW. A revenant using the standard Power Herald build really reminds me of old school Arms warrior. The way revenant legends work is a lot like stance dancing from WoW. Of course there’s a lot of major differences and maybe some other professions would technically be more like a WoW warrior, but nothing comes close to the “feeling” I get from a power revenant to compare with a WoW warrior.

[@omnithewolf3628]

Would you recommend collecting everything on the map? Aka Vistas and the Hearts etc

[@Vallun]

you may as well because you get a bonus when fully completing, and they all give xp anyway

[@fazoodle7972]

Fantastic thank you

[@TheRexTera]

Is there any external way to deal with Screen Tearing? I tried turning Vertical Sync on in game, but it gives me input lag. Any suggestions???

[@daniellelee4005]

Hi Vallun, is it okay to set the Frame Limiter to 60 even if I have a 144hz monitor?

[@MrJueKa]

What`s the benefit of this setting? I`m using a 165Hz 0.8ms monitor and GW2 runs fast and fluid and looks great. So why should I limit the monitor`s potential?

[@Vallun]

Limiting frames would normally not be necessary since 90% of computers can barely reach 60 frames in GW2. Setting it to unlimited is only really useful for people who want slow motion since beyond 60 frames per second is practically indistinguishable, but as I said it may not make a difference either way.

[@MrJueKa]

@@Vallun "... since 90% of computers can barely reach 60 frames in GW2." ... really ? I`m running an AMD system (Ryzen 5600 CPU + Radeon 6700 12GB VRAM GPU + 16GB 3200 MHz RAM + AMD FreeSync Premium + AMD SmartAccess Memory enabled via BIOS) and sometimes achieve the highest FPS of really up to 165 FPS depending on the in-game situation, on average the value is around 97 FPS, all according to the information in the game itself, in the "AMD Radeon" driver software and in my PC monitoring software, in GW2 I`ve enabled DirectX 11 Beta.

[@Vallun]

but you have no issues with that high FPS right? Usually when you have a system that can run that fast you have a monitor that can display it as well

[@MrJueKa]

@@Vallun aye, no issues at all, no matter which game ... my monitors: 2x "iiyama" Red Eagle G-Master GB2470HSU Fast IPS 165 Hz 0,8ms 23.8" FullHD 1080p Monitor ... it`s a superb monitor and a bargain, only the buit-in speakers are a mess, an issue with many monitors, but no problem either with my JBL 305P MKII active near-field speakers + JBL 310S subwoofer or my HyperX Cloud Stinger gaming-headset ... my tip for those who are on a budget: ELEGIANT SR100 USB Powered 6W Soundbar

[@killval849]

PST I believe originated in Everquest, it means: Please send tell.

[@cearanoir]

"WTS fungi tunic 50kpp obo PST!" ... in the EC tunnel or in Kelethin :)

[@NeinDao]

great video

[@kakamyanyor7069]

thank you

[@Moonwired]

Show simple condition floaters shows exactly the opposite of what it explains textually >

[@lestertalde9707]

welp my map stuck at top. i cant move it below

[@lightaspected]

*watching this despite playing for 2 years*

[@deleteduser432]

I'll share this vid to my Taiwanese friends!

[@omnithewolf3628]

Is 63 FPS a sweet spot?

[@rocsocom3166]

I try download it. It won't let open new account. i try. good luck with game.

[@ihadnoideathatgoogleallowe6551]

Sometimes it happens. It happens to me too. Try using other browsers.

[@marekrebros]

its interesting that you use "pst" for whisper chat....in my language (czech) we using "pšt" if you want silence someone =D

[@arcanespirit6001]

BRU IAM SO USED TO OSRS I CANT USE RIGHTCLICK TO TURN

[@maxzett]

Sorry, but some of this is just not logiacl at ALL: - DPI Scaling should ALWAYS be off due to issues with addons and blurry text - DX11 should almost ALWAYS be on even in beta. There are hardly any bugs at this point and if you got a somewhat newish (im talking like GTX1000 upwards) PC you won't have an issue, but experience like 50% fps increase in some zones. - also the 60fps Lock is weird.

[@Vallun]

ok thanks

[@neronthetyrant]

you say the word "detail" like britta perry says the word "bagel" in community

[@andreistan2830]

"i disable the menu in combat, it occupies too much of my screen" I guess you never experienced the 50 addons WoW. Basically, it is 80% HUD, 20% game on your screen

[@ersetzbar.]

its all nice settings until you update nvidia driver and gefuck experience overwrites everything... and I was wondering why WvW became so laggy again...

[@TL-xx2em]

GREEN WITCH TIME

[@victorpetrescu13]

I just want an option to mute the unicorn bow... I would even pay for it

[@Vallun]

its literally in the audio options other player sounds

[@victorpetrescu13]

@@Vallun tyvm for your answer. while that may be useful (and I do use it in raids when I have 5 ppl that shoot unicorns in my ears) I don't want to mute all projectiles. I like the sounds and gw did a great job with them. I just want to mute that particular item (and I am fairly sure I'm not the only one). there is no option for that (and I don't expect it to be) except altering the actual file.

[@Vallun]

@@victorpetrescu13 it wouldnt mute all projectiles, just ones with unique items which would generally be the pony bow

[@victorpetrescu13]

@@Vallun tyvm. didn't know that. the option name is missleading. will test it today. if this works... epic.

[@lion423am7]

I want to play the game but keyboard and mouse ain't for me and the steam controller thing is clunky I don't know why they can't act controller support Final Fantasy XIV did guess I'll stick with them why they winning wow controller add-on is okay but there trail sucks can't see if I really like the game

[@Vasil-m8i]

I can't enjoy it because it has a very difficult movement and control, otherwise the game is beautiful, it looks like it came out of a beautifully drawn book with magical stories. But that's all, I can't enjoy pvp because I can't coordinate movements and stuff left over.

[@ever_grey4468]

I absolutely hate GW2 UI. Icons are way too small in a completely invisible spot (Boons/condis). Which makes it hard to play for me. I came from WoW years ago, tried the game and could not stay. I missied proper PvP arenas, but I could live with that. Lack of addons or customization to the UI made it unbearable. Lack of constant DPS meter is also cursed.

[@duncanrobertson6472]

I don’t know if this is helpful, but as a veteran pvp player in GW2, I don’t miss or need any more UI than the game provides. I have no issues reading buff bars. Seeing tells and animations in the game visually is much more important than UI related things anyway. There is a UI scaler in the settings if yours is too small for some reason.

[@ever_grey4468]

@@duncanrobertson6472 I know the scaler, but it scales everything... I just need reposition and rescale the boons/condis. I know that seems like too little to be concerned about, but it makes the game absolutely unplayable for me. And trust me - I tried. I have 3 max lvl characters, on which one is half ascend half exotic gear.

[@snepgl]

As a GW1 to GW2 vet I would not recommend using these guidelines as any kind of "bible".

[@Vallun]

why would anyone be using a youtube video as a bible

[@twistedcherrypop]

it is pronounced GREN-ITCH NOT GREEN-WITCH even though it is spelt that way

[@High_Exotic]

[@mallowmarsh4334]

You kinda copied reshaded3d's video.

[@Vallun]

who?

[@mobileplayers5008]

Dang this game is dated