I've heard a few reports of Wine Staging 2.0 providing the best performance with CSMT and D3D9. The patches above also give pretty significant performance boosts to Guild Wars 2. So ideally, this Wine may be useful for those aiming to have good performance with Guild Wars 2.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/espionage724/wine-patches-laino/