Guild Wars 2

Even that dinosaur Warcraft has the function. You block someone for whatever reason, you never have to run anything with them ever again.

Do it.

Can’t enable it game-wide? Enable it for PvP.
Cull the trolls, cull the uncooperative, cull the ineffective as we go, let people find those they can work with.

Automated ranking alone is not enough.
Let players choose whom they ascend with.

“…we’ll be releasing updates to structured Player vs. Player and World vs. World,..”

This?

Don’t.
The game crashes and kicks me off WvW servers in the full heat of battle whenever it is overpopulated and someone else joins the queue, and I don’t even know what prioritises a newcomer over someone already in a fight, except for systemic inefficiency.

I lag whenever there are 2 zergs on a map. What is the actual, non-lagging, usable capacity of any given WvW map? Hardly able to carry 50 v 50 plus several roamers, apparently.

Now you will attract more players into WvW with your reward carrots.

Pips, mips yadda yadda is all very cute and PvPée, but secondary in comparison to your hardware speed and capacity.

1. I’d rather you spent my money on fixing the base code and increasing both capacity and connectivity power of your actual servers than superficial UI coating that I can remove from sight and fight without.

2. Oh, and if you want anyone to take WvW seriously outside of WvW (which you probably don’t, since GW2 is a PvE-minded game in its foundation),
A:
Enable In-Game WvW Rank/Achievement Titles that anyone else in the game can see. Just like PvP. WvW Rank, Kill Rank, Res/Heal Rank, Build Rank, Scout Rank.
B:
Hold Tournaments. That Dolyak Statue’s gotta change. Publicise the finals as they happen. Show WvW off.
C:
Stop the ‘reward the higher population’ mentality: you are not prepared for the influx of people, and it will kill off already dying servers, and degrade the awards for the roamers/scouts we have. Enable a Scout tag, with rewards per tick/capped building presence/in-out of combat state. Scouts don’t necessarily belong to a squad, as much as the whole server. Their information is vital.

If you insist on this, then release the actual population numbers of WvW servers. Not just, ‘High’, ‘Very High’. Let us compare and jump on the bandwagon you’ve made for us. More transfer gems for you, more rewards for us, right?

D: Turn the Obsidian Sanctum into what it is meant to be: an Arena.
Guild vs Guild, Server vs. Server. Guestable in Guild vs Guild mode, to borrow from an idea previously stated in the forums by Aitadis.

Swagger.1459:

Can you say what your point is using 1 sentence please?

“Don’t nerf WvW rewards to cull PvE trash like you did with PvP rewards: it discourages old players, and will lose you actual tournament level players.”

Only WvW has no IRL cash value of bringing any players in because, hey, guess what, no WvW tournament.

Those who play it, play because they do.

Main acc has HoT. ‘Saving’ my other core Guild Wars 2 account for who knows what and when, like for instance Elona and Deldrimor maps, oh, and that Seventh Dragon, for whom we will need full aquatics that we keep making fun of. WHOLE maps, not just a tri-layer club sandwich of terrains served in morsels like HoT. I like jumping puzzles without gliding throwing me off target. I like Tyria as-is. Also, HoT is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to World vs World and PvP – save for builds and gear. Otherwise, story can go hang as far as PvPers are concerned.

HoT maps are hurried fixes to a financial problem. Whatever the dreamers were dreaming, they were put out in a massively orchestrated rush.
These maps are narrow and layered, instead of widespread and varied in terrain, with fun ambient conversations to overhear like beautiful Tyria proper. The warrenlike navigation of some will only appear to the Rabbit-spirited among us.
I think if they spent money on fixing what they already have, sifting the core code for bugs, it will sell.

Don’t forget the other giants out there: Black Desert Online, for one. Courtesy of NCSoft.

Up their server speed and down their bugs. Market. Make playing less of a run for materials and more of a game.

I would love to buy the entire world just to run in it.

Anyone got billions?

Could you please put up a golem that does not fall below 1 hp, but can have all sorts of damage/buffs applied to it, the way players are allowed to receive buffs when testing DPS, so that we can test our healing skills?

This may be abhorrent to the principle of avoiding having a healer class, but the way things are going, raids are veering us all towards the classic ‘holy Trinity’ of raiding: Tank, DPS and Heal, with the added Condition Damage as icing on the cake.

So, kindly let us test our healing abilities as well, please. All I am asking for is a heal dummy in addition to the DPS one.

With so much to already do, will Divinity’s Reach be broken?
What are they doing?!!

A day without Tyria is like a day without water.

The density is caused by a history of crashing whenever an update happens. ‘Please’ is not going to excuse your name-calling.

Thank you for the last advice. As for opening this thing, I need someone who knows how. It’s not just a matter of a screwdriver. We also HAVE had a dust storm over the last two months. Makes sense. Poor machine.

CELEBRATION!

Talek.6795:

Chaps, we have some very good news news from the latest AMA with devs:

Mac Client
-We have new build servers coming online.
-We are beginning to expand the client to internal teams to increase testing.
We will release an alpha version of the client for experimental use (like we did with the 64-bit Windows client) when it’s building and running internally on a consistent basis. It will probably require a bit of Mac smarts to install it so it will be for hardened explorers only.

Dulfy

The only quick fixes to the Mac beta client I ever saw over the years was when Mac beta customers could not access the gem store. Anet sorted that out within a few days. But to be fair that was still when it was with Transgaming.

When money talks…

While waiting for the native Mac client I’d suggest bootcamp Windows if you can. I finally gave in and it is like night and day as far as performance. I only use it to play GW2.

Can I PM you for advice on that, please?

Now it’s crash with overheating. I hit 70 Celsius and it’s BOOM! Screen freeze, system shutdown, every 30-40 minutes, or wherever population is high. If this is your way of telling me to buy a new computer, I am sending you the bill. This baby has another 4 years in her, so help me Grenth.

Wouldn’t be surprised if tech support’s head is abuzz with the Spice Girls song opener 24/7.

What I really, really want?

A crash-free, bug-free game.

That includes your so-called ‘updates’.

Whenever you do something big, do the Japanese thing:
Backtrack TEN steps, make sure you leave no-one behind in being able to access your game before you move forward with an update.

It’s called ‘finishing’
and ‘quality control’
and ‘forget Thanksgiving and Christmas, keep things running smoothly and on schedule, you can save the big announcements/new maps for next year.
You don’t have to rush a half-baked job for every holiday on the calendar in order to please the management’.

Otherwise your ‘updates’ end up as downgrades.
Unable to access the game for three days running. You have my crash reports.
Bon Appetit.

Lexander.4579:

gw2 at release was a glorified indie game to be honest, incomparable to how finished and polished gw1 is

gw2 still has plenty of those indie artefacts from before but the game is slowly starting to take shape of something serious finally, even if not all HoT decisions were good

Something to ponder.
I want to go to the original Tyria again.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

No, no roll back.

I would not want to give up:

• Permanent and actual “autolooting” (as opposed to the manual ‘area-looting’ we had before).
• Gliding
• Elite specs & Revenant
• Ember Bay & Bloodstone Fen
• The changes to infusions and fractals.
• All the loot, unlocks, achievements, and other ‘progress’ I’ve made since.
• “Salvage all”

+1 to all minus Ember Bay & Bloodstone Fen. Those two need to be done far more diligently.

Carighan.6758:

I would definitely like to go back in regards to the following two changes:

• Trait rework (it needed a rework, but this one turned out to be nearly worse than the original).
• New Player Experience (the starting zones used to be full of flair and theme, now they feel rather sterile and broken, even to a new player)

+1

Dear Tyria,

Going through Arah, I thought and said to my companions, ‘Imagine, all this and it is just one dungeon (well, it IS a former capital city of Tyria, it SHOULD be large). Don’t you feel like we’ve been …well, the new maps are smaller than even this dungeon, and they are given the status of entire zones.’

I feel cheated.
Yes, the Maguuma Jungle is wonderful. As a playground, that is.
But it is nowhere as… connected? Relevant to the main story of Tyria?.. as the rest of Tyria proper. It’s a complex farming ground, starring Mordremoth. The Exalted and their tale, their relation to Glint, is crucial. Then forgotten. There is also far less independence of spirit in the zones of the Maguuma Jungle. The characters have less …spike? Don’t mean to make plant puns, that is the Mad King’s domain, but, they feel less like independent realms than an interconnected playground where we jump from tree to tree.

Bloodstone Fen is tiny. Ember Bay/The Ring of Fire? With all its relevance to the story of Tyria, should be more than a passing mini-game.

There is a marked dilution of the importance and relevance of the character story as one further rises in skill in the game. Remember the choices one can make by increasing ferocity, charm and dignity? What good do those do, in stat terms, in-game?

The starting zones have so much detail, so much work in them that whenever I return, I find something else that I have missed.

THIS WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL.

I know I am asking for too much when you had promised us never to have to pay again for an expansion/expac.
It is expensive business to make a huge map like that of Arah or Orr.
It takes time. Your money department is probably waving papers over your heads.
I am willing to pay and wait for Season 3… well, 4.
A full, complete map. About time we went to Elona.
Deldrimor…what is left of you now?
And those Canthans, how long are they going to trade internally?
The Dominion of the Winds cannot remain aloof for long, much, either.
Will the Largos permit safe passage across the sea?
Will there be pirates? Whales, puffing?

Are the White Mantle gone forever? Is their current presence a final gasp before their death-rattle?

Will we ever meet the Forgotten?
Will the Jotun recover their lost heritage?
Will the Kodan lead the North to a final victory against Jormag?

Or will Tyria explode from the constant draining and return of magic, or die with the final death of all dragons, eliminating all life, save for a few souls able to foresee this and settle on another planet?

What will happen?
Where will you take us next?

Please do not hurriedly put anything together, and please do make sure it is vast and each point worth exploring (and is numerically profitable (stats if not loot) to those less of a ‘game tourist’ mindset).

Let participation in living world/open events provide a stat boost depending on where and whom (power boost for helping the Vigil in Timberline Falls, for example) and how (carrying tasks build power, sneaking stuff past aggressives gives precision, etc). The boost fades by the end of the week, and you can have, say, boost combinations for certain stats to encourage participation in different live events. Say +1 per stat per event with a maximum cap of +5 in one stat, plus a cap of +4 and +3 in other stats per week – not valid for PvP. Actually, make it valid for all playing formats, if you want more people out there in Tyria.

Have a rotation of stat rewards from all open world events within a map, minus world bosses.

There is plenty of material for us to experience while we wait for you to carefully smith new horizons for us.

This has turned into a two-in-one topic. I have digressed.

The idea is, I am willing to wait.
Keep the more advanced busy by appealing to their thirst for bigger numbers.
Allow the less advanced to gain more mobility by enticing them with stat rewards hidden in events and interaction with the denizens of Tyria.

Meanwhile, I am waiting for the rest of the map to slowly open.
Slowly, plentifully, in full size and detail.

Dear Devs,

Please return the music-per-map sequence that existed before Heart of Thorns.
No need for cheery music interludes from Kryta or Maguuma pieces in Arah. ‘The Promenade of the Gods’ belongs to Orr, not Lion’s Arch, regardless of Hallowe’en.
Create special festival pieces for Hallowe’en, where possible.

Let Kryta, Orr, Ascalon, Maguuma, The Shiverpeaks each have their respective music tracks intact, please. Same applies to dungeons.

Grand music has been made for Guild Wars 2, all in the spirit of Guild Wars, and in keeping with the spirit of the new Maguuma.

Cutting it into clips and inserting it here and there does not go unnoticed- it jars the mood of the places we go.

Kindly respect all the effort made by yourselves and the honourable composers you had/have/will recruit to make the spirit of Tyria even more beautiful by providing us with (literally epic) music of such high quality, even non-gamers can enjoy it when they hear us playing.

Thank you, with much appreciation.

Maurier.6094:

The true black dye is called Abyss.

Rarest dye out there for obvious reasons. Sells about 4g on the TP.

I was lucky and found one on my Thief followed a few minutes later by ‘Evening Red’

I will have to try and snag a pic when home. She is way hotter than these pics … well maybe except the Charr

4g for Abyss dye.
My, oh my have we come a long way, Anet!

Yuki Aburame.5283:

Tried to make him look a bit more captain/commander like, more than a sneaky thief.

I like him!

Being most saintly in the Silverwastes.
I daresay the great Turai Ossa’s heroic aura has rubbed off on him.

Captured thanks to a game freeze due to disconnection.

Danikat.8537:

I recently got around to creating my final 3 permanent characters and spent what my husband tells me is an absurd amount of time coming up with names for them. But to me the name is at least as important as their appearance and I want to make absolutely sure I get something I’m going to be happy with.

But it did make me curious about how much thought other people put into this and what kind of things you consider when choosing a name.

For me the most important factors are:

1) It should mean something, reflect the characters appearance or personality, even if no one else will understand that without me telling them.

For example my asuran necromancer is called Ambage. Which is an archaic English word that means a long-winded and overly complicated description. I stumbled across it while looking up Latin words (more on this below) and decided it was perfect for an asura, and especially the one I was planning.

It can be a lot simpler than that though. My yellow/orange themed sylvari warrior is called Aurhedyn which means ‘gold seed’.

2) It should look interesting. Which to me usually means not using English words. English isn’t the prettiest language and it’s also my 1st language so it’s a bit dull to me.

For example I wanted to call a GW1 character Holly but it didn’t suit her. I remembered liking the Latin word – Ilex. I added the Latin for ivy (Hedera) and got a name I liked so much I reused it in GW2.

3) Ideally it should be lore-appropriate.

At least it shouldn’t stand out too much, but I’m willing to be flexible. Like the above example of Ambage for an asura. It’s longer than most asura names, but inline with ones like Batanga or Hrouda.

But sometimes sticking to the lore can help. I was really struggling to name my norn revenant until I looked up norse names. Then after a bit of debate over my favourite I picked Vanirar Corvusson (‘spirit warrior’ ‘raven son’).

So that’s me. How do you do it?

Glad to find a kindred spirit. Agree with all the above save that English can be pretty, you just have to be in the right spirit of it. Not exactly florid, but with its own grace, nonetheless. Check noble house names. Possibly applies only to humans.

Norn… It took me four days to name my Norn.

How on earth to make a Viking name that didn’t sound boorish nor offend any real Vikings online, yet sounded right for the spirit of the character you want to play?

A language outside one’s own, extant, with its own flavour. Working with that is far harder than making up airy-fairy names (which I am good at) out of the aether.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You can post in the Sticky above.

Good luck.

Thanks for handling all our headache, even though you cannot present a direct solution.
You have been our customer service representative, Inculpatus Cedo.

/bow

I know the symptoms, but not what the problem or the solution is.
Neither, apparently, does Arenanet.
Taking myself to Guild Wars 1.

Wow.
Going to the real Tyria, now.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Have you tried using a VPN?

So the Arenanet’s rolled back local software won’t connect to our installed software and it is the connection’s problem.

What VPN is free and has big enough a bandwidth to allow for gameplay?
If Arenanet is willing to pay for my connection, gladly.

I have been finally able to access the game for a few hours, for which I am very grateful.
However, I have had to relogin no less than ten times to be able to achieve this.

Until this is fixed, Farewell, Tyria.
Or, at least, this version of it.
I cannot live without you <3

Working today, as well.
Whatever you have done, whoever has done it, THANK YOU!!!
I cannot begin to express the relief at the sense of normalcy returning when I see the regular loading screens upon entry to the glory that is Tyria.
I am home!

IT WORKED JUST NOW.

O, Joy!
After one standstill, I manage to reach the login window.
But cannot log in.
I exit, re-enter, and again, the screen above.
I try again.
It hitches, blaming my internet connection, but lets me into the login screen, the loading screen, and now, finally, …it blames my internet connection and I have to go out.
Still, progress.

Is this still happening? Have you had a response yet?

Thank you also to the kind moderator who let this thread be seen.
Your decency has not been unnoticed.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

For an individualized response, you can contact the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’ for assistance.

Good luck.

I already have, day one, after checking the forums and asking my guildies if they had similar issues, and what they had done.

Thank you most kindly.

This game and the places it has created in my memory is precious to me.

If they fix this, and keep fixing things for the Mac, I will buy TWO accounts on the next expansion, and give one as a gift to a friend so they could join.

One thing they could leave unfixed is the beautiful painterly texture of the game on the Mac as compared to the sleek gloss of PC visuals I’d seen on my friend’s machine.

None of those reasons cited for the client’s inability to connect are valid.
Kindly advise.

This is what I get:

Regev.6971:

Oh, I see. How long have they been working on a native client, and any idea at what time range it’s going to replace the current one?

Four Years! Happy Anniversary!

zombieporno.3920:

I have been trying to log in for two days now, but my client won’t appear. I have updated everything on my mac, and still, no client. It’s driving me nuts.

In the same boat. Am terrified I will lose Tyria.

I paid for a working system.
I got a working system.
You messed up the working system.
Fix it, help me fix it, or give me back the money you have taken.
Can’t restore the time or the memories, but at least pay the cash.

No, I am not going to trawl through forums reading answer upon answer for solutions to one problem one person messed up. Don’t tell me it’s the crew. It is one pair of hands. You know whose. Let those hands fix the code they have broken.
I have always treated your software with respect.

Still not working.
Awaiting instructions.

If I fail to enter this game by the end of next week, I want EVERY PENNY BACK.

Got informed by 3 other Mac players that they are doing fine.
Then what is wrong?

And please DON’T bury this thread under ‘Can We Please Have A Working Mac Client’ like some historical issue.

This is a new issue due to the recent rollback, and still has not been addressed yet.

I have been unable to access the game, and have re-downloaded it, and tried daily.

Everyone else in my guild has access, and I am falling behind.

I have had no response from your otherwise excellent customer service team for three days.

It is the weekend.
You will need your rest after all that hullabaloo, I will grant you that. Rest, and return.

If you have managed to put everyone back online within 24 hours, surely you can manage the Mac client issue as well.

Come Monday evening, I want to be able to be back in Tyria again.
Enough.

I am homesick.

It’s not the Mac client that needs a fix. It’s the internal coding of the game by Anet whose connection to our systems they didn’t bother checking that needs a fix.

How else can anyone who doesn’t even know the ‘c’ of Coding (pun unintended) explain how a ‘door’ that used to work fine no longer has access to a realm, after that realm changes internally? The ‘door’ was fine.
The inconsiderate mason who did a slapdash job of not fitting a proper ‘lintel’ on the interior of the ‘door’ is at fault.

The problem is at the point my computer and the client communicate.
Considering the Mac client hasn’t been changed, then applying the rollback to all character inventories made the modified game software appear FAULTY to my client.

JustTrogdor.7892:

^^ Transgaming is the company that made the port for the Mac client. Awhile back they were acquired by Nvidia.

I hate it when clever Jacks are eaten by fearful giants.

I sincerely hope the 20-some-thousand views on this ‘archive’ thread is not a pretext for our requests to be ignored.

If I cannot log back into the game by the end of next week, I want my money back.

You could do Necroflora, if a Sylvari female. Necroflorian, male.

Menadena.7482:

droogje.6053:

Ok, thank you for explaining it. Still weird that I don’t have crash issues… lucky maybe?

It depends what you do in the game. General PVE in central Tyria? I am probably getting 60 fps because I keep every graphics setting at the minimum. An organized boss fight in Tangled Depths that is going great? I will most likely crash.

I keep graphics to a minimum. I actually like the painted-in effect of textures on the Mac as compared to the shining leather engravings I see (also nice) on my friend’s PC.

All I ask is that Anet fix the MAC CLIENT as they have FIXED the PC CLIENT after their bungling-up of the latest update.

I don’t mind them bungling. I just want in.

HippieJoel.9537:

Xillllix.3485:

Since they started on a native client they probably stopped supporting the beta client.
I also have an SSD and the loading times are extremely long.

Well that and TransGaming are no longer a thing so uh yeah, no chance of updates to the ‘beta’ client.

What is TransGaming, please?

Please!
Nothing is wrong with my machine or internet connection.
After your so-called update then so-called rollback, I have been unable to access the game.
Please give me back what I have paid for.
Please give me back what you have worked for: a beautiful experience.

Login successful…err… until I reach that wee screen you just showed me.
Still, progress, compared to not being able to log in at all.

If the glitch is because people are all trying to relog back in to check on their characters, then this brings me to a classical MMO gripe:

Don’t sell more accounts than you can handle.
If you can’t have them running normally all online at once, you will have trouble!

One year? It feels like two!

Beautiful Tyria, glad have seen you so far, and yet, there is still so much to see!
Life has been irreversibly enhanced by you.

I still have many journeys to make.

Qugi.2653:

Mac beta client actually is now worse than year ago or even 2 year ago. Use to work not to bad. After some patches back in last year it get even worse. I use to have 30-40 FPS medium setting no problem. Then some month ago big loss in FPS even on lowest setting and many graphic error and more crash than ever. Now Nvidia own company TransGaming that make cider wrap and who know what will happen if any thing.

I now use bootcamp windows and it is like new game it work so much better.

The loading times of each map inside Tyria, WvW and PvP have gotten at least 30% slower since HoT. Haven’t Mac users been included in the update?

At least you managed to reach the character screen.
It won’t let me log in at all, citing firewall ad hoc, none of which are valid concerns.
Sent a ticket.
Whose idea was it to time the game update with return to school panic?