Guild Wars 2

I am going to write my list assuming that a native (non-cider) client is a pony that is unlikely to happen in the near/medium future; so these all wishes for the existing cider client:

1. Resolution of the existing crasher bugs that have been in the cider client since launch…. or at least for a very long time. — Hopefully the mac support people have a better feel for these since they crop up in the forums week after week, but in my particular case it would be the “dstBits” or “lockedRect” crashes that seem to occur when you have graphics settings cranked up and are in a place with a whole lot of models and spell effects, such as WvW zergs or living story content. This would be the single biggest QoL change for me because it would mean I would stop crashing in the middle of events and boss kills and losing credit for them.

2. Fix the trading post / gem store loading issues. — I feel like I am playing the lottery every time I try to load up the trading post or gem store… sometimes it works… sometimes the spinner just spins forever… sometimes it loads the gem store tabs but not the rest of the content, etc.

3. Investigation into major performance bottlenecks. — I have a 3.2Ghz quad-core xeon (Nehalem), 16GB of ram, and a GTX 680 with 2MB of vram. It is no pro gaming rig, but it should be pretty reasonable. Instead, if I sit still in front of the mystic forge, set the graphics preset to “Best Performance” and change the resolution to 1024×768 it is just barely able to get over 50fps… this is pretty miserable. I understand that cider is having to translate DirectX -> OpenGL so some performance is always going to be lost… but 50fps while subsampling 1024×768 on a GTX 680 with the lowest possible settings is just crazy. It has to be getting tangled up in something else. (Attached a screenshot)

4. It is 2014… surely TransGaming has made a 64-bit version of cider by now so that we can use more than 4GB of memory and have High textures and stuff… right? If not, please post their customer service phone number and all of us will be glad to call and complain directly to them.

5. Not a complaint/issue but since you said these could be anything, thank you for continuing to support the mac client even if it isn’t a high priority! I would be very sad if mac support was dropped.

^this. same here…

Why everytime I switch toon, stop playing for a day, etc etc, my BLTP always show a blank screen. I’ve relog, restart client but no result.

Each time I need to apply that GWII-Update-009524 that I got from somewhere within forum to make it works.
It’s not major, but so annoying if I need to do it every day. Sigh

Anything to fix this permanently?

I was reading the Flameseeker Chronicles about housing and really really enjoyed the idea one of the commenters had based of of LOTROs housing:

“The system was realistic in the idea that some games will not have completley open housing system. Instead, the game had clusters of player houses called Neighborhoods, that it could just repeate again and again.

The idea of neighborhoods was great – housing was still instanced, but you could be together with friends / family / guild. The ’hood could offer services and such, to make your housing more than just a personal thing, but a community building tool.

What it didn’t have, and where gw2 could expand, is bringing more activities into the neiborhood. Leaderboards that can be filtered down to the neighborhood, bandit raids (or other guild mission acitivies) that happen in the neihborhood.

The ideas are endless really… but the idea of it is, housing does not need to be just a instanced singlular player thing that becomes dull after some point and only used for storage."
by damarus9

This got me thinking about animal crossing and how fun it was to find items to put in your house and even interact with some of those items.

I thought this idea was worth putting in suggestions if and when the devs get around to house. (Look at what you could put in the gem store for housing items!!!!!)

I think it would be awesome, and I know we have all been thinking about this, WE NEED GUILD HALLS AND PLAYER HOUSING. It is just that simple. We should be able to buy lots of land (instance based), and have a mansion for the guild to just chill and train.

My Guild RLR, would love to meet up not only on teamspeak but at the guild lot/hall/mansion. A lot of our expenditure would go towards maybe having a garden, or a room for people to hangout.

1. New Zones (Underground Tunnels, Labyrinths, Catacombs, Cities and towns, and more for PvE, PvP, WvW)
2. NPC Bounty Assistants (By talking to NPC, They can help Guide you to where Bounty was last spotted)
3. Mounts
4. New Support focused Class (Class that provides multiple boons and focuses on supporting their team through boons and attacking enemies with CCs)
5. New Epic Encounters Similar to Tequatl. (Basically; Raids)

1. New Zones
2. New Races
3. New Professions
4. New Skills/Traits (Including weapon skills)
5. Revamped Zones

You know, there used to be a thread that was all about listing player’s most wanted additions and changes. It used to be stickied, but has since been unstickied. If I find it, I’ll link it here.

1) Multiple different Sub Classes for all of the current 8 Basic Classes + a 9th and final Basic Class for a 3rd Soldier, the much needed Lancer that brings also Polearm Weapons like Halberds, Glaives, Naginatas ect. into the Game.
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I want to specialize my Thief finally into an Infiltrator or a Rogue to see some kind of seeable real Character Progression in this game, that feels like being raised up in your personal character’s career. A feeling, we’ll receive only with implemented Sub Classes. Character Progression with only more Skills/Traits alone won’t work.

2) Racial based Mounts with Mounted Combat, which can’t be used in towns and in generally can’t be used in the Heart of the Mists and aren’t in WvW permanent.
Mounts in WvW have to be RENTED and can be used only with GUILDS, because Mounts would require Art of War Rank 10 and once your Guild has this rank to use rented Mounts, they can use Mounts for 24hours after spending a certain amount of Influence and Guild Merits and Mounts would work basically in WvW like Golems.. they have also a own high amount of health, but once once their health reachs 0, they are dead and the player that used the Mount, won’t have it anymore, unless the guild rents a new one.

3) Housing

The personal player instance needs to become finally really a place, that also visually shows player progression with an upgraqdeable own House that the player can decorate as he/she likes with items like Marjorys Diary, the Model of that other living story patch, the skill point node and various material nodes ect.
It can be used to omplement new craftign jobs that are based on Housing

4) More new Weapon Types like Polearms (Halberds), Whips/Chain Sickles, Claws, Great Axes, Quarterstaffs, Crossbows/Recurvebows, Flails, Throwing Stars and more of the existing weapons for the classes, like Offhand Swords for the Thief as example.
But an absolute no towards all weapons for all classes

5) New Playable Races like the Tengus, but absolutely no to everything that doesn’t fit:
Centaurs, Quaggans, Grawls, Skritt, Kodan, Ogres, Dwarfs, Largos… a complete no too all of this crap, if Anet should ever add more playable classes besides Tengus, they should be something completely new, something that we have never seen before and basically lives on an other continent, like Cantha, Elona, or Utopia best to say, something, that simply works as a great addition of being new allies against the elder dragons, that have their own big main town, are customizable, have a good and feasible lore that isn’t boring and just totally flat, like that of the Largos or the Kodan.
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My Top 5 and from those 5 things the most I want currently is Sub Classes, they would add from all 5 things the most to this game.