Guild Wars 2

Crashed while loading into PvP match, can’t get back into the game without my Mac client continuously crashing. Sorry teammates!

KRERz.7304:

Perhaps disable hard-cap full maps from appearing on LFG?
A problem not exclusive to TD, having half the squads on LFG not actually permit joining kind of defeats the purpose.

You cannot post an LFG for a dungeon/fractal group that has 5 members (full), and notably the existing advertisement is taken down automatically when the group is filled. Something that turns off LFG for filled overworld maps would improve the LFG tool by quite a lot tbh.

I don’t own HoT and completely agree that this would be a huge QoL improvement. Having to manually join 10 different squads for The Mad King’s Labyrinth and finding that all of them are full maps was just a waste of time. I’d imagine the stakes are higher for maps with non-trivial events tied to specific timers.

Sidetracking a little, as someone who doesn’t have the budget for HoT currently (USD/GBP/Euro are much stronger than my local currency so it really isn’t “dirt cheap” as some people claim), is there anywhere I could find competitive builds for the core classes? The search function in the forum hasn’t been particularly helpful, and almost none of the top Metabattle.com builds omit elite specialisations. Will be using these for next season. Thanks!

Selene.9415:

Last, but probably the biggest, thing for me was that the Vinetender event was way too long. I’m hoping the time was extended because of the limited outposts in the Beta, but it really threw me off. All the events leading up to that were amazing, I was excited, and while basic, they were fun (the capture point part of the ruin event was amazing). When we got to Vinetender though, the first few cycles were okay, but I really started wanting it to be over. It wasn’t really challenging, and there didn’t seem to be any sort of signal/sign about progressing through the fight. There were quite a few people in my server who were also questioning when it would end as well. I can’t speak towards the mortar side of the event though, as I didn’t get to experience that.

Wallace MacBix.2089:

During the destroy the Colossal Vine event. I’ve noticed, that the Mortar Supply isn’t able to be picked up directly after the kill the Vine event starts, at least on my Rev it took 2-5 sec for it to be interactable. Sometimes when I do the pick up animation, I end up not actually picking up the bundle. And if two people use the same mortar very close together then it looks like only 1 shot fires and the other ammo is wasted. I feel that it should either not be interactable during it’s CD to shoot again, or make it independent if another player is using it at the same time. It seemed we killed the Colossal Vine event, but didn’t get an event reward and the Vine was still there with it’s shield floating around it, and no new event popped up. I also noticed the protector still alive as well.

This. I was also on the mortar side and there was a noticeable delay between the start of the Mortar-loading event and actually being able to interact with the ammo, meaning that each mortar could only fire 1 or 2 shots off before the Colossal Vine became invulnerable again. This resulted in about 20 minutes of repeating the same thing over and over again which wasn’t that fun, unless we missed something about the fight.

I am getting this annoying bug too with Essence of Luck.

Can’t check it in-game since I’m at work, but is the Greatsword the Imbued version?

Can’t wait to see what other brilliant features are in store for WvW in the feature pack now that they’ve set the bar incredibly low.

Just experienced the camera spinning bug again, just popped up randomly while I was running around.

Thanks for the guide, been trying it out recently. Any tips versus Hambow Warrior or Warriors using offhand sword for Torment/Bleed/Block?

I’ve seen people chatting in Chinese and Korean so I think that it’s definitely possible, just that I wasn’t sure how to do it on the Mac client since people that I’ve asked were using the PC client.

I was in the Edge of The Mists today and someone I happened to party with told me that he was Taiwanese, and that English was difficult for him to understand. I thought it’d be nice if I were able to type in Chinese in case I meet others like him in the future who might feel slightly uncomfortable in a group of primarily English speakers.

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone knows how to input Chinese characters in the chat dialog for the Mac GW2 Client. I can type in Chinese for other applications like Word, Excel etc. by changing the Input Source option, but that alone doesn’t seem to work for GW2.

Thanks in advance.

Jade Quarry, for the timezone I usually play in:

Cloud Fly [TPA] – Has good ‘feel’ for the skill level of the PUGs that follow him on a given day, and decides on the next course of action accordingly. He’d probably use comms more often if there were actually people in it during the times he’s on, I HAVE heard him speak.

Sfeeeee [Ge] – Have not followed him as much yet, but he seems to enjoy killing enemy blobs more than capturing stuff which is always fun to do. Besides, who doesn’t like following an Ascalonian ghost?

1) Native Client. Loads of events in GW2 (Living Story, WvW etc.) involve huge numbers of players congregating together, and Mac users really get the short end of the stick trying to participate in these. If a native client is impossible to make for whatever reason, alternative ways of providing a HUGE performance boost for Mac users should be looked into.

2) Somewhat related to the first point, new content should be extensively tested on iMacs/Macbooks prior to release. Some of the past patches created significant Mac issues when released, a particularly bad one being the (relatively) recent performance bug that made World vs. World (4 fps!) and Living Story unplayable for most Mac users. That would not have been so bad if not for the fact that it took days to rectify – which might have been avoided were it actually tested prior to release.

3) Trading Post and Gem Store issues should really have been fixed after all these months, but they haven’t been.

4) Improved game performance for Mac users.

5) Thank you to those who have been stopping by the forum to respond to some of the issues raised.

Reached the part where Demolitionist Tonn’s supposed to blow up the 2nd Tower and he just stands there and do nothing, even after all enemies have already been cleared.

FPS dropped to an unplayable level for some PvE events as well – It was at 1-4 FPS at Tequatl and the Karka Queen post-patch (Around 15-20 FPS pre-patch).

Mac OS X 10.9.1
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB Ram

Thanks lots, that worked out fine

I’ve recently switched from the PC version to the Mac version and was wondering if there was a way to use the skills bound to F1-F4 without having to hold the fn button, or would the only solution be to rebind those skills?

Thanks!

So that’s what it was… I kept getting knockbacked even after dodging Liadri’s attacks in the absence of orbs. Wasted a few tickets too ><

Playing from Asia, I’m having major issues with this too. The skill constantly overshoots by erratic amounts even when I attempt the exact same jump, making it extremely difficult to predict and get to many of the Sky Crystals. I think this bug needs immediate looking at.

Actually, I thought it was more of the Oceanic/Asian slot where we’ve been getting slammed recently.

Derv The Monkinator.4915:

Crystal desert Guild Leader? I need to talk to you about a CD/FA alliance to take down TC. This alliance will be public becuase if we do not make an alliance, TC will thrash us like they did to FA and Yak’s for the past 3 weeks.

Given that both TC and FA were busy trying to control CD’s BL for about 7 straight hours earlier while leaving each other’s BL almost totally untouched, I think it can be safely said that FA would only adhere to a potential alliance if and only if they overtake CD and move to 2nd place. I know it does make strategic sense for both servers to hit us – TC wants to increase the gap between 1st and 2nd place while no server wants to be last – but it still hurts to be focused-fired on by both servers when we were at our off-peak period for such a long duration.

That said, I think the battles have been pretty fun so far and hopefully fighting in this Tier will help our Commanders/Players learn and grow. I’m still seeing too many CDers smash their heads on reinforced gates instead of running supplies and building sieges, or Commanders who are so focused on offense that they take an objective, leave if without defensive siege and lose it 3 minutes later.

Here’s hoping to a fun matchup for the rest of the week!

Storm Eagle.9320:

CD was an interesting fight, but they were truly overwhelming at times. I hope this turns out to be a close and even match-up.

The good ol’ folks at YB knocked us (CD) down to Tier 4 to begin with so if they play anything like they did 2-3 weeks ago… it’ll certainly make for an exciting match =p

Zinthros.6589:

Rhyis.7058:

Mag generally doesn’t drop superior siege, it’s not a normal thing we do. Just sayin’.

We do drop a metric ton of normal siege though.

Yeah, we pop it for important things like keep and garrison. EB and CD don’t pop it at all. Hell, the other day CD was running around with a 100 man zerg chopping gates down bare-handed in Eternal. That’s why they’re the lowest ranked of the “24/7 queues” servers. It’s funny because they’re also incredibly tryhard. Only 2-3 CD showed up for fight club, and they repeatedly tried to crash it screaming “NO FUN ALLOWED!” Must be frustrating to take WvW that seriously but also be so awful at it.

All I’ll say is that it’s worrying that someone who has to exaggerate that much is a guild leader of a WvW guild – I’d have thought a more objective person might suit the role better. I logged on around 10 pm server time today (which I’d have thought would fall within the NA prime time) and found no queue for any of the Borderlands nor Eternal Battlegrounds.

That said, he does raise a semi-valid point. A fair bit of players on CD do seem to rely a little too heavily on Commanders or other players setting down sieges to the extent that they’d attack even Reinforced Gates barehanded while getting mauled down by enemy arrow carts, until someone finally decides to set up a siege. This is one area we should really look to improve on, and hopefully get it rectified by having the various guilds discuss the importance of this with their members. I’m a guildless player who does WvW for fun sometimes and even so, I carry with me blueprints ranging from arrow carts and rams to Alpha Siege Golems so there’s no excuse for more WvW-focused players not to carry any – even if you donate some to your guild commanders.

Do keep in mind that while CD has a few WvW-focused guilds, a decent proportion of the population you see in WvW come from random people who are trying out WvW for fun or simply to take a break from PvE (which CD probably has the most focus on out of the higher Tier servers) , so I think it’d be unrealistic to expect perfect strategies or a ton of small-numbered roaming groups from us – which is yet another area we can improve on since it actually generates more points.

Rhyis.7058:

Diehard.1432:

Oh Mag..bunch of whiners you are.

Well here’s a twist. I’m pretty sure Mag is the most laid back server on the planet.

Agreed. We’d all do well not to let one or two bad eggs from each server tarnish our views of the server. Let’s enjoy the battles for the rest of the week!

Gator.7581:

Draziert.9508:

Possibly off-topic, but could I get a rough idea of when the NA prime time is in terms of server time?

Yes it’s at about…and our troop placements and numbers are…hey wait a minute here. Go Google it. ;-)

I’m not sure why you associated a simple request related to time zone with a request for strategic WvW intel – I can only assume you either did not comprehend the question or wrecked your mind trying to think up some ill-intention behind it.

Gator.7581:

Since we are on the subject, what time do most of Crystal Deserts biggest guilds come on to play? I’m just curious.

I’d ask you to Google it too, but as azizul has already kindly replied, we have some larger Asian guilds coming out to play around 6pm – 1am GMT+8. I’m not sure which are the larger U.S. and EU guilds on our server to be honest, as I’m not on during what I presume is NA/EU prime time hence my initial question about what those (NA) times are.

Possibly off-topic, but could I get a rough idea of when the NA prime time is in terms of server time?

HeavenOrHell.1067:

Obie.3268:

Horrible event planning, screwing the Asians out of participation. No communication at all with the Elementalist community. Anet is really starting to lose touch with its community.

I’m is SG and the one time event starts at 4am in the morning…….
Spent 2 hours trying to get into an overflow but then this rolled in
Disappointed since I missed out the entire Halloween event and wanted to at least complete this one
Guess not

I’m from SG too, I sent in a ticket during the Halloween Event and was told to post my feedback and suggestions in the forums. I guess its obvious now that whoever plans these events do not check the forums at all considering how much negative feedback was present at the time – even if it was only a cinematic then. This time round, they made the same mistake and going by the map chat on the various overflow servers, lots of people missed out on the chest too due to legit family and work issues, not just us Asians.

Would like an invite too if there’s any still on

I have 3k attack, 45% crit rate and 20% additional crit damage – and Berserker is spewing out 500-900 CRIT on its first strike. That’s more than 50% less damage than it did pre-patch. Also, it feels like the crit rate has been reduced even with Phantasmal Fury traited – but I’m not sure if that’s my imagination or whether others have noticed it.

aaron.7850:

Stop being a baby, our class dominates in PVP, they only fixed a blatant BUG and increased our portal CD.

I am proud of my class and regardless of changes, I will adapt and play to the best of my ability

The Mesmer class only “dominates” those who have no clue how to fight them. Up against a competent opponent who knows our mechanics, I find that the odds of winning tend towards 50-50 and actually make for entertaining fights to watch as opposed to videos of Mesmers doing full shatters on stationary opponents. Granted I’m no hardcore PvPer, but the number of times I’ve come across people (team mates) fighting Mesmers in non-tournament Heart of The Mist matches without using CTRL-T is appalling.

That said, the latter part of your response gives me the impression that you are either willing to take our continuous nerfs lying down, or that your main is actually another class. I am primarily a PvE player who does some WvW/sPvP to change things up a little, and it does gets frustrating to see our PvE damage (factored over time) constantly getting dumbed down due to all the whining in PvP.

Ireniicus.2167:

CD I believe are the weakest in regards to WvW. This may be due to inexperience in tough match ups. They either crush everyone with their off peak zerg or get crushed as they don’t have the peak time numbers. I still see too many CD players milling about whilst putting Keeps and castles under seige and make it far easier than TC do break or least earn a lot of badges. They certainly have a good few PvPers though when it comes to small skirmishes.

I play during the Asian/Oceanic time slot on Crystal Desert and I’m inclined to agree that Crystal Desert has to get more organized. Even during the Asian prime time, I feel that a good majority of our players are just present to gain some experience/karma/gold from taking over Towers and Keeps without bothering much about defending or upgrading them, hence TC and YB can simply re-cap everything we’ve taken once our zerg moves on to a different borderland or the Eternal Battlegrounds. This doesn’t apply to everyone of course, but I am sure the TC and YB players who have been re-capping after us would have faced a lot of instances of PvDoor.

That said, I’m not sure about the other Asian players but it was a tad demoralizing for me at least to log in today and find ourselves more than 20k points behind the leaders when we left our shift with a difference of around 4k points the night before. Fair play to the TC and YB players, you guys have certainly made a great difference to the scoreline during NA and EU prime time! Even your night time crew have done a fantastic job in keeping us at bay this time

To the other Crystal Desert players, let’s give the other 2 servers a good fight to the end, and subsequently work on improving our strategies and resource allocations!

UberLander.8326:

Just visiting from FA. Can someone post SS?

Thanks,
Uber

NightShadow.1429:

You guys realize that the only truly one time event is the one on the Sunday? And even that runs for multiple hours, so you have plenty of time to experience it.

Given that it kicks off around 3 am – 7am on a Monday for Oceanic Players, anyone who’s schooling or working would probably be able to log-in only roughly 12 hours or more after the one-time event chain begins in the U.S. . I sure hope they took that into consideration considering the amount of negative feedback they received during the Halloween Event (granted it was only a cutscene then, but who knows what this one may be?).

Human Mesmer, no speed buffs. I hated it at the beginning due to the buggy resets and the crowd of people restricting my vision, but it turned out alright in the end and was even fun to do!

I am using a Dell Wireless Optical mouse and have been having issues whereby the camera registers the right-mouse button as being released when I am trying to turn the camera. This means that I have to right-click and drag multiple times to turn the camera, especially during movement This problem has been present since Day 1 and has yet to be resolved despite me sending in multiple bug reports about the issue.

Now, under normal circumstances, this does not cause too much inconveniences for me except in PvP/WvW. However, the release of the Halloween Jump Puzzle – the Mad King Clock Tower – has brought a new sense of urgency to me regarding this issue. The puzzle allows almost no room for error, which means that the camera failing to turn even though I have not released the right-mouse button certainly results in failing the puzzle. This is not an issue in normal jump puzzles where I have sufficient time to right-click, hold and shift the camera properly before making the jump.

I have tested my mouse on the highest graphical settings on other games, including Aika Online, Battlefield 3, Sevencore and Allods Online without experiencing any of the right-click, hold and rotate camera issue.

On the first day of the Halloween Event, Maklain was moving around several areas (e.g. outside the Bank, up the ramp leading to the TP etc.) surrounding the Mystic Forge in Lion’s Arch and singing about the Mad King Thorn. I tried looking for him in those areas again today and could not seem to find him.

Would anyone happen to know where he has been shifted to? It seemed like a pretty nifty thing to add to the Halloween Atmosphere!

I actually like how the AC Medium Armor looks and wish I could transmute it to light armor, but sadly my Mesmer will never get to look like that.