Guild Wars 2

Issues of really choppy graphics and poor control with the mouse (and by that I mean inconsistent rotational speed and having to modify options by logging out of the game and changing systems preferences) still exist after the latest patch and show no sign of improving. Both still gamebreaking issues with no improvement as of yet.

Still going back to the old mac client as it is still better.

Currently, neither Mac client is playable; both have serious issues that mean the experience is horrific. The latest updates to the new client have done absolutely nothing to address the choppy graphics and gamebreaking issues with the mouse. Its still not even worth trying.

As for the old client, which is what I keep reverting to upon finding the new client is still unplayable, there are constant crashes and the performance is poor. In fact, these crashes are getting worse, along with the spectacular return of the heap bytes issue from a couple of years ago. It’s pretty disappointing (this is a euphemism, so feel free to insert expletives of your choice here) to have to queue for a meta map and then wait for half an hour plus, which is a complete waste of time, only for the game to crash halfway through with no chance of getting back into the same map as its full.

Running on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2015)

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,5
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB

AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

First of all, thanks for the Mac Client, had a brief go and its mostly fantastic but there are a few issues which prevent me from using it. The first are the stuttering graphics, incomplete textures, and invisible aoes (not ideal in raids).

The second batch are to do with the controls. Moving the camera around seems to happen at a variable speed, so I can be trying to move it quickly and get a glacial response and then two seconds later, when I just want to nudge it, it spins violently out of control. The other control issue is the need for an invert horizontal axis option. I have my trackpad set up how I like it and dislike having to go into the system preferences and keep changing it every time I want to start the game, just so it responds how I’m used to. If there’s already a vertical invert option, surely a horizontal invert would be easy to implement?

Thanks so far!

Same bug for me – opening certain menus crashes the game completely.

The following have crashed the game: Hero menu, trading post, and pvp menu.

Mac Client, English.

Some of the adventures are fine, in that getting gold depends on a decent amount of practice, like sanctum scramble (took me a while to get gold) or flying circus. Others are just disgraceful, with shoddy design in terms of the mechanics and skills. The worst offenders are:
Shooting Gallery – an FPS in GW2? Really?? Who even thought this was a vaguely sensible idea…
A Fungus Among Us – bad mechanics, poorly designed and tested skills, frustrating and not challenging (there is a big different between the latter and former…) It also bugs probably every third time I try it, with skills cancelling halfway through and the gates not counting, no matter how many times I dance to and fro across the line.
Haywire Punch-o-matic – just a ridiculous requirement for this one
Masks of the Fallen – Same as Shooting Gallery. An idea that was implemented poorly and doesn’t belong anyway.

I only have silver in the floor is lava, will probably never get gold, and I’m not really too fussed. I don’t have an issue with the requirement sometimes being tough but poor design of the level in some of the adventures suggests nobody really tested them. Not even remotely acceptable if you’re going to hide mastery points behind them.

Furthermore, gating these adventures, just when you seem to be hitting your stride in terms of practice, is unbelievably infuriating. I’ve got gold in the majority but I’d happily see every adventure and all the related achievements and rewards disappear entirely if all the bullkitten went with it too.

tl;dr Remove the gating and either fix the bad adventures or remove them entirely. Otherwise, they’re a pointless, poorly designed, waste of space.

Bootcamp drivers are at the latest version. I guess I’ll just have to go and buy another mouse but these are stupid issues to be having.

I did say I tried using an alternative mouse but that too had issues.

So after the horrific experience of HoT in OSX, I decided to try and install it in Bootcamp. I only have windows for one specific piece of design software, as I prefer everything else in OSX and this one item doesn’t have an OSX version, plus I get it for free from my university. I figured this was the only option to play the game, as the Mac client just gets worse and worse.

However, my trackpad doesn’t work properly, touch to click (which works everywhere else in windows) doesn’t work at all, the right hand click doesn’t work, scrolling is messy and inconsistent, and ordinary clicking doesn’t work half the time either. No joy with a proper mouse, either. Similar issues aplenty. Any ideas on how to fix this? Note that everything works just fine everywhere else in Windows, the issues are ONLY in Guildwars.

At this rate, I’ll probably go back to using the Mac client because I could at least play properly, even if it was only for around 5-10 minutes before crashing…

Update: now the client fails in every area of the game.

I now can’t play in any of the Heart of Thorns map areas for more than about two minutes without having a client crash, usually because of the heaped bytes errors but there are several others that pop up. Pretty disappointing.

No, there have always been massive issues with the current Mac client. The best solution would be a native client, which is exactly what Anet said they were going to deliver. I somehow doubt they’re going to make good on that one, though.

Similar story for me; I’m running a brand new Macbook Pro 15" with the best spec available from Apple, as I’m a design student and needed the graphics, etc., but the game is stuttery, the graphics are shoddy, and I’ve had a crash every 15-30 minutes. It’s pretty disappointing, to say the least, especially considering I’ve paid for both the original game and the expansion.

Fair enough! Haven’t taken my engineer into WvW, so I’m just toying with ideas at the moment. The problem with the engineer is that there’s too much to pick from!
Grenade/elixir build for power:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqelspiYnvSdF17IyoCdmoHPm+BZfeIXpFEC-jQyAYrAiuQYDBM5VEN22QR0Y12YKXA9bS1wRGA-e

Having just raised my engineer to 80, I was thinking of rolling this build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqelsp6ZX3SiF17ISoHSI+pWiUgZW2HFyVaB-jwxAoLhQqBA5BMFWEN2aaR0YVzER1KbMA-e

It’s probably along a similar line to several tank-type builds out there but I wanted to make something that had the capability for dishing out as well. It’s got a decent amount of power and a bit of condition damage but mostly focuses on the engineers capacity for healing and the synergy between inventions and explosives with the bomb kit and grenade kits. The elixir gun is in there for more conditions and healing. I’m looking to use this in PvE and WvW.
Before I go mad buying exotic and ascended gear, I’m just looking for a bit of feedback and any suggestions or comments from people who use something similar.

If I have a set of the holographic dragon wings and use them on a back piece, will the appearance be transmutable, like any other skin, if I decide to replace my back piece in the future? Has anyone tried to do this already? I have a set of the wings for a character who is not level 80 yet and want to use them immediately, hence the question.

Let me start by saying that I am running the Mac Beta Client, so am unaware if this is a universal or client specific issue. As to the what, sometimes when I’m playing PvP and am defeated the game will get stuck on a loading screen while moving to the waypoint; when I say stuck, I mean permanently. The only way for me to fix this issue is to quit out of the game entirely and restart it. As you can imagine, this issue is most annoying and needs resolving. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

I’m British and, therefore, it’s spelt armour for me.

Thanks for the link and info, though, much appreciated. I couldn’t find anything on the PvE version of it, unfortunately.

Can anyone tell me which armour the following is (and where to obtain it):

http://i.imgur.com/PJV9Q.jpg

It is the armour seen on the human female mesmer at character creation, so is a light armour class.