Guild Wars 2

Jayne.9251:

Glouryian.3765:

Thank you for not reading my post. Reporting that issue did not help much.

Did you file a ticket?

I don’t mean right clicking him in game and reporting. I mean filing an actual ticket with the “violation” category?

Yes I did file a ticket.

Thank you for not reading my post. Reporting that issue did not help much.

So, there is a guy on our server, who is tagging up regularly. He mostly closes his squad but I managed to join it once. Its mostly joined by about about seven accounts, most of them seemed to be quite new, with names like dsfsldfhsjhs (example) and about 50 achievement points, staying on different maps. He then runs up to the upper right corner of desert borderlands, where continuously an opponent runs towards him with autorun, he kills him, he comes back, he kills him and so on.

So this is a really obvious attempt of abusing the reward track/pip system. I reported that guy quite a few times but nothing happened so far. Please look into this issue!

SlippyCheeze.5483:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Glouryian.3765:

Its up to you now – deliver or lose. Simple as that.

I don’t know if you know, but they’re working on a Native Mac Client.

Also, threatening the developers is the least effective way to get anything to happen, and the most effective way to get your entire comment ignored. Nobody really wants to listen to someone who is yelling at them and threatening them, my friend.

At the end of the day, ANet are working on the problem. If you give up before that happens, you give up. Threatening to leave isn’t going to make a difference one way or another.

Well, seems like it worked.

Thanks, Anet.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Glouryian.3765:

Hello good Madams and Sirs,

I am utterly upset that still after almost five years there still is no suitable solution for Mac users to play with. I recently bought myself an iMac 5k with a m395x and the gaming experience is even worse than with my 2012 Macbook Retina.

Even though the graphics dont hold any challenge to the new system at all the client keeps crashing and by all means crashing a lot. It crashes when I open the map, it crashes when more than five characters appear on screen, sometimes if I move even, it crashes with high settings, with low settings, on low and high resolution and there is nothing I can do about it.

It is making me angry that this still is happening, in a game about five years old, since than advertised to be suitable for Mac users and no, it is not! Mac users like me belong to your most loyal fanbase, against all odds I still kept playing the game, investing my money, my time and have been patient with you and your continuing promises of improvement – if you even answered at all -, which never happened. You even closed the Mac subforum and still there is the big BETA sign on top of the client and is making me sick!

This is false advertising, broken promises and most of all a betrayal to all those who believed and still kept investing into the game. We even continuously listened to those who blamed US, because we were the ones after all not buying a different system just to play one game which was promised to us as being playable on a Mac system. I am tired of explaining my guild members and online friends again and again why my game crashed, why I cant play with higher character details even though my system is more than up to it, why I still cant open the Blacklion Shop sometimes.

And I am tired of lousy excuses and vague answers and I am not alone. I am not asking anymore for advice or if there will ever be any hope for us or if you even care at all. Because you answered, you answered by doing nothing for five years, you even managed to create a 64bit client in the meantime and for us nothing changed.

Its up to you now – deliver or lose. Simple as that.

I don’t know if you know, but they’re working on a Native Mac Client.

I sure do, but “working on” and “here it is” are very far away from each other. So far we have seen nothing of it.

Hello good Madams and Sirs,

I am utterly upset that still after almost five years there still is no suitable solution for Mac users to play with. I recently bought myself an iMac 5k with a m395x and the gaming experience is even worse than with my 2012 Macbook Retina.

Even though the graphics dont hold any challenge to the new system at all the client keeps crashing and by all means crashing a lot. It crashes when I open the map, it crashes when more than five characters appear on screen, sometimes if I move even, it crashes with high settings, with low settings, on low and high resolution and there is nothing I can do about it.

It is making me angry that this still is happening, in a game about five years old, since than advertised to be suitable for Mac users and no, it is not! Mac users like me belong to your most loyal fanbase, against all odds I still kept playing the game, investing my money, my time and have been patient with you and your continuing promises of improvement – if you even answered at all -, which never happened. You even closed the Mac subforum and still there is the big BETA sign on top of the client and is making me sick!

This is false advertising, broken promises and most of all a betrayal to all those who believed and still kept investing into the game. We even continuously listened to those who blamed US, because we were the ones after all not buying a different system just to play one game which was promised to us as being playable on a Mac system. I am tired of explaining my guild members and online friends again and again why my game crashed, why I cant play with higher character details even though my system is more than up to it, why I still cant open the Blacklion Shop sometimes.

And I am tired of lousy excuses and vague answers and I am not alone. I am not asking anymore for advice or if there will ever be any hope for us or if you even care at all. Because you answered, you answered by doing nothing for five years, you even managed to create a 64bit client in the meantime and for us nothing changed.

Its up to you now – deliver or lose. Simple as that.

Im still in favor of this idea. Map completion takes forever and prevents WvW-ppl to do what they consider fun. Any chance of getting this?

Already done it once and its enough. With the second character its just a waste of time, nothing I care for at all. But if you and others are not the same opinion thats fine for me. You may do map completion all you want, as long as there is a suitable alternative for players in WvW.

The thing is that it would not get easier with my suggestion, actually you would need to invest much more time than doing it in PvE. It just offers another option, nothing more.

Uhm… a WvW legendary would be great but is not really part of this discussion.

And yes, it would open the possibility for people to get PvE rewards without doing the content. The barrier between WvW and PvE has been torn down in some aspects lately, to give WvW players access to ascended gear, etc.. It should not stop there.

Im not promoting to give WvW players map completion for free, quite the opposite. But to give better access to rewards which are not at all available if you only play WvW. If PvE players feel thats unfair (even though I dont exactly understand why, it doesnt give them any disadvantage), a possible solution could be that a player has to do map completion at least once with a character to get access to map completion via WvW rewards for the next character.

PvE players don´t have to do WvW map completion anymore, why should WvW players do PvE map completion?

I am full with Monica here. It gives WvW players more choice. Yes, 1,9k proofs would be expensive, but if you feel its not worth it, you can still do map completion in PvE. Actually I have in mind that people would combine these to options so in total its less of an effort to get the map completion done. People would probably start to do the fast and easy maps in PvE and the missing rest through WvW proofs.

Hey,

I would like to suggest the idea to make map completion of the PvE areas available through WvW.

We already have the possibility to earn Hero Challenges with the Notarized Scroll of Heroics. It would be great if we could earn Point of Interests and such with this too. It would take at least 1,8k Proof of Heroics to get full completion which seems to me like an equivalent effort to make. Hearts could also be made more expensive.

Map completion can be a really tiring experience especially if you are a frequent WvW player and just need it for your legendary. Adding this option would provide a good but not to easy alternative.

Kind regards
Gloury

Its impossible to do anything, without about ten FSP showing up and hunting you down. They are just upgrading our keep again and we cant even flip the camp or kill the dollys, cause we are outnumbered af.

But well, FSP has always been one of the most unpleasant servers to fight against. Constantly flaming, spawncamping and such. Hopefully we do not see you guys again anytime soon.

Same thing today…

So much fun! Thanks Anet!

Jayne.9251:

Glouryian.3765:

The whole matchup Kodash vs Baruch vs Far Shiverpeaks & Whiteside Ridge & Fissure of Woe in a one picture.

Needless to say: I´m out of this.

Pssst .. there’s two other exits. Sneak out the back and flip something behind them. They’ll lose their minds and stop with the stupid spawn camping.

Pssst .. guess what happens, if you sneak out and flip something elsewhere? Right, a group of fsp-gankers or the whole zerg shows up. And they will do so continuously.

Btw we still did not manage to get back our keep, cause they are spawncamping like crazy and the garrison is completely filled with siege. A very fine matchup indeed.

The whole matchup Kodash vs Baruch vs Far Shiverpeaks & Whiteside Ridge & Fissure of Woe in a one picture.

Needless to say: I´m out of this.

The whole matchup Kodash vs Baruch vs Vizunah Square & Augury Rock & Fort Ranik in a one picture.

Ebg completely red, groups of about 20 people spawncamping with ballistas, acs and stuff.

GG anet

Blackwood, therefore I love you!

It would be great, if you could add some mechanics to prevent the misuse of the tactivators too. There is always some troll around and activating them in the wrong moments so you cant use them on a real inc. A solution could be for example that tactivators can only be activated while the tower/keep is contested. Or that the guild claiming the object can decide to make tactivators only available for guild members through a button in the guild menu. Just suggestions, Im pretty sure you come up with better ideas.

Whoat, still no confirmation on new hot light and medium outfits? There can´t be anything more important to do with the game than this issue!

Leo G.4501:

Khyan.7039:

I agree. More varieties the better.

My favorite set :

And yet it still comes with a half-dress

And its only an outfit. :/ I wish for some actual armor pieces to give us some creative freedom. They could shove it into the gemstore and Im sure lots of people would buy these. Your opportunity to become rich Anet!

Another solution would be to hide chest armor like gloves, etc., but actually Im not completely in favor, I would prefer some decent clothing options instead or both.

Dearest wonderful Anet-people,

there are often complains about stereotype female armor, which sometimes seem to depict a somewhat sexist image. I am – like you – a huge supporter of gender equality and therefore demand: Give our male characters some sexist outfits too!

Seriously, have you girls and maybe guys(?) ever tried to create a male character with light armor, which gives at least a bit of an impression, what the defined body you chose before might look like? The opportunities are endless – about five chestpieces, which mostly do not represent any kind of aesthetic sensitivity and one is not even available any more (tribal pvp thingy).

Wanna see a bit of the wonderful shaped legs, slightly darkened by the endless hours in the hot sun of the silverwastes? Well, here you go: you have the wonderful choice of three!! more or less (less!) revealing light leggings. \o/ Yep, three out of sixty-five available pieces. /o\

Lord Faren is a role model for us all, showing us the finest of his attractive being even in the most desperate situations. A mesmer who wants to follow in his footsteps has to suffer a most painful death caused by the consistent ugliness most of the more revealing armor pieces come with. How is a mesmer supposed to indeed mesmerize his opponents if he looks like a dork? Exactly… maybe the next oneshot-warrior will laugh himself to death seeing the poor range of acceptable light outfits – and even than he will look more appealing.

Am I exaggerating? Of course not! The truth may be even worse! With more dragons and other horrible creatures to come in the future – how are we supposed to face the most desperate and gruesome situations ahead of us without the sweet reminder of the wonderful human, norn, charr and maybe even asura corporeality? The signs aren’t good but you, you wonderful beings of designers and artists, you can help the circumstances change for the better for all of us!

Give us some male light armor to work with! If you need inspiration, which – given the case these kinds of armor are not there yet – might be necessary, I recommend visiting a gay bar or just try to leave the house once when the sun is shining and see, how even men are able to dress up in attractive yet dignified ways. You will be surprised!

Thank you very much for your highly appreciated attention and consideration. We are eager to experience your wonderful solutions for our desire for some male armor goodness soon.

Yours kindly,
Gloury

Taking most suggestions made here into account WvW could become even worse. Seems like most people fancy a flat small map with no objectives whatsoever and just two groups of warriors beating each other up. Please notice that there are also people including myself not to unhappy with WvW at the moment and are more likely not posting here, because they don´t have major complaints.

Actually – and this comes to my own surprise – I think the current state of WvW isn´t that bad. To me it seems that most people are just struggling with it cause they are to lazy or to unwilling to adapt to changes.

1. The current stability works fine. To revert the changes now, after many of new abilities were introduced since, is not a good idea. Quite the contrary I feel as a backline much more useful in zergfights now. The old melee trains were boring and skillfully not challenging. Now front liners have to show much more ability than just pressing one, but to learn movement and timing their skills right.
But I agree that the overall balance could need a bit of evaluation. But please don´t just listen to the lobby that whines most and carefully look into each class.

2. The Desert Borderlands get many bad remarks. I used to dislike them too, but now after a few months I got quite used to them and their mechanics. Compared to the alpine borderlands they are much more aesthetically pleasing, offer more strategic options for roamers and feel so darn repetitive in their overall design. I agree that some changes in the positioning of towers are needed to give them strategic value. A rotation with the Alpine Borderlands and open waypoints on all keeps owned by the team would do in my opinion. And if you should be able to fix the heavy lag issues I would favor the bringing back of the oasis event.
PvE elements are fine. The Alpine Borderlands had the ruins, now the Desert Borderlands have the monuments. I don´t see a big problem here, but much more the ability for small roaming groups to make a difference. The oasis event was quite fun too – if it worked without lags.

3. Don´t even think of touching siege. The constant complain about people who use siege is ridiculous, its a fine element which gives much more strategic opportunities and therefore more gameplay value. I really like the shield generators how they work at the moment. It is true though that some siege positions especially for catapults (like the one under the bridge of Veloka) are quite bugged and need to be fixed.

4. Scoring is fine how it works now. By buffing PPK you discourage small groups even more to take on fights when outnumbered, but more encourage them to stay in their tower or run away which doesn´t help.

Sounds to me like small roaminggroups wont be able to much in the future. Dont know, if I like that. There is enough blobbing already imo.

Ehm. Yes, very funny. Some serious answers maybe?

Glad I found this topic. AT brought me a lot of trouble lately, cause it did not work as intended. Really disappointing, especially given the long cd. Any recommendations on what to use instead?

Mh. Well, I would craft ascended just for the stats anyway. But actually I want to slot in one of those WvW-Infusions, so it has to be ascended. And so far I can see there are not lvl 78 ascended back items, or are there?

And also this!
Ow dear. This does not seem to be an option at all. Especially for guys with infused stuff. There really should be a possibility to change stats. ._. Pleaaase!

Mike, thanks for the infused-tip! Have not thought about that, it might actually be worth a try!

Edit: Oh, I forgot how expensive ectoplasm got. 100g for a stat change it not cheap at all.

Meh, but that´s actually quite inconsistent. Back items like Light of Dwayna are very cost intensive and it would be a shame to have them lying around unused. ._.

I agree on jewelry, but back slots are quite different and harder to obtain.

@Zypher: Oh, yes! You are right of course. ^^ Anyway it would be nice to change stats on back items. ._.

Dear lovely Arenanet-Magicans,

firstly thanks a lot of making it possible to change stats of ascended gear. It works most splendid on weapons, armor and… well. Meh. That´s the point. It does not work on back items.

Would like to know, if they were simply forgotten or are not changeable by intention. It would be a unpleasant thing to craft a new ascended back item again. ._.

Kindest regards with lots of male gamerlove.
Yours
Gloury

A Russian localization would be great, I agree on that.

Regarding linux I would recommend to improve the Mac Client first, which still is utterly flawed.

Spiuk.8421:

I have news for those esentially complaining about not having a group to do the content with, this is a MMO, socializing is and should be an important part of the experience.

Get. A. Guild.

Thanks, I am member of a few guilds and quite happy with it. And no, I dont feel like joining a 200+ We Do All Worldbosses Yolo Swag Imba Guild just in order to get some content done, which supposed to be manageable without it before.

Thareen.5471:

Who said it was soloable? Or that it even should be?
If i wanted to solo everything i would just play Skyrim or whatever.

The point of the “solo” argument is, that you have no control over the people joining in and their behavior. People argument “stop pressing 11111” have a point there, problem is, that you if you are not joining a huge guild or community, just have to be lucky to get onto a good server.

moiraine.2753:

LoL i couldn’t agree more.If people even refuse to adapt and try new tackticks that is just……If people try to learn something new instead of just whining on the forums that will be great.

lol

There is nothing new to be learned. Its just more dmg, more people and more tedious – thats it. No new mechanic, no new moves at all.

Big plus! Definitely a need!

Sidain.6059:

Tequatl IS POSSIBLE to kill still.
-Seth

SS taken about 10 mins ago. Was 1min 30s left. Did it with pugs
good job everyone who’s been there!

Nobody says its impossible. The question is whether its worth the effort and if the changes really are “more fun” or just a scam to give some wannabe pros the idea of a challenge, even though no mechanics are changed and more pug maps will simply fail cause of missing amount of viable people.

If you are all fine doing twice the work for the same small amount of loot – go ahead!

moiraine.2753:

Finding good server means you are actually putting the effort same minded people like you.Who come organised.Bring consumables,buffs,proper builds and gear.That means a good server.People that don’t just spawn for the free kill.

Brings me back to the question: Which options does the game offer for a user to find such a server besides the group search? People who are not part of a huge guild or community should be able to do this content aswell.

Also i clearly remember when Tequatl was 1st revamped (long before TT was introduced) that Anet wanted it to be for more organised groups.

To 07.06.2014 random groups still couldn’t kill it.It needed more effort than pure whishful thinking.

This was a totally different deal, because the mechanics were unknown. With this changes the mechanics are still the same, now it only matters, if you are lucky enough to have a map full of good people.

moiraine.2753:

Also why are you complaining about it but don’t say anything about TT?Tequatl and TT have one and the same auditorium in mind.

That the point isnt it? They didnt have the same auditorium in mind so far and they shouldnt. TT is not worth the effort and Tequatl is on verge being the same.

If you are as good as you claim to be you will find a map that is not filled with the casuals.You don’t have to search to much.GW2 comunity do every day tequatl runs.They are not even a guild.
If you just want a free kill then you are not on the level experience that you think you are.

This is so wrong on so many levels. How is finding a good server in any way linked to skillfulness? The game only offers the group search and than its only luck.

VaLee.5102:

Double the time for the same rewards? Noty.

This!

nosleepdemon.1368:

You read it here folks – self proclaimed Good Player doesn’t want to adapt to new mechanics, defends casuals who also don’t want to learn new mechanics.

New mechanics? Tequatl got new mechanics? Hahaha. Nope!

Fine guy, you want to down teq everytime so your feels aren’t hurt? Make a Casual Mode Teq with Casual Mode loot – no exotics or weapons cache for you, leroy!

The loot is a scam already. Exotics? Weapon cache? Like that one I got in over 200 runs? Oh yeah, totally worth it.

Tequatl is of course still doable.
Is it worth it? Hell no!

But if its so easy to make you believe, you are playing a challenging game, why not buff each foe creature by 100%? I can see this game becoming really fun and enjoyable!

Its oddly funny, how so many people consider Tequatl now a challenge by simply having more HP. If you enjoy yourself dumping your damage into dmg-sponges? Nope, having a ton of HP doesnt make any boss a challenge at all. The whole event is as redundant as before. Only difference is, that you are just much more dependent on which server you are on and which people joined. And than its just a matter of luck or having a big enough guild. And thats the part which is frustrating. You cant kick impersonating uselessness from the server, you cant force people to not go afk, to teleport if dead, etc.

And thats the reason why these changes and the people who are in total favor of these are so stupid. The content is the same, there are just more reliable players needed to succeed and the game doesnt offer good possibilities to control them. I would have been grateful about anything, which actually increased the difficulty by mechanics. There have been many good suggestions of moves, which would add some very interesting and fun(!) improvement. But the attempt to increase the difficulty by just buffing the HP up like kitten and people actually buying that as “more of a challenge” is totally pathetic.

On EB its impossible for us to switch SM. If we do, everyone gets kicked out and everything is weirdly rolled back. Even daily achievements are broken. The SM owning server site has an unfair advantage out of this.

Matchup for this week totally invalid. Fix this, please!

Hello everyone,

am I the only person, who can´t buy gems via credit card, etc.? I tried three different payment options, typed in my data and… error-message. Contacted the support several times, but nothing happened so far.

Small hint: Apple-users like to waste money, so get it fixed and we will stuff our money down your throats till you vomit.

Kindest regards,
Gloury

Well, I have not tried out WvW yet, but the main boss events are doing quite well again. Many thanks, this improved my overall enjoyment of the game pretty much. ^^

1. Thief
2. Nekro
3. Warrior

Ehm… feeling kinda stupid here, but yes – it works ^^

Thank you kindly

Hey there,

Im using a MBR Mid 2012 and Im wondering how to fix a little problem of mine. When I play GW2 full screen I cant switch to other windows, which can be very annoying when using TS3 or else. So I normally play in windowed mode.

But since the native resolution of the retina is 1440×900 I have to play in 1280×800 resolution or the bottom of the game screen is being cut off by the top menu bar.

So… is there any solution that I either:
- am able to play full screen and switch to other windows quickly
- or can hide the top menu bar, so I can see the full size of the game?

For the second solution I found a few hints in forums to change the info.plist with “LSUIPresentationMode” (http://tinyurl.com/nn5pgpn), but this unfortunately didn’t work. Any suggestions?