Guild Wars 2

Tom.8976:

I really like the current animations please don’t change a thing it’s a super nice aesthetic and one of the main reasons i love the soulbeast, plus it’s a good visual indicator to the enemy that the ranger has merged with his pet.

Edit: Please don’t label this as a “Fix” there isn’t anything to be fixed this is just some peoples preference.

I agree, I like it and wish we had more effects as the other professions got. But some have suggested a checkbox in the options for those who do not want it. I think thats a good idea.

So many of the pets are grossly underpowered. Thats why I mainly stick with the HoT pets. So many things about Ranger that needs love. This is your chance Arnet to take the Soulbeast and do something fantatastic for us. It has great potential. There are some really good suggestions on this forum I hope they read and take heed of.

InsaneQR.7412:

My topic is basically the same. I made about 27 points to improve the spec. Beastmode swap is always first.
In the main game forum is a beta weekend feedback and pretty much every soulbeast improvement is “allow petswap in beastmode”. Pretty much the whole ranger community is on the same page here. So all i can say is i can agree with you.

Everyone does seem to agree on that one And get rid of the CD

kiritsugu emeya.3962:

although it has some problems soulbeast is still fun to play and here is a vid of my gameplay with it in wvw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po4F7l73oaU

build used:
full mara with monk rune for the boon duration (protection)
and 4 captains trinckets

zerk lb with sigil of energy and bloodlust sigil
zerk gs with sigil of energy and sigil of air

traits:
Wilderness survival 232
skirmishing 211
soulbeast 323
unstopable union for 4s of unblockable attacks when entering beastmode which is vey usefull
essense of speed for the boon duration
and opportunity survival for the dps buff

rest of the utility skills are the same as in the vid.

i think that soulbeast has aot of potential, it just needs beastmode pet skills buff/fix
and nerf cd on stances with a change of some traits to help more in survivability

I hope u enjoy the vid and thanks
and make sure to tell me what u think of soulbeast. please try not to be negative

Great vid, thanks for showing that. Awesome fights.

Gosh, can’t believe what people complain about. I think its a nice change, we had the other for so very long. And I like the colors.

I would love some more underwater maps! or areas, hearts. I know some don’t like it, or say its terrible, but some of us love it.

Tried it again today, was a bit better, but I get a lot more damage from my condi ranger with axe and torch and traps. They walk away dying. Short bow stuns traps hits them with damage and cripple.

Loved the holosmith! If they don’t nerf it. That’s what happened last time. Engi was really holding its own in pvp with the elite stun….then then nerfed it and made it useless. Let’s see what happens. Just wish things would really be balanced. No way a soul beast can do the damage the engi, mes, necro did that I tried out in the last two days. Just saddens me.

I agree completely. Very very sad. Seems left for last and got the least….all around me was fantastic animations……I got a green swirl with no power. No a lot of things. Like looking in a candy store, but you can’t have any.

I was so blown away by the magnificent display the new elite specializations showed, along with the damage they are putting out. Ranger is my main. With all the fantastic effects and colors I was seeing, I couldn’t believe the ranger would be left out again! I really don’t understand. Then I thought, let the demo come, maybe I’m wrong and SoulBeast has some wonderful things we didn’t see on the Guild Chat.

I played today. I’m sadly disappointed. We get the one green swirl, and transparent animal images on utility stances that look like the ranger sword attack with a different animal in green. The lack of damage and mobility with the dagger is pitiful. How are we supposed to chase down a player in PVP to attack with dagger with all the large aoe defenses the other new professions have? No dagger leaps really or a way to quickly get close enough or bring them to you. No stealth abilities or ports.

The new pets are an improvement on some things, but lose half their skills when joined with the player. I liked the concept, but no power and very few new skills. A comment was made on guildchat that all the abilities could not be given or we would be to …..um powerful? Where’s the balance guys? I just watched the thief take out an opponent with a couple of blast from long range. The ranger hits and stabs and he’s only getting 6 to 800 damage each time. Took forever to get the target down to half health. Where’s our aoe damage? All the dagger moves seem the same no matter the pet you choose.
Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how it seems. I kept looking for more and what I was missing. I’m willing to give it more time, as I realize there’s a lot to figure out in all of them. I was glad to see the engi get some love, it’s fantastic what was done there.

We all over the dazzling effects, that we are seeing, except in the ranger. Not that the swirl isn’t nice. If you guys have hidden them somewhere please clue us in. Some of us really love our rangers!!! It’s so discouraging to be out shined time and time again with the preferred professions.

I never get on here and say much of anything. I just had to this time.

RANDOM DC’s anytime …..how about that. Especially during Meta event on any map.
Aren’t please fix this. its just not fair. We are trying to get our completion done on our specialization collections. This makes something hard, even harder or impossible.

reapex.8546:

If you have more than 4 GB of ram use the 64-bit client. If you’re using the 32-bit client, changes your graphic settings (F11) to best performance to significantly reduce the likelihood of crashing.

Even the lowest setting does NOT help. I have 16G of Ram and 1G of video ram. this should NOT be happening!

Kelushan.4701:

It happens to me on any map really. Random crashes.
All drivers are up to date, I ran client repair, and Ive lowered settings (despite having a pretty good comp). Nothing helps.

also to add
They need to change event credit. If youve put in effort onto a map/event then even if you DC it should store your ID and let you back in/GIVE you credit for doing the event if the event finishes before you can get back in and/or if you get put on another map.

TOTALLY AGREE. There should be a way to still get credit for you hour and a half or two hours. Crash, lock up, whatever it is and all that is gone, then the time limit is up and your done for. I don’t normally cuss, but they come to mind often while I am banging on my desk in anger, frustration, etc.

Same problem here!!! So frustrating!

I have a Mac, I have a windows side and a mac side. I have GW2 on both sides. The game seemed to work better for awhile on the windows side. But lately its bad again. It locks up and i have to go back to the character screen to reset it, for whatever reason. Sometimes it puts me back in Lions arch, which is very frustrating. I have to spend more money to get back to where i was only to have the game freeze on me again. I was hoping since HoT release things would get better, but seems not. I have 16 G of Ram and a 1T HD, 1G of video memory. I should not be having these problems. Please fix the mac client!!

Some of my characters go dark, like they are in a very dark shadow or something. They come out of it eventually. But they stay like that for about 3-4 min. Not sure what triggers it, one of the animations that the character does, but can’t pinpoint it at this time. You can make our the armor or any details, very strange. Anyone else have this happen?

Same here, i just quit last night, wasn’t worth even being on. Cant play like this.

I can not even play the Mac client won’t even stay on at all. The PC client logs on but you can’t do anything or crashes, or just locks up. Its terrible! Please Arnet fix this! I can’t even play on the mac side at all.

Kalan.9705:

Loki.4139:

Fix the Elite Specialization . I want to play my class not PvE for it.

Totally this. I bought the expac for new elite specs. Instead I got enforced BS pve grinds again and again and again for every single character.

Its not hard to get your specializations. Getting hero points is something to earn towards it and its part of the game. I am happy i got through 3 of my characters already. Not hard to do. Its a good feeling to have accomplished it. Why do you want everything given to you for free? Earn it. Its very rewarding!

I would hope the ascended drop rates will go back to the way it was. Being able to do one at a time is great. That is something everyone seems to like. But the other things, buying keys and getting JUNK in return stinks. I for one don’t intend to play fractals much until these changes take place. I also expected to have some new Fractals to do since we are limited as to the gold we receive for doing dungeons any more. It ends up being a boring grind, that wasted your relics and gold for receiving junk. Totally a waste of time. I have been getting new players to play fractals, thinking they would start getting some ascended after level 10. Not only did they get nothing, but none of us got anything. Now these people are soured on them and don’t see why they should play them at all.
Our guild ran fractals almost nightly, now…..not.

This is so frustrating…I agree! Some are just contested almost always. If there were more around that were at least close you could get to, but there are not.

Treasure mushroom giving credit to wrong character. I killed treasure mushroom on my engineer and it credited it to my ranger. I need it in both. But I don’t want to be unable to get it for my engineer. So what character do I use to get it? Please fix.

Underdark.3726:

not a big bug but,
minis check box keeps uncheking.

Same with mine.

Waynojax.5380:

Please let me add my name to the list of disappointed MAC users who play this game on Mac instead of Windows. Game crashes and errors that result in lockup the screen. Very disappointing to be a member of a good guild and not being able to join in.

Playing on a new Quad-core 3.7 Ghz Xeon E5 Mac Pro, AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB video with 12 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC of ram. Not a shabby machine by any means, but very disappointing that I have to turn all my video selections to the lowest settings just to be able to solo. Group events with many video details cause a crash every time. I usually get the error 00000005.

I don’t want to spend the money for a copy of windows, another HD for windows etc. I shouldn’t have to is really my point.

Fix it or abandon it. Quit taking no action as your solution to the problem. We expect and deserve better. Or, we will leave and spend our money elsewhere. Up to you.

I have a Mac too with 16 G Ram and 1G VRam, 1T HD having the same issues. I am so frustrated I dont know what to do. This is the main game I play, have a guild of nice folks i like to play with, and cant play. I also have a copy on the PC side of my mac. At first I thought this was running better, but tonight has been the cherry on top. I cant even play 15 min without a lock up or a crash. Im really tired of it.

Also I purchased a recipe for Superior Rune of Tormenting from the TP. Double clicked it in my bag and it says I learned it. However, it does not show up in the crafting window anywhere. checked Armorsmith, Just not there. Looked in other professions, not there. Must be a bug, never experienced that before. (i purchased it twice cause i thought i made an error.

Still locking up and crashing. Downloaded the 64 bit for the windows machine. Doesnt make any difference. Mac and Windows does the same. With all the small updates I keep hoping there will be a fix. Doesnt seem like any is in site. Its gotten so bad I can’t even play in events in HoT. Old maps seem fine, but HoT….bad news. Can’t glide to get points the lag is so bad. When are you going to fix this issue Anet?

iczek.9628:

This is very helpful in obtaining the tiger http://prnt.sc/8wm7wf.

Ethan The Ranger

Thank you, thats so helpful.

Of course i spent 2 hours on the event and it failed. Much work for nothing. Will try again ….sometime. :/

I loved the Druid in the Beta, Smokescale was amazing. Now we get it after looking forward to it and healing has been nerfed and so has the damage on the smokescale. So DISSAPPOINTING. Why do that? Rangers have wanted to be happy for so long, I quit playing my ranger for so long. After beta I couldnt wait to play her again. Its like a marketing come on. Show us the great, then NERF IT. I can see losing 25% damage on the pet, but come on! 50%????

Still crashing on Mac.

Same, over and over. Just bumping the issue again.

Same thing here. This time crashed standing around in LA. Been crashing since Launch evening after first patch.

Got the Fractals Attunement Mastery and went into Fractals to see the offerings. Got transported to island ok, but upon talking to the guy to show you his wares, I got the message that it was disabled temporarily. Same message i used to get when HoM was out. So totally broke.
Anyone else have this issue?

FOR MAC ONLY…..I am downloading new client from the web site. I have had to do this before. It starts up now. You will have to copy your data file to the fresh client. Make sure to put the new client in new folder.
First get the client starting to download, so it makes a gw2.dat file. You then stop it and close it out. Go to the older version and right click on it. Open package contents. The path to the dat file is: /Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/GW2/Gw2.dat.
Make sure you rename the file that the fresh client made when it first started the new download. Then copy over the .dat file from inside the the old client. It will take a few min as its a big file. I should have thought of this before. But usually I only do it when the client won’t open after a patch. I am hoping this time it will fix the crashing. We will see. Good Luck

trueanimus.4085:

nvidia cards seem to trigger the oom errors.. they need to fix this or start refunding peoples money

Its not just Nvidia…I have a AMD Radeon and have the same issue.

I am having the same issue. I have been playing GW2 for 2 years, no problems. First day on HoT was good. After patches …all i have is crash and more crash. Seems to happen after about 45 min to an hour into play or during an event. Which is very frustrating. Happens in fractals as well. I can’t get much xp for masteries as it crashes before the event finishes. I am really frustrated and tired of it after several days. And having to restart the story because of this is really maddening. I like HoT very much and wish to be able to use the upgrade I paid for. I am on a Mac…27" 16G Ram and have a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB….So to Tenelia, No AMD folks are not fine either.
The only thing i can say is Anet has been good about trying to fix things and I am counting on that.

Im still getting this bug….am on a Mac 27"….16G ram 2G vram. Never had this issue playing gw2 before. First day was good, after patch that night….crash, crash and more crashing….video changes to all colors at times, which is a warning its gona crash. Sometimes locks up everything and freezes, or just quits, with fatal error message. I know you have many bug reports Anet, but Mac players can’t do guild Hall things and we seem to be getting the worst of the crashing. Please help. But in reading up, seems many have the problem.

Aazo.2841:

Yeah.. I guess I should put in a support ticket for my Mac as well, even though I am still progressing through the steps listed here: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/265042-basic-mac-beta-client-troubleshooting/

GW2 is totally down on my Imac 27" 5k machine at present. And it happened during one of the subsequent patches on Friday. As I was running it fine Friday morning, then one of the many “mini” patches screwed up the startup part of my client.

Exactly the same for me. Was good Friday morning, patches mess me all up. And same issue with Treasury window. Cant play fractals at all. All my skills freeze up. Hope this gets fixed for mac players.

Meerkatjie.7402:

I’ve been looking around and haven’t found any definitive answers about how small guilds are being handled with the new expansion. I have a small guild (2 active members and 2 semi-active members) where the active members have bought HoT and the others are unlikely too.

I understand that we will need to adventure to unlock the guild hall and that it will likely require at least 5+ players to do so. Is this true and if so how are guilds like mine meant to manage it?

I have a small guild also. I started recruiting new players when ftp came out (many bought Hot then). Many are out there, some returning players. I also have friends in other guilds. If you dungeon or do fractals and meet people you like, invite them even if they have other guilds. They may not rep all the time, but you made a friend that will be willing to help. We did it with two teams of 5. Half were not regular guildies, but ones that rep once in a while, some friends we met. It wasn’t that hard, was really fun and exciting for us. If nothing else works, try map chat and ask some. Im sure a few people would love to go on the adventure again. I would. It scales down and we got it the first try.

Chipofsalt.4673:

With all of the redundant posts on this forum regarding elite specializations being gated behind a heap of prerequisite hero points, I thought it would be fun to play devil’s advocate. Ultimately, I think the issue isn’t the number of points required to unlock them, but the nature of how difficult the HoT hero challenges are.

Here’s why I believe the hero point requirement should not be changed:

1) You don’t need your elite spec to play through HoT.
2) It’s an elite spec – it shouldn’t be cheap by its nature.
3) It incentivizes map completion and/or WvW participation.
4) You don’t need the entire line unlocked for it to be used (or even useful).
5) Keeping them character bound keeps it in line with non-elite specs.

Most of the complaints I’ve seen about the hero point requirements seem to come from our culture of entitlement (I should get it now – or at least sooner – because I want it now).

That all said, I do think there is a HUGE problem with the fact that it’s almost impossible (or in some cases very difficult) to solo the hero challenges in the new zones. If someone is serious about unlocking their elite specialization, they should be able to do it with or without their friends and guildies.

YAY…..Someone who makes sense. I totally agree. This is a instant world. They want it all and they want it now….Just play, explore and enjoy it. If you get it all now, whats to look forward to. Im enjoying the challenge. Its an accomplishment! The expansion is really well done. Spectacular! Thank you Devs for your hard work and good job on a beautiful new world.

Can not donate to guild hall requisitioner. I put items in guild bank. It shows up in Treasury window, but you cannot drag it to donate. So i put it back in inventory. Then Ican drag to + window. The confirm button then will not work. Totally unable to do it.

KyleBradley.4193:

Mine is also crashing constantly…Very annoying!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

OSX El Capitan

Same for me….now locking up.

Downloaded, played pretty well until patches on launch night, mac game freezes, cannot play. This is pretty constant. Did crash some before, but i could restart and go now. Now its become almost unplayable. I think I’m one place and I’m not. Skills start flashing and not responding. Like big big lag. Its gotten bad.
Had to just get off last night, happening so much it just was unplayable. Was having to restart to often. I have 16G Ram on my computer and 2G on video card, so not my computer. It was playing fine other then crashes.

THE GOOD…First, let me say I think HoT is outstanding! Love the game. I know things are more challenging, but isn’t that what everyone asked for? Thank you for all the arrows showing if things are up or down on the map! great idea. Many great ideas and surprises. Thank you Devs for the outstanding job and hard work! Also for the new stats….with 4!!! Just what i wanted! Love it. Finding where everything is and exploring for it is great.

THE PROBLEM: Since downloading the HoT, things were pretty good, had a bunch of crashes, but i could restart and get back in and play for awhile before crashing again. On release night, there was a couple of small patches, after that, its horrible. Still crashing some, not as much, but instead, everything locks. My skill bar starts flashing, nothing works. My teammates go looking for me and say I am somewhere stuck running. I think I’m one place and Im not. This has happened over and over since that night. I tried to do fractals with my guild last night and had to just leave and give another my place. I could not even finish. Last lock up, i Just shut the game down and went to bed. Hope you can fix this. I would love to continue.
Thank you

Only pet i found so far is bristleback.

We plan on getting ours today, if so, you are welcome. The big IF is something else. I am hearing that you have to learn a language to be able to go in that hall. I hope this is not true…..that would be a low blow as NOTHING was every said about that in how to claim your hall. Can anyone answer that?

BTW asuras….you can see videos of both halls in the guild hall office in LA

I agree, this is pretty ridiculous. I know they are worth 10 each, but you can’t do them alone at all. A lot of people were at the event in LA also. Then there are ones with poison all around them. I can see that learning a language for special things you want, but not for hp that you absolutely need. I so enjoyed playing the beta on the characters….now my characters are powerless until they get all those HP. I feel a bit like we were dealt a low blow on that one. I would rather have to do more of them then make them impossible with out help. The challenge is fun if you have others, but many places i found, no one was around at all.

BTW…i saw calls for help on map chat. I would have gladly come help…but there is a sad lack of WP to get around there. And if there is one close, its contested. So thats why help doesn’t come. I know its the first day, but you still have to be able to get around the maps.

He is there, I traded influence with him or her yesterday. Look in all the rooms. I don’t remember which one he was in.

glenndevis.8327:

Dungeons are one of the big things that makes a MMO and dungeons are also the thing PvE players enjoy the most.

PvE players already play Fractals a lot and as far as I know raids will be a weekly thing. (correct me if i’m wrong.) So all this does is give those PvE players less reasons to do dungeons.

Nerfing the dungeon rewards serves absolutely no purpose in my opinion.
What’s wrong with gaining money in dungeons? Isn’t that what dungeons are used for in 99% of the MMO’s?

We already haven’t had any new dungeon content in about 2 years (last one being Aetherblade path, which was great in design & difficulty but terrible reward wise cough see the issue here? cough) and now even the rewards will get nerfed?

This is a big slap in the face of the PvE players who enjoy doing dungeons and who would like to see new dungeon content in the future.

I’m not a hardcore dungeon runner myself, I enjoy doing a bit of everything in the game but honestly, i’m more annoyed at anet trying to get rid of dungeons. Shoving it away as if it was some kind of failed project they only want people to forget about. (Even though dungeons are one of the most successful aspects of the game.)

Whats wrong with farming dungeons? It’s what people do in a lot of MMo’s and people seem to quite enjoy that stuff. So I don’t see why farming dungeons in GW2 has to chance.

It would be nice if there would be more PvE content to do so players can actually choose what they find more enjoyable (and not decide what to do depending on what rewards the best.)

As someone who would have liked at least 1 new dungeon in HoT I am quite salty. (And yes I do enjoy Fractals regularly and I did enjoy the raid during the beta.)

I totally agree. Its hard enough to make gold in this game. I personally really enjoy dungeons and I know many that do. I don’t understand this move on Arnets part. I do Fractals as well, but why alienate players that like dungeons? Seems they are shooting themselves in the foot with this. Forcing people to play the way they want us to is just wrong.

Seth Chadwick.5317:
You can get into the Guild Hall map if you do not have Heart of Thorns and hang out with people, but most of the HoT guild features in there will be disabled for you. For example you will not be able to enter the Arena. I’m not going to go into detail on which specific things will be accessible and which are not because I’ll probably get it wrong

This was on front page. I had this question also, so if you missed it on that page, here it is.

From developer Seth Chadwick:
Seth Chadwick.5317:
You can get into the Guild Hall map if you do not have Heart of Thorns and hang out with people, but most of the HoT guild features in there will be disabled for you. For example you will not be able to enter the Arena. I’m not going to go into detail on which specific things will be accessible and which are not because I’ll probably get it wrong

This is a bug i found with the Druid….I went into pvp lobby to mess around with the Smokescale pet. But the pet would not stay active, it defaulted to another pet. I assumed this was because of HoT not being out yet and us maybe not being allowed to use the new pets in pvp. When i left the lobby, the pet panel was deactivated. It is now bugged and I can not get the pet panel back. The button is there, but it won’t work. So i am petless. Nothing i do brings it back. I hate to delete and start again after setting everything up like i want. And i have ascended gear on there from being in the raid this morning. That was the fun, having the new pets to play with. Besides not doing enough damage without them. Anyone have this happen?