Guild Wars 2

“Your mother nearly died, you had to murder your older brother to save the world. Let’s have a funeral for someone totally different you barely even knew HYUK HYUK!!!!”

Laptop working, desktop still not working – it won’t even launch.

Blackwood.9072:

SOLUTION:

Go to your GW2 application. Right-click and choose “Show Package Contents”
Navigate Contents -> Resources -> transgaming -> c_drive -> GW2
Rename gw2.exe to oldgw2.exe
Rename gw2.tmp to gw2.exe.
Launch GW2.

The launcher will start and will begin the download. I’m downloading now.

Once the update is complete I will quit and relaunch to confirm whether this fix persists or not.

This fixed it for me on my retina macbook pro \o/

+1 from me.

I’ve tried running repair. Failed.

I’ve tried reinstalling. Failed.

The symptom is that the game client and launcher windows are essentially not loading or not rendering. MAC OS thinks those windows are there but they are either entirely transparent and non-interactive or not rendering.

I’ve been having this problem on my desktop for over six months now and gotten nothing but ignored by support even when I raised a ticket because it still worked on my retina macbook pro. Now even my GW2 on my retina macbook pro is doing it, and so I can’t play the game.

Anet you can kiss any money from me goodbye until you fix this issue because otherwise I can’t play.

More Mac Client Problems: Running client normally produces an empty invisible window that cannot be interacted with and the game never runs. If I run repair on it, it’ll finally load up and work properly, but I have to run repair just to run the kitten game.
Rig: iMac 14,2 running OS 10.11.2, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT755M 1024 mb VRAM

More Mac Client Problems: Running client normally produces an empty invisible window that cannot be interacted with and the game never runs. If I run repair on it, it’ll finally load up and work properly, but I have to run repair just to run the kitten game.
Rig: iMac 14,2 running OS 10.11.2, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT755M 1024 mb VRAM

Heart of Thorns Issue, Mission: Hearts and Minds

After the second mini-boss, click the glowy to advance the objective… and nothing happens. Mission not completable. Progress blocked.

Can I get a link to all of Jennifer’s recipes? That’s be awesome. Please tell me there’s a page somewhere…

cannons unusable for me also

Having the problem with mission “Victory or Death” – none of the devices are interactable so quest objectives cannot be advanced. PROGRESS BLOCKED.

Traits appear reset but nothing was actually removed nor was anything refunded on older characters. Younger characters are not affected.

Well the Trait panel shows it’s been been reset but in reality nothing was reset. Only seems to affect my ranger…

Well… YAY on Anet for the pet as a reward for using an authenticator…

…but BOO on Anet for not making it smart enough to see existing 2-step authentication on accounts.

robertjan.2197:

Had the same problem before. Try running the game by going to the application folder and double clicking on the app. This worked for me.

This didn’t work for me. Loading it from Launchpad or directly from the applications folder means Guild Wars 2 icon appears in the dock but no window opens. The only way to get any window at all to open for Guild Wars 2 is to run the repair utility.

I am using a 14,2 iMac running 10.10.4 Yosemite. Config: 3.2 Ghz, quad core CPU i5, 16 GB RAM, Late 2013 model, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 755m 1024 MB, HD: 3tb Fusion Drive, brand new machine.

Ticket: 1634286

darksome.1697:

OP can you change the topic please, just remove “on new system” since this is a more widespread issue it seems. And everyone please file a ticket for this so support actually get to know there’s a problem, I don’t think they read this forum.

Done.

So after building a new user account, moving everything over, repairing permissions, and running repair tool on the game, it’s finally working…. BUT ONLY when I run the repair tool. It won’t launch normally. And if I… say… leave the repair tool running over night to play the game the next day, even if it sits there on the Guild Wars 2 launcher tool, it treats it as logged in and as soon as you get to the character select screen the character is moving at ultra-fast animation speed. This bug continues in game. While it still takes the normal amount of time to perform an action, E.G. 3 seconds or whatever to gather from a tree or whatever, it takes just a tap of the arrow key to cross the entire map because the walking animation – and all the other animations – are running at super fast speed. I haven’t tried to PVP like this because I would be literally speed-running into a wall and that seems vaguely hackish so I’m not gonna do this. But…. it seems potentially exploitable… but I’ve managed to reproduce it twice now…

It’s great to know it’s not just my machine, but I’m still unable to play the game on the new machine.

Tried pulling over a known good client from another machine. Still will not open any windows. It doesn’t appear to be a client problem, it’s something wrong with the new machine, but this is the only application that won’t launch. All other applications launch just fine. I’ve done permissions repair, I’ve reset the PRAM, I’ve tried running the client repair – nothing works. It’s like it’s launching the launcher but it’s on some window somewhere else that doesn’t exist and I can’t see it. Also when I run repair it doesn’t DO anything, just like the program itself, it just seems to be an open application not doing anything until you tell it to close.

Got a new mac, tried to install the game. The installer finishes the installation and the Guild Wars 2 icon pops up in the doc. Then nothing happens. I tried letting it go for 8 hours, and nothing happened. Tried all the troubleshooting steps – same result. Tried a known good client from a past installation from one of my backups – same result. Help!

Addendum: Clears up after “Fort Trinity” but still missed the entire rest of the “Greatest Fear” Arc.

I have 3 characters who are on their level 70 story arc. It’s giving me the old order of missions instead of the new one. Why does the old order of events even still exist in the game post-patch?!

The concordia mission advanced to Fort Trinity. This is an ERROR. It should advance to the Greatest Fear storyline now

Anet, if I wanna gift a copy of Heart of Thorns to a friend, how do I do it without it automatically assigning the keycode to my account so that the friend can use it? Thanks.

After the Lion’s Arch patch on 6/23/2015, taking screen shots with mac client saved images to a location it calls:

D:/Desktop/gw###.png

…there’s no such thing on a mac. A spotlight search finds nothing. I even tried poking around inside the app’s internal folders and didn’t find it. Low priority issue, but still annoying. I used Grab instead.

Arenanet,

Thank you for continuing to listen to and address the concerns of your playerbase. That’s a lot more than some of your competition is willing to do, so I give you massive props. And this doesn’t even address my particular concerns, I just wanna thank you for continuing to communicate, and I wanna encourage you to continue to communicate with your playerbase. Us veterans thank you for listening to (reasonable) feedback.

Preface: This is all my opinion.

So….. I’m a hopeless altaholic.

http://tinyurl.com/o9oa5wm

I had acquired – through daily login rewards, PVP, and so forth – a large number of Tomes of Knowledge. I had previously greatly enjoyed leveling my characters up the old fashioned way – doing the personal story, crafting, doing hearts, doing skill challenges, and exploring the world. All this time that stack of Tomes had just grown, largely disused. I had a large number of spare skill points laying around I could use to buy components to outfit characters with crafted ascended items and had plenty of karma to spend.

I decided to do an experiment. I had only a few left that were not yet at 80. Professions I wasn’t as good at playing. So I figured I’d try using the tomes on them. But I also noticed some side effects. They have no world completion, none of the world opened up, none of their personal story done, and my karma pool quickly dried up because I wasn’t doing hearts or events anymore. But more than anything… I noticed I cared less about those characters and even debated deleting and remaking those level 80 characters. And that’s really bad because my alts are like my kids, I love every last one of them.

This has forced me to conclude that Instant-leveling items like the Tomes of Knowledge cheapen the game. They allow the player to skip the gameplay experience – skipping what makes the game fun – and now I wish I hadn’t done it. Now my plan is to go and do all those SAME THINGs only as level 80. I might as well have left the Tomes in my bank to start with.

A lot of my guild is telling me they are banking Tomes to insta-level their Revenant on day 1. I would submit that is a really bad idea. If you cheapen the Revenant by not actually playing the game, what will that character really mean? So I’m going to make a prediction, right now. I predict that those who insta-80 their Revenant will dislike the class, and those that take the time to level it up the old fashioned way will enjoy it.

I do think that Arenanet should consider the timeline, however. It’s nonsensical that a character that couldn’t have existed until Rytlock’s trip through the mists in 1327 is suddenly a part of the Zhaitan events in 1325 is utterly ridiculous and ludicrous. But… it’s better than the alternative, in my opinion.

So there you go. That was my experiment and my prediction as a result. We’ll see when Heart of Thorns comes out if I’m right.

I liked Tybalt and Sieran…. I’d like to memorialize them someplace. No one liked Forgal.

Sina.9208:

Mitha.7039:

I can confirm ‘Meeting the Asura’ is fixed as of Tuesday morning’s patch. Ran through it last night and like 5 achievements at once dropped. Thank you, Anet!

Is that “robin” dye?

Sea Ice, Winter Ice, Lime Ice

I can confirm ‘Meeting the Asura’ is fixed as of Tuesday morning’s patch. Ran through it last night and like 5 achievements at once dropped. Thank you, Anet!

Gaile,

I think there’s a certain degree of feeling that ‘soon’ is patronizing and insulting. Today’s culture is one where ‘soon’ means ‘probably never’ (“when will we do something about our global political crisis?” “sooooooooon…”). More constructive and informative statements include “we’re working on it”, “we’re trying to find the root cause”, and “we’re having trouble replicating the issue internally” – those at least come across as feeling like more genuine responses. We’ve got a problem, things are broken, people on our end are frustrated. We appreciate your communicating with us whenever you can.

We’re over a month now. Time for a new screenshot.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Hey everyone, I’d like to give an update on this.

QA has been looking at these for a long time, for a few months and since this thread was new actually, and our major problem is that we just don’t get them to reproduce on our internal environments… or for our personal accounts on live.

Unforgiving Infiltration – We repro’d this one and we should expect a fix “soon”

Dancer in the Dark/No Refuge/World Summit – We’re no repro on these, and it’s difficult with the thread merges for my guys to find out if these are still problems or there’s another step we’re missing. If you are still not getting these challenge motes any additional information (did you skip around in the story, etc?) you have would be really valuable.

What about “Meeting the Asura”?

Everyone post your screenshots! Let’s show Arenanet what’s going on.

/cry

Mitha.7039:

I have this same problem. It is blocking progress on achievements. We have tried it multiple times. With minis out, without minis. With the mission, or just in achievement mode. Nothing works. The little blue flame for the challenge mode simply does not and will not appear in “Meeting the Asura”. This is literally the only thing stopping me from finishing my Lumi set.

Seriously. OCD going bonkers here. Need my boots.

21 days. still broken…. :’(

Dear Anet,

I’ve been seeing a lot of negativity. I wanted to add a note of positivity. I was one of those that played airplanes as a kid. I loved the April Fools event. I hope it becomes a lab table or something to be revisited later. Thank you for 24 hours of silly and joy. That’s all.

Nyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr……….!

~Mitha.7039

If they made a Airplane Mode lab table and put it in the gem store, I would buy that.

Nyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer putt putt putt….

I have only one thing to say.

Nyyyeeeeeeerrrrrrrr!!!!!

That is all.

bump – this still needs fixing

“Meeting the Asura” Living Story episode missing Challenge Mote on replay, blocking progress on achievements.

I have this same problem. It is blocking progress on achievements. We have tried it multiple times. With minis out, without minis. With the mission, or just in achievement mode. Nothing works. The little blue flame for the challenge mode simply does not and will not appear in “Meeting the Asura”. This is literally the only thing stopping me from finishing my Lumi set.

Seriously. OCD going bonkers here. Need my boots.

“Meeting the Asura” – achievement mote does not show up

Might be something new with this patch, blocking progress on achievements.

GoldenTruth.2853:

- Can’t buy traits (I haven’t verified this but have heard it)

I confirmed this. Cannot buy new traits, only ones that you already know.

Camera settings control panel still shows “[BETA]” tag.

Just hope you like soundcloud’s system of organization and don’t wanna put the music in something else… anything season2 you still can’t download, and season2 is over.

Questions I want answered:
- Release date? When? It’s all vaporware and hypetrain until there’s a date.
- Will there be a different storyline for Sylvari characters, given what’s going on? How’s THAT gonna work if one of the player factions is now the enemy?
- Will there be a collector’s edition with the soundtrack?
- When will the music from Season 2 be unlocked for downloading on soundcloud?
- Can we expect Living Story Season 1 to be added for play in the story journal just like Season 2, with the drop of the expansion?
- We gonna get at least a new character slot with the expac to make a Revanant with? :P
- Ascended Cooking? Ascended Jewelcrafting? Fixing the Tonn bug?

Well I’ve been trying to avoid this, but here goes. My old guild has become inactive on HoD. Anyone out there? Looking for LGBT support or RP on HoD. (bonus points for both). USA player, on sporadically during pacific time zone times. Looking for RP and a guild to run around and do Tequatl and other events with from time to time. Casual player, but not THAT casual… more semi-casual.

So… what if there are other ‘Pale Tree’s out there that are still under Mordremoth’s control?

There are ways to create an atmosphere of civil war without needing to destroy existing PC’s, and I hope ArenaNet realizes this. Mobs of non-named NPCs attacking Sylvari PCs in non-Grove major cities or non-named Sylvari NPCs attacking non-Sylvari PCs in the Grove is one option. There’s also the Living Story – the idea of having a different arc for a Sylvari PC in the Living Story and a non-Sylvari PC story. Another idea would be the Sylvari PC constantly hearing a ‘background whisper’ of Mordremoth. ArenaNet has a wide variety of tools at their disposal to create the ATMOSPHERE of civil war without taking free will away from the Sylvari PC.

I’m from the USA. I haven’t been able to log in for the last two days, 502 error.

Oh this could be dangerous…

Sylvari main here. Technically the Sylvari PC has been ‘at risk’ since Omadd’s machine. The only thing keeping the Sylvari PC from turning into another Scarlet Briar is that you are still connected to the dream and still have some protection from the Mother Tree in the dream. In fact it’s probably taking all of the Mother Tree’s power just to shield the rest of the Sylvari from the dragon’s influence. As the Pale Tree deteriorates many more may fall to the dragon’s influence but in the end Free Will still reigns supreme. Some may choose to help the dragon because they believe it is what the Sylvari were meant to do. The Sylvari PC will probably continue to side with the other races but there will be a significant number – like the Nightmare Court – who will side with the dragon because they think that should be their destiny. Hence, Caithe’s speech about changing Destiny.

I’d also like to point out that the Mother Tree did not WANT Caithe to have the egg and stressed the need that we take it from her. Does the Pale Tree think Caithe is vulnerable to falling to nightmare/mordremoth but the Sylvari PC is not? The Sylvari PC is probably just as vulnerable, having gone through Omadd’s machine just like Scarlet Briar did.