Guild Wars 2

I’m playing on a 15 inch late 2013 retina macbook pro.

- Even on the highest resolution and UI on “small”, the UI is HUGE and fills up my whole screen. How am I supposed to play WvW, when the UI is blocking the view on the enemy? If I open the [B] WvW screen, it actually covers like 80% of my screen. This is a huge dealbreaker for me and a reason not to use this client.
- UI is blurry.
- Minimise button (the one that appears if you push esc) does not work, and I really need to use this button.
- Loads of lightning glitches, where it suddenly turns dark.
- WvW portalgates don’t show the color properly and are mostly white.
- Crashed in WvW in 5 minutes time on “best performance”.
- If I set my graphic settings on “best performance” and all settings on low/lowest/none, it still shows super high quality graphics and the game is still laggy as if the settings were still on high. i.e. it seems it’s not possible for me to set my game on the lowest graphic settings even tho the game says it is.

I made a screenshot of both the 64-bit client (top picture) and the 32-bit client (bottom picture), both are set on 2880 × 1800 and the UI setting on “small”. The UI and resolution on the 64-bit client is huge (and unplayable) compared to the clean and small 32-bit UI.

Is 64-bit optimised for retina? Because it seems like it isn’t, while the 32 one is.

EDIT: Found a temp fix for the huge UI… I scaled the resolution of my retina macbook to its highest resolution settings… And now the game adjusts to that resolution… Not really ideal, but it works…

yav.4952:

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

Look at the party composition of this squad, notice anything about druids, thieves and warriors? – #notwanted – which is gross, anet should balance this, or make it so commanders cant kick

Hey look, a squad I was organising!

1. Thieves will always be put into their own group
2. If a druid is using delicious rice balls they will be given a melee group. If they’re not using food or have power food on, to the special “I don’t know where to put you” party they go
3. Core rangers will be put with thieves
4. If a chronomancer is not using SoI, no melee group for them either
5. Warriors and scrappers will be given stab parties, if there are open spots
6. Like druids, tempests using rice balls will be automatically given melee groups
7. Backline tempests will get stab groups once there are no more healers to occupy those spots instead

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

the commander kicked from the party of thieves and war’s and vanilla classes that joined when he got full.

Actually, no.

No one from that party was ever kicked.

The warrior that stuck around eventually got a stab party (he was even in my group :O, shocking I know) Even the thief ended up getting a group.

Jesus, why are there so many dragonhunters in that squad, is that the meta in NA? Because in EU it’s vanilla guard or gtfo.

People are confusing grind with long term goals, which were HIGHLY NEEDED in WvW.

Tongku.5326:

I’m very much looking forward to the chaos and shenanigans that will ensue because of all this. So much new content ahead

The only question I have is how long until all this stuff arrives ? Month, 3 months ? 6 months ? a year ?

Today…

Prysin.8542:

Monica.9701:

FSP is overstacked and has a lot of internal problems with the bandwagoning and toxic behaviour. Half of Piken Square jumped ship to Vabbi, to make that the new top server. Gandara is overstacked even more than FSP and ganking as usual. Desolation is full.

I’m sorry, but that isnt very helpful. Full/stacked or not, it is just a matter of refreshing to get a spot.

If a server is full, its full. You won’t be able to get in with refreshing anymore. They changed that.

Second, most top tier communities are the same, so it’s useless to dissect every community. I’m trying to discourage you to go to an overstacked server, they already have enough people as it is.

FSP is overstacked and has a lot of internal problems with the bandwagoning and toxic behaviour. Half of Piken Square jumped ship to Vabbi, to make that the new top server. Gandara is overstacked even more than FSP and ganking as usual. Desolation is full.

Ridiculous linking.

Tell the commander you are a melee frontline build and you need stab. A good commander will place you in a melee party. If not, your commander is an kitten.

2-1-1 is bad and Anet should feel bad. Its a good thing theyre changing it, the sooner the better. If you are the worst server out of the 3, there is no way you can win because you’ll only get 1 point even if you place second * every single * skirmish. It’s no fun at all.

… Join a zerg and kill more tower lords or camp supervisors. I got mine from like the 5th tower lord.

Sera.2146:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You get to choose all stats.

So are you saying they do include the PvP exclusive stats such as Paladin or Demolisher? I just want to be sure since this would be the the only way you can get these kind of stats for use outside of PvP without having to mix and match other stats.

No. Those stats are PvP exclusive amulets. Only all of the pve stats.

I had bad luck with my placement matches and started in silver. Ever since i’ve been winning and losing 50/50. I got from silver 2 to silver 3 after a whole day of playing. Whenever I lose a game its’ -20, but when I win its +15. So it’s atm super hard for me to progress. But I guess Ill keep going..

I’m on deso and I love it there. But I’d say FSP is the better fighting server.

I love the Vabbolation linking. Vabbi and Deso are made for each other.

Hexinx.1872:

Excluding hero points … there are 1932 remaining items. Let’s just say it’s a 1 for 1…

At 6-9 proofs per rank … this would take an equivalent of 215-322 ranks to complete. I’m not sure how fast each rank takes, but let’s just say it’s 1 hour per rank (no boosts) … thats a lot more time invested to complete. When I say a lot, I mean a lot considering it takes roughly 40-60 hours casually to complete current pve map completion (fastest I’ve seen is 19 hours). It’s approx 5 times as long under this wvw optional method, even if you cut it with boosts, it’s still going to take roughly 100-150 hours of constant wxp rank farming.

I guess that’s okay if you play 8+ hours a day every day of the week. You can have it done in a month. But for people who play 4 hours a night, it would take a few months.

I like the idea of getting access to it, but think the solution has to be ironed out a bit. And at the same time … to appease the pve playerbase … they would need alternate access to the GoB. As the game progresses through content, it is very boring going for map completion in dead zones.

The beautiful thing of this is: choice. If you rather binge explore the “normal” way in 20 hours, sure go ahead. But I like his suggestion. I wouldn’t mind to “put in more hours” while im just having fun in wvw. I rather spend 200 hours doing something I enjoy instead 20 hours of ANOTHER map completion.

The first MMO I played was a korean grind game with nill customization, only a few armor sets, one weapon set per class and 2 skills (binded to left click and right click) to use at the same time and I loved that game with all my heart. <3

Tbh the amount of skills, builds or weapons don’t make or break a game, it’s the whole experience. And if you can’t appreciate the amazing experience that is Guild Wars 2. That is your loss.

Btw. as a tempest I’m changing traitslines/weapons all the time. I love to play around with water/air/fire/tempest/earth/staff/dagger/focus/warhorn etc.

I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro and I keep having random Kernel Panics since I updated to Sierra. It happens at totally random times.

I myself dont like cele in wvw and am playing around with soliders and minstrel gear.

I am. Full zerk + staff. I will never change out any armor or trinkets for something else. But what I actually do when I need more defensive options is play with my traits and utilities skills. Ill change air to water and make sure to equipe enough shouts/auras for healing/regen/condi cleanse. Plus my lovely earth elemental as my personal tank <3

Here’s a video that always cheers me up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQvSbjjFvCY
“Heart of.. Can you not?” haha

But like everybody else is saying, it will get better. I also died a lot at first, but as a glass ele I have no problems going through the maps atm. You’ll get the hang of all the machanics, mobs and masteries over time. Just try to enjoy.

I’ve been playing D/F Auramancer all this time and going with the meta. But yesterday I said kitten it and went with my trusted staff. Tbh I had my first easy winstreak.
Tbh it’s all about the way YOU wanna play.

The biggest losing streak I head was like 4 games in a row in ruby. Getting to diamond was way easier than last season, which was hell.

I only started with PVP in season 1 because of the backpiece, I’m a diehard pve player and atm I only play casual in the weekends. I mostly play my ele and I’m still learning about maps, roles etc.

But… I’m winning 90% or more of my matches.

Not sure if you got bad luck and I’m lucky as kitten or if there are other things going on. But I feel bad for players who get the bad effects of this season MMR.

I’m also a pve player that started with pvp for the backpiece, but I actually enjoy pvp, which I never expected. And because I have fun in it, I’m getting better at it. Only lost 2 games from the 18 or so games I played and I’m halfway emerald. Also reached diamond in the last season.
I’m not facing any problems, but I guess it’s different for everybody.

I didn’t know they patched something, but before I had a 50/50 win lose streak and now I suddenly won multiple games in a row. So I guess it’s better now.

If he wants to do it in 1 season, yeah. But you can spread in over multiple seasons in which you start again at amber.

I had the complete opposite. Emerald was a walk in the park, while im stuck at sapphire tier 3 at the moment. It’s horrible.

I’m using Fire/Ai/Tempest, but that’s because I use staff as my main weapon.

Tempest dps is squishy yes, but Invigorating Torrents is awesome for healing up fast if you combine it with aura’s. <3 The only thing I haven’t figured out yet, is what to do with condi cleanse.

If i open the treasury and, while that window is open, also open the guild window [G] my game crashes. The time to load the treasury is also still pretty long .

No thanks. Im a PVE staff DPS Fire/Air/Tempest using the shouts. And the regen it gives me is awsome for surviving the HoT jungle. The regen is more useful to me than the condi removal.

It is fixed for me on my Macbook Pro.

Mine are waaaaaaaay more visible. Like super obvious.
Maybe because all my graphic settings are on none and low and the swirls get less shiney? But really no idea why yours are almost invisible.

I was SO confused by the fact that I was the only person who couldn’t interact with the guild hall panels. Of course it’s because I’m on my MacBook haha.

@Dara
Great!

I had this exact same thing happen to me. 3 times in a row.

Things I did before the fourth (succesful) attempt was: make sure all new HoT content was downloaded, all settings to low and disable autoloot (because somebody on the forum ssid the autoloot option caused crashing). And for some reason it worked. Not sure why or how, but it did.

I had this issue. But for some reason my game crashed mid my fourth try and when I restarted my game I suddenly was in front of Acan and he started talking to me. This isn’t an answer, but is was so weird I had to share. haha

Game crashes after I freed Eir from her prison in Prisoners of the Dragon.

I redid this part of the story for three times now and all three times it crashes after I freed Eir from her prison. The story is not saved and brings me back out the instance, where I have to re-enter the instance and do it all over again, till it crashes.

I play on a Macbook Pro btw.