Guild Wars 2

I think, for me, the most frustrating part is not that I have a bunch of equipment that is worthless now, but that I worked my butt off to get a FULL set of magic find gear, weapons, accessories, trinkets, back piece, etc, and had 150+ permanent magic find BEFORE food and buffs, and to replace it all I got was the same 20 percent that everyone else got. That is pretty lame.

I mean, I bought an extra character slot, leveled a brand new ranger to 80, ran Crucible of Eternity a LOT to get a FULL set of magic find gear & weapons, did my dailies and monthly missions to get the laurels to buy all the trinkets / accessories, and now it’s all wasted and gone and I was given nothing in return.

I get that they want the new “improved” magic find system to be balanced… but why should it be? Some of us worked very hard to have more magic find than anyone else, so why should we be forced to start over from scratch after we already paid for our gear, sigils, enchantments, etc?

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey folks,

Just a bit of clarification here – Items that were soulbound prior to the change are still soulbound.

I hope this clears things up.

I suppose I’ll chime in here along with everyone else. What a load of b.s.
The way it was explained over the past few weeks was that all items that previously had MF on them would become account bound. Pretty much EVERYONE that plays Guildwars 2 was under the understanding that this meant all your excess equipment that you were using, since they would have NO NEED to have multiple sets of DPS equipment on one character.

Unlike some people, I didn’t just have multiple sets of armor on one character, I bought extra character slots (I have TWELVE SLOTS NOW, 8 of which are filled), and made new level 80’s for the purpose of having magic find farming characters. I didn’t like keeping piles and piles of extra armor laying in my bags or bank soaking up space, so I figured an extra character would be easier, and it was.

But now I’m stuck with duplicate characters with the same armor specs and a bunch of soulbound equipment, including a metric ton of ascended items that are completely worthless now.

It would be really nice if Anet made good on the ‘account-bound’ equipment, even if that wasn’t what they originally intended, because that’s how it reads and how everyone understood it. Because, seriously, if you have equipment that is NOT soulbound, with MF on it, what is the point of making our ‘sellable’ items account bound? Either way it seems like Anet was kind of screwing us.

It’s kind of like Anet is saying, “Hey, you know that spare, unused, unbound equipment in your bank? Yah. Now it’s account bound. You can’t sell it. Oh yah, and all your spare equipment sets? Still soulbound, and they can only be dps.. so, yah, have fun with multiple sets of dps gear there…. good luck, thanks for spending all your money with us.. suckers!”

I suppose I’ll think twice before spending more money on items from the Gemstore. I’ve literally spend hundreds of dollars supporting them, but we don’t seem to get the same kind of respect in return.

Kyllaa.1385:

Lol squish, your words seem somehow relevant to this whole thread ;p

Also, very generous of you to share that.

Well I try to be helpful when I can!

You know, other than some STRANGE tearing that happens whenever some ranger’s pet bird flies buy with a laser-beam-butt, I have ZERO issues with the Mac beta client.

I’ve been playing For, well, since 2 months after the game came out? Or there abouts. And other than regular issues where they patch something and some minor world stuff breaks, it’s always worked.

I’m running a 2008 iMac, Core 2 Duo 3.06Ghz, 4GB of ram, 1TB hd, and a GeForce 8800 GS video card with 512mb of vram. IT’s getting to the point where I have to run the graphics on low (sadly), but I still run 1920×1200 at about 25fps most of the time.

I need to snatch my room-mates computer… 6-core AMD system with a GTX 460 card drool. He runs the game with everything turned on high and it’s so shiny. >_<

JustTrogdor.7892:

Kyllaa.1385:

Lol odd place to put that, but nope, I have never seen that… Just random teleporting people. Next time try a screenie? Maybe it was a ranger with a hawk? ;p

I took a screen but Adobe decided they didn’t like the fact that I purchased a new iMac and locked Photoshop. So I can’t do much with the giant screen cap until their ‘customer support’ decides to unlock the product I purchased years ago for me. It was the only program that didn’t work after migrate. I’m waiting for them to tell me to install the Photoshop .exe

I don’t want to upload a giant file.

Hey ‘JustTrogdor’, might have an answer for you about Photoshop!
I had to do this myself some time ago after updating my OS.

Before you can use Photoshop on the new iMac, you must “deactivate” your copy on your old Mac, then re-activated it on the new OS. Don’t worry, if you don’t have the old system, you can still deactivate it on the new iMac.

You should check These Directions

That should help you out a bit I hope (and yes, the directions are for more than just CS5). Adobe NEVER responded to me about it. That’s what happens when you pay top dollar for a product, they give up on you >_<

Count me in. The newest update borked my framerates something horrible. And events in Cursed Shore are pretty much useless now since I drop to like 4 fps during them. Before the update, I was still getting 24-28 fps. After the patch, events are useless to me

That was really awesome

But my question is, how did you record this? I.E. How did you manage to have something flying up and around in the air to record like that??

Gaile Gray.6028:

Hey guys,

I just got an email with an analysis and a work-around on one of the Gem Store purchase issues, where you try to buy and cannot click “next” to complete the purchase. Granted, this doesn’t solve every issue, but it’s a step forward and I want to share this work-around:

What is happening is that the “next” button on the final screen does not get enabled after filling out their billing information. What seems to be happening is the form does not recognize that the customer has entered all the information into the form and in turn, they cannot complete their purchase. If the customer simply “tabs out” of that last field (for the card’s expiration date), they are able to click next and confirm the purchase on the following page.

I wanted to post this right away, and I’m hoping that someone will let me know if this suggestion does work for them. We have a “bug” listed for this, but I’m super curious about whether this work-around is effective.

Thanks for any info you can provide on this!

Yes, it works. I found that bug while trying to figure out why I couldn’t buy anything. Unfortunately, that is not the bug preventing me from purchasing anything. It’s the lack of a “confirm” button on the NEXT page after that. Very frustrating. I tried buying gems over the black Friday sale (3 days running) and got nowhere.

~holds up handful of money~ I want to give it to you, I REALLY do. But.. you just aren’t making it easy to do!

:)

Saison.4102:

I am having the exact same problem right now…hopefully there is an update on this soon.

nod I’ll be waiting patiently for an update as well. Although it seems the gem store has been broken since the beginning, at least according to this thread. If it’s not one thing, it’s something else. chuckle.

Well, add me to the group of people unable to GIVE YOU MY MONEY! (sad face).

I played World of Warcraft for SEVEN years. Between monthly fees, server switches, faction changes, special mounts, I spent well over $2,000.

So when I discovered how amazing GW2 was, and that it was free to play.. I decided, “Hey, I could afford to buy some gems, support the game, have a little fun! Awesome!”

Problem is, I am completely unable to hand over my cash! I have tried to purchase gems using both the CREDIT CARD or PAYPAL option, and it bugged.

After entering my credit card information, personal details, and choosing the $50 / 4,000 gem option, I continue to the next screen where I would confirm the purchase. Only, on the left it says “you are purchasing” and is completely blank. On the right it lists my payment option, but I can NOT click on “CONFIRM” because it is bugged and lists nothing under what I selected to purchase.

I tried using Paypal, and it is similarly bugged, it won’t continue on to Paypal.
I opened a bug report, but have yet to receive any kind of response.

Come on guys…. you’d think this would be your first priority, taking our money!

Thanks, and looking forward to some sort of fix soon so I can throw cash at you!

Magoo.5726:

Short answer: It will not run.
Long answer:
- Intel Core 2 Duo < Intel Core i5 or better.
- 2 GB RAM < 4 GB RAM or better.
- Intel GMA X3100 < Intel HD 3000 or better.
Your hardware is way below the minimum requirements.

Yes, the system is below the requirements, but so is mine.
I am running a 4+ year old 24" iMac here.
I’ve got an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06Ghz, 4Gb of ram, and the Nvidia Geforce 8800GS card with 512mb ram. When I had contacted support about my system before I bought GW2, I was told flat out that my computer wouldn’t run this game.

A few days ago, I finished 100 percent world completion including all WvW maps, and I 3-manned Zhaitan with some guildmates. The game runs beautifully on my system. Mind you, I have to run low-graphics, but I still get to run 1920×1280 and it’s STILL a gorgeous game.