Guild Wars 2

Loading the TP, I noticed my game had stalled and I couldn’t press any keys to invoke menus.

I managed to minimize the game with an alt-tab key combo and noticed there was a dialog in the background of the game. In full screen mode this dialog can’t be clicked as it disappears when the game minimizes.

The dialog was saying something about an error loading the browser. But it disappeared too fast to be able to copy the error message.

And the option for right-click you mention doesn’t do anything to control targeting other than not automatically engaging something on a right-click.

I don’t even understand why you would even want to lose target on ground clicks. It’s bad enough that friendlies make you lose target all the time as well.

I randomly lose my target a few times every fight. It’s the most annoying thing in the game and I don’t understand why it happens other than, as I said, ground clicks are ruining it for me..

Sometimes it’s just my mouse that generates spurious clicks. Sometimes it’s me accidentally but ever so lightly touching that mouse button in a hard fight.

I’m really at wits end for this. I keep losing target in combat. It’s so very frustrating.

I really really really need this game to have an option “clicking on the ground does not cancel current target”.

WvW just crashes and fails in every big fight in WvW. I’ve been forced to run in small groups and avoid the fun big fights because I crash every. single. time.

TMalloc errors and locked PRect errors are the most common reasons for a crash.

Frankly, I think the client is corrupting/leaking its video memory. I see it often these days with distorted rendering of graphics that prelude to a full crash. I also suspect it from the TMalloc error. You don’t normally get malloc errors unless you’re leaking/corrupting memory.

It’s really a sad state of affairs for Mac users. Large scale encounters are simply random crash fests.

1) Native client… please. Elder Scrolls Online has a native client. They thought Mac users were worth the effort.

2) No more completely broken clients on patch days. You know what I’m talking about: the kind of bugs that scream “nobody actually even loaded and played the mac client before releasing this patch”.

3) Trading Post and Gem Store not loading. The number of times I have to restart the client to fix this is just excruciating.

4) The crashes. You must have received hundreds of crash reports from my client by now. Lockedprect.bits is my nemesis. It is the most frequent error message in large-scale WvW battles.

I can no longer use the Trading Post or gem store. The screens do not load.

The repair command: ./cider —use-dos-cwd C:Gw2 -- C:\\GW2\\GW2.exe -repair

gives out this error message when I use it: cider[49668:507] regapi failed: 1

but it completes.

Deleting the Guildwars2 Application Support folder does not fix the problem either.

Delete your /Library/Application Support/Guildwars2 folder (move to the trash rather)

It gets created again when you start the game.

See if that fixes your problem.

I wanted to use the About Face movement and bound it to a key.

After the first few uses, where it works, the keybind stops working and my character can no longer turn around.

Anyone know what gives? Is there an alternative I can use that actually works?

Game crashing after 3/18 patch as well.

Reset the /Libary/Application Support/Guildwars2 folder. Noticed that after doing that the loader installed a patch again. This seemed to help but the crashes came back.

Symptom: this is quiet crash initially. The game just disappears.

After a while, it turns into a c00000005 crash error. (which is what made me reset the Guidlwars 2 folder). I believe the silent crashes are corrupting the cider stuff.

At least the FPS problem is fixed.

World vs World (WvW)

Rangers need improvements in order to contribute more to competitive World vs World combat.

Goal of Proposal
To improve under performing weapon skills, pet utility and survivability.

Proposal Functionality

• Ranger #5(Barrage) longbow skill has a CD and cast time that is too long for the utility and damage it affords. My casual observation is that it hits players on average for 300-500 damage. Warriors and guardians quickly remove cripple and thieves easily stealth it out.
  Change: reduce cast time to 3/4 second from 2 3/4 seconds, reduce CD from 30 to 15 seconds. Talented that makes it ~12 seconds.
  Alternative change: applies revealed rebuff and breaks stealth, improve area of casting from 360 to 400. Cast time and CD unchanged.

• Hunter’s shot (longbow): This skill is supposed to function as an alternative to the evade the short bow has. In practice this shot misses a lot because of LOS, blind or dodges. A little hill there, a bush, whatever — it misses. A lot.
  
  Change: only damage and combo effect should be cancelled on a miss. Stealth should activate regardless. It never really made sense that hitting a target should hide you, you hide because of your superior ranger camouflage skills.

• Axe primary attack damage is underwhelming at 313 exotic level
  Axe (mainland) change: I’d boost the damage a little bit. Maybe 390 or 400 outright.

Pet improvements in WvW
Can your pet bar get bugged just like your skills bar? This continues to be really annoying. Commanding your pet to attack and watching him stand still in response is not fun.

Pets are just ineffective in large scale combat. I just use them as condition sponges because they die instantly doing anything else. They factor absolutely for almost nothing in damage or crowd controls. Only my dog’s knockdown is moderately useful. But since I can’t control when he does it, he uses it on people with stability most of the time. The rest of the time the target is 1200 yards away from my pet when he finishes casting his utility.

Change: remove health reduction on pets in WvW. 14k HP on my dog means superior ballistas one-shot him.

Change: change cast time on pet utility skill to 1/4 from 1 1/2 in WvW.

Change: significantly improve damage reduction on pets that are receiving greater than three damage sources.

With respect to game crashes or not starting, the #1 first thing to do is:

1) go to your Libraries folder —> Applications Support

2) delete the guild wars 2 folder there.

3) restart the game: the Application support folder is automatically recreated

All of the game launch bugs I have experienced are due to cider not updating its image properly on exit. This happens somewhat predictably after that occasional in-game crash.

If you cannot start your game, delete the Applications Support guildwars2 folder and try again. Works for me every time. If that doesn’t work, then try the other remedies suggested.

Anen.1742:

Sunnd.7586:

We should not have paid for the game if we are beta testers. I want a refund.

You paid for an access to a GW2 account. If you are not interested in “beta-testing” on Mac, you can dowload the Windows client for free.

The Mac client is in perpetual never-ending beta.

I can’t believe somebody had the gall to say “you just paid for access to the game; actually playing it: that’s your fault”.

I know I’m getting rather wound up at the prospect at having to enjoy the fall of Lion’s Arch at 4 FPS. Further, I’m a little miffed that despite all the money I’ve pumped into this game — and it’s a lot — it appears that my client is at the bottom of the priority list and doesn’t even get tested before releases.

And It is just so annoying to be told to “just get Windows” as a solution. Yep, I should spend $140 and exit my operating system to enjoy a game I thought was fully supported on my platform.

There’s a bunch of very good reasons why I stopped using Windows as my primary platform. I spend my money on software that is advertised to work on OSX because I WANT to work and play on that platform and have been prepared to pay for it. If I wanted to keep using Windows software I’d still have a Windows machine.

Beta does not mean “we don’t test it before releases”.

Beta is not equivalent to “low priority”.

Anyway, just make it right before the next content patch and all is forgiven. Mac users are fanatical about the software companies that treat them well. You’ll be happy to serve us.

:-D

Operating System: OSX 10.8.5
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

It used to not be this bad, but of late the crashes are systematic. I’ve tried lowering the graphics to lowest setting and still experienced crashes.

Errors I notice in console from Cider:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS

cider⁷²⁶: bind_window_backing: cannot map backing data shmem
cider⁷²⁶: _CGSLockWindow: Unable to lock window

I’ve tried the repair function recommended in another thread. This has not helped the problem: ./cider —use-dos-cwd C:Gw2 -- C:\\GW2\\GW2.exe -repair

A resolution to the problem would be most welcome.