Guild Wars 2

So they’re SUPPOSED to be balancing every two weeks until HoT comes out, and it looks like a lot of people don’t seem to know that. I hope that they adress thief nerfs with these frequent upcoming balance patches, but to the people saying nothing is going to happen for a while, I thought I’d let you know.

To everyone above, the mac client is still very much in Beta. Try installing BootCamp on your system, and install Guild Wars 2 there. I personally own a travel laptop, which is a MacBook Pro mid-2012 13". Although I do not use it for gaming, I’ve tested Guild Wars 2, and the stuttering seemed to have vanish on BootCamp. If the stuttering persists, what I have found to work on BootCamp is to go to the Task Manager and set the priority of Guild Wars 2 to high. On mac, there seems to be a few applications to do something similar.

I hope this helps.

Well eventually I couldn’t be bothered so I just installed GW2 on my Bootcamp partition, which works MUCH better than my mac partition in aspects even outside of GW2. Can’t wait to finish my PC upgrade so I don’t have to deal with this though :/

So before everyone starts to judge me, I’ve been playing since launch, but I just haven’t really played that much PvP. I’ve realized that PvP isn’t actually so bad, and I do alright in unranked, so I’ve started playing. Now, the thing is, I know that a while back Anet released an update where PvE armor gets carried into PvP, but do the stats also carry over? I’m saying this because in PvE I have ~16k health as a thief, and in PvP I only have ~11k, with the berserker amulet in the PvP build slot thing. Is this supposed to happen, or am I just missing something simple? In the Hero panel the stats have changed as well, so what’s up with that? I’m sure its just something simple that I’m missing here.

Thanks

So I’m on my travel mac whilst my PC is being upgraded, and this issue is back, in a new form. Instead of being tgUpdate 1.11 it is tgUpdate 1.12 . I could play just fine yesterday. I’ve tried finding the gw2.dat file in a fresh download, it downloads the installer which doesn’t contain a .dat file. What happens is, the launcher goes up to about maybe 1/4th the way, then it just closes. No explanation or anything. Please help.

UPDATE
I have gotten into the game, but to prevent it from closing, I had to keep the tgUpdate window in “drag mode” so it would be forced to stay on. After the tgUpdate, there was a strange window that I couldn’t quite catch, it lasted for less than a second. In game right now. Still would like to know how to get rid of it, though.

Check these two out:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_Dagger/Pistol
and
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Thief_-_D/P_roamer

Right now thief is fine, but only when you play D/P with a slight variant of one build. That’s about it. Fortunately that was what I was playing initially, but it’s still dumb,

That’s just how the are, because if you think about it, (I forget the name), but the trap where a thief comes up when someone walk across it really doesn’t make sense for being an AoE circle. You just gotta get used to the shape of it, it doesn’t really make a difference after a while.

Yeah, thats an interesting idea. I will be getting HoT, but I just won’t be pre-ordering it, for obvious reasons.

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. I guess I’ll work on everything except for the precursor, then. Thanks guys!

Honestly, if this update does apply for the current legendaries I would be a bit surprised. I think I’ll go hurry up and finish this legendary since I’m not really into time gated stuff, and a lot for time is not something I’m gonna have soon, due to personal reasons. Thanks you two! Also, upon further research, people are speculating that the prices may drop down since the demand may lower due to the new legendaries, as well as easier to achieve precursors. I might do most of it now and a bit later.

Well it could possibly be a grind, but I think they mentioned they want it to be more like “a journey” that requires skill or something. Then again, I’m pretty sure they said that for the initial legendaries as well. I don’t know. Thanks though!

So, let’s get straight to the point. I’m in the early stages of crafting my next legendary, the Incinerator. Now I know I’m a bit late, but should I wait for the expansion to drop to see their new crafting system with the new legendaries? Or should I just keep on working on the Incinerator? According to Dulfy they made the Legendary crafting system more like the precursor crafting system in HoT, so it might be worth looking into that. What do you guys think I should do? Wait until the expansion or continue on?

It’s decent for me, since I was originally playing D/P anyway, but it definitely sucks that they limited our options. Honestly I was mad because they buffed so many of the other professions, if not all, but, as usual, they nerfed thief. It’s like they hate thief, or they don’t understand that many people (were) mad about permastealth thieves, and not actually thieves in general. They’ve killed the profession, and unfortunately I just got an RNG ascended box and took a dagger. :/ I’m going to stick with thief for a while, but if they don’t change anything, or if MetaBattle doesn’t come up with some amazing build, I’m gonna have to say good bye to that main..

With all the constructive, and not so constructive, feedback in this thread, I really hope someone from Anet is looking at this. I main a thief, and so far in Unranked, PvE, and WvW, I haven’t faced much of a problem against the less experienced players… The better players, are a different story though. (They’re not impossible but it’s BAD…) I’m just saying I hope Anet is following up on this. I was almost going to leave my main I’ve had since launch because of this :/

Rage all you want vv

I wouldn’t even consider my self a great player, so for me its normal to get about 200ish as a score per round in Unranked PvP. Not sure if that’s good or bad so I’m not gonna brag about it (haha) but I was wondering if Ranked matches prove more of a challenge? I just played a few Unranked matches as a thief with a friend who joined the game LAST MONTH (I’ve played since launch) and he was 2nd on the scoreboard behind me… Should I try ranked or something? (I’m Husrah, and he’s my friend Arkianos)

PS: I get this sounds a lot like a brag post but it’s a legitimate question! Thanks!!

Soo…another one of these threads…
I have about 400k karma which is just enough to buy the rest of the Obsidian Shards I need. Unfortunately, since NOBODY does temples anymore -.- It’s always contested. For the past WEEK I have been tryin to get in, and it’s never, ever, EVER been uncontested. I know lorewise Obi shards can only be found in Balth. Cant they put the vendor elsewherw?

Thanks guys, both of you helped me out! I’ve kept the mats, and am currently doing the dungeons Zention suggested, and am flipping the TP, making anywhere from 15-30g a day from flipping alone (still learning)

I think it might be as an anti-bitting mechanism…maybe? Not 100% sure, though!

So before going for Incinerator, I would do my dungeon cycle then CS farm for gold. Now, the T6 mats from CS farm I keep, reducing my daily income greatly. I assume the good idea is to keep these mats, so now I only make about 15g a day. How am I supposed to make gold now?! TP flipping I do from time to time, but apparently you quickly get undercut if you use popular websites to find flippable items. So how do I make money?

Hope I posted this in the right place, but is it still a viable farm? I used to make 30g per our on average, so is this still possible? (Got reminded of this farm since I’m starting to work on a new legendary.)

Even though unlikely, it would be cool to have some sort of clone of yourself, assuming the Rev can do something along those lines. ;D

So I dug up this old, old video…Back when I had the worst mic imaginable and a pretty lame PC. (Don’t worry I’ve upgraded both massively now! :P).

Obvious troll is oblivious.

The anger this post has caused me… I main thief and a HS (#2) spamming thief is a BAD thief. I run D/P and use my entire skill set. Also, I really hope you weren’t spamming rapid fire. Rangers can do more than that. I have guldies that do more than that. Get your facts straight about thieves before saying something like that.
Sorry for the ragy post – it’s late.

I know that this glitch should’ve been fixed around halloween 2014, but…
So basically I am currently using my travel laptop to play GW2 since I’m in the process of upgrading my PC. Whenever I open the TP, it just keeps loading…FOREVER…and I can’t be bothered to wait, so I close the TP. This causes my game to freeze, and me having to force quit the client. I usually play the game through Steam, but the crash still occurs even without Steam. I’ve tried fully restarting my laptop and running no apps besides from GW2, and that doesn’t work, either.

Specs (Note that it’s a travel laptop):
MacBook Pro, 13" mid-2012
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

I can’t upgrade to Yosemite since some apps don’t work on it, but if I must, I can.

The OP is frickin hillarious

After you’re post I played some D/P and wrecked! xD I guess thread closed…

Hmm…I was looking at some gameplay of D/P and people seem to only use #5 and #1 and the occasional #1 for a backstab. I don’t really like the gameplay, unless I’m mistaken, because you rely heavily on stealth. I think I’ll stick with P/D, sorry heh

Thanks for all the input!

Heya guys!!
I’m here looking for a late night guild because my old one is a bit….dead

Things I’m looking for:
-Friendly
-PvX
-Evenings to Late Night (US West timing)
-Hardcore and Casual mix
-No strict requirements
-Preferably Maguuma (for WvW)

Thanks!!

Thanks Shockwave! Any more ideas people?

Seems as though I’ve had more success with P/D, but I wanted to know which one was better. What situations are both best suited for? What kind of gear do you need for both? Which one is easier and which is more effective?
Thanks in advance!

Well heh…I just posted this for the community’s thoughts so thanks for the input!

Well basically when the humans took Ascalon, and then later lost it to the charr though the searing it was pretty bad and stuff…but now, judging but the amount of human players vs the amount of charr players, can’t we steamroll charr despite their technology? xD Even if you’re human is Ascalonian, who doesn’t want to kill some of ’em Charr? I mean, seriously?! Look at the chart below:

If the image it too small, the tallest bar is human and the shortest is charr.

I’m fairly sure this thread would’ve been posted before, but anyways…

Utilities: E, R, T

Heal: Q

Weapon Skills: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Elite: Middle Mouse

Dodge: Used to be my thumb buttons but since I would always press the wrong button now it’s Alt

Movement:
-Forwards: W
-Backwards: S
-Right-Strafe: D
-Left-Strafe: A
-Jump: Space

When I started GW2, and even GW1, there was that wow-factor where you would explore this vast ever-changing world. Kessex Hills felt like it had massive rolling hills and places like Dredgehaunt Cliffs felt similarly large and expansive. Those were the things that REALLY made me enjoy the game, even after map completion. Obviously the urge to want better and better gear and stuff was still there but this was the main reason. That mixed with the lore of the game made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside while exploring the maps. The new maps have had a good amount of that as well, but am I really the only one who wants, not empty, but vast maps, or maps that feel large, similar to what it was like at launch? Basically the feeling in Skyrim while first exploring Tamriel. I’m definitely not the only one?! That was basically the point of this thread…who wants that again, instead of just more and more armor or something? Obviously Anet are doing a great job getting to that feeling through the LS nowadays, but I need MORE!!!!! :P

The recent halloween patch was great and I can play fine, but the TP gets tuck on the loading circle, and when I exit the TP the game freezes then crashes. Works fine on my PC, though.

Macbook Pro 13-inch mid 2012
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
OSX 10.9.5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB

EDIT: I can’t upgrade to Yosemite since a lot of my applications aren’t compatible yet.

Rym.1469:

Weather effects in general.

ArenaNet wants to create a Living World yet they miss on things which are more than a decade old.

Rains, storms, darker nights, foggy days, sunny days, blizzards, sandstorms. Or take it even further to landslides/floods.

If the world is called “Living” then it should live. Not only by weather alone , but NPC reacting to it.

People running to shelter/under roof when it rains, lightning torches when it’s dark, extinguishing the fires caused by lightnings.

Like why medics in Dry Top don’t use any paravan to close their tent during sandstorms?

Things like that were in first Gothic, released over 11 years ago. Get on with it and make your Living World truly living.

I am definitely in agreement here!

I personally don’t want pitch darkness, though, because even though I have the Flames of Kryta from season 1, it would be frustrating and limit world exploration and things. You would just want to sit in some encampment and afk then. :/ I DO NOT mind dark*er* nights, though!

BY THE WAY: Please change the title of the thread to something more “professional” so that a dev would click on it! XD

FlamingFoxx.1305:

@Arvizal, make sure you’ve installed the bootcamp drivers. There’s no real reason it should take that long or be that slow :S

Thanks for your reply, tried reinstalling them and its still not working, and it seems as though, according to my searches that many other people are having this issue… I wonder why…….. :/ I think I’ll just play on my mac at a solid 30 fps :/

Hiya all,
Anybody knows why the Guild Wars 2 install on bootcamp is taking so long? It is only downloading at about 200kbps even though my wifi is apparently 7mbps (not good, I know). Is there a way to fix this? I haven’t really tried too much yet, and any help would be appreciated!

Hi Mystogan,

Thanks for your reply! It did boost my fps quite a bit, but I do think I’m going to get a lot better performance on bootcamp, so I’ll see how that works. Thanks again!

Hiya all,
I was just wondering if any of you could help me with this FPS issue…..
I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch mid-2012 that I can’t upgrade for personal reasons, but here are my specs:

Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

Should I be getting about 20fps in open world PvE on low-med graphics settings? (leaning more to the low side, stuff like animations and things set to med/high)

This may not be the greatest macbook pro out there, (obviously), but is this the fps I should be getting? If not, is there a way I can fix this without physically upgrading my laptop? Thank you for all your help in advance, and looking forward to your replies!

Hi There,
Have you tried reentering the story multiple times? Or, similarly to what happened in my other story, I was allowed to talk to Magister Sieran even though I was supposed to talk to Steward Gixx, and the story did something similar to what you were reporting. Or pehaps you can progress through the story instance anyway, (you have to check on the logging camp next), so why don’t you try?

—Hope this helped somewhat

Just saying…..
I think the Living Story is great, but the fact that he just wants them to add all of the continents like that makes no sense…the LS can add them as well…and RAIDS?!? NO WAY. Mounts would be cool AS LONG AS THEY WERE COSMETIC. Also, Anet will NOT copy and paste things for GW1 because thats STUPID. You’re just trying to rip off WoW.

Too many trolls. Too many gold selling adverts. Too much confusion. Too much spam. I personally think that the whole Megaserver thing will make the game feel more active, so it should be fine

Like a lot of people said already, Guild Wars is an event that happened in the Guild War franchise’s lore. I think that at some point in this video WoodenPotatoes describes the Guild Wars quite well: (I may have the wrong video ;p) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2nznISDkwk&list=PL00553A085339802C

I agree with Blood Red Arachnid. I have to PuG quite often because, though I am in an active guild, it is sometimes hard to get a full party or some volunteers. So I go to the LFG tool. I have never seen a elitist in this game and have never gotten kicked from the game.

D – Well, how can they remove Lion’s Arch if so much Personal Story is there? Surely the Personal Story can’t be instanced and looked like the old Lion’s Arch? How about when sniff sniff Tybalt dies? The battle of claw island? SO yeah,

Southsun City sounds like something out of Pokemon :p

OP, if you don’t like the game’s mechanics, why not leave the game?