Guild Wars 2

(Note, please read this in a friendly conversational tone… People always read me as very angry/abrasive and it is not what I intend)
You paid for access to an account, not to the right to play the game. So it’s a little complicated I guess, especially since you purchased it with the knowledge that the client is in beta. Beta status does not guarantee a final release, something could go through beta and then simply be discontinued because it doesn’t work out or because they don’t want to manage it. So yeah, it’s definitely complex. The only thing you really own is your account, which you purchased under the knowledge that you would have access to the game (and rightly so and you do), but there is nothing in that which states the product has to be “finished”. Buyer beware.

The second picture is a Nightmare Court Sylvari with two Nightmare hounds.. That could in no way be a profession.
The first picture is a Sylvari interacting (awakening, reviving who knows because it’s concept art…) with an Oakheart.

Considering Sylvari have two racial skills, one which summons an Oakheart and one which summons a Fern hound, there isn’t really the possibility for a new profession to be created out of this.

Also in the development of a cancelled campaign for GW1 there was a summoner profession in the making (as well as a chronomancer), both ideas were scrapped when the campaign was scrapped.

Any future GW2 profession is likely to be a heavy armour profession, since both light and medium already have 3 and heavy only has 2.

Initially I thought so too. But I’ve since decided that I don’t really want them touching such an old and important piece of lore. Looking at all the ways they have marginalised the gods in GW2 I have a feeling it might have been a let down :/
Thaumanova should be good though.

Do not submit multiple tickets as it will reset your position…

Adine.2184:

I’d give it a punchers chance. The Dominion of Winds sits on the doorstep of LA and Calderon Forest so you have the starter area covered . They have pretty good lore too . The biggest set back i imagine would be armor and beginning story lines .

Armour actually wouldn’t be that much of a set back. Tengu use the same models as Charr, so all existing armour should theoretically fit on them I think.

^— Your efforts aren’t wasted though. You have rewards that nobody else has because you got to higher fractal levels.

lordkrall.7241:

Most likely not, since it was said in another thread that this video was about 1 year old and supposed to be released back to introduce Fractals back at their original release.

Ahh, that was my other thought xD.
Oh well.

TwistedTam, considering there has been no major update to the client I would expect that the issues people are experiencing with Mavericks are still there.
J Season, yeah it runs, but there are a lot of people reporting that the client updates every single time they open it amongst other issues, so yeah not ideal.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but some of the stuff going on in that beautiful trailer didn’t seem to quite match what actually happens in the fractals at the present moment.
(Giant coming out of ground in Swamp fractal, Statues in Underwater fractal having glowing chests) So I am wondering if perhaps the video is subtly indicating that some of the original fractals have been reworked/adapted a little bit?
Really exciting if this is the case, otherwise perhaps next time videos should be a little bit more true to reality – though it was really very very very beautiful.

Imperatora.7654:

tablet or no, you would think someone would be at least a little worried about a race exploding from nearly nothing to a major world power in half a generation.

I know I would be extremely worried about a population growth curve like that.

Edit: the pale tree already has a standing army, the Wardens.

They protect the Grove and assist people who are lost and are trying to find crafting stations. That hardly screams massive disciplined army or destruction.
Don’t try and bring human world politics into a fantasy world… Everyone in Tyria has a whole lot more to worry about than a race of plant people, who are assisting them A LOT in their goals, for example those giant dragons that are seeking to destroy the world etc.

Tom.3981:

Interestingly I am annoyed by this for more than one year. I didn’t consider posting about this until today, but I’m fed with this. Especially because the camera zooms, and I need to re-adjust the camera when I’m revived. It is really disturbing while fighting the new Tequatl since it requires to stay focused (on the fight) and a wide field of view is mandatory to be efficient.

So please allow us to remove this unpleasant effect, at least this zoom.

Thanks!

I’m pretty sure they already fixed this issue a couple of patches ago…

I’m not colourblind, but I will bump. I definitely think that there should be some kind of option to alter the colours of effect circles or at least make them larger/more noticeable for those with vision impairments.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

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I was going along/poking holes at Gkittendea of her being behind these fractals – what I was trying to say was that if we DID encounter her in these fractals (Thaumanova and Abaddon if it had won) then wouldn’t it be more likely that she, like us, was simply travelling to these fractals to learn or mess with things, rather than her actually being part of that specific piece of history.

+1
Although the male body types are all dreadful and barrel bodied (excluding the Sylvari who actually have more realistic anatomy) so I’m not sure it would do any good -_-

I’m not sure that 2012 MBP’s support booting or installing from external hard drives.
I have a 2011 MBP and I had to go through a really complicated process to install Win7 using a USB since I don’t have it on a disk…

Yup this is the Bash the Dragon song that was created for Dragon Bash – they probably didn’t remove the song from all areas of Lions Arch, so the music is messed up in a few places I guess xD.

There is an option to turn down skill visuals…

What part of installing win7 is failing if you don’t mind me asking?

I was under the impression that they considering Guild Missions to be raid-replacements. (laughs). At least I am pretty sure I have seen staff mention Guild M’s when someone complains about the lack of raids.

Xeneize.5961:

I understand it is at our own risk, however I just want to know if by sending some silver or a gold to someone or an item is not breaking any norms.

Feel free to send silver or gold to someone. The ability to put coins into mail is a in game feature, so obviously you are allowed to use it. If they didn’t want you doing it then they wouldn’t give you the ability to do it.

Just make sure that you aren’t expecting something from the person in return – if you want to sell or buy an item then use the trading post. But if you are just wanting to send gold to fellow role-players or friends then that is fine.

Nothing is stopping you from asking people if they want to group up?
Not to mention the fact that most of it is soloable.

The Activity Monitor in Mavericks doesn’t work the same as in previous versions of OSX because Mavericks is designed to constantly be using your CPU, GPU and RAM in the most effective way possible – in 10.8 if you aren’t doing a lot you would just have free RAM, in 10.9 the computer takes that free RAM and uses it for other things until you need it. So those numbers you are seeing in Activity Monitor aren’t really indicative of a whole lot.

You will see performance drops with updates like this because they bring a lot of people into the game at once. That being said I am pretty certain that a lot of the optimisation that was done previously has been undone with the last few updates, so yes there has been a bit of a performance drop.

If you really want more FPS, install Windows via Bootcamp.

Imperatora.7654:

-snip-

I. Live life well and fully, and waste nothing.
II. Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes strong roots.
III. The only lasting peace is the peace within your own soul.
IV. All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.
V. Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil or sorrow.
VI. Act with wisdom, but act.

The Pale Tree would never amass an army and the Sylvari would never dominate the other races, it goes against what they believe and what they stand for.
The Nightmare Court on the other hand could form an army and dominate the other races, but I don’t think that is necessarily something they would want to do. Their primary concern is the Pale Tree and “returning” her and the Dream to a state uncorrupted by Ventari’s teachings.

Genuinely curious what the instances of it entering the Mists are? Since I was pretty sure the Dragons had no power in or over the mists? I can’t remember any points where their corruption enters the mists, but if you can then please let me know? Also with the Dream the only instance I can think of is the plant dragon in the initial Sylvari instance? Which I’m not so sure whether it is direct corruption entering the Dream or simply a representation of it.

Also the Dragons can animate the inanimate yes, but I wasn’t saying that they COULDNT corrupt Sylvari, only that they don’t know how to yet because they haven’t encountered them before. And saying that they can corrupt plants is not the same thing because the Sylvari aren’t exactly plants, they are a lot more than that.

Benedictus.9042:

I think it is better for u to run the game in win cuz gw2 doesn’t fully support os 10.9 yet

There is nothing to indicate they are running 10.9
There are only a couple of macs that would ship with 10.9 at the moment, iMacs would still be on 10.8 considering when they were last refreshed. And there are a lot of people who have not upgraded to 10.9.

WingLegacy.7159:

As far I I know Gw2 has the lowest fee to reset build. Some mmos would require you to use only real money to do it…

The thing is a lot of people came from GW1 where we could reset from within any outpost and change our builds completely (skills and attribute points) without it costing anything.

Of course a lot of these people probably don’t release that in the initial release of GW1 you couldn’t reset your attributes whenever you want, but the point was that they realised it needed to be added in. It’s sort of the same in GW2.

You can SAY “play your way”, but when players don’t have any real way of testing builds out in the game environment it can be pretty difficult. (heart of the mists absolutely does not count)

+1 for this, I personally don’t experience any issues with it but I can completely understand how it could affect some people.
- From someone who gets Vertigo every time his Sylvari jumps off a high cliff -_-

You can run GW1 very easily in Wine, which is free open source software, or Crossover, which uses Wine.
Doing the above is basically exactly what the GW2 client is doing – Cider is an offshoot of Wine (or the other way around, I can never remember).

So yeah, http://www.winehq.org/
There are instructions floating around somewhere and I am quite certain if you google “Guild Wars 1 Wine” someone will have a pre-compiled version that you can just download and run.

You will get slightly better performance if you run the game in windows, but your iMac is good enough that the difference wont’t be too much. So if you want to just keep running it in OSX then it would be perfectly fine to do so

Shadeofgrey.3065:

The best theory that seems to be about is that the Pale tree is part of a group of champions of Mordremoth (the jungle dragon) that were cleansed by the Forgotten and then stored in a cave. Ventari’s tablet is not what cleansed the Pale Tree but simply something she decided to take to heart because she saw what nice people Ventari and Ronan were when she was growing.

The nightmare court are analogous to the Sons of Svanir. A cult which turns away from the traditions of their society in favor of worshiping a dragon.

And the MASSIVE flaw with that theory is that the Nightmare Court haven’t turned away from anything. They are AGAINST the Ventari Tablet, not the Pale Tree. They technically love the pale tree as all Sylvari do, but they believe she, and by extension the dream, has been corrupted by the influence of Ventari’s tablet.

Personally I’m more inclined to believe that the Sylvari aren’t corruptable because the dragons have never had to deal with anything like them before. All of the other races are flesh and blood creatures, similar to what the Dragons came across in their last awakening, the Sylvari are not made of flesh and blood and they have a link to the Dream, which is quite possibly part of the mists, so perhaps it is that which keeps them free from corruption – they don’t exist solely in their own bodies but also in the dream.

Arivzal, you must be mistaken.
The high resolution textures aren’t available on the mac client because it is a port of the 32 bit version of GW2. The 32 bit version does not allow high resolution textures, neither on windows nor OSX.

If you want to use the high res textures you will need to install a 64 bit version of windows via bootcamp.

No they wont ever be enabled for OSX because as far as I know cider only allows programs to run in 32 bit, so it is outside of the limitations of the software.

Those are issues introduced by 10.9 and the adoption rate amongst mac users to 10.9 has been extremely slow. I doubt they will fix it any time soon, especially if 10.9 is handling files in a completely different way.

It’s the mists though, isn’t it possible that she will somehow show up in the fractal and disturb our actions (as in she has gone through a portal into the mists as well)? I think that would be plausible. There is nothing to say that we have to be the only people from our world/dimension/time/whatever exploring the fractal and she could have something to learn from the thaumanova reactor as well.

This is not a bug with the mac client but sounds like something with the client itself, I strongly suggest you file a support ticket and let them know this is happening. Make sure you tell them that the event tracker still shows up so it is not a case of you simply having hidden the UI by accident – although I would suggest you try hiding then un-hiding the UI just in case that works. The shortcut is control+shift+H (I think the shortcut still uses the control key in the OSX client).
But yeah, definitely file a support ticket.

It’s not meant to…
That is just a little descriptor for the logistics behind why the people in the game world would have created it, the helmet itself doesn’t protect you from the toxins, that would give anyone who completed the meta a ridiculous advantage over everyone else and would make the condition itself really pointless…

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

I don’t think the Pale Tree is a dragon champion, but I do believe it’s linked to a champion.

Ventari planted a seed Ronan had found in a cave, surrounded by powerful plant creatures (“ancestors” of our current sylvari?). Those creatures could have been dragon minions. But, our current Pale Tree wasn’t grown normally. It was planted by Ventari, who was a peace loving creature. He “infused” his morals into the seedling, which, in turn, incorporated it into its dream.

There might still be “dragon minion sylvari” out there, in the Jungle, grown by other Pale Trees who were not taken from the influence of the dragon.

The cave was somewhere in or close to the Maguuma JUNGLE. We have been to the Maguuma Jungle in GW1, it was an area that was notorious for having strong and vicious plant life, and there were a LOT of plant enemies in GW1 that seem to have not made their way into GW2. It is actually entirely possible that the creatures protecting the seed Ronan took were Sylvari, exactly the same as ours, who were protecting the seeds of their tree.

It’s worth pointing out that the Maguuma Jungle is now the Maguuma Wastes…

I honestly don’t get why people think there is any credence to theories that link the Pale Tree and the ‘jungle’ dragon. It would make for the worst and most illogical storyline ever. You can’t place part of the player base in a race that is actually being controlled by the evil that you are meant to destroy. Not to mention the fact that the fight against Zhaitan was VERY Sylvari oriented and the remaining fights are more likely to focus a little more on the other races. A lot of players already feel like the game privileges Sylvari too much.

I had a thought, what happens if you type your email out in another window, e.g. in textedit, and then copy it and try pasting it into the GW2 window?
Once you have logged in for the first time it will remember your email, so you could possibly just bypass the issue?

deepwinter.9015:

Every race of Tyria is corruptible by the Dragons, save the sylvari. That makes them quite a big threat to the Dragons – unless one of them found a way to corrupt them.

The sylvari are physically immune to Dragon corruption from the other Dragons, but what if the last one thought outside the box? Instead of corrupting their bodies, it corrupted their hearts and minds. This asymmetrical approach would find the weakness of the otherwise impervious sylvari and be the Dragons’ solution to the “sylvari problem.”

This would be brilliant if it came to pass, but given the current villain of the story (which many of us are just waiting to “Die! Die! Die!”), I expect to be disappointed. :\

The Dragons already have the ability to corrupt minds, hence why in Destiny’s Edge the novel the Asura have to create a head thingy to try and stop Kralk getting into their minds.

Dear people – The Pale Tree is not a dragon champion. Full stop. Period. etc.

The first time you do it is the “story” mode, so Marjory and Kasmeer are there, all subsequent times are “exploration” mode so it’s just you/your party. I think that is what is happening anyway.
The megalazer shouldn’t actually be too bad, just make sure that you are constantly moving and try to save your dodge because you won’t need it for all of them. Obviously it’s a little easier for a ranged character but yeah.

I just wanted to say thank you for this, it was just really well done and I absolutely did not expect it at all.
I was really surprised to get into the centre and be faced with Sieran and have her taunt me for letting her die

YES!
It’s great that this event isn’t such a time sink like the last couple.
Admittedly I have more time now, but a week ago I was sitting my university exams and then the weeks before that I had my final assignments. So it’s great to have an event that is more manageable by those who are in time sensitive situations!

What country do you live in, what country did you buy your computer, and what language is your computer in?
Can I suggest you open up System Preferences then open up the ‘Language and text’ category, select the ‘input sources’ tab. Now scroll through the list and check that only the input that relates to your computer is selected. (If the keyboard uses a standard US or British layout then make sure that is the only thing checked in the list).

^— The Gods are not weak, the fight against Zhaitan was a much larger process than just that end battle and there was a lot that went in to discovering ways to weaken him so that he could be defeated. In GW1 we fought Abaddon and it was no mean feat… So the Gods are definitely not weak.

I would recommend scrapping the ‘pale tree is a champion of the jungle dragon’ theory because it’s ridiculous

As to the bit you mention at the beginning, the dragons have a cycle of awakening and I’m pretty sure that the dates were calculable, so it’s not like they awakened because magic was out of balance in the world.

Also I’m wondering if you play in a different language version of GW2 because “Gohr” and “Ashram” aren’t things from the English version of the game?

SoPP.7034:

Personally I found I don’t care for alliances, at least not the ones from GW1.

In GW1 a less than savory person would wait till there was no officer in guild then proceed to troll the entire alliance, with nobody being in a position to do anything, as one example.

They need better tools to moderate an alliance, if it’s to happen.

Sorry that you ended up in such an unfortunate alliance/guild then :S
I never experienced any problems in my alliance, the guild leaders all kept in very good contact with one another so if there was someone causing trouble then it would be brought up to a guild leader who would then let the other guild leaders in the alliance know and the troublemaker would be removed. All in all I think it works pretty well and I certainly hope alliances make a return at some point, although I am not sure to what point considering GW2 has specific servers so you are in effect in an alliance with all the members of your server.

You would not be able to do it.
The cider wrapper is set up only to run the GW2.exe file, it isn’t capable of extending that to other executable files (unless you had some serious coding know how I guess).

Unfortunately the link Kioshi posted is unlikely to help, you could put the exe in that folder, but the cider wrapper isn’t coded to know what to do with it so it would just ignore its presence. So like Kioshi says, your best option if you want to use the combat mod would be to run the game in bootcamp.

Putting historical story content into fractals is NOT a solution. Fractals are high end content, you’re putting another barrier up for content that players should have ready access to. If you want people to enjoy your story then let them play it -_-
/rant

^— Yup,
GW1 had small weekend event for the slightly more obscure holidays (Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Saint Patricks Day -also Easter-). Which was fine because they literally just made some new items drop from enemies, but to do something on the scale of GW2’s holiday events for something specific to America would be odd.

Yes Arenanet is an American company but they are extremely aware of how massive their Europe player base is, hence why during GW2’s development they were continuously going off to European events to promote. Thanksgiving just doesn’t fit.

Yeah honestly if you loved GW1 (which pretty much all of us did) then just go back and play. If GW2 isn’t quite your thing that’s ok.

The Oceanic playerbase isn’t large enough to justify new servers. Think about how WvW works. You need more than 3 servers for it to work and if you spread the oceanic player base across that much it just wouldn’t work…

Also you end up with what happened in GW1 happening. Everyone eventually just shifted over to playing on the US servers because the EU servers were always so empty and the playerbase needed to be close enough together for people to get to play with others.

Frotee.2634:

psy.5437:

Anet have never done anything for Au / Oceania in terms of competitions or giveaways ever. The only time a single promotion ran in AU it required an immense amount of cajoling from one of the PC magazines here to get an exclusive minipet in GW1. Other than that…

One reason for that might be the very specific rules AU/Oceania has for contests – such as disallowing any sort of advertisement for (specific) contests which do not take place in AU/Oceania (that is, are not based there and do not execute the drawing of prices there).

New Zealand has no such law though and I’ve come across a ton of notable companies including NZ in contests (e.g. The Book Depository who certainly have no physical or legal presence in NZ). So I could understand if that was why Australia is excluded, because I know they do have pretty strict laws around this kind of thing, but the whole of oceania?