Guild Wars 2

Except that the Dream is not a hallucination… You are trying to connect a very real connection with hallucinations, which are by definition not real.
We know that the Dream is part of the Mists, the fact that it is called the “dream” doesn’t mean that it is a dream or that there is a “dream state”.

Except that song is just actually bad…
The only reason it seemed to fit for you is because you personally like the song. I honestly don’t feel like it fits. There is a huge difference between a song like that and something like Simple and Clean by Utada Hikaru which fans of Kingdom Hearts absolutely loved.
Also noted that when games license music more often than not the song is made specifically for the game… When you tack existing songs on games it doesn’t work so well, as we saw with FF-13 and 13-2.

No New Zealanders either…
I think Anet has forgotten that GW2 is not just Europe and USA.
There are no Oceanic countries in that eligible list, which is not cool.
Lordkrall I highly doubt it has anything to do with laws because (I can only speak for NZ) as far as I am aware we don’t have any laws here that would make this difficult and our customs is always fine with anything that isn’t illegal.

^— Thank you!!! That sums it up perfectly.
I loved last Halloween because all of the activities were so varied and it didn’t actually take too long to get the achievements.
Halloween falls SMACK in the middle of my Semester 2 exams so I don’t have a lot of time to spend on it. I feel like Anet essentially forcing you to do daily achievements (and you do have to because there aren’t enough regular ones for the meta) is really poor game design. They have proven that they can release an event with varied and non-grindy content, so I don’t know why they have been constantly heading backwards and getting worse seemingly with each release… What happened to play it your way, that was a really good manifesto…

I hardly ever crash, if I do it is almost always caused by too many people being on screen and me moving the view too quickly (The game doesn’t seem to like trying to render them that quickly – obviously turning character models to low helps). I play on high settings (everything on max except for sampling which is native and shaders and shadows which I sometimes turn down in more intensive areas) on a late 2011 MBP 15" high res (not retina) screen, 2.2 Ghz i7, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 6750M.

There is no way to undo purchases and they will not undo it for you. (Also just a note this is not a mac specific issue so it would be better placed in a different forum – but the answer will still be the same, there is no way to undo it so unfortunately you will have to get tokens again and purchase the correct one)

The Sixteenth.2561:

Usualy a month or two, but achievement migh not last as long, some time it does, sometime it doesn’t. So the shortest deadline is two week in every update.
Do you know how to add 14 days ? The easiest way is to look up a calendar, and count 14 days after the launch.

Wow thanks for a really unhelpful answer that completely misses my point.

I’m getting a little tired of having to ask when these living story arcs end… Not everyone has the time to speed clear all the achievements the day the updates go out so it would be really helpful if it was explicitly stated somewhere WHEN events end.
With BaM the end date is listed only in the release notes, it isn’t listed on the wiki or anything like that, but with ToN it isn’t even in the release notes.
I could understand if you wanted to keep it a surprise, except you seem intent on ruining everything before it’s released by having Dulfy post detailed guides and doing “developer walkthroughs” before players even have a chance to touch stuff… So yeah…

Tl:DR. When does ToN end?

I imagine that upgrading to Mavericks is the cause of this…
The TP relies on things outside of the client to render the web components inside of it, I guess Mavericks removes or updates those files? Unfortunately I don’t think there is really a fix, other than reverting back to ML.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Portals are for travel within Tyria, not to/from another world.

That’s not strictly true… The steam portals for example are from an alternate dimension which relates to a specific Asuran personal storyline…

Yes the mac client will run it better than parallels. Parallels is not for gaming, the amount of Ram, GPU and CPU that it takes up and the small amount it can give to programs running inside of it makes gaming not all that practical – especially considering how poorly optimised GW2 is.
So yeah, stick with the OSX client.

Chobiko.9182:

-snip-

Those are my 2 cent.

I like your 2 cent, have a dollar. I think you’re definitely hitting the right ideas in terms of the profanity filter.

There are Footnotes attached to the wiki quote in question, so it is statement that has been based on Anet staff statements. This would lead me to assume that it is correct – that being said it is only correct at the present moment. There is nothing to say that they won’t change their minds/go in a different direction, but based on what we have been told thus far the statement is correct.

Leila.7269:

error code=7:11:3:191:101
I thought this had solved my issues, but today they’re back again. Oddly everything was problem free earlier in the day, but now getting client disconnect that sends me to the character select screen frequently. It appears to take a while for the error message to popup if it ever does. I’ve deleted the app support folder and done the repair a few times and continuing to have issue this time.

In case there’s any relevance I’m currently out in the Plains of Ashford with a low population.

Mid 2011 21.5" iMac 2.7 i5 with 12GB ram AMD 6770 with 512MB and OSX 10.9

To be fair it is possible the issues are to do with Mavericks. Are you able to install Mountain Lion on a separate partition and see if you have any problems playing GW2 on it xD?

RaFreedom, have you managed to successfully install the game? I’m not asking if you have managed to play because I understand that you havent, but has the game actually installed?
When you downloaded the Guild Wars 2 client from the guildwars2.com website what happened? Did it download approximately 17GB of files? Or did it not even get that far?

Anyone who has Snow leopard and is unable to play. Obviously you have Lion installed so I wouldn’t worry about it. Although I would strongly suggest you upgrade to either Mountain Lion or Mavericks because Lion is just about the worst version of OSX ever…

Unfortunately it is entirely possible that this is due to Halloween and the sheer mass of people that are logging it at the moment and have to be rendered on screen.
Although I have to say I think that the optimisation work they did recently has kind of been undone over the last few updates, so I would suggest that it’s not just you :/
You could always try doing an SMC reset and seeing if that helps. Also make sure you don’t have any other programs running in the background.

Kitten, can I ask what your computer specs are? (OS, CPU, GPU, RAM etc).
Also, you say you WERE able to play previously?
What is the error message that it gives you?

Can I suggest you try deleting the Guild Wars 2 folder that is located within the User Library under Application Support.
This will purge the launcher files and force the game to redownload them on start up (a small download, like 8MB or something).
That might fix the issue of the launcher updating every time you start the game up.

Can I suggest upgrading to Mavericks? It’s free xD.

Open Finder
Click “Go” in the menu bar at the top of the screen
A drop down of folder locations should appear, now if you press and hold the option key on your keyboard “Library” should appear as one of the options under the Go menu.
Click Library
(Note, it HAS to be that library, there are other Library folders on your mac but they are different so you have to follow my instructions above)
Within the Library folder is another folder called Application Support. Open it.
Now find the “Guild Wars 2” folder inside the Application Support folder.
Delete the Guild Wars 2 folder from Application Support.
Empty the trash
Run GW2

It should do a short download and then hopefully the game will run as normal

carmen.4210:

Hi! I have a blank screen after logon,
I followed step by step your advices until 3th step, 4th step but it doesn’t work as you expect because even following your instructions for show hidden folders, there aren’t hidden folders on guildwars’s folders. I found the folder named “preferences” with inside config, dyndata, dat, user.reg, userdef.reg and I’ve delete this folder and run another time the game but nothing has changed because User and pass still remain.

Open Finder
Hold down the option/alt key on your keyboard and click “Go” in the menu bar.
KEEP HOLDING OPTION DOWN. As long as you hold down the option key “Library” should show up in the “Go” dropdown of the menu bar.
Click Library
Click Application Support
Locate the “Guild Wars 2” folder inside Application Support
Delete the Guild Wars 2 folder.

IT HAS TO BE THAT LIBRARY. There are two other Library folders on your computer, one is the general library, the other is the system library. Neither of those houses the GW2 folder. YOU MUST GO INTO THE USER LIBRARY.
Let me know if you manage to follow those instructions. Deleting that folder and starting GW2 should hopefully make it run

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

One thing that made the playing experience a whole lot more definitive as far as actual range went, was the aggro-circle in the compass of GW1. I’ve said we need this implemented in this game from the start, even from Beta, as there’s a lot less guess-work involved. By observing how far you are away from targets you’d just look at the compass for reference, before either attacking or getting attacked.

There are pro’s and con’s to this – well not so much cons, but things that make it moot.
The range circle indicator in GW1 worked because you could see enemies as little dots on the compass map. GW2 doesn’t have enemy dots on the map (which I am thankful for and was quite glad of when they announced it because it does make the game feel a little more immersive), so having a range indicator on the minimap without anything helpful to gauge it off would be kind of useless. I suppose you could work it out off the terrain, but that seems just as iffy :S?
It’s an interesting suggestion though.

I remember from one of the beta weekends there was a different kind of range indicator on the skill bar and it was MUCH easier to understand. The little red lines are too small >.>

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!
What I posted earlier will most likely work – it is not about uninstalling the game, it is about deleting a folder inside your hidden user library. If you cannot follow the instructions then I cannot help you.

I play on max/close to it settings (but with the options for other character models being low and with native sampling) on a 2011 MBP, Core i7 2.2Ghz, 4GB Ram,AMD Radeon 6750M.

I’m not really sure what upgrades you’re planning to do since as far as I am aware the only thing you can do with the iMacs is upgrade the RAM…

You have already created a topic for this problem.. Multiple topics won’t help.
You were even linked to the fix for the problem, but I will post it again here for you
READ THIS:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/mac/Basic-Mac-Beta-Client-Troubleshooting/first#post2480238

I strongly suggest you try these instructions here:
4.)If it doesn’t work, you can try to delete the contents of the gw2 data folder, it’s a pain to get to the right one: this step is a general fix for many tp and graphics issues, even without the previous steps however, it will lose all saved log in/password and in-game settings.
To access this:
1 Click on the “Finder” icon located in your dock or the desktop of your computer to make “Finder” the active program in the finder menu bar.
2 Hold down the “Option” key on your keyboard while clicking “Go” in the finder menu bar. A drop-down will appear.
3 While still holding down the “Option” key, click on “Library” in the “Go” drop-down.
4 Once in the Library folder click on Application Support > Guild Wars 2
5 Move the entire Guild Wars 2 folder to the trash and then empty the trash.

You can install the game on as many computers as you like. You will of course only be able to log into one of them at a time. So yes you can install it on multiple computers so that your friends can come over and play on their accounts, but you wont be able to share your account with them whilst simultaneously playing if that is what you are asking?

They were trying to keep the door shut because the Titans posed a threat to them… aka, they were killing innocent people for their own gains to protect their own people. I’m not really sure there is a clear good vs. evil line to draw there. But the Mursaat are definitely evil…

evngln.5328:

Anyone else trying to run gw2 on dual screens and still getting the 2nd screen black out when in Full screen ?

BTW running on Mavericks on imac working fine other than unable to use my dual monitor set up

It is not a native app – the OS doesn’t know HOW to run it in dual monitor…

Ahh that’s awesome. Thanks for the response

The BaM patch notes reads:
“All player-controlled minions, excluding mesmer phantasms and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in PvE maps.”

I’m wondering if this includes Elementalist Summons? I realise the wiki page lists Minions are Necro minions – but the fact that the notes explicitly excludes Mesmer phantasms and clones sort of seems to suggest that there is the possibility that this applies to Ele summons??

Thank you!! 15char

avatin.3851:

The last year has been up and down with my mac beta client. I had myself those recbits errors quite a bit, but since last update, the game is definitely dead, I am not able to run it at all. I have tried everything to try solve it but the game doesn’t lunch at all.

Hopefully, the upcoming Maverick update will help… If not, I will uninstall the game and download it again for the 3rd time… crossing my finger… or… no, I think I will finally give up and install Windows 8.1 on my iMac… If I knew I would love this game so much… kitten I would have bought a PC.

Install windows 7 – 8 is a nightmare, 8.1 is still a nightmare >.>
Uninstalling and reinstalling GW2 will accomplish very little, except that it forces you to redownload all 18GB of the .dat file. But seriously, GW2 is made up of very few files, most everything is stored in the .dat and the chance of that file being corrupted is very low. Reinstalling won’t resolve problems that you experience since the problems aren’t with the client files themselves but rather with the way Cider is trying to run the game.

I know at least one person has posted here on the forums saying that they got a noticeable performance boost with Mavericks, I suspect we won’t have to wait too much longer to find out though since Apple is holding an event on the 22nd of October.

I’ve searched all over the wiki and on the official release page and nowhere can I find when the event ends? (Sorry if it’s written somewhere extremely obvious).

As a full time student who is in the last week of semester and has exams the weeks after it would be great to know if I have time to wait until AFTER my exams to do BaM. I’m guessing the event ends on October 31? But it would be really nice if it was actually written out somewhere. Anet is completely spoiling all releases before they come out by previewing the content and letting Dulfy post ‘guides’ before they’re release – so why is the date not given…

Have you tried deleting the Guild Wars 2 folder in your user Application Support folder in your user library? – The instructions are listed in a lot of threads of this forum.
Also try repairing your disk permissions and make sure your computer has plenty of free space left on the hard drive.

Narcemus.1348:

What’s annoying isn’t much the lack of places that reference the old game, but it is the lack of any mention of any of our achievements. It is almost as if 90% of the world knew nothing about anything that happened only 250 years ago. I mean, at the very least they could have done something with my HoM….

^—- THIS! I don’t care if that stuff was human-centric, it was ridiculously important to the world and at least with EoTN you do have the involvement of the Norn, Charr and Asura – and yet there are very little mentions of these things. Kryta would have known who our character was because we played a pretty pivotal role in exposing the White Mantle and in WiK. So why does nobody care -_-. (It’s not even thaaat difficult to get around the fact that the PC has to be referred to ambiguously since everyone who played GW1 experienced the same things.)

The Ancestor trees seem to be specific to Elonian Centaurs – which Ventari was not, also there is no visual similarity between the ancestor trees and the pale tree.

I could be wrong here, but I thought that point was kind of that Ventari DID know that the Sylvari were going to be born from the pale tree, although how I do not know, hence why he created his tablet and left it attaché base of the tree before he died.

I don’t get what you mean by this – the visual difference between 1080p and 1080i is almost imperceptible to the human eye, I don’t see why 1080i would be hurting your eyes by 1080p wouldn’t?
Are you using an external monitor?

Are they ACTUALLY the same make and model. If yours is a year older it would be odd for it to be identical to hers considering apples release schedule for MBPs.
Things to check – do you have any applications running in the background, things you might not even release are running. Open up Activity Monitor and check.
How much unused space does your computer have left on the hard drive?

But he was there O_o….
He was in Garrenhoff for a while as well.

Yeah Scarlet and Faolin would not get along…
The Nightmare Court view the Pale Tree as being centrally important to their existence, they are trying to remove the corruption of Ventari’s teachings from it. Scarlet seems to have completely disregarded the Pale Tree – The Nightmare Court should hate her, they attack the Soundless for having abandoned the tree, so I doubt they would look at all kindly on Scarlet.

I have a feeling this could be related to inertia scrolling?
Also it’s worth noting that OSX has behaviours in the trackpad that allow for you to let go and then resume what you were doing. For example if you have three finger drag enabled you can actually drag something with three fingers, lift your fingers off the trackpad put them back on and it will act as if you never lifted your fingers (most noticeable when highlighting with three fingers).

I would assume it was Jennah’s dad? I do find it kind of odd that her parents are never mentioned anywhere, despite the fact that they must have done a lot for Kryta.

^— The key word in that article being the gigantic one right up the top “Opinion”.
It also doesn’t apply because it isn’t the GAME that is in beta, it is the OSX software. Software beta = different to game beta (a comment saying games are software will not be appreciated

I saw your comment on Dulfy and just screamed out yes (not literally because I’m in a library…). It’s the same thing with the developer “previews”. What they really mean is ‘we are going to completely spoil this content so that everyone knows how to play’ and anyone who doesn’t want to read Dulfy is treated like an imbecile for not doing so and wanting to actually legit figure things out..

The soundless have managed to cut themselves off from the dream, I don’t see why Malyck not having access to the dream would be significant since there obviously are ways it can happen. Evidently it wasn’t by his choice, but as you’ve suggested there could very easily be other reasons.

If you wanted a refund then you could have submitted a support ticket and asked for one after you had purchased the game – they are very accommodating.

Your comments however are rather sensationalised and baseless. The OSX client is by no means unusable and for the majority of players it works quite well, if it has not worked for you that is unfortunate, but that is not a reflection of the product itself and relates to individual circumstances.

Furthermore you didn’t purchase the right to play it on a mac, you purchased the right to an account – it has been explicitly stated that the OSX client is in beta so its kind of a buyer beware situation. You purchased something that has by no means been touted as a perfect, fully functional product.

If you want a refund then submit a support ticket. If it has been a while since you actually purchased it then it really is your own issue…

Thank you for doing the livestream. It was really awesome to see the processes that go into making Sylvari hairstyles!

For anyone who hasn’t seen it: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2925339

https://account.guildwars2.com/recovery
There you go