Guild Wars 2

Hannelore.8153:

Even in Core and HoT, there’s alot of boon corruption (such as Necro), yet the mobs still barely used boons, so honestly I wouldn’t count on it.

People would constantly complain “NOO!! AN AI THAT IS SMART!! NOOO!!”.

It’s not about AI being smart but overpowered in its skill mechanics Oo. Imagine there are monster with a lot more dmg, hp, mechanics but you can solo all these mobs because they are stupid. Now imagine there are some mobs that are thieves with skills of legendary pvp players, that would make ‘trash mobs’ with low hp pool ‘smart’

Once more, AI is never too smart in gw2, just overpowered in terms of mechanics.

Breakbars, immunity to any cc – you cant cc most of HoT mobs… that is what makes people angry. It’s not about ‘normal’ boons you can simply strip with most of classes.

It’s Tyria mastery, not HoT mastery. So I think the answer should be obvious now. You will be able to invest points in Tyria mastery after unlocking first mission in PoF (So If you dont buy HoT you will be able to unlock Tyria nad PoF mastery)
Tyria mastery: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Central_Tyria_mastery_tracks
The one you want is Advanced Logistics from Pact Commander. You can start unlocking achievements that gives tyria mastery points (red ones) right now, after unlocking PoF you will get all these points you’ve unlocked.

You don’t want to switch now, thief’s deadeye is some kind of a joke, kitten compared to holosmith in terms of design and dmg.

Well in my opinion it looks way better than dragonhunter and I even think to play Firebrand (There are worse elite spec – look at deadeye and soulbeast, also mirage is a little bit miserable)

Not really, but you can get next one on your alt :o I deleted mine long ago because it was super ugly (and soulbound) and didn’t know about quest back then, I thought It’s next trash item (just like 90% of drop in gw2 but meh)

“Guardian
You’ve been entrusted with these secrets and you have to protect them with your life.

Necro
They’re rejecting Palawa Joko and finding this kind of alternate approach to necromancy in the desert.
So they’re there to hell-protect the souls that Joko is trying to take control over
[…]"

Well I hope it will be some lore to spec, not just -“Oh I have some points I will just unlock something I do not know anything about, click click, poof! Elite spec unlocked”
One streamer said there are some npcs where you can unlock elite spec… I hope there’s lots of quests to do, and I hope you CAN’T use hero points from Tyria/Maguma/WvW because that would suck (aka instaunlock)

Have you ever seen any Tengu in Elona? … no? Me neither.

I’d replace ventari with smth usefull… also I don’t like new legend is Charr, or at least… Kalla Scorchrazor wields GREATSWORD, and Pyre Fierceshot condi BOW, why the heck Kalla Scorchrazor is condi bow legend summoning spirits?!? You just killed ritualist, don’t you arenanet? Omg you just killed few nice ideas for new legends at once. Also in my opinion this legend is a little kittenildish (word child censored – what?) (That’s what I felt when I saw it)

Volrath.1473:

Deniara Devious.3948:

(…), but if there would be 2 dead-eyes on same target, I think that basically means that target is dead.

if 2 of any profession are on the same target it means that target is dead.

just saying xD

Exactly XD
Well I think it’s made for WvW (where it will be destroyed by DD anyways), I don’t like Deadeye at all. Imao gonna switch to smth more fun (aka any other profession except ranger or mesmer)

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

no 4K support no crossfire or SLI support . as well as no multi core or ryzen thread ripper or intell I-7 8 and 10 core support
[…]
tho i will not be buying this pack . even tho i can buy the $30.00 pack or the $80.00 pack i can get it very easy BUT based on these things i outlined here . i can not honestly justify buying it at all . more so after getting burned with the last pack
heart of thorns . and so till them things happen to the new pack . i will just stick with the heart of thorns pack and call it good . till i see some real changes from this company in regards to hardware and software system support .

but those that do buy the new pack hope you fully enjoy it and it brings you many good hours of fun play time .

But buddy, what’s the problem???
…does it not work for you or what?
Maybe check out drivers first. You do not need crazy setup for guild wars 2, actually you don’t need SLI for ANY game, if you’re not video content maker/ youtuber/ 2d/3d graphics designer you don’t need crazy stuff like this.
Well it’s well know issue windows sometimes can’t handle sli stuff (DirectX problems), so you could check out linux as well if you’re into ‘hardware minmaxing’. Also I think if it’s not 4k it’s not blurry enough to make you angry or even quit the game :O
Also threadripper is kinda new, so…
Do you want some better/ more graphics effects? hardware support? rendering options? cookies? what?

Just saw some stream on twitch about weaver…
traits – overpowered (10% condi dmg, 20% condi duration etc?),
skills – overpowered and overloaded, no cons!!!
There are only pros, this is like 1000% upgrade of base elementalist, THIS IS INSANE.
Arenanet, what the heck is this kitten? Double tap fire – you’re full fire, tap fire, tap water crazy mix, tap, fresh air, crazy dmg, no problem, just tap tap.
You did not take away anything! This is just pure power upgrade, no cons, there will be no one (NO ONE) else in teams than weavers because of how ridiculous it is, CRAZY utility skills – these should be mantras in my opinion, not to mention these crazy barriers on literally everything (I’m worried there will be nothing left in expansion except weavers because what else anyone dare to chose)

Well, my bro wants to buy GW2 expansion and…
the only option he sees is PoF + HoT (HoT NOT DISCOUNTED)
also he would buy HoT only for now (I think it’s good idea), but he can’t buy HoT alone… please try to fix it (or maybe fix bundle – he bought core gw2 long time ago and didn’t buy HoT – In my opinion there should be some special discount for these people ^^)

Also I’d like to ask (anyone) does pre-purchase of PoF is discounted?
Or we just can’t get miniatures and skins by purchasing ‘normal’ version in september for the same price?

Legendary light armor: Very nice skin (But why there’s mask covering half of the face, I thought it’s more ‘assassin’ thing), maybe too many crystals ;o I wouldn’t wear gloves and shoulders anyways

Legendary heavy armor: Bulky, doesnt fit my style (I consider it VERY heavy xD)

Legendary merdium armor: I haven’t seen many in game because everybody transmute it, well it’s so ugly you would better wear any other random trenchcoat. Also developers talk: “we made to distinguish medium classes, make it obvious who you fight blah blah” kitten people off because there are some outfits in itemshop that make you look like warrior/ mage whatever. Headgear is some kind of a joke, medium armor should wear mask like light armor, also shoulders are childish, oversized and doesnt fit, chest is meh because of the TRENCHCOAT the only ‘legendary’ pieces that are kinda ‘OK’ are boots and pants :’(

I hope next legendary armor will be more ‘modern’ with usage of ‘smart’ materials that feel and look light (not like current heavy armor), modern armor won’t be the trenchcoat, and fit REALLY tightly (^^ maybe inspire yourself by vabbian armor or some other assassin armors from guild wars because these were very well made)

Also please do not waste 2 years (ahahaha) on producing such a ‘beautiful’ an ‘animated’ armor because you are able to make great outfits for itemshop and release it almost every month.

One more thing – you make everything look HUGE in game – HUGE crystals everywhere – takes half the screen for one character, some wings, GLOW everywhere, thousands of auras, some fancy pink balls flying around your head (aka aurora) I can’t see kitten and my eyes hurt.
When I look back there were no such a things in guild wars, there were rare things that looked good and had not such a stupid shiny glow everywhere. You make it look like some Chinese mmorpg.
(I suspect next legendary trinket will add glowy things on floor/ maybe modify footprints because in my opinion there’s no more place for effect overload)
I hope next legendary wont be ‘raid armor’ and there will be some fancy collection that won’t use any of nowdays raid materials (Obviously it will be fractal legendary armor -.-)

UI problems, missing texts

Also 32 bit version is getting worse, I expierience Waaaay more crashes since 64 bit version release, it frezes, restarts mac, cause kernel panics (like srsly it looks kinda like you “broke 32 bit version to force people to play 64 bit version” XD)

It would be nice if you investigate why we’re alsmost ALWAYS kicked from metaevents maps. Or implement something that let us go back to the map instance after crash because it’s not fair!!!
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@Edit 28.07 1:48PM
After last patch aoe is displayed incorrectly

@Edit 30.07 I think game works kinda OK if I set everything on minimal… sadly I tried to play pvp and it crashed – forever – I can’t report or anything sadly (I had to forcequit) :/ (I’m not sure if it happens every time also I would not try once more for obvious reasons)

After update keyboard doesnt work in game: awsd move, chat texting, searching tradepost etc

Edwin.5379:

Hi all,
first of all, thanks for the continuing efforts to develope the Mac client!

I used to play with the 32-bit client and recently with the new 64-bit using Mavericks, and everything worked fine…
Yesterday I installed Sierra (10.12.6) and both the clients will sistematically crash the mac, forcing it to restart…
Now my question is: to play GW2 should I downgrade to the previous OS? Does the client still have problems with Sierra even if the requirements says OS 10.7 and later versions?
I don’t want to downgrade the OS just to play GW, or worse, switch to bootcamp everytime I want to play…

Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot to anyone can help!

I had some kernel panics as well, but it’s not problem of sierra (if it’s updated – what may be the case if you just installed it) but guild wars 2, it’s not a big deal it crashes because of the game, it’s not gonna break your mac

If it freezes you can try to: forcequit guild wars Cmd+Alt+Esc or Cmd+Alt+Shift+Esc
If mac is totally frozen and there is wheel of death try to reboot: Control-Command-Power/Eject
(force shut down Command + Control + Option + Power button)
Also I’d avoid using bootcamp for gaming unless you want to fry your graphics card/ damage motherboard
I’d lower game settings and close some tabs in google chrome to free some memory xD
Set display resolution to default for display in system preferences

macOS Sierra
Version 10.12.5 (16F73)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

After last update game is unplayable, I can’t move camera around because huge lags, starting time is like +400% compared to previous patch, annoying bugs like mouse stuck and even map lagging (I can’t open map without getting furious)

Does anyone even make some list of bugs you want to resolve? I don’t know what you changed in last ‘update’ (I’m really curious about it) but you should try to start from most important things that make this client unplayable (It crashes when there’s too many objects on the screen – aka during every EVERY single event, I have got one huuuge lag when in pvp lobby) also I’d like to play on lower resolution and I’ve got only 2 to choose from (1440×900 and max resolution (wtf?!? rly)) I just want to play on 1280×800 and I see people are asking for 1440×900 so there’s some kind of a problem here because they don’t want to play on 1280×800 (I don’t see this option or what?)!

I don’t know if you even notice what people report here, if there were some list of bugs you’re working on that would be helpful

@ ALSO
After last patch 32 and 64 bit version of the game causes whole system to freeze!!! That just kitten me off, idk what did you broke in last patch but it blows my mind how the kitten is it possible? It crashes all the time after last ‘patch’
It almost didnt crash at all previously and didn’t set my MAC ON FIRE, now because of these funs running so fast it’s just matter of time that mac gonna fly away from me.

Srsly, there’s like no more reason for me to test 64 bit client because I can’t:
*move around with mouse,
*bind keyboard keys I WANT +- § key
*play some events (because gonna crash) [Last game update]
*graphics is S hi … tty unexpectedly (Surprisingly there are waaay more strange graphics bugs) [Last game update]
*set resolution I want (like in 32 bit one)
*mac is suddenly way louder, even louder than playing on 32 bit (thanks – it used to be so quiet I barely could hear it, now it’s just complete mess and freezes my mac omg) [Last game update]
*fps is a joke
*no bug list so who cares about reporting some bugs 1000 times if noone gonna notice, maybe ask some moderators for help if you can’t menage it.
*gonna test it out if you fix some more bugs because now it’s really unplayable sadly :/

Well I posted several times in this thread, I swore I won’t use this client anymore because it crashes all the time, especially during some events ;D but it has some pros like it makes my mac way cooler than 32 bit game… Just give us options to lower resolution (like in previous version) and I will be glad to continue testing

• REPORT
  Some strange bugs, chunk lighting/ shaders problems (?), loading fonts & graphics problems in UI
  Some screenshots are black.

ALSO

[…] and on the only other choice of 1280×800, the fps is low 20s, but the Chat box doesn’t fit in the left corner, so it is raised higher up the screen.

Please either have other options (1440×900 is the resolution I prefer for this computer) or introduce a “Tiny” for Interface size so the Chat box will fit. I’d prefer having the 1680×1050 option as the 1280×800 doesn’t look right to me (bit blurry), or both! Or get the FPS performance more like the 32-bit. […]

I have got 1440×900 resolution and don’t have my desired 1280×800 (I can pick 1280×800 resolution on 32 bit)
ANet could you fix it? We want to play on desired resolutions, we want wider variety of resolutions to choose from (Performance over resolution in my case ;o so please… base on quote above and personal experience I am sure you can implement such a resolution on macbooks)

Etrolightning.7361:

Soo I´m still unable to play due to almost immediate crash on this beta. If I´ve already download the 64-bit version, anyone knows if I the 32-bit version will still download from scratch?

64 bit version doesn’t override data from 32 bit version so you can try to repair it…

https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201863008-Repairing-the-Game-Client
“Repair Instructions for Mac:

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.
Click on “Go” in the Finder menu bar. A dropdown will appear.
Click on “Utilities.”
Once in the “Utilities” folder click Terminal.app.
Copy and paste the following line into the terminal and click “Enter”:
/applications/guild\ wars\ 2.app/contents/MacOS/cider —use-dos-cwd C:Gw2 -- C:\\GW2\\GW2.exe –repair

These steps should start the repair of your client. Let the process complete and once done, close out of Terminal, log into your account, and see if the issue persists."

I have got the same problem… I had dc in the beginning of the match and could not rejoin

1) I can’t assign ±§ key to anything (I use this key as weapon swap on 32 bit version)
Now some more serious problems!!!

2) I have got some mouse problems, gw2 binded some keys from mouse by its own and general experience is very bad, mouse is very laggy in new mac version
ALSO mouse cursor is locked in its position after moving camera around and can’t be moved instantly after releasing camera!!! [I move around camera – after releasing left click I move mouse around very quickly and cursor doesn’t move at all! it’s so frustrating and buggy]

3) Please try to open map [M] and move around, I think it’s not that difficult to spot the problem, it’s laggy… zoom out max, zoom in max click ‘-’ 3 or 4 times and there you go, sometimes it’s super laggy instantly/ other times you have to move around for maybe 30s then stop for few seconds and then move…

I would like to play some more on new client but this mouse aka camera 1) bug and no key binding for swapping weapons 2) on +-§ mac key makes me angry

MacBookPro 15-inch, mid 2015
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 5200 (1536 MB)
Memory: 16 GB
Processor: I7-4770HQ 2.2 – 3.4 Ghz
System: MacOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73)

+ Very nice rendering :o (game looks awesome now)
+ alt+tab option works perfectly
+ no more hovercraft-mac xD (it’s significantly cooler)
+ good performance; on higher resolution than 32 bit client I have got the same amount of fps (but sadly I can’t get more than 30 fps :/), so …
- !!! I would enjoy to play on lower resolution and don’t stress this integrated grapics so much, so I’d appreciate more resolution settings (more fps) (please, I don’t want to kill this integrated graphics xD!)
- How hot corners work from game site*
- fonts could be more smooth
- sadly it just crashed right now :/ (ofc I sent report)

Also it would be nice if you could add ‘extra small UI’ setting, ‘skill dock’ in guild wars is too large
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*One thing that kinda irritates me are hot corners – I’ve set hot corners for launchpad, put display to sleep etc and it would be nice if that could be disabled in game (I don’t need to put display to sleep during some events xD)