Guild Wars 2

I had another go, it seems that the NPCs stand there doing nothing for like 10 minutes until you maybe aggro some enemies towards them. Event carries on as usual after that.

The event “Help the Night warband reach the Incendio Templum” is now bugged.

The NPC’s almost reach the end and then stop, meaning progress cannot be made.

This is so annoying, accidentally walk into a puddle that’s over waist height, and then my 25 stacks vanish!

So starting from the patch yesterday, we were in an instance as a party of 4, and during the final fight 3 people got disconnected at exactly the same time.

Today, I was in a party and got DC’d randomly. Also later on today, I was in the final instance again (for achievements), and the whole party got disconnected.

Also, you have to make sure he doesn’t do any of the exploding if that phase happens more than once. So for example, if you do it to 19/20, and a second time around he explodes, you won’t get the achievement.

At the same time, if he explodes the first time around, you can get him to the phase another time, and get to 19/20 and still get the achievement.

^ Had the same issue for months and months already ^

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Taku.6352:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

So, Mai has been toned down a bit, huh?

Yeah Mai is pretty much back to what she was but Horrik still tends to hit hard.

Would prefer it the other way around, but hey…

Yeh, Mai is super easy to not get hit the whole fight, whereas Horrik/Barrage of AOE still hits people whilst in mid-air, and insta-downs.

LordByron.8369:

i just know it seems way easier at 50 than at 30.

Heh, to be honest, I think it’s exactly the same at 30 odd than it is a 50. In fact, we died less at 50… :S

The Mai Trin fight seems mostly fine at level 49/50, my only big issues are the following:

- Sometimes points the pistol at the wrong player, and then teleports to a different one. This is fine most of the time, as we can tell who is the furthest player, but in the midst of battle it can cause people to waste precious blocks.
- AoE bomb section, always hits my bloody Norn in the head when I’m not standing in any AoE, and insta-kills me.

You can CC a boss, they just have around 5 stacks when you do any CC on them. I think the main reason for this is so you can’t just CC the boss to crap and pretty much maintain 0 DMG from the boss. I don’t think it’s intended to show that a boss is “heavy”

Considering they are developing Season 2 in such a way that allows for more permanent content, and content that is specifically DESIGNED to be in a journal for replayable content… I highly doubt that we’ll see Season 1 in there anytime soon.

Have you done story mode on that dungeon?

When you have completed the laser section, wait until everyone is ready at the bottom of the stairs before proceeding up. It seems to bug more often when people rush into the room.

Not sure how someone people are always seeing it fail, I was exploring in Sparkfly yesterday, minding my own business, and then suddenly a bunch of commanders and people started flooding into the Teq area 30 mins before. Completed Teq with 7 mins to spare.

Lalocat.6793:

domness.6719:

I’m loving Boss Blitz now, specially as a lot of the players know the techniques of getting gold, and any new players get told pretty quickly on what to do, where to go etc.

Also, loving the T6 farm now

So is working on random overflow now?

More often than not I’m now joining instances that have people trying to organise it. Most of the time we seem to be getting Silver or better. We did have a run with randoms and we got 12 Gold in a row. No TS, all relying on map chat.

I’m loving Boss Blitz now, specially as a lot of the players know the techniques of getting gold, and any new players get told pretty quickly on what to do, where to go etc.

Also, loving the T6 farm now

Xenesis.6389:

Well congratulations to you, not everyone is fortunate to get into the right overflow of players. Was in there the first two days for a few hours each time, never had more than 2 commanders on, and a bunch of afkers in the middle, never enough to spread for more than two bosses.

It’s not going to be great in the first two days for obvious reasons. It takes time to get into peoples heads on how to do it

I’m sorry but getting gold each time isn’t exactly hard. Was just in an overflow and we got gold like 12 times in a row. We didn’t always have 6 commanders, and everything went really smoothly. Killing the bosses in sync and having 1-2 minutes to spare at the end.

It’s not hard content, in fact, it’s bloody easy. And to get 2-6 T6 mats, plus all the other loot every 7-8 minutes is sweet.

Quit crying that you can’t do it and that it’s too hard and ANet needs to change things.

Hmm, funny because I we just had about 12 golds, and a couple of silvers in a row.

People seemed to know what they were doing and we didn’t have a full group of 6 commanders quite a lot of the time. When anyone asked what to do, people informed them of the mechanics and they followed and stopped correctly at 5ish%.

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DamZe.4817:

Easy now….

It is not easy to develop for the Apple Mac platform, your platform has yearly OS releases which force the developer to update their software to be compatible, if they don’t do that then in a year or two the OS which supported the initial software will no longer be supported by Apple, which the end-user (you) will be penalized for.

Come to think of it, why are you complaining anyway? You belong to a niche group using mostly overpriced and underpowered (gaming wise) machines, plus the hassle of yearly OS cycles, it is not suprising that ANet can’t keep up with the Mac version, and I don’t blame them. Since the majority of their playerbase is using PCs.

If you have a capable mac machine, then just dual boot into Windows 8.1 which is much faster than Mac OS X anyway (I know from personal experience and bechmarks) and supports all the games you want.

Woah there big man. A yearly release cycle has nothing to do with this. Not to mention, Microsoft is also moving Windows to a yearly release cycle. Technology is moving rather fast no matter what platform you are on. The company (in this case, Anet), makes a profit from selling their games, and if they can’t update them for the latest OS then they are surely going to be losing out on a lot of customers and money.

The real issue, is that ANet have released GW2 using the wrapper “Cider”. This makes certain games “playable” on other OS’s such as Linux and OS X. The issue here, is that it will never ever be fully compatible with anything but Windows until they come up with a fully native solution of their own. They have slapped the “Beta” sticker on the game so if any issues do arise, they can just say “Oh, it’s still in Beta and not the full version”. Of course, they may never release a full version unless they bring out a fully native game, or most likely, if/when they release GW3.

Now, one thing I think is hilarious is ANet’s original announcement for releasing the Mac version of GW2. I’ll leave you with this little gem which I believe to be both a complete lie or just some outdated marketing kitten.

“Bringing Guild Wars 2 to the Mac is huge for us, because it introduces the game to an entire group of players who are often ignored by game developers. The ability to play together with your friends is one of the underlying principles of Guild Wars 2, and providing a Mac client means that friends and guildmates can play together regardless of what operating system they favor.
On top of it all, ArenaNet staffers are big fans of Macs. We offer them as part of our employee laptop subsidy program, and our president Mike O’Brien is rarely seen without his Mac laptop. We’re as excited as anyone to play Guild Wars 2 on OS X.” – https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-2-for-mac-beta/

I’m having exactly the same issue. I had no issues with my machine/GW2 until the large patch. Ever since then the game has been completely locking up everything at completely random points in the game.

You do know that you are unable to use all of that RAM? You’re running a 32-bit OS that can’t even manage that much RAM.

Hmm, I thought we were told that we were going to get patch notes for Mac as well in the notes? Obviously that memo never went around the Anet team. From what I can tell, the BLTP is now working again with the patch that went live a few minutes ago as of this post.

However, it would be nice to get a heads up with changes for the Mac client in the notes next time please (as we were told we were going to get).

Happened to me just now, no chests visible in the dungeons, no 1.xg reward from completely. Basically, just a waste of time.

Happening still since the last patch, this time I was loading Queensdale and the image didn’t appear on the loading screen, and then the game crashed. To note, it’s never happened until the major patch a few days ago.

This is still happening, and not heard a single thing from any of the mods..

Seems that everyone in HotM can’t start a Team queue. It started off saying “Timeout”, and now it gives a connection error everytime we try and start it.

Lolindir.3518:

domness.6719:

Well for me after completing Karka there was no chest, and then of course the whole game client crashed. Upon reloading the map, the chest was right in front of me Moral of the story, everything’s messed up.

You mean the chest on the ground or the daily chest? I was missing the daily chest but I got the chest on the ground (but from the Wurm in my case).

Well, in that case I didn’t get my daily chest either xD

Well for me after completing Karka there was no chest, and then of course the whole game client crashed. Upon reloading the map, the chest was right in front of me Moral of the story, everything’s messed up.

Yeh I guess it’s the box that contains the armor set, and you have the choice of 1 item from that set.

Has the algorithm for putting people from the same Guild or even party work yet on the Megaserver? Not sure if it’s just me, but I was in a party with some guildies, who are also in my friends list, who I also play with a ton of the time. And every time I loaded Heart of the Mists, we get places in different instances of the map.

Hey all,

So some very strange things happening since the major patch yesterday. It’s pretty random, but usually when I’m looking in my inventory or the Hero panel… Icons, and text seem to start disappearing. So I’ll load up a menu, and half of the lines of text aren’t visible, items in my inventory will show the rarity border fine, but the icon itself will vanish. Soon after this, the game will just completely lock up. This then causes my unable to do anything on the Pkittenil I do a hard reboot (using the power button). When the computer locks up, I’ll try a Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then I get a grey screen.

Using latest build (as of this post)
Windows 8.1 Pro
GeForce GTX 660
Intel Core i5-4440
8GB Ram

Everything up to date.

iFruit.6190:

Wait, what? So when I log Gendarran Fields tonight it won’t be Piken ones?

They could be Gendarran Gendarran fields? With blobs of my sworn enemies that I have dedicated my life to haunt down for loot bags?

People from everywhere on GW2 coming together in random instances for no reason? I don’t want this! I want to stay on Piken! I want English chat! I want to only see guilds and people I KNOW!
Please fix ASAP.

It’s not like that on Gendarran yet, only low-pop maps whilst they improve the algorithms and such.

For the Dusk example, Naegling is the name of the skin in the Wardrobe (it’s the same skin as Dusk, just a different name). I assume the same will happen with the other precursors that have the same skins on different weapons.

Romek.4201:

there should be filters for chat

like client-language filter so i can disable everyone with french or spanish client
or server filter

And then a person with a French client, who joins in a mainly English server (because they can speak English fine) and speaks English, suddenly gets ignored by the masses…?

Same happened with my guild.

Also, activated some boosts we had already done, and now they’ve completely vanished. Looks like a few days worth of building, has gone to waste.

I had to go into HotM about 6-7 times before all the “Skin unlocked” notifications started appearing. Just keep going into HotM and back out again a few times.

StinVec.3621:

God Of Mustard.6354:

noor.7960:

EnDLesS.7982:

so they still have not fix it ! !

I’m afraid NOT, based on dozens of emails I received from companies that provides online services notifying me that they have the same problem. That means this problem is kinda international and is quite big.

I believe this is going to a long time, but hopefully it will be fixed before or with the new patch.

I’m not going to dispute the fact that the bug is international, but PC users can use TP fine. Correct me if i’m wrong, but all cider does is translate the windows version of GW2 into a language/series of commands that the Mac can understand. So, if PC users can use TP, shouldn’t the Mac version too? Unless cider is messed up…

Lets say that what I said above is complete nonsense (i’m just guessing). If they fixed the PC version, surely the Mac version could be fixed as well. After all, it IS the same bug…just on different platforms.

A comment on page 5 of what a dev said on reddit explains it pretty well for why it is a mac issue and not Windows.

It really isn’t an explanation to why it’s taken this long to fix though. Every day I work with things such kitten certs and the like, ANet shouldn’t be so stupid to let something like this slide. And no one should be so naive to think that the main issue is that Macs can’t handle it properly. If anything, Mac should be able to handle it better than PC.

The TA Aetherblade path would be so much nicer if it wasn’t for the Ooze puzzle near the beginning. That part takes long than any other part in the dungeon.

Aberrant.6749:

I was ok but not happy about this when I thought that I would have to run the few story modes I hadn’t done. Now I have to redo them all. There is next to no rewards doing a story mode a 2nd time. They are longer than paths (generally). They usually have a lot of players that don’t have a clue what they are doing using them as sort of “intro” dungeons. Why you hurt me like this? I thought we was friends

QQ. You don’t have to run the story mode again at all if you don’t want to.

Or just do some crafting and swap out the char at the end of dungeons to level up to 80 in less than 24 hours of gameplay?

Confirmed on my girlfriends MacBook Pro running Guild Wars.

layzoe.6035:

Only thing about guard is that there isn’t a lot of swiftness boons so you are slow which I would think would matter if you are farming mats. Warriors at least have the warhorn that has a low cooldown. For pure farming, I think warrior would be better for the heavy class. It has much higher health pool than the guardian too.

There’s 3 swiftness boons if I recall correctly, meaning that you can have swiftness like 80% of the time.

I do most of my farming with my guardian, only because it’s got all the waypoints. I mainly use greatsword for clearing mobs. And sword/focus for single target or up to 3-4 foes. The blink is pretty cool, plus the blinds help reduce incomings (and the focus #5 skill for extra blocking)

Marcarus.5012:

One type of crash may have been fixed but my Mac is still crashing. This happened several months ago with these same errors. I am getting c0000006, lockedRect.pBits, and just now, dstBits listed in the error dialog. I am running OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

Hmm, this was an issue during some of the many patches for the Assault Knights. Maybe they reverted a change during the whole LA LS that means it is broken again…

Embrace The Bold.7619:

But the more important note is can we still here “NO NO NO” 15 thousand times?

Yes we can Confirmed after the patch.

“No no no. We should go to the armory. That’s where Zadorojny is likely to be.” x1231231241

Kamikae.9536:

I wonder if it would be more effect to go over ArenaNet’s head and communicate with NCSoft the parent company and say hey, you guys are losing money because blah blah bad PR and blah blah bad Mac client blah blah Beta test for over a year blah blah 9 months to make gemstore work. You get the idea

Also any petition for native clients I will agree to sign. I know letters are good but does anyone know how to start an E-Petition?

I don’t think any consumers like ourselves have the right, expertise or knowledge to tell them if they are losing money or not. However, honest letters regarding our personal feelings would work a lot better over telling them how to do their job in my experience as a software company owner.

Chrans.6920:

I am also have major issues with the game crashing while playing. The trade post has been messed up for the last 2 days also.

Those are two separate issues there, and both of them are unrelated to this thread.