Guild Wars 2

I went through quite a few of those posts. Most responses assumes that GW2 was installed, or installed previously. However this is a clean install, no previous installation.

It is the installer that is failing, the client is not even on the computer yet, nor is there any gw2 or transgaming content to remove. Posts related to the issue I am having don’t seem to have a resolution, or are completely unanswered.

I did an SMC reset as per one of the posts but that didn’t work.

same result regardless of where i drag the installer app to.

I’m trying to install GW2 onto OSX but when I double click on the gw2 installer I get a w2 window pop up, with an empty (what appears to be) text area and greyed out buttons.

Please see attached.

To replicate:

1. heavy armour
1. go into hero panel and select a dye you are currently not wearing
2. apply it to the top dye slot of a chest item
3. click apply

Chest and pants should now show all the same colour (the one you just applied) in the dye selection screen, but has been applied properly to your charactor.

Looks like shoulders is caught up in this bug as well.

Also closing and going back into the hero screen does not fix it.

Selecting another colour in the other colour slots also does not fix it.

See screenshot

Ok so in a recent update traits and skills got a major overhaul. While I like they style I am dismayed at the reduced choice.

Firstly I now only have 3 traits to choose from per slot where previously I could use lesser traits in the higher slots.

Secondly now I have to unlock all the traits skills before I can use any of them. Where as before I could use them as I unlocked them.

Thirdly now I can only unlock traits in a specific order where previously I was able to unlock the ones I needed before unlocking the others.

Fourthly now I am restricted to using only 3 trait lines where previously I could have traits active in a 5 lines if I chose to.

While I understand the need to make things easier to balance for PvP there are some of us who only PvE. These changes restrict the way we play compared to pre patch. I now have to change the way I play on several characters that I have played the same way since their creation.

Please, can’t you just do seperate balancing for PvE and PvP so the balancing need of one does not negatively impact on the other?

Currently I have been trying to run GW1 (not 2) under OS X using VirtualBox, however performance is slow …

Has anyone got GW1 running smoothly on OS X, and if so what did you use.

Also, has anyone tried modifying the GW2 OS X client wrapper to run the GW1 client under OS X? If so please share what you modified as it may be a better option.

Australia tax expanded. I am sure we have law firms here that could of informed them of any changes to comp rules they would of needed to make …

The skill point at Stormbluff Beacon in Bloodied Coast is bugged and preventing 100% map completion.

When you shoot the cannons the cannon ball does not make it out of the cannon, instead it appears to impact with something inside the cannon’s barrel.

I must be going senile … I am sure about a week ago I saw topics of how to setup the Guild Wars 2 client so that you can play while content is downloading. However a search for “streaming” (a word within the config needed) turns up 0 results.

Anyway I was wondering if this was actually working for the MAC client, and if so what is the correct way of implementing it please.

Having same issue: having to go invisible and back online before game recognises that I am in a guild

I would like to add to this is that seemingly random voices saying different shouts seem to occur in and out of combat situations even when no-one else is around me.

1) reduce CPU usage. 100% on mid 2011 MacBook Pro under osx when GW2 under windows on same machine has much much less CPU usage. This is because the Cider wrapper used in OSX doesn’t allow the CPU to idle …

2) Native client. This would solve a lot of the issues and lay the groundwork for greater portability in the future such as native Linux client

3) All current issues could be addressed by 2), however working on 1) would increase the life of the cooling fans while playing GW2.

Has anyone tried running GW2 with crossover?

I am getting annoyed with the game turning my MacBook Pro into an instant hand warmer under osx while if I bootcamp into windows and play the game doesn’t heat the computer up as much. I am wondering if this issue occurs with crossover or if “temperature wise” it behaves more like the game does in windows on the same machine.

Ever since I got my 1st character to cursed shore I’v been mapping resource nodes in google draw so I can remember where they are and save time by not having to search for them each time. This also allowed me to map with my strongest character and then race my weaker characters through without having them die a lot.

The introduction of the megaserver has put a stop to that. Yesterday I mapped resources with a number of characters and each time a different character hit a map that I had already mapped previously I had been placed on a different megaserver forcing me to map the resources yet again.

Megaservers mean I am not even guaranteed the same server for the same map during the same login if I just switch characters which is what happened yesterday

While I love that megaservers are a great bot fighting tool, it does unjustly punish those of us who work hard for the cash gained from resource farming, and makes mapping resources for the benefit of other players pointless.

As topic says, there is no stats beside the character in the hero panel (where they were before)

Um, TP broken with update … The initial page only shows gem count and the horizontal menu (nothing else), and clicking on the menu appears to do nothing so I can’t get my charges

I heard that the “devs” were “testing things” to see if there needs to be any “last minute changes”. In other words when the devs finish playing they’ll upload it, likely around 11:59pm :P

hrmm hrmm … someone hasn’t played out their story line. You get to control a charr built vehicle in one of the story missions late in the game. The firing of the cannon on it was annoying for me at the time I did it.

So yes there are vehicles in the game, their use is very limited and restricted to storyline, otherwise there would need to be 10x more undead

They might be pushing the new patch to the servers, and running some tests before opening them to us :P

The following is the times (my local time) this year so far of the announcements on twitter of the major releases (not hot fixes) …

2:16 AM – 19 Mar 2014 AEST (UTC +10)
10:42 AM – 5 Mar 2014 AEST (UTC +10)
9:14 AM – 19 Feb 2014 AEST (UTC +10)
3:08 AM – 5 Feb 2014 AEST (UTC +10)
4:09 AM – 22 Jan 2014 AEST (UTC +10)

The information about the feature pack is not clear as to how the skins end up in the wardrobe.

Do we have to “wear” them or does simply putting them in our inventory add them to the wardrobe?

And will this feature also be available for weapon skins at some point?

mrvlgrl.3495:

so, the workaround totally worked for me when I tried it 5+ hours ago!
logged back in just now, and it’s back to a blank TP.
sigh.

Yep, happening to me to now. The workaround worked. Woke up this morning and accessed the TP to attempt to buy some gems (being pay day and all) and was greeted by a blank TP. Cant buy gems if there is nothing to click.

Very frustrating.

On a side note. TP also fails when internet is throttled

With a major content update due out in a couple of days I feel that this bug is not a high priority at this time. It would appear that none of the developers play on Mac otherwise this issue would of been picked up a lot sooner and other issues I see discussed would of been resolved.

Remember Mac version is just windows version run in cider. I would not be surprised if this was a cider issue meaning we have to wait for a 3rd part fix to resolve it.

Anyone tried GW2 with PlayOnMac or WineBottler? Would be nice to know if this issue is only unique to cider.

The “only” thing that works for me in the black lion trading company window is the pick up tab. I want to buy gems and grab a drum …

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I couldn’t see a more appropriate forum.

My girlfriend wants to start playing GW2 however due to the cost of buying a whole new version it is currently outside of our budget at this time. I know the EULA prohibits account sharing so I am wondering if it is possible to just buy a key, without the digital download, since I already have a physical copy of the game. And if so what is the price difference.

Thanks in advance

I don’t know if there is an issue with the servers, or the link to the US from AU, but I am finding GW2 pretty much unplayable tonight due to lag.

What is occurring is I am able to move around and foes appear to show, but seeing myself getting attacked, or being able to attack myself does not seem to be happening. Heck I even found myself suddenly dead on one of the boxes in the water in frost gorge sound after making my way onto it in full health.

Anyone else having similar issues?

Just wanted to let everyone know that doing the patch as suggested by Felicja.6891 worked to get rid of the TgUpdate message on my macbook pro.

I am finding the following helpful to fix the “camera gone nuts” issue:

Command+tab out of GW2.
Click on browser (or any other active application).
Command+tab back to GW2.

Hope this helps others.

I can’t even get the gem exchange to show so I can’t even get gems with in game gold

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Boot ROM Version: MBP101.00EE.B02
SMC Version (system): 2.3f36

System Version: OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.0.0
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
Boot Mode: Normal

Guild Wars 2: Version 1.0.009112

1) cannot buy gems as buy gems window is blank, This has been occurring for the last few days. I initially thought it was due to my throttled internet but the issue still exists since my internet was unthrottled overnight. Do not know for certain when this issue started, but it was occurring prior to last update for me however about 2 weeks ago it was fine.

2) tgUpdate 1.11 runs every time I start client, only occurring since last update.

3) Camera issue initially but I resolved initially by doing a full restart of the mac book pro, but after re-occurance I used the suggestion of command+tab and scrolling on a webpage and command+tab back. This issue only occurred with last update.

having same issue since last GW2 update, been running GW2 on Mav since Mav was released.

When you removed magic find from opal orbs you did not replace the stat with anything, so unlike other orbs which have 3 stats, opal orbs now only have 2 stats.

Due to a illness and a busy schedule, I had organised to finish my flame and frost achievements by the talked about date of the 15th which patch notes did mentioned (but seemed to have since been modified), but the date was moved forward a day so I missed out on doing the dungeon and the part the dungeon unlocked

Why was it moved forward a day?

I am still waiting to get into the game (huge download) but from reading the patch nots it seems loot chances were improved when there were many people attacking a foe, and I am hoping to see less porous bones from cursed shore events as a result.

But one of the issues I bought up in the long official thread about loot was that because of “bad drops” levelling a character using loot alone was a lot harder than prior to around Nov 15. I do not see anything in the patch notes that addressed the “bad luck” encountered when solo levelling a character from loot alone.

Was this issue looked at? Was the “credit for kills” issue also causing the loot “bad luck” in situations where there was only 1-5 people?

Well, if its dropping like crazy, there goes my rags to riches idea. Hope I get one for my mesmer.

I will try to explain this but if I dont succeed maybe a dev can.

When your camera gets close to your toon, it starts clipping bits of your toon. This results in parts of your armour/body missing and the area being see through.

In some situations how ever the camera can get so close that your toon becomes transparent instread of clipped.

These features will not “undress” your toon.

Naglifar.1684:

• I noticed after I finished Soloing Rotbeard (MUCH easier to do if you kite him to the ship’s deck), there was another chest: a ‘splendid chest’ ( the round orrian kind ) that was near the Larger Chest the boss appears from. NOTE: I am not sure if the chest was already there -OR- if it appeared after the Rotbeard Event.

That chest is always there, if you are able to get past all the undead on the ship you can access loot that chest without even activating the captain event.

I am curious if the up coming fix will also fix the loot distribution that changed with the November patch. Yes they found a bug to qualify for loot, but those of us who were playing before November and were getting a rare an event and alot less junk, but now get alot of junk and might get a rare every couple of days still question if the real cause has been found or if they just decided to stop looking because they found 1 bug relating to loot.

Below is 2 screens I got when I tried to use the trading post, 1st one said I must log in with the word “login” being clickable so I clicked it and got the second screen (I highlighted with mouse to make the words visible.).

Um, I dont know what was changed in the last up date but I came around the corner of the ice flow to see the following. Yes I am using the mac client on a late 2012 mac book pro.

Nurse.1085:

• Shadow Behemoth (Most common, farmed on average)

Keep in mind that while this event is farmed frequently now, it was previously often blocked by broken events that lead up to the pre-events. A recent patch (you can check if you like) fixed the issue.

With the “unique” spawn comment, I am left wondering if that means it is not part of a chain but an independent spawn. Are any of the boss events listed in this thread independent?

Grenth is still in the running, along with the other temple when you get transformed …

Personally I like the shadow behemoth as the candidate since until recently the event chain was almost always bugged so never done that often.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Damage done doesn’t affect drops.

From Colin Johanson

it is still possible to kill a creature and not do enough damage to qualify for loot

Damage does affect drops, but does it also affect quality is what I’m asking.

In light of it being disclosed that GW2 determines if you qualify for loot or not by the amount of damage you do, I have a question regarding the quality of loot. Once you qualify for loot, does GW2 then use the amount of damage to determine what the max loot is you qualify for then do an RNG based on that?

This would explain why I am getting a lot of pours bones, because I didn’t qualify for anything more.

In light of amounts of damage qualifying you for loot, does this mean I should be going for DPS builds to increase my chance of better loot?

I say we cannot rule out the common large events, specially in light of a bug being found with the qualifying of loot, which could of been blocking the dropping of Final Rest from its chest. Something along of the lines of “Yes you can have loot, but you do not qualify for anything more than ….”.

I continue to have this issue of equipment being down scaled based on character level and not the equipment level. It is making levelling of my mesmer very frustrating with 2 on 1 fights resulting is my death most times.

Yes I know I can buy better equipment but thats not the point. Equipment should be scaled down based on its level, not player level.

Does this, drop chests giving junk/whites, occur for the same reason as the other loot issues that Colin Johanson has responded to?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation/first#post1462956

Yesterday I got a white salvageable item from a drop chest.

Tonight I managed to get 2 yellows, both from corpses, I think I did get a chest once and got a white item from it. I say I think because I hit F near it before I realised it was there, and could not get anything from it when I did notice it. I also noticed some kills I did not get XP for, and only a couple of vets dropped anything.

Overall I didn’t do to well, it seemed like the lucky streak ended as quickly as it started.