Dydzio.1320

> @"hobotnicax.7918" said:

> Dude, the M1 is destroying everything in the laptop market and it's and entry level chip... Apple is changing the PC market and some people (you for instance), just don't want to accept it.

Nope, how about the points from my comment above? I am software developer, gamer, power user and I would not touch apple devices with a stick considering their "dumbed-down foolproof limitation what you can do on their devices". Yes, I like being able to break my hard drive firmware on linux with hdparm tool if I want to.

I never found refill button to be any useful - it's way better to break forging animation by pressing F to reopen mystic forge and re-put items - it's faster

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> Very rarely and why is something like this needing a macro?

When you mystic forge total of 50000 tier 5 materials into tier 6 then you will understand

Well, I think the best summary of current situation is "reality check of people who use system tied to some company". If Microsoft someday decides to lockdown people and force to use their store for applications... that will be very funny reality check for many people.

Mac is already considered third class citizen when it comes to gaming due to Apple's vision of Mac being closed ecosystem, they invest in homebrew tech without attempts to make it word beyond Mac (for example Metal). They go towards locking system like phones do, but on PC. When you go for corporate operating system you are limited by their decisions, present or future - that's why I prefer linux which is secured for eternity by being community-based with very high programmer's interest.

Mac may be good for some sorts of "professionals" but it definitely isn't good for power users and running incompatible stuff via compatibility layer software may be roadblocked by Apple etc. I still vote for game engine upgrade to newer directx so there will be performance gain on both windows and linux via wine software. If Anet goes further and decides to use vulkan then they may be able to semi-support Mac indirectly via MoltenVK and maybe even make GW2 work natively on linux while providing even higher performance.

> @"hobotnicax.7918" said:

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> Macbook Air M1 would like to have a word with you.

Hi Apple, have you finally started making standalone computers that are somewhat Power User friendly, with ability to replace broken part without buying new device?

If you can't get day off work for caravan then you are not dedicated enough :D

If I didn't do it before that's what i would do.

EU server may be able to do it right now ASAP after patching game as patch dropped at off-palawadan hours.

The magic carpet and similar items work as intended IMO as they were there when mounts did not exist

On the other hand I like complicated. Before GW2 i played Dungeons & Dragons Online and that MMO is way way more complicated.

What istan caravan and geforce RTX 3000 series graphic cards have in common? Both disappear in no time when you camp for them

There were two new instances around 6 PM UTC on EU in last 2 days, but I think it was sorta lucky because based on my experience it's usually really hard to get instance that opened around 3 PM to close, usually next palawadan reopens them. On weekends with more population nobody knows I guess.

I finally managed to get it done today, that was pure nightmare experience. No raid boss is as tough to get it done as The God of Cows. RIP to players who still need to get this done, I wish you the best of luck with finding fresh map instance. I camped so hard to get it done that it gave me a little bit detrimental effect on my mental health due to frustration, lol. Your chance might be after patch day - if the patch will drop not during palawadan then patch the game immediately when patch drops and go to istan. If it drops during palawadan then the fresh instance will be bugged, but then if 2nd map instnace spawns outside palawadan hours then it will be unbugged.

I am 99% sure it won't get fixed on 17th.

I made this meme video few days ago regarding this bug: https://www.captiongenerator.com/2015912/Hitler-is-trying-to-get-Vision-in-Guild-Wars-2

The map needs to be really "newly created" for it to work. Indicator for you to leave map for another does not mean you get fresh map, opposite - it usually means latest map instance is closing and you are going back to primary instance which is usually broken for long time already. Also if on new map meta already happened then the map got broken already. Map reopening which was on closing phase also doesn't help.

I got bunch of people sending me PM-s and mails ingame, so I wanna specify that I am on EU server - if you are from NA you are unfortunately unable to help me in getting caravan done.

@"Tecky.3850" Once I saw meta event progress bar filled a little bit, then it bumped straight to 100% after short while. I guess you were on instance that for some reason allowed killing more than 1 monster on map to progress the meta phase (bug gets delayed on such instance or something)

ATM I have so low hopes about Arenanet that I force myself to do rest of the vision collection ASAP because they will probably break another ls4 map event when they fix istan.

I guess for game managers legendary stuff is as irrelevant as it can be. Majority of money comes from casual playerbase that buys gold for gems, and it's minority that is skilled / dedicated enough to do legendary collections.

@"Excursion.9752" tell all the frustrated people to go to istan and use /bug command, if they did not. This is what support wrote to me - "We suggest encouraging other players to submit reports for this even as well, as this will help the development team gauge how many players are being impacted by this bug"

Same, I paid money for game to use it on fixing stuff like this, not creating fluffy cat ear cosmetics for gemstore

Progress report... the event is absolutely 100% impossible to complete. Do not bother trying. After a lot of effort I managed to kill ONLY dolyak from the caravan event. The event still failed, so I just proved this event is 100% impossible to be done without patch.

That also means the above message about gathering people for caravan runs gets terminated, I see no reason to run this and help people get this done as it's impossible. You can still send me ingame mail etc. if you wanna talk about the problem.

If you are curious about the run itself: party of 3 - 1 power dps rifle deadeye, 1 condi dps dagger/dagger soulbeast, 1 reaper tank full nomad with level 1 greatsword for pulls and being damage sponge (me). Caravan spawned at southern spot at champion's dawn and the run ended around Lakdok Craterlands POI.

This is the PvE raid content of 2020, this is what anet thinks that the "where are new raids" whiners deserve :P

I am gathering people for EU server to try running this event in controller environment, send me ingame mail if you interested (if my mailbox is full then try again next day) - best attempt was keeping caravan alive for like 90-120 seconds, lack of general dps did not help in making event completed - I assume caravan got around 1 million healthpoints. We need ranged snipe DPS that won't do AOE damage like deadeyes, or axe necros which are safest pick but unfortunately low damage, also people who sit in Istan map to find map instances that are closing. Yesterday we tried as 6 ppl (4 people who need achievement and 2 helpers from guilds), there were some flaws in executing strategy and final nail to the coffin was some player from outside squad (the only one on the map) who came to caravan and used AOE skill that hit one of monsters which was low on health. So far time with any chance to succeed seems to be 9-10 PM CET or later (due to factors such as less chance for leftover players on closing instances etc.). This requires more coordination than raids to be done, but is theoretically possible.

I am gathering people for EU server to try running this event in controller environment, send me ingame mail if you interested (if my mailbox is full then try again next day or later) - best attempt was keeping caravan alive for like 90-120 seconds, lack of general dps did not help in making event completed - I assume caravan got around 1 million healthpoints. We need ranged snipe DPS that won't do AOE damage like deadeyes, or axe necros which are safest pick but unfortunately low damage, also people who sit in Istan map to find map instances that are closing. Yesterday we tried as 6 ppl (4 people who need achievement and 2 helpers from guilds), there were some flaws in executing strategy and final nail to the coffin was some player from outside squad (the only one on the map) who came to caravan and used AOE skill that hit one of monsters which was low on health. So far time with any chance to succeed seems to be 9-10 PM CET or later (due to factors such as less chance for leftover players on closing instances etc.). This requires more coordination than raids to be done, but is theoretically possible.