Guild Wars 2

Thanks! I think what changed is when I hooked my laptop up to my TV for a bit. I think that changed the resolution.

Recently I logged in to my account again on my Mac and the graphics seemed to have degraded in quality. The UI had tripled in size and the characters’ pixels were large and rough looking. After I checked I did see that the default settings were mostly set on low, which I changed immediately. This, however, didn’t change the characters back to the high resolution I was accustomed to. The character models no longer had the gloss that you see normally as the default settings in most of GW2’s promotional material.

I have a Macbook Pro(Retina), mid-2012, 8GB1600 MHz with an Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB with OS X 10.8.5 software.

Seeing as this is something of a relative question, I’m not sure anybody can actually help me with this issue, but I would be happy to know if this has happened to anybody else or there is a reason for it. Thanks

I understand that the Sylvari as they are do not have a second form, my question is why does that have to be canon forever? Things can change and evolve in a story and the Sylvari are probably the easiest story in the game to edit. I mean, they have magic physiology already, who knows what else they can do?

Hi GW2,

So I was just skimming over the Sylvari page when it occurred to me “Why are Sylvari human-like?” It didn’t take long to find out the answer (Pale Tree likes emulating humans because it likes the way humans look or something.) What I was interested in is could that human look be optional? Sylvari are meant to physically appealing to naturally anthropomorphic races, but what if they had a “natural” state? Just a form where they had the bare minimal (two arms, bipedal, two eyes, none of the extra stuff for a plant.) From a gameplay perspective it would be just as useless as the look they have now, but it might be cool for lore and a new aesthetic look to take over “civilian clothes” for the Sylvari. Just an idea.