Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

since the last patch my Mac client is very stable. Before that it was not playable in LA and World VS World. I tried all the things they suggested and nothing worked. I have top notch iMac 27" and when I play the game via Bootcamp, everything works fine. But Mac client was crashing UNTIL THE LAST PATCH! Now it works! It is robust, stable, good framerate, etc. And I have changed nothing. Except my settings were reset on the first day after the patch so I had to set it up again.

Here are my settings:
Windows resolution (full screen is too big for me): 2048×1152
Refresh rate: Default
Frame limiter: Unlimited
Interface size: Normal
Settings preset: Choose
Animation: High
Anti-Aliasing: None
Environment: High
LOD: High
Reflections: Terrain&Sky
Textures: Medium
Render sampling: Native
Shadows: Medium
Shaders: Medium
Post-Procesing: High
Character model limit: High
Character model quality: Medium
Best texture filtering: on
Depth blur: on
Effect LOD: on

So the setting are medium to high on Mac. In Windows I have a full screen and mostly HIGH settings. FPS in LA is around 30 due to high population, everywhere else is much higher.

I hope this info helps someone. On my MBP I have everything on low and Render sampling: SUBSAMPLE. The game there looks “ugly” but due to subsample rendering in kinda looks cool. Everything is blurred out but at least it works with 30FPS on 2010 MBP.

Have fun

I support this idea very much! But you must understand that this will probably not happen, since porting takes a lot of resources that must be justified by white collars.

Hell everyone,

I will explain why I prefer GW2 to WoW and some other MMO games I’ve played. Short facts about my gaming ‘history’. I was playing WoW and old GW from the start back in 2005 (WoW was released in 2005 in Europe). In WoW I had many guilds (still leading one) and I have top notch gear and other rare items, including spectral tiger, ton of achievements and over 500k gold. I left WoW months ago, putting my friend as an acting GM and I am not planing to return to WoW. Why:
- GW2 is here!
- I am bored of tanking for the last 4 years and I am bored of healing for the last 7 years.
- I have a good life, job and many other RL activities so raiding once per week (and still downing HC bosses) is a pain.
- Managing DKP? WTF was that stupid thing with greed, roll, etc? Dumb mechanics that I hated from the day 0.
- Teaching people how to play. WOW is a simple and easy game but there are too many idiots playing it since it is a pop cultural phenomena.
- Only a few skills make sense, the rest you really use them.
- B O R I N G grinding. Quests, professions (specially Archeology)
- Meaningless professions, except JC and ‘sometimes’ cooking.
- Dumb talent tree. Too easy, yet looks like it takes a genius to apply it, oh wait… I meant to play it.
- 10% of players know how to play. The rest are just there to make servers laggy.
- Pet battle system… are you kidding me. How old is an average WoW player? 6?
- Pandas? I love Disney but not that much. KK, thx.
- HOLY TRINITY. Favoring classes, no freaking balance over 7 years.
- Warlocks… overpowered.
- Greed.
- Flying mounts? What are they good for? Everyone sits in SW or Org!
- Outdated graphics, models, textures. It is no longer 1999, please. I can still se hollow models while swimming.
- Rushing. You have this sense of urgency and the result is boredom.
- Arenas which were a bad copy of GW arenas. No proper balance. Yeah yeah…
- Did I mentioned greed?
- Soon you will have one skill, one button, one loot, I WIN!
- No diversity in combat, except you roll another class.
- No sense belonging… players us others to gain simply one thing and that is gear.
- Pay2play… I have invested in WoW (few accounts) over 5k euro in the last 7 years. I even payed subscriptions for 5 people who could not afford it. I am not sorry about it but it is enough.
- What did Blizzard do with billions of dollars? PANDAS who can do pet battles!!!
- They removed the world bosses, if you remember the dragons…
- Poor character customization. My characters had many twins. How can you relate to that… beats me.
- The best people @ Blizzard are graphics designers. They did a wonder of a kitteny 3D engine. Texture designers should be the last to be fired when the ship starts sinking.
- ETC… could write this for a whole day.

And why I love GW2:
- No greed, no DKP.
- No more tanking and dedicated healing. Hell yeah. I am no longer special because I can tank. Finally. Now everyone can be special because they can PLAY well!
- I play whenever I can and I don’t have a feeling that I let down someone.
- Superior combat system (skills, avoiding damage, constant movement)
- Amazing graphics!
- Challenging encounters. Oh and you need to move.
- CASTING WHILE MOVING <3
- M U S I C!!! OMG but Jeremy Soule did an amazing job for GW1 and they kept it, plus added more amazing music.
- Sounds! Listen on how the sound changes when you run trough different depths of water… for example.
- Fun professions! I love cooking!
- Gems, gold, karma!
- Trading post… well done.
- Rewarded for everything! So nothing feels like a time waste. You can easily get distracted with other activity.
- Dying! Worked well in GW1, even better in GW2.
- Character customization. I have not seen a single asura looking like mine.
- Micro transactions instead of Pay2Play. Earn for items in game (if you have too much time) or pay for the with real money. Sadly this has not stopped gold farmers for various reasons… but still…
- Dynamic events and chain events! Way better than in most games. And please don’t say WoW had them. Elementals running around once or some other “fun” stuff happening is not wort mentioning.
- ETC

GW2 wish list:
- Would love to see complex, hard, instances from GW classic, like Underworld and FoW, etc.
- Trading directly with players… mailing items is cool but sometimes trading is faster. That is a must.

GW2 is an amazing game, different than WoW and in some aspect (mentioned above) a much better game for me. And that is all that matters to me.

Enjoy your virtual worlds and have a nice day.