Most people are pretttty sure it isn’t primordius.
There is a patch coming today (not out yet) and it’s possible that it’s preventing you from connecting (although i can just fine?)
What are your mac’s specs? Have you been able to play prior to today?
Yup that means you’re fubared xD.
As Nageth points out you need a windows license to run it – Windows is not free.
Umm. They did NOT make powerbooks three years ago.
So I assume your powerbook is much older than three years since nor did they make single core macbooks three years ago?
You would be best off with an i5 or i7 Macbook Pro. A PC will work better, but a macbook pro with Windows installed via bootcamp will work insanely well.
Except that macbooks don’t have HDMI input so you’ll also have to buy an expensive thunderbolt (how stupid is that name, thunder is a sound it does not have bolts. Why is it not lightningbolt) to HDMI connector.
I don't agree with hiding updates notes
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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305
That is like complaining that a movie trailer didn’t show you the entire plot before you saw the movie. Like actually.
Except, you know, the story of GW2 isn’t the main attraction. The gameplay is. I want to know what I’m playing. How has swapping to trailers boosted people’s hype? All it’s done for me is make me way less excited for the releases. It used to be I’d see what I could play and then the excitement would practically kill me while I was waiting. Now, I watch the trailer on Monday and forget about the update for a week and then log on Wednesday or so to see what I can play.
I haven’t looked forward to any of the updates since they swapped to trailers except for this one, because it seems to have the most potential to change the world out of any LS update. I’ll still log on later today to check what’s happened.
That is highly debatable. GW2, like GW1, is a STORY based game. Arenanet has always had a focus on story – it’s just a lot of the MMO-hoppers that come in and think it’s all about gameplay. The updates are about story – a lot of us don’t want the story ruined before we get a chance to play it. It should be the same with gameplay anyway, why do you need to know what to do before you can do it. Learning when something hits live is a lot more enjoyable than starting and already knowing exactly how to do something. Melandru forbid you actually have to work hard at something.
In what way was GW1 grindy?
The end game achievements like vanquishing and cartography sure. But the game itself was not grindy at all – it was entirely story based and armour was very very easy to get.PvE skills, faction-based titles that gave you access to armor, weapons and consumables and in the first year getting BiS gear was expensive aswell (runes, upgrades)
None of that was necessary. Faction based titles were entirely optional and the armour that they gave you access to had EXACTLY the same stats as the armour you could buy from a vendor – that is horizontal progression by definition.
Runes and Upgrades were not that expensive, money was not difficult to make in GW1.
You don;t know that the humans have a larger population base…. That is not a verifiable fact.
Also the Centaur are trained for war, they live for war – and they do actually have access to a LOT of magic. Hence the pretty badkitten boss Ulgoth.
The Ascalonians who fled to Kryta generally weren’t the soldiers and their numbers weren’t all too impressive – hence the Ascalonian settlement led by Captain Greywind.
The Centaur brought together ALL of their tribes. That means that it is not just the Tamini, but the Modnirr from the Shiverpeaks and the Harathi from the Maguuma. In GW1 all of these tribes were a force to be reckoned with ON THEIR OWN. Now they’re united.
The Centaurs certainly DO have the technology as well – they’re highly proficient in siege weaponry and engineering. Hence all of their rather large forts and catapults.
I don't agree with hiding updates notes
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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305
Seriously.
That is like complaining that a movie trailer didn’t show you the entire plot before you saw the movie. Like actually.
I know that people are so used to everything being laid out right in front of them – and actually having entire plots in movie trailers – but that is NOT the way things should be,.
What is the point of them telling you everything that is going to happen before it happens. Wouldn’t you rather know a little bit and then get to have a surprise?
Shall I come to your house on your Birthday and on Christmas and sit there and tell you exactly what each of your presents is just before you open it?
That issue is specifically with logging in to the forums – not the game itself.
The issue is also specific to iPad’s using 7.0.2
OP says they couldnt log into the GAME. MUCH bigger issue.
the bots already started… Also how does a chinese version of the game mean more bots?
They would be playing the chinese version, not the US/EU version. (I’m pretty sure Arenanet has blocked China from the NA/EU version – at least I remember them saying that close to launch – as a preventative measure against botting)
In what way was GW1 grindy?
The end game achievements like vanquishing and cartography sure. But the game itself was not grindy at all – it was entirely story based and armour was very very easy to get.
This appeases the Nexon gods.
Yes Nexon owns a share in NCSoft.
But Nexon is a KOREAN company. Korea is not China, and in fact the two countries don’t share a lot of love for one another.
^— Uhh what… I don’t think that’s a legitimate thing. Posted on my macbook pro, from an apple fan with purely apple devices.
If you hate GW1 you shouldn’t be playing GW2. Elitism and kitten like that.
I assume you have the windows.iso on your computer though?
Are you able to burn it to a disc?
Check the two sliders for sound in the games preferences. You may have them down the wrong end. Also in what way is the sound degraded? (I have a mid 2011 iMac, which I don’t use to play anymore but tried once, and GW2 did sound a little tinny on it)
so LA different zones? this has potential
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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305
Konig, the assumption that there will be 2 zones comes from people misinterpreting part of the Massively interview. It was stated that they have worked on a way to allow any personal story missions that take place in Lions Arch to be completed – but that presumably just means that, like always, they will be instanced and may be accompanied by a new explanation for why it has to be instanced.
They are described as forces of nature BY TYRIANS – Tyrians who only know of their recent rise (mostly) and just needed a way to describe them.
They are not actually forces of nature. We don’t know where they came from, we don’t know what their actual purpose is. etc. etc.
As Ominous points out they are sentient intelligent beings.
The Inquest as a whole yes, but it isn’t the WHOLE inquest who have joined the Aetherblades – just some of them.
As to your last comment, minions can be corrupted by other dragons, so the Sylvari being immune does not provide any evidence that they’re from Mordremoth.
<3.
Please take all my cookies. It’s nice to see someone be smart about this.
Will the GW2 china release have any effect on the TP?
No, they’re playing on completely separate servers to us. The game’s being released by a Chinese company (in conjunction with Arenanet). So their client shouldn’t have any impact whatsoever on ours – except for the things Arenanet has been working on to add to both clients.
That second piece of fan art is AWESOME. That person was obviously a GW1 player – hence Jora <3
It’s not impossible.
In all of the Orrian maps if you look up you can see Airships battling with Dragons in the distance, so they could do it here.
But I don’t think it’s going to happen. The Pact was created to deal with the dragons, not with random evil ladies.
But you do need a central location for FoTM. Also Lions Arch is an integral part of the in world economy (talking lore here, not TP). So yeah, there should be serious ramifications to it being destroyed.
I’m all for moving out into the racial cities. I spend all my time in the Grove anyway. It loads far quicker.
You’re talking about one specific aspect of the game.
You can’t ignore the TON of PvE content they’ve added and say they haven’t added content just because it isn’t content that you personally play.
PvP is about to undergo an overhall – they’ve told us that in advance a while back. WvW just got EoTM and had the Season 1 achievements – and will have the season 2 achievements at some point in the future.
LS does not cater to the solo player – or did you somehow miss the update to Tequatl. The two Super Adventure Box updates. The Marionette. The Wurm, etc.
Boss fights as part of the living story aren’t new either. We did have the Karka Queen added a while back.
It’s infested with Karka and “owned” by the Consortium – who are the BLTP’s main enemy. Soooo, perhaps no Southsun for us xD.
Don’t worry, we’re all angry and abrasive to you too.
:D <3
I feel so special.
Patches don’t have specific times. It’s just whenever they get it all together and put it out.
We can say for certain that it will be during normal working hours though, since they will need to release the patch when they have staff on hand to remedy any problems.
Well, didn’t mean to appear as being offended or something. Just meant to say I don’t really see how some could get chlore from claw o_O.
I wasn’t implying that you were offended. Apparently I just come of as a very angry/abrasive person -cries-.
Follow these instructions VERY CAREFULLY.
4.)If it doesn’t work, you can try to delete the contents of the gw2 data folder, it’s a pain to get to the right one: this step is a general fix for many tp and graphics issues, even without the previous steps however, it will lose all saved log in/password and in-game settings.
To access this:
1 Click on the “Finder” icon located in your dock or the desktop of your computer to make “Finder” the active program in the finder menu bar.
2 Hold down the “Option” key on your keyboard while clicking “Go” in the finder menu bar. A drop-down will appear.
3 While still holding down the “Option” key, click on “Library” in the “Go” drop-down.
4 Once in the Library folder click on Application Support > Guild Wars 2
5 Move the entire Guild Wars 2 folder to the trash and then empty the trash.
The next time you launch Guild Wars 2 it will recreate the recently deleted folder.
Let me know if that works?
Usually that would be right (about having to cover up the bones) but the Chinese website has screenshots of Necro minions with their skeleton faces. So I am wondering if they’ve somehow managed to bypass that?
Warcry, it IS that. The dev’s have directly stated it.
Yes DE have had cameos in the living story – but they have not had voiced dialogue (with the exception of logan and Rytlock)
Martin no they have not…
They’ve stated multiple times that any progression they do will be horizontal rather than vertical – as in new trait lines, rather than increased levels.
They’ve learnt a LOT from ascended gear and the uproar from it, they aren’t about to increase the level and create a tier above that because it would make a rather large portion of the game redundant. Crafting would become pointless for any new players.
GW1 never once raised the level cap and it would be ridiculous for GW2 to do so. They put the level cap at 80 to appease traditional MMO players, but it still functions similarly to GW1’s low level cap. There’s no reason for them to ever raise it.
No idea why they wouldn’t just hand the localisation of GW2 China off to a third party like every other MMO ever has done… if what I’ve been reading is correct and we’ve been seeing absolute lacks of content being produced as they’ve been spending all their time and effort trying to get GW2 ready for a China release.. that’s really poor.
That’s not correct.
We have not been seeing a lack of content – GW2 has consistently put out way more content than any other MMO within very short timespans. 2 weeks between decent updates is pretty amazing. They’ve also been stated to have a larger team in the background (on top of the i think 4 living story teams) working on content closer to what you’d expect from an expansion.
And honestly, it’s a GOOD thing that they are the ones managing the localisation, it means that the quality of the game and the lore is consistent and also means they have more money to fund more content further down the line.
The level cap will NOT be raised.
Ascended is intended to be the final tier and progression from this point onwards is meant to be horizontal rather than vertical.
Seriously. There is no singular live even at Patch time.
If there was they would do what they have done any time previous to know and would have let people know.
That kind of one-time thing gets WAY in advance notifications because this is a global game.
They notified us when there were 1 off things for halloween (the cinematic), they notified us for the couple of one off’s in the lost shores event.
Patch time doesn’t help you anyway. If they were having a one off it would have to happen AFTER patch time – otherwise only the few people who patched quickly and have super fast internet would see it.
Use common sense people. Arenanet is a company full of intelligent people, they aren’t going to make content that is a one off and NOT tell players about it.
so LA different zones? this has potential
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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305
I don’t think they would do this with Orr.
Orr was designed to be an end-game zone. It’s sort of failed at that, but not completely – people do the temple events.
Splitting the playerbase between a past and present version of maps is not a good idea because it would make Orr’s already sparse population even sparser.
With Lions Arch, it’s not actually a separate map for people who need POI’s – map completion will take place on the new, destroyed version of LA, – it’s a separate version of LA for people going through the personal story. Of course we don’t know the exact details, but we will tomorrow.
Seeing as they did next to nothing in the fight against Zhaitan or even back when Claw Island and the city got attacked the first time, why would they suddenly show up now?
To be fair the personal story was supposed to be happening concurrently with the dungeon storyline – so Destiny’s Edge was busy doing things like shutting down CoE, helping the Kodan in HoTW, dealing with the ghosts in AC, etc.
How is the combat dumbed down? GW1 combat was stationary, skill-spam based combat.
How is the character customisation dumbed down? Trait lines function in almost the same way as GW1 AP. The only real difference is that GW2 has fewer skills – which has its benefits.
I’ll give you mobs – but no open world MMO can have what GW1 had. GW1’s mobs were interesting and well-pathed because you could take them out without worrying about where they respawned (because they didn’t).
GW2 is not GW1. GW1 is already a game so of course they didn’t simply remake it.
I absolutely love GW1, I also absolutely love GW2. But seriously people, stop making comparisons. One is a CORPG the other is an MMORPG – they could not have functioned in the same way. GW1 is a unique beast.
Use the bootcamp manager.
As for how you install Windows – that’s going to depend on a couple of things.
Do you have a Windows installation disc? What mac do you have (specifically what year, what make, and does it have a disc drive).
The Mursaat were not working with Abaddon – they were working against him.
They were trying to STOP the Titans leaking through from the Foundry of Failed Creations.
Abaddon was not banished from the world – he was completely destroyed. He does not exist anymore.
Uh, I assume you’re referring to Chlore Island?
No, they mean Claw Island.
Do you perhaps play the game in a different language?I played it in whatever language Trahearne speaks.
You mean English. Yes I can see how someone who is used to speaking American might not be able to understand :P
I’m American I don’t think I’ve heard her Trahearne say Claw island like that lol.
I did say might not be able to understand. Honestly that was the only explanation I could come up with for why someone might think he’s saying chlore and that it’s worth mocking. I could sit here for hours and mock the American accents in-game and how ridiculous some of the things they say sound. Centaur for example. But I know that the game is global and that means that a lot of people with different accents are playing and so we are all used to saying things differently. There’s not really a “correct” way of saying something when you take accents into consideration.
Timebandit the dialogue in the final Nightfall mission makes it clear that Abaddon’s will was completely broken – as in whilst she absorbed his power she did not absorb any other part of him.
Abaddon is dead. Like, completely eradicated from the universe.
Yeah exactly. Great analogy Cursed.
Stability does clear fear (or at least on my ele it does).
But yeah, immobilize can be nasty.
Why is 8 a good number? Because you said so?
GW2 is NOT GW1. You can’t say that because there are 8 player parties in GW1 it will work in GW2 because it is a completely different game. The combat is different, and requires different things. Not to mention there are no heroes or henchmen.
GW1 got away with 8 player parties because when there weren’t enough people you had AI to fill the remaining places. GW2 does not have heroes (for obvious reasons, the combat means that AI allies are next to useless) and therefore they dropped the number down to 5 to ensure that throughout the day there would always be enough players to form a party.
Even as it is its sometimes difficult to fill out a party of 5. If it were raised to 8 then we would have a lot of problems.
Uh, I assume you’re referring to Chlore Island?
No, they mean Claw Island.
Do you perhaps play the game in a different language?I played it in whatever language Trahearne speaks.
You mean English. Yes I can see how someone who is used to speaking American might not be able to understand :P
Uh, I assume you’re referring to Chlore Island?
No, they mean Claw Island.
Do you perhaps play the game in a different language?
Yup, I do recall having to add -dx9single on to client in crossover :P