Expansion: Don't need disks just the key

darkswan

Full Member
After 3 months there was a certain amount of downloading for the client to do to get back into the original game (Prophecies), but no more than a few minutes.

Logged out, and stayed at the login screen.
That small lightning strike icon was there indicating more download, so I just let it go. 500Mb later - I entered my new KEY and the game has become Prophecy/factions combined.

NB If you want your factions account to have access to all the old skills (for PvP) or want your Factions characters to be able to go back to the Prophecy campaigns, you need to add the key to your EXISTING account (which involves logging in as part of the process).

If you create a NEW account, that is final apparently - no merging allowed afterwards. People have already made this mistake.

(For those who buy Factions but do not have Prophecies then obviously you create a new account. Similar issue for you if you buy Prophecies later. Choose to add key to existing account or to have a separate one, but accounts cannot be merged after the choice is made.)

Worth a defrag of the drive after the download.

Some useful notes here on optimising performance (including de-compressing the downloaded files out of game so you don't get a long wait between zones).

HTH
 

darkswan

Full Member
gwonline.net seem to be slow tonight. In fact even if it did work, I think they expect you to have an account to look even LOOK at the forums. How things change.

Anyway one tip I took was to have another game shortcut (i.e. copy desktop shortcut), which calls
"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image
This doesn't run the game, just de-compresses all the downloaded files.
It took 10 minutes to de-compress 24,000 files.

The rest is a tad esoteric.
 

Coalman

Full Member
Yep my copy was finally recieved from my sister house via my niece - been there all weekend but she hadn't :( so entered my key & merged so can now make 6 characterswhich should be fine for the way I play - all classes covered by the PVE charcters to unlock the skills needed in PVP with one space to role a PVP charcter & a spare incase I want to try a differnet PVE type (have made a Ritualist/Mesmer to see how that goes so still need an Assain build to unlock skills. Saw you on-line DS but you must have been busy or AFK whilst game was sorting it's self :) Will try & catch up with everyone either Sunday afternoon or Monday night
 
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