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Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns on Mac - installation guide
About the game
The first expansion pack for Guild Wars 2.
Journey deeper into the heart of the Maguuma Jungle to discover new challenges, adventures, and ancient civilizations. Unlock the ability to use the new profession that channels legends from the Mists: the Revenant. Learn new abilities through the account-wide mastery system and further train your characters with new elite specializations to gain access to new weapons, skills, and traits.
First released: Oct 2015
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns on Mac through Parallels Desktop
If you've been using a Mac for any amount of time after switching from a Windows machine, you've certainly heard of Parallels. Parallels is a virtualization software that allows you to use another operating system withing your native OS. This means that you will have access to a full Windows installation on your Mac.
This is the safest way to run any Windows game on Mac, including Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. Read on for easy to follow instructions on how to run Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns on your Mac within minutes.
Here's the best part: you only need to do the setup once. After that, you will be able to install games on your Mac just as easily as you can on a Windows machine.
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns on Mac - how to install
Step 1
Visit the Parallels website and get the latest version of Parallels Desktop.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will ask you to do so).
Step 3
When asked, download and install Windows 10. The download is roughly 5.7GB. At various points in the installation process it will ask you for permission, make sure you grant it.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are done with the setup. All you need to do is install Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns normally like you would on any Windows computer.
