Guild Wars 2

delta36 · 02-05-2012 12:02pm

I had an insane amount of fun playing this. Even the pure aspect of discovery was great. I played mostly as a ranger, up to level 18, and it was so much fun finding new weapons and discovering the different attack styles you could come up with with different weapons in your main hand and off hand (my personal favourite was where I discovered with an axe in main and torch in off hand, I could throw down some fire around me, then throw my axes through it to create fire axes).
The fact that you could pick up objects which gave you different skills was great craic as well, my favourite in that case being beating a beer thief to death with a garden hoe!
The cities feel amazingly alive, with all the background dialogue between NPC's really adding to the city feel. Exploring in the cities was rewarding as well, I remember walking to the top of a very tall tower in LA to discover a diving board and a pair of goggles you could put on which let you do spins and stuff once you dove off. And speaking of water, the underwater content, what little I explored, adds a whole new aspect to the game as your skill set changes.
Finally, the little bits of humour in game endeared me to it just that bit more, and the little references to GW1 were also appreciated.

KilOit · 02-05-2012 1:45pm

Guys complaining about raids obviously never raided with a proper guild, alts and guys ninja'ing? Think you're confusing raids with those lame pick up groups with a bunch of randoms that clear year old content.
I will be a little disapointed if gw2 has none of that to offer but I'll still play it casually.

Dohnny Jepp · 02-05-2012 1:55pm

Raids are too repititive for me, you try and fail untill you come up with a tactic which the raid will never adapt to.

In pvp, no two fights will ever be the same, the people you fight will adapt to you so you get to have fun coming up with no strategies every fight.

VampiricPadraig · 02-05-2012 6:42pm

I enjoyed the 5v5. I played it like I was playing Domination in Call of Duty.

WvW. I must have been doing something wrong. I never came across a enemy in WvW lol.
I will figure it out on the next weekend.

This is a game that I could sink time into and not regret it because as far as I'm concerned. I have got my monies worth already!

uncle_sam_ie · 02-05-2012 7:42pm

VampiricPadraig wrote: »

I enjoyed the 5v5. I played it like I was playing Domination in Call of Duty.

WvW. I must have been doing something wrong. I never came across a enemy in WvW lol.
I will figure it out on the next weekend.

This is a game that I could sink time into and not regret it because as far as I'm concerned. I have got my monies worth already!

Just shows how massive WvWvW is. You needed to take one of those portal gates to the outer parts were the fighting was or you could of just walked there.

Kiith · 08-05-2012 2:00pm

So, when you PvP (WvWvW or 5v5), you are automatically levelled to 80. So does this mean you can't actually level up from PvP? Or do you still get exp?

MikeyJoyce · 08-05-2012 2:24pm

Kiith wrote: »

So, when you PvP (WvWvW or 5v5), you are automatically levelled to 80. So does this mean you can't actually level up from PvP? Or do you still get exp?

In Structured PVP ( 5v5 ) you cannot gain any XP. You are scaled to Max level and given all spells and ability's and receive no XP.

In WvWvW You get scaled to Max level but do NOT receive all the spells and ability's and DO receive XP and can level up in there.

Kiith · 08-05-2012 3:36pm

MikeyJoyce wrote: »

In Structured PVP ( 5v5 ) you cannot gain any XP. You are scaled to Max level and given all spells and ability's and receive no XP.

In WvWvW You get scaled to Max level but do NOT receive all the spells and ability's and DO receive XP and can level up in there.

Excellent, as it should be.

uncle_sam_ie · 10-05-2012 9:00am

Cool!

"We’ll be conducting a stress test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT).

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts. With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client."

MikeyJoyce · 10-05-2012 9:27am

Stress test this monday night from 7:00PM to 2:00AM.

Expect lots of lag and disconnects as they try to set fire to their servers.

As always my mumble server will be back online for anyone who would like to join for the few hours thats in it.

Mumble:

IP: mountaingaming.mdns.co

Port: 64765

*No Password*

Anyone up for some epic team based WvWvW monday night? or maybe some Events?

delta36 · 10-05-2012 10:17am

Damn, bad timing. Have an exam at 9:30 the next morning, so can't play. Odd that it's on a Monday, as someone on FB pointed out, a lot of people work on Mondays.

Saviour_Angel · 10-05-2012 12:26pm

I wouldn't mind joining you again Mickey.
We could try and take on that water dungeon / boss again ?

I've tested the Elementalist and am thinking that this time I'll try a Thief or Necromancer...

With this stress test, they must be preparing for the next beta, to try and prevent the heart-attack the servers had last time.

jonneymendoza · 10-05-2012 12:29pm

delta36 wrote: »

Damn, bad timing. Have an exam at 9:30 the next morning, so can't play. Odd that it's on a Monday, as someone on FB pointed out, a lot of people work on Mondays.

Not a lot of people work on a monday night lol

delta36 · 10-05-2012 12:34pm

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Not a lot of people work on a monday night lol

Well people in Europe are grand, think the person making that complaint is American, considering over there it's on at 11am to 6pm on Monday.

jonneymendoza · 10-05-2012 2:37pm

delta36 wrote: »

Well people in Europe are grand, think the person making that complaint is American, considering over there it's on at 11am to 6pm on Monday.

yea most of us here are fine mate

Sephiroth_dude · 11-05-2012 6:25pm

so any word on the next beta weekend?

VinLieger · 11-05-2012 6:30pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

so any word on the next beta weekend?

Nope but they have said 1 a month till its released.
There is a stress test this Monday(14th) starting at 7pm and going till 2am

MikeyJoyce · 11-05-2012 6:51pm

By the looks of things i would be VERY VERY suprised if we DID NOT have a beta weekend the weekend of the 25th.

Pretty dam sure thats the weekend we will have the next one

delta36 · 11-05-2012 7:05pm

Bear in mind it was stressed "roughly" once a month by the GW2 team in a post somewhere.

uncle_sam_ie · 11-05-2012 7:08pm

I'm going on a 2 week holiday in July. My luck that's when this game gets released. I'll put money on it.

ShaneScouse · 11-05-2012 9:04pm

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

I'm going on a 2 week holiday in July. My luck that's when this game gets released. I'll put money on it.

Id bet my house it wont be out before early september

Sephiroth_dude · 11-05-2012 11:12pm

VinLieger wrote: »

Nope but they have said 1 a month till its released.
There is a stress test this Monday(14th) starting at 7pm and going till 2am

so everyone that pre ordered gets in?

uncle_sam_ie · 11-05-2012 11:19pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

so everyone that pre ordered gets in?

Yes:D

Sephiroth_dude · 12-05-2012 12:07am

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

Yes:D

ah lucky boys then : ) I suspose it can't be far off release if there stress testing?

delta36 · 12-05-2012 3:13pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

ah lucky boys then : ) I suspose it can't be far off release if there stress testing?

There was a stress test the weekend before the first beta weekend event as well. Arenanet posted in their blog that this upcoming stress test is to help with the next BWE, considering how packed the servers were that weekend. I wonder how unplayable the game will be come Monday then?

Dcully · 12-05-2012 3:46pm

So looking forward to GW2 but somehow i fear Tera has spoiled me in terms of combat,its just so damn good.
Ive already put off getting Diablo3 as im hooked on Tera for now:eek:

uncle_sam_ie · 12-05-2012 4:23pm

Dcully wrote: »

So looking forward to GW2 but somehow i fear Tera has spoiled me in terms of combat,its just so damn good.
Ive already put off getting Diablo3 as im hooked on Tera for now:eek:

The combat in both games is very good but, with GW2 I just didn't feel that I had to grind my way through the game. It really is a game were you do what you want and enjoy.

Omphin · 12-05-2012 6:32pm

Dcully wrote: »

So looking forward to GW2 but somehow i fear Tera has spoiled me in terms of combat,its just so damn good.
Ive already put off getting Diablo3 as im hooked on Tera for now:eek:

Whats with all the female groaning noises? i know the asians are big into being vocal in porn but do they have to carry that into a game? :P

jonneymendoza · 12-05-2012 11:43pm

Dcully wrote: »

So looking forward to GW2 but somehow i fear Tera has spoiled me in terms of combat,its just so damn good.
Ive already put off getting Diablo3 as im hooked on Tera for now:eek:

Never tried Tera but thought that game is a dud?

seems it may be good?

ShaneScouse · 13-05-2012 12:55am

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Never tried Tera but thought that game is a dud?

seems it may be good?

Very bad release time for it, very bad addvertising by the games companys and alot of 'its asian its a grindfest its crap' stereotypes being thrown around, its a damn good game :P

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