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Josof
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Re: Official Guild Wars 2 Thread

said by I AM:

Impressions as of level 8 Thief:

- You can't stand there and trade blows with a mob like you do in WoW you will die...a lot.

This is what i miss about vanilla WoW. the game presents a challenge even at the lowest levels. This looks like a must-buy for me!

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said by Josof:

said by I AM:

Impressions as of level 8 Thief:

- You can't stand there and trade blows with a mob like you do in WoW you will die...a lot.

This is what i miss about vanilla WoW. the game presents a challenge even at the lowest levels. This looks like a must-buy for me!

It also takes time to kill 1 mob. Mobs are not 2-3 shots. Combat is engaging because you are constantly moving, dodging, attacking, or stunning.

Beef7
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Combat is somewhere between Tera and WoW. It is tab targetting, but you can roll around and shit to dodge attacks. Very nice.

Like said above, even at low levels, if you try to go toe to toe, blow for blow with mobs you will die! this is excellent! take on more than 2 mobs your same level you will die.

Joining group EVENTS in the open world is EXCELLENT! all of a sudden about 15 of us were fighting a giant boar, and it was one shotting me all the time, and my team kept rezzing me, excellent.

definitely a next GEN MMO, needs some tweaking but its excellent

MMO FIRST:

Was standing near a farm, kind of going AFK... checkiNG out skills or whatever... SOME RANDOM NPC RUNS UP TO ME FROM THE FARM AND SAYS: " we are under attack by ... ... and need you to help us out!"

the npc ran up to me, instead of me running up to him, asking for my help... very engaging!

THE MEAT AND POTATOES of this game is the random open world RAID events that anyone can join into... F-IN EXCELLENT

very engaging... after gw2 and tera I dont think mmos will ever be the same... other mmos will feel cold after this
Josof
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Are the dynamic events similar to Rift? That got old pretty fast.

Koil
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The similarities are that you're auto-joined to whatever even is happening, but you're not necessarily in a "party" , you're just all working toward a similar goal of moving a status bar towards completion, and your xp is judged on your participation, like Rift.

The events are also more engaging than Rifts, in that there really wasn't too much of a reason for all of those rifts to come, just that they were invading...in GW2, it's usually tied to the story in same fashion....Harpies coming from their nest's, local tar elementals over running their normal habitat, it goes along with the areas, not just random spawns of whatever.

Scaling does occur as well, so if its just you, then you're facing 2-5 baddies, where as more ppls show up, the scale increases exponentially.

Grethor
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Just finished up my BWE. All I can say is WHOA!! fun game! I can't wait for the game to go live. I played a few professions but got the necromancer the highest (23). Tons of fun with my friends. We were blown away at both the fun and the beauty of the game world. It's like you are jumping into a painting and having it come to life.

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Holy shit!!! The final event was badass!!

You could play the good guys, or when you died, choose a corrupted waypoint, and come back as the corrupted! I played corrupted most of the time...there was some drake flying overhead...shit was insane.

The corrupted looked like we outnumbered the good guys, and were pounding on Rytlock Brimstone, whom we were supposed to corrupt or something, but as soon as 3am hit....BAM..servers down! So fucked up....god it was fun.

I've taken a ton of high-res screenies...I'll prolly post in another thread so as not to bog this one down, but damn good time.

Sad its over....god I hope they release this game soon!
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Meant to post these in my other thread, but they take forever to upload, so I'll leave them here. If they're too painful, I'll delete..just let me know.

(Look at them at full size to really get the full effect...really damn impressive)

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Awesome Screenshots Koil. I'll post more later when I get time. WvWvW was confusing as ever!!!! I'm going to have to play it more or read up on it.

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Thanks! I'd like to see them, and definitely wanna hear about WvW...I haven't got a chance to mess with it.

Posted some more here:
»Screens from GW2 BWE (VERY large images, be warned)

I kinda felt like I shoulda done more with the weekend, but I wanted the Necro to work, and I wasn't figuring it out, so I kept playing it until I got a handle on it.

I do think some mechanics on it are not working (skills that bring life back, or place debuffs on targets), but man it is tough going for the first 10 levels or so....really tough. Things got a little better once I figured out the axe / dagger combo for my weapons, with staff as secondary....but still died quite a bit. I think Necro still needs a bit of work and some tuning, and with a few of the bugs that I saw over the weekend, I'm thinking that more than likely, the game will be coming out around Christmas, unless they have a helluva patch in the works already, which is entirely possible.

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said by Koil:

Things got a little better once I figured out the ace / dagger combo

Ace?

Koil
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axe...sorry, will edit. Thanks.

Beef7
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@Koil,

If a warrior uses an AXE he gets abilities: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5

If a necro uses an AXE does he get abilites: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5? which is profession dependant?

or does the necro get abilities A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 as well?

only had a chance to play warrior this weekend. lots of fun

Koil
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Your situation A is closest, but it works like this

(the letters are completely arbitrary)

(main hand) Axe : B1, B2, B3
(main hand) Dagger : C1, C2, C3
(main hand) Scepter : D1, D2, D3

(off hand) Dagger : C4 C5
(offhand) Focus: D4 D5
(offhand) Alt-Focus: E4 E5

Basically, your main hand weapon grants you 3 abilities, and your off hand gives you 2. You can swap and mix and match main and off hands to get the combo of the two you like best.

So, using my little example above. If I equip an axe in my main and a Alt-Focus in my off hand, my skill bar comes out to: B1, B2, B3, E4, E5.

Weapons are class specific, so what I get for my main and off hand attacks will be completely different than what any other class gets.

Hope that makes sense.

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so a warrior with an axe, can do different things with it, than lets say a necro with an axe?

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said by Beef7:

so a warrior with an axe, can do different things with it, than lets say a necro with an axe?

Correct

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my favorite wep of the weekend was warrior with 2H mace/hammer or whatever... like ret paladin in WoW

the 2H ultimate (LoL reference lol) was a jump and smash aoe, that stunned everything, freakin awesome!

the normal abilities with it were also very cool... a whirlwhind type of attack, and a group smash stun... like Barbarian seismic slam in D3

very cool

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2H weapons fill out all 5 skills, as obviously an off hand cannot be used.

Necro 2H is the staff, which focuses on a lot of AOE traps or zone triggers, causing debuffs as baddies move through them.

Beef7
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as you progress in the game:

would an EPIC 2H staff do different abilities than lets say a normal 2H staff?

or would the abilities stay the same, and only the stats improve?

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I'm pretty sure skills remain the same, but you get traits that do different things (independantly of your weapon) that can affect it, plus you can place "add-ons" to the weapon as well, that give it perks and buffs....but again, I'm not 100% on that.

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I agree with beef. Warrior was ok dual weild but when I finally got a 2 handed Mace or weapon it picked up a lot in the fun factor.

Classes I tried this Beta were:

Thief and Warrior.

I'm split between the two. Thief gameplay is really fun and involves a lot of movement and animations are really slick. Dual pistol though maybe not the most damage is pretty awesome to just play. I always wanted dual range weapons as a Hunter in WoW. Warrior like I said earlier got more fun as a got 2 handed weapons. The nice thing about Warrior was you could take a few hits as the thief could be 2 shotted. Not entirely to sure what to roll when the game releases.

WvWvW:

I really don't know what was going on. Funny thing was others around me didn't either. There appeared to be some who did as they were barking orders in Area Chat but I didn't even understand the nodes they were yelling at us to help capture or defend. As those who know MMO's well know maps get abbreviations or nicknames (such as BS for Blacksmith in AB). In WvWvW there are event/quests as you approach certain areas and you work to do them. It was just weird, big, confusing. All wonderful about a new game. I only ran into one opposing player but we zerg killed him.

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hehe that's hilarious

usually it just boils down to follow the leader...

mother duckling leading her chicks... when momma stops the babies bump into the others from behind, and start spinning/walking in circles all confused!

UI in GW2 is very different, still figuring everything out

the game definitely feels more open world than Tera... Tera felt very corralled... in valleys

you have a separate set of weapons for above water and below water... and the game camera gets water drops on it when you come out of the water, pretty awesome

ALSO:

- Game music was excellent
- Game art was excellent
- Day/night cycles were excellent
- Weather cycles were excellent
- The game is massively multiplayer without requiring you to be massively social (I know some hate social gaming)
- You get experience for rezzing fallen comrades... this motivates people to rezz you during battles or if they walk buy randomly
- Zone portals allow you to teleport to other sections of the zone without walking all the way there (you have to find the portals before you can use them... a big critique of mmos is wasted time walking through empty land you have nothing to do in)

one zone, will have day/night/weather cycles... and during bad weather it rains/gets cloudy, and the grass blows! pretty awesome

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I agree and disagree with how open it feels. It's free to roam yes as Tera has some invisible walls. But to me Tera felt more open similar to WoW. Yes when you took the FP to places in Tera you would go warping into outspace thingy but you could if you wanted run from zone to zone without ever hitting a loading screen. With GW2 when you hit other zones you actually zone through an instance looking door and it goes into a loading screen.

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ahhhh... didn't know this! stayed in one zone

put this in the forums as undesirable!

loading screen between zones is very bad!

atuarre
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said by Koil:

said by Beef7:

so a warrior with an axe, can do different things with it, than lets say a necro with an axe?

Correct

Could you please elaborate?

Koil
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An axe in the hand of a warrior, lets say, will give 3 primary attacks if in the main hand or two secondary attacks if in the off hand. Those three attacks for Necro are not the same three attacks for warrior. Warrior may have 2 melee and a ranged attack while the necro may get an aoe and 2 magic attacks. Each class has its own attacks for each weapon for each hand...kinda cool.

Hope that made sense.

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Say a warrior finds an axe and uses it. His 5 skills might be something like Hack, Slash, Charge, etc etc (just making up names). The necro finds the same axe. His skills might be Poison, Drain Life, etc etc.

Now if the necro finds a sword, his 5 weapon related skills might change to Raise Skeleton, Rot Flesh, etc etc.

I made up the skill names but you get the point. Your profession + weapon used = different skills on your 1-5 buttons.