Guild Wars 2

[Yellow Mage]

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Dunno, but I do know that this computer is pretty old; it was basically a hand-me-down from my dad some years ago. He's considering building himself a new rig (a bit worried since he can't run The Witcher 2 on maximum settings), so I may as well wait until he does so he can pass down the next best thing.

I imagine that it would be a bit awesome to not play GW2 slideshow edition any more.

Anyway, for anyone interested, my account name is "Pika Knight.5026", though I won't be playing tomorrow, and I'll be trying to jump shores to Crystal Beach Wednesday.

Before I go to bed, though, here are some Hero screens, my Mesmer one taken before I shut down the game for the night, and my Guardian shortly after I left his tutorial area (he's level 8 now with an accessory and stuff).

[cidbahamut]

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Sounds like folks are drifting off to servers their friends are already on. I may end up doing the same. I mostly picked Ehmry Bay b/c it sounded like it'd be a less popular server so we wouldn't have to worry about it filling up and someone getting left out in the cold. Sounds like that won't be a problem though since Guesting is on the way and folks are headed to different servers anyway, in which case I may join my friend over on Blackgate. Still kinda up in the air on that one, since it seems like it would attract more assholes and it's a higher population server.

[Etra]

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And this good sirs / madams is why I did not bother.

[cidbahamut]

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Well I'm sorry for trying to coordinate things so we could all stomp around WvW together on a dedicated DiV server.
>:[

[DakAttack]

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I bought the game to give it a try, and I was pleasantly surprised. Character creation was smooth, and becoming a slider jockey wasn't such an unbearable experience (I'm looking at you, TESV). Picking an 'heirloom' and answering the history questions was a nice twist. Overall, the game-play was enjoyable, both in combat, in quests, and collecting materials and crafting. One thing I enjoyed was how events flowed into one another, although some were close enough to others that they might trigger at the same time and post conflicting objectives, but because they repeat it's not a big deal.

Guardian was pretty whack. I had to deduce how most of the abilities worked, because they don't explain things in enough detail.

I gave PvP a try and I was a little disappointed. I didn't spend too much time in it, but I didn't like being handed a pre-set character to play with. I suppose it's a decent way to overcome massive amounts of level brackets, but I don't like having things handed to me.

[Fliegar]

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Oddly enough, I just received a password reset email from ArenaNet that I didn't ask for, and I don't even own the game.

[cidbahamut]

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There have been lots of reports of phishing emails going around lately.

[Fliegar]

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Oddly enough, I requested a password reset myself, and got the exact same email leading me to the exact same page. I'm pretty careful about dealing with Phishing emails, but in this case I'm led to believe that it was the real deal.

[Etra]

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That would be gold farmers skimming the database for registered arenanet e-mails. Wish they would have an authenticator. :/ I got the same e-mail the night after early start.

[Firewind]

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I ended up on Pikain Square (or whatever it's called) because it's where all the EU Rpers decided to roll.

Can't wait for the guesting feature though

[Kailea]

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I just picked this up myself, coworker talked me into getting it ;p

[Firewind]

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So Arenanet thought it would be a good idea to match up an English server against 2 German Servers for WvWvW

Every night since the game came out the entire WvWvW map has been red (my server's colour) because of 2 issues:

1) There are far less people playing in German servers so they tend not to have many people
2) The players on these servers are really, really awful. We had 8 people against their 20 and we were still curb stomping them. We stayed together so anyone downed could be instantly brought back up, they scattered about and were easily picked off. We fell back to draw them away from their walls, they charged after us and were picked off due to being overstretched. They attacked somewhere? We basically coordinated a pincer with other groups each time they tried to take something back.

The only times we see Blue or Green on the map is when...You know I don't know, there really doesn't seem to be a time where they even get into our zone and if they do make a push then it's usually all red again within the hour....

So erm...When do WvWvW servers reset again?

[Firewind]

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Okay I am loving the number of little anti-frustration measures and conveniences put into the game.

Particularly with crafting:

They basically looked at FFXIV's system, laughed and said "yeah this is how you do it".

Basically you have a list of memorises recipes and the whole experiment by adding X, Y and Z component. But if it does make an item you immediately get a pop up asking if you want to make more and if so how many

Also the system they used to gather materials is wonderful: nodes spawn for individual players and only vanish for the player who just collected from them. So say I decide to go gather some strawberries to level cooking some more (there's a big patch of them in South East Kessex Hills overlooking Wizard's Fief) and someone just harvested from all 8 patches. Well I can still harvest from those patches and so can the guy who just followed me up there to do the same.

The while character build system is great too and pretty much seems to point and laugh at FFXIV's armoury system. Every class is self sufficuent:

So my main is a Thief, by default I usually use Twin Pistols and Twin Daggers with my utilities set to various kinda of poison to inflict debuffs to deal moar deepeeseeses. I can kite, I can fight well in melee and have the tools to escape and fight again at a distance. But let's say I join a group that has no real healer or support character. Well let's just say I switch to a Shortbow and Dagger/Pistol combo while switching my utilities and traits to some support ones like Shadow Refuge, Smoke Bomb and Blinding Powder.

*BAM!* I'm now a fully functional red mage that specialises on throwing down combo fields and inflicting status effects while also healing, providing buffs whenever I use Steal, and providing stealth and getaway tools for the party. We didn't have to sit around waiting for a dedicated healer, every class is self sufficient and can easily take on multiple important party roles.

I have a Guardian that tanks and heals like a baws and an Engineer that can heal and support like a champ but can still be specced to throw out some impressive damage. Warriors impress me a lot as they can fit into nearly any role you can think of except for a dedicated healer (Guardian, Engineer and Elementalist have it beat there).

[Etra]

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I still have no idea what role my mesmer is supposed to be. I just run around buffing people with my purple balls that bounce around and giant purple electric shield thingy. Think he's more bard-esque, but that's probably just me trying too hard.

[Raydeus]

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I still have no idea what role my mesmer is supposed to be.

Enjoy it while it lasts.