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Iron Edge => Other Games => General discussion (public) => Topic started by: Daekesh on August 18, 2011, 03:31:23 pm
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http://gamescom.gamespot.com/video/6329839/guild-wars-2-demo
This looks pretty cool.
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Hype machine for this game doesn't appear to be rolling somehow... weird considering how it's lookin' pretty sharp
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the first guild wars was quite a let down though.
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Hype machine for this game doesn't appear to be rolling somehow... weird considering how it's lookin' pretty sharp
wat?
i have been hyped for this since 2010 or something
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I think he means media hype.
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ah that would make more sense
anyway Sylvari Engineer/ or whatever that last proffesion is going to be is what im going to play
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the first guild wars was quite a let down though.
Fuck you. There's nothing wrong with it. it's just awfully complex for a game of it's type. especially the pvp.
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thats the douche I remember
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thats the douche I remember
I've played the game on and off for 73 months...There's really not much wrong with it. It has (as times) repetative issues. But that's the same for all games.
Recently aquired armor I've spent 4 years farming.
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I played GW for ages. It is a fun game, but you get to a point where you have done everything. I too farmed for months to get Obsidian armor, had a Crystaline Sword and Obsidian Edge amoung many other rare skins. Just lost interest in it over time. Hopefully GW2 will release more content as time goes on so you not stuck with the same stale content over X years
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i played GW for ages also.. but i dunno it got boring really fast =s it lacked alot of things IMO but i'd still like to keep an open mind and try GW2 i watched TB trying it and it did look like it had some awesome improvements! :)
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I did give GW a little go. It seemed like it'd be fun to play with buddies, but I felt one of the main problems for me with the game was the interface feeling a little tricky to just use for basic stuff, and for socialising too.
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well last class got revealed... and it is a mesmer like most people thought it would be
now i hope this game comes out soon
though i have no idea what im going to play now
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Well, GW2 is in some form of beta atm. It's one of those friends and family ones, but at least it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully we will see a 2012 release
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ye hoping so toon , still for the advertisment 'comming 2007' i think
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closed beta started this friday hopefully it will be out around march or april
personaly leaning more towards april because i believe both ME3 and D3 are coming out in march
i could be wrong though
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Knowing nc soft with guild wars 2 it is probably only going to be released end of 2012. They just haters
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ncsoft is publishing the game not making it
besides i dont mind the "its done when its done" attitude
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Depends if when it's done, it's 8 years behind current tech...
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well so far its nothing like duke nukem forever so...
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The closed beta signup hit 1.000.000 entries a week ago or so, I'd say the hype machine is rolling :D
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Just hope the game can stand up to the hype
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Can they ever?
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I was a big GW player back in the day. I think any release will make me happy.
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Anyone playing the beta tommorow?
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me and douche will
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Im definitely in for GW2 this weekend. Sold my soul to get it. My guild from gw1 is reforming for gw2 and so far we have decided to play on the 'Riverside' server. So anybody from IE playing GW2, come to Riverside.
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AIGHT I WILL
ARE THEY ALL SOUTH AFRICANS?
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ALL OF THEM ARE SOUTH AFRICANS.
EVERYONE. EVERYWHERE
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Not from the guild. There are a few scandinavians, some germans, brits. General eu bunch of peeps.
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Once we created our chars etc we must post the details to add friends here
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more than likely that i will call my character liralai
now i just need to figure out what kinda class i want
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if it is anything like gw1, yr name needs to be at least 2 words. So i will most likely be The Dirty Roman (my elementalist from gw1)
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The Raging Dutchman !!!
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http://openetherpad.org/ep/pad/view/Hcpzc4HD46/latest
This might be interesting for anyone finding a server to settle on (Atleast for this coming beta event)
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http://www.arena.net/blog/choosing-and-transferring-worlds-in-guild-wars-2
JORA - ALL OTHER NAMES ARE SHIT.
Fuck yeah JORAAAAAAA
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Sooo... does gw2 live up to the hype?
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Sooo... does gw2 live up to the hype?
In my opinion yes, but I'm a fanboy so take everything I'm about to say with a pinch of salt.
It was very good. The levelling is like an area wide thing. You go to a certain part of the map and there you meet a scout. He will tell you things to do in this area and you will get a little heart icon on your mini map. When you go there you can do certain tasks for example.
In norn area - The first area you get to after the tutorial you can either Kill some enemies (Lets say 10) or run around picking up eggs putting them into the nests.
There's also a chance that you get, for lack of a better name "Public quests" or as GW2 calls them, Events. In the area I just mentioned you can answer riddles about general knowledge and get the progress bar up. You are given Karma (Think of it as Badges) XP and Money.
Some events aren't as straightforward as this. Others again involve killing mass amounts of enemies very fast in a small time period or stopping them repairing a tower. A good example of a world changing event is as follows.
In the charr area there is a charr armory that has been abandoned. The flame legion (Evil charr!) are moving in to take it away from the Legions (Ash, Blood, Iron) If you don't defend it they take this obejctive and change the zone, quite drasticly. They have a foothold deeper into the zone and these more powerful enemies move forward, now backed up by mortars and turrets and begin assaulting the starting area.
Yes, that's right. The game literally pits you against level 5-6's when you step out of the tutorial zone (That's if nobody defends it)
Another example would be the human area. I didn't experince this but grish did. In the human area there is a water resoviour (However you spell that) that is under attack by centaurs. They plan to poison the water so bassicly, as the dashing young hero you must kill them before they can. If you fail people die and the centaur pressence is "stronger" in the region. But not the extent of the charr.
There's so much in this game I don't even know where to begin. But events and event levelling really beats the "fetch 10 boar brains"
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Another example would be the human area. I didn't experince this but grish did. In the human area there is a water resoviour (However you spell that) that is under attack by centaurs. They plan to poison the water so bassicly, as the dashing young hero you must kill them before they can. If you fail people die and the centaur pressence is "stronger" in the region. But not the extent of the charr.
they were bandits btw not centaurs anyway i got in to that part of the zone when the event failed before i could do anything as it turns out the water got poisoned and you had to make an antidote, if you were in a different part of the zone you hear npc's next to some wells talk about them bieng sick and thinking it has something to do with the water supply
anyway i say the game is overhyped a bit thats not to say its not good (it is very very good imo) but you know things go people get excited and shit happens
what this beta weekend was not good for however for me that is is that i had a few proffesions i wanted to play and i was hoping that this beta would give my an idea what i wanted to play come release... well as it turns out that i still cant fucking make up my own mind because the proffesions i wanted to play were all fun to play making the decision not any easier
i tried playing the elementalist engineer thief and mesmer
Elementalist: to be honest i wanted to try the least but they turn out to be very fun to play and the switching between the elements was fun having like 20 different spells (not counting the utility spells) means you have tons of choices of how you want to deal with shit
Engineer: Probably the least fun class out of the 4 i played thats not to say i didnt have fun playing just... less fun compared to the other 3 classes
might have something to do with not having a flamethrower just yet
Mesmer: I played this class the least i have to admit, They were a bit confusing at first so i didnt play them much from what little i played with them i can say that you can be a real annoyance in pvp or just be a dick with your illusions and phantasm
Thief: Well to be honest i thought they were oke untill i got to level 5 when you get your first utility skill (you can choose what to get btw if you have enough points for it) i took shadowstep which basicly lets you jump to a point on the ground of your choosing and then it turns in to a a return button where you just jump back and at level you get weapon switching which lets you switch to a different set of weapons, so the 2 sets i went with was pistol/dagger and dagger/pistol
oh what i forgot to mention was that depending on what weapons you have equiped your third skill will be different what i mean by that is pisto/dagger has a different third skill than dagger/pistol, anyway you get a skill where you shoot and than shadowstep to the target to stab it and the other set gets you a skill where you stab and shadowstep backwards to shoot them
anyway i had probably the most fun playing the thief
that bieng said the beta was poorly optimized and some of the ground texture were very very low rez but from what i heard Arenanet knows about this and are fixxing this and about the textures they didnt put in the hirez textures in the downloader yet
oh yeah they didnt have the Sylvari and Asura starting area yet which made me kinda sad because i realy wanted to play a Saladtosser
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Yes I agree with Grishnag it is overhyped. It's not the godfather of MMO's. It's still very very good. The differences between the classes is HUGE. I'm talking HUGE No one class is ANYWHERE near the same as the other.
Warrior is 10x different from the Guardian. His skills his armor everything. While they do use the same weapons the different abillties and variation in them is just jawdropping. I played all weekend and I couldn't make enough characters to try them all.
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according to this post here riverside is a german server now
are we still going to stay or move?
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move
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oke so what server? also i meant this post
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-worlds-of-the-guild-wars-2-beta (http://www.arena.net/blog/the-worlds-of-the-guild-wars-2-beta)
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oke if we are moving how about to Aurora Glade (because it sounds cool :P)
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Far Shiverpeaks, it was a really good server last beta event, and it seems like many big communities are looking to settle there from what I found on forums last time.
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Vote ring of fire.
Istan/Vabbi/Kourna/Gandara are also welcome choices.
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dont think vabbi is a good choice since /v/ will be there
are ring of fire and Far Shiverpeaks high pop servers?
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Far Shiverpeaks was high pop when I played last time at least, I haven't done any research this time around though, just throwing that server out there.
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Lets just go Ring of Fire...
i like the name anyway and i dont realy care aslong as i get to play the game
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or Far Shiverpeaks
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http://titanpad.com/ep/pad/view/4SyT2aGiZB/latest a current list on which server different communities are picking as their server.
Whiteside Ridge and Far Shiverpeaks really stand out (With Gandora coming second) from the rest, they will probably be the bigger servers with the largest communities.
Personally I have my money on Far Shiverpeaks because of the large amount of scandinavian communities settling there (Where there are scandinavians are the #1 PvP) but that might not be as interesting for the UK fellas (generally anyone outside Scandinavia I guess), but it's not to say if it will turn into a "DKDKDKDK?!?!?" shit fest like some servers in WoW.
Whiteside Ridge have some of the larger communities like Reddit and that jazz settling in here, might be really good as well with a huge community so there won't be a dead world, but I don't have much to say for this one.
Gandora is sort of the same as Whiteside Ridge (The backup plan so to speak for the english communities)
Far Shiverpeaks have way more settlers than any other server, so getting in could cause a problem as well, but we'll see, we still have a long way to go release anyway.
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ok Far Shiverpeaks it is then
dont really want to go to a server that has either /v/ or reddit on it
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FAR SHIVERPEAKS AHOY!
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Far shiverpeaks is gay
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Far shiverpeaks is gay
well maybe explain why :P
Sky seems to have done some homework
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Also, transferred to shiverpeaks very early this morning. Seems to be *really* crushing in WvW stuff \o/
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i should try tonight couldnt do it earlier today though
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Yeah like I mentioned on IRC yesterday, your only chance of transfering worlds are during off-off-off-off peak hours.
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shouldn't be so tough now you know; they doubled server population today
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Been talking in the map chats about why Rangers are so lackluster.
No real answers, but just people saying that if you use the Greatsword or dual-wield your damage goes up up up!
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My engineer and i like playing an engineer eventhough they are concidered pretty bad :(
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use DW pistols. way more dps than stupid rifle
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i am thats just a flamethrower
i like throwing flames
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its rather shitty tho, same as the flamethrower tower. they rubbish.
the rocket tower on the other hand is boss.
mine crited for 3.5k before burn earlier on
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ill give you the rocket tower because im using it aswell
but the flamethrower isnt shit
dunno bout the tower though since i dont have it skilled
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its rather useless skill. im running healing tower/rocket tower/ elixir B/ and those rocket boots that shoot u to china or stun someone in meele range
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those rocket boots are so fun. Nothing like catching up to an enemy with them in the least suave manner possible, falling on your ass and screaming
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its rather useless skill. im running healing tower/rocket tower/ elixir B/ and those rocket boots that shoot u to china or stun someone in meele range
its actualy good in PvE though ill give you that i wont be using in PvP
as for the healing turret doing some stuff solo like just running around killing shit or escort events the thing isnt that usefull because of the long ass cooldown again in pvp specially WvW its really good
rocketboots are allways fun
elixir B is the one that gives you fury extra damage (dunno what the buff is called) and swiftness right? if so i have been using that one
i also unlocked elixir C which removes all conditions from you and gives you random buffs in return wich is a purely pvp skill it seems to me and i havent really used that skill yet in pvp
rocket turret is boss though no denying that
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Hype train!
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Whats a good place to go for theorycrafting on this baby?
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Yup, it is actually going to come this year!!!!!
http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-launch-date (http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-launch-date)
EDIT: August 28th
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oh good god that made me happy
like i have a 4 week vacation in september so it couldnt come at a better time... well maybe like september 4th or something but whatever
oh this stresstest i actualy remembered to make pictures anyway ill upload them now
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(http://i.imgur.com/QO4Pb.gif) (http://imgur.com/QO4Pb)
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Seems like the sceneries are really pretty but the characters are kinda ugly.
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you're ugly
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Compared to...what?
As far as characters go, it's pretty good in my opinion. Aside from the humans and norn there is a lot of variation in the races.
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Do I have to compare it to anything? Look at the screenshots with the bear. Am I the only one that thinks it looks like it has been copypasted in to the picture?
Maybe its just because you disabled stuff like lighting and shadows.
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This was on the first ever beta weekend, it was unoptimized and fucked, running it on high graphics was screwing with my computer
Also the pet AI is abysmal, bear is actually floating mid air
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Do I have to compare it to anything? Look at the screenshots with the bear. Am I the only one that thinks it looks like it has been copypasted in to the picture?
Maybe its just because you disabled stuff like lighting and shadows.
while i agree with you on that picture looking like ass... when i was playing the game i never had the feeling that my character looked ugly or out of place in the game
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Let's re-visit what server we should go onto at launch.
I'm thinking Medium/high
Roleplaying servers have best communitys by far, and I think that's what you are going to want in this game more then anything.
if you can put up with roleplayers, it's not forced on you atleast.
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That full pop server, first UK one, Desolation, is where I'll probably roll a character.
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i figured we would stay on Far Shiverpeaks... i dont realy care if we are moving or anything since im gonna roll where ever we go anyway
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I think I am going to buy this game.
We should play on desolation as Desolation Row is one of my favourite songs http://open.spotify.com/track/3RDr4vGcRm9y3Vx5uh6tFD
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I've been reading up on the lore and it seems done well enough, there's a lot of history and cool things to explore and experience.
I will almost certainly at least buy the game.
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Is guild wars 2 subscriptionless like guild wars? So I get permanent access for the 55 euros?
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No sub fee... Though they will undoutably release expansions
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I think I'm going to give this a go with you guys when it comes out! Been reading around the game a fair bit, seems like good fun. :D
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Just so you know people who prepurchase get a 3 day headstart
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I've been reading up on the lore and it seems done well enough, there's a lot of history and cool things to explore and experience.
I will almost certainly at least buy the game.
First game is worth a play if you want some more lore.
In terms of story (Your experince may differ)
Prophecies(1st one they did)>Nightfall(3rd)>Factions(2nd)>Eye of the north(4th) Although eye of the north is more like a prologue for Guild wars 2
Figured I'd post some videos of each races music main music when you are at a climax point in the story mode or doing a zone wide event (In the last case I heard the Charr music playing when we we're fighting the Shatterer. I think they also play during the zones climax aswell. Examples would be Shadow Behemoth, Ascalon ghosts and...I actually have no idea what the Norn one is.
WvWvW Stats
http://www.arena.net/blog/mike-ferguson-on-wvw-updates
&feature=related[/youtube]
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And a great piano theme
&feature=related [/youtube]
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Guildwars 2 is set 200 years after Eye of the North if I'm not mistaken. There are 2 books which cover the large gap. First book is Ghosts of Ascalon and the 2nd is Edge of Destiny. I am currently reading the first one and gives a lot of insight into the game.
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http://www.arena.net/blog/play-asura-and-sylvari-in-the-july-20-22-beta-weekend-event
Anyone that missed it
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I just got me a beta key, are you guys huddled up on one specific beta realm?
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Far Shiverpeaks is where we are in the beta
i think most of us are migrating to Desolation when the game gets release
oh incase people didnt know if you pre-purchased you get a 3 day headstart before the game goes like so august 25th is when it really begins
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Going to see how the WvWvW plays out on launch, if an Rp realm is playing well I'll be going there
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I would like a RP realm.
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If it's RP then petrified forest is the one you want, it would seem. My line of thinking is that GW2's similarities to Warhammer online, along with the way WvWvW is, point very strongly to "get on as high populated server as you can".
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i prefer not to pick an RP servers how the server transfers work in this game
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i prefer not to pick an RP servers how the server transfers work in this game
this sentence what is I don't how hey
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i prefer not to pick an RP servers because of how the server transfers work in this game
hope that clears it up?
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why not just pick the right server , then when people ask "Hey why aren't u transferring?" , you can say "Fools , i am on the right server alreay".
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i prefer not to pick an RP servers because of how the server transfers work in this game
hope that clears it up?
ah ha! And how do they work?
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http://www.arena.net/blog/choosing-and-transferring-worlds-in-guild-wars-2 (http://www.arena.net/blog/choosing-and-transferring-worlds-in-guild-wars-2)
i think basicly that you take your characters with you when you go to a different server i dont think its like wow where you can just roll on a different server
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Oh, right, yeah I encountered that actually when I changed in the last beta I played in away from.. whatever it was we were on at first.
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also your name is unique on all servers, as in if i take grishnag as a name for example on server A no one on server B can get it because i allready have it eventhough its a different server.... that bieng said you can have a surname and stuff so you can still go nuts
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Cornenah , Grishcorne or my favourite Naggrish.
My examples of alternate names for u are awsome right grish :D
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since i will be playing a female sylvari... whatever i wont be using grishnag as my name
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Grishhag then!
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I don't see why you should stop now, using your name for a female. But i guess u can always do Grishnagqt. :D
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http://www.curse.com/betas/guild-wars-2-eu
I forgot about this yesterday, just linked in IRC without pasting here.
No idea if keys are still available.
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Alright so I just found out something pretty god damn amazing.
You can edit/put sound into the actual files of the game and the game will play them on que.
So far there is 8 files that the game will play music from there are:
Ambient, Battle, underwater, City, crafting, Boss battle, Night time, Main menu.
For more info, here's a picture explaining exactly how to do it
TLDR: You can make the game play your music in the settings you want.
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Or turn down music in game and use iTunes :P
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African misses the point completley....
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yeah the point is to use spotify :)
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Launcher is Updated.
it's a fairly big update so I'd suggest getting it downloaded now
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Right guys
Which server will it be for the beta?
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Far shiverpeaks
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Far shiverpeaks
You still didn't move?
I ask because that's an italian server or something now
I think
[edited name=Kawe date=1342790610][/edited]
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this was posted on reddit yesterday, I think
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u3QpOmEhLOzjhyxrI5Ulf8rDz_INGgvyqHECiA2yXks/edit
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Oooh yes, that was it. Scandinavian server! My intention for release is to go for probably desolation - UK + very high pop + avoids reddit. I'm vaguely open to persuasion, though.
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We were on Riverside (motherfucker) during the first BWE but it got turned in to a german server so we decided to move to far shiverpeaks
i personnaly dont mind staying on far shiverpeaks but im not against moving to Desolation once the game gets released
btw i THINK the Beta starts at 20.00 but it could also happen earlier
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ok far shiverthing for the beta then.
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We were on Riverside (motherfucker) during the first BWE but it got turned in to a german server so we decided to move to far shiverpeaks
i personnaly dont mind staying on far shiverpeaks but im not against moving to Desolation once the game gets released
btw i THINK the Beta starts at 20.00 but it could also happen earlier
Officially it starts 21:00 (20:00 UK).
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We were on Riverside (motherfucker) during the first BWE but it got turned in to a german server so we decided to move to far shiverpeaks
i personnaly dont mind staying on far shiverpeaks but im not against moving to Desolation once the game gets released
btw i THINK the Beta starts at 20.00 but it could also happen earlier
I'm down with this
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We were on Riverside (motherfucker) during the first BWE but it got turned in to a german server so we decided to move to far shiverpeaks
i personnaly dont mind staying on far shiverpeaks but im not against moving to Desolation once the game gets released
btw i THINK the Beta starts at 20.00 but it could also happen earlier
Yeah, Riverside was a bad choice, but when I picked it, I didn't know it was going to turn into a German server. I played with a lot of Scandinavians in GW1 and they are nice people (anything is better than turks).
Personally, I would be looking at Desolation.
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Riverside wasnt a bad choice when you made it... then they turned it into a german server whatever you couldnt know that
also yoica the last 2 beta's started at 20.00 maybe like 15 minutes before that but it never started at 21.00
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Servers are up
also yoica the last 2 beta's started at 20.00 maybe like 15 minutes before that but it never started at 21.00
Maybe, but officially isn't supposed to go up until 21:00
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Doom has started playing on far shiverpeaks now :P I'll give it a try tomorrow or something ^^
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Servers are up
also yoica the last 2 beta's started at 20.00 maybe like 15 minutes before that but it never started at 21.00
Maybe, but officially isn't supposed to go up until 21:00
Nope since they stated on their website that it would go live at 20.00 i would believe them
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Seriously Grish.... Can you post a link to their website saying that, because I couldn't find anything on there. They did state, on facebook, that it would start at noon PDT (L.A. time) with a link to the timezone converter. So yes officially it should've started 21:00, but this is a pointless discussion since it open 1.5hrs early.
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i would give you a link to the post... but i cant find it on the guild wars 2 forums so i gave up
anyway NAMES:
Grishnag.3614
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Toastcleaner.2475
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The last beta weekend, my 1st, is over and I have mixed feeling about GW2.
The graphics are pretty nice and I like the way questing/events work. The lore and personal stories are also fairly well done.
I just didn't like feel of how class the worked. The concepts behind the skills and weapons affecting skill is really good, but the complete package of basic combat skills just felt off in most cases or at least the balance between how powerful or weak certain wpn combo's are. Thief and Ranger being the worst one of which was the classes I initially planned to play on release. Elementalist and Warrior was oke depending on which wpn combo you used. Engineer ended up being the class I enjoyed playing the most despite it being the class (just above Necromancer) I was least likely to play. I didn't get around to playing Necromancer, never like that kind of class in any game, Guardian, and Mesmer.
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What kind of levels did you get to? and each race has a variation of different slot skills
Beta weekend pictures
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Yeah I know, but those are extra spells that add flavour to the basics. No matter how good some of the sugarcoating is the basics still leave me dissatisfied somewhat. I had expect a lot more. This is the MMO beta where the way a class plays really disappoints me, usually it's the questing and/or gfx that put me off. With GW2 it is the complete a opposite.
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I quite liked it.. Too bad i only got the chance to play it this weekend, and I really didn't get into the classes much.. I mostly got stuck on the making of a char :D I played human (because it was the most fun to make) and asura, thought they were pretty cool. Tried sylvari as well, their story was the most interesting one imo :P
I played Ranger which i thought was the best, as well as elementalist. Seemed the most interesting to me.. Tried Necromancer too, it was ok :P The others like.. Theif didn't really seem interesting to me, never really been a melee type of person, so :P
The questing and stories was good though. I will probably start playing this game at some point when it's out :)
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the bwe closing event was quiet fun. it wa a hunger games style pvp battle between teams on each server if u missed it
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Yeah I know, but those are extra spells that add flavour to the basics.
but thats just wrong (im going to engineers as a example because i played them the most) if you didnt have turrets or tool kits you just woundt be an engineer
No matter how good some of the sugarcoating is the basics still leave me dissatisfied somewhat.
the engineer lacks alot of weapon skills if thats what you mean (i dont really know what you mean) they only have pistol/pistol pistol/shield and rifle.
if the engineer didnt have those tool kits and stuff it would be a rather boring with just 3 different weapons to use
or i might have completely misunderstood you and you meant that classes arent like those in WoW with class roles and stuff
did you use the FLAMMENWERFER? i like the FLAMMENWERFER because it WERFS FLAMMEN
the bwe closing event was quiet fun. it wa a hunger games style pvp battle between teams on each server if u missed it
i hate the fact that have missed all the events in betas because i had to work the next day
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Grish, you are defending the one class I actually thought felt smooth in it's play. I had turrets and they are good/fun, but they aren't the main part of how you actively need to play. Just goes to prove my point I guess.
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But what sort of levels did you reach Yoica?
It's each to your own, if you don't like it fair enough. But your reasonining seems rather weak to me.
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Just because my subjective perception of the game aren't agreement with your subjective perception doesn't make my arguments weak ;) I have yet to see any 'strong' counter arguments.
I got level 21 on eng/thief and 7-9 on most of the others.
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That's REALLY high for a beta weekend. from the sounds of things you rushed past everything, I played pretty much non-stop all weekend and I got to level 16 on one character.
it seems like you focused to much on the mechanics of the game instead of the enviorment, Immersion, the events, the hidden puzzles the vistas.
Hell of a lot of stuff to do in that game, so managing to get 2 characters past level 20 on 1 weekend is ridiculous. Did you do the Vistas? Did you complete every zone? Did you read the quests? Do your personal story? try out all the races? Do the hidden jumping puzzles? Do Shadow Behemoth? Any PVP? Each weapon in PVP has it's own gimmick and is quite a big difference. There's also WvWvW If you didn't try this then I'd really say you are missing out.
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I think Yoicas reasoning is fine, the problem is though, that its impossible to evaluate such a game based on the early levels.
Like in SWTOR early reviews were great, although the game didnt have any endgame content.
I wouldnt like to review WoW based on starter edition during cataclysm, you get no idea how the real game is.
All you can get from beta weekends like this is a feeling of the game and my first feelings were not very positive.
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By the way Yoica, you probs didn't like Thief because they decided to change over half of the thief animations/skills/damage and test it for this BWE. I loved my thief in BWE1/2 but in 3 I felt like wet soggy noodle
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Douche, did you even bother to read what initially wrote? :-\
The last beta weekend, my 1st, is over and I have mixed feeling about GW2.
The graphics are pretty nice and I like the way questing/events work. The lore and personal stories are also fairly well done.
<snip> my QQ about unpolished class play <snip>
So your last is complete useless and pointless. I enjoyed everything BUT the combat for most classes which generally feel awkward. So I started to rush to higher level to if it would get better, because I knew I would like the content anyway. The way combat skills work doesn't feel as natural/smooth when compared to other MMO's I've played. The only class where it felt good was the engineer, elementalist and warrior were decent enough, Ranger was mediocre and thief was just plain awful.
And I think I have enough background in MMO's (beta, release and/or trial WoW, Tera, Aion, Rift, SWTOR, GW1) to get a fairly good (note, not perfect) feel for how the combat works.
Anyway the content is good enough to warrent a leisurely playthrough. Currently the combat is bad enough for me to not play GW2 too seriously.
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GW is all about pvp and its EPIC!
sooo much fun and balanced.
you can literaly outplay anyone if you play your class right.
this weekend all i did was pvp got to rank 15ish. but then i stoped, since i wana keep some goodness for the release
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Could you be a bit more specific when you say the pvp is epic? From what I read here, it sounds as the control of the characters are clunky, which generally is what made pvp unattractive in wow's competitors over the years.
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I completely disagree with the PvP being balanced atm. There is the faceroll warrior and need to execute near perfect thief and everything inbetween.
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Um...If you are reffering to Warrior greatsword, getting killed by that means you are BAD.
Every class has a counter to it, the warrior is immobile and if you can't ntoice you are getting killed by it then you just plain suck. Warriors are good but not as OP as everyone makes them out to be.
As you just not enjoying the combat then I know another reason for that. In this BWE they tuned the combat down (damage, skills etc) for NPCS. Before you had Dodge/Avoid/Roll/Team up for more powerful things, This BWE you could faceroll through it all.
They did this to test feedback and it's not been posisitve so I'm assuming they will change it.
Although they did also say that the content gets harder at higher levels. But I'm not going to Argue to make you stay Yoica, it's a once buy game no sub fees etc. There's no pressure to play it considering it's a casual MMO anyway. It's a sadness that you don't like the combat as I feel much more involed with it then i have in any other MMo that I've played my only gripe is the 1 attack that does 3 combos.
Also a screenshot I found on 4chan that looks cool
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I would like to laugh at you douche, but its not even funny.
YOICA IS GOING TO BUY IT! HE LIKES THE GAME. CAN YOU READ?
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that readin shit 'S HARD SON
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AH that shit still makes me laugh NAH MEAN?
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Sigh...
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douche fighting the gw2 war!
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i didnt see the actual dmg beeing turned down at all.
Eles still 2 shot people before they even know they there.
the wow equivalent of bgs just feel more balanced than in wow, aswell as the class balance.
theres no scenario where 1 class will TOTALY RAPE another class.
yes a well played thief will buttrape u before u can say OMFG. but with 2 good evasion rolls his burst is out and u can kite them to death.
also 1 thing i really liked was the server system they have in place. its like playing FPS games where u pick a server and stick with it. you play with the same people over and over unless one leaves/ rejoins. also the biggest point about pvp that makes me like this game is the fact that wat you start out with in the beginning is the same lvl of dmg u have at max rank. not like wow, where u farm up arena gear and rape someone who doesnt have any gear.
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Yeah I agree that nice thing about PvP is that it doesn't matter if you are lvl 1 or max level (excluding WvWvW)
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i didnt try WvWvWvW again since the 2nd bwe. the distance i had to walk to get into combat just broke my balls and i gave up after 15min...
maybe if u go in there with 20 people and sort shit out its diffrent but solo its rubbish
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PVE damage was tuned down
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question for the south africans are you gonna play with the rest of IE on desolation once the game goes live or are you going off to some obscure space with south africans only?
cause i would love to have more people in a guild to talk to then just me douche kawe and skymunken
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the IE dick factor will decide wat will happen. atm the plan is to run a guild between the 3/4 of us. we got a domain and a general idea of wat we want to do with it.
Im personally gona go fullout into pvp because im absolutly loving it.
There is plans for some pve at a later point, but nothing is set in stone at this point
PVE damage was tuned down
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i didnt notice any diffrence but then again i only played asura to lvl 9ish
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he forgot to mention we haven't decided on a realm yet xD
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Will most likely be a medium pop PVP server
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Surim, weren't you going to Desolation?
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Yes Yoica, I was/am wanting to go to Desolation because it seems to have a lot of UK people. Between us Africans, we haven't actually spoken about servers etc. During the headstart and release I am relocating to a different city so I will just land up joining whatever server the others are on when my net gets connected (8mb booya!).
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If the africans haven't decided on a server yet, why not go on Desolation then? It seems a logical choice as it will probably be one of the servers with the best player pool.
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Have you guys made a guild during the beta? I'm just asking because you can upgrade stuff based on what players do that are in the guild and stuff so naturally its better to have more people in 1 guild ... Besides you can get instance groups easier that way too
And having it focus on pvp isn't a bad thing since the endgame content is mostly pvp anyway
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We did create a guild for the beta events and will be doing it for release too. IE people are more than welcome to join us.
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thats... not exactly what i meant though
what i meant is that we should just join together and make 1 bigger guild instead of 2 tiny guilds
personally i dont care on what server we do this on but other people might
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Come join the African tribe then. You can trust me, I'm not black. Hahahahaha :P
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this feels like a trap
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black trap - worst trap
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is there a new updated list of all the servers for release yet, like the one that anders posted a while back
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Not a clear table as previously linked, but should be up to date.
http://www.gw2guilds.org/ (http://www.gw2guilds.org/)
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/32389-world-choice-guilds-and-communities/ (http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/32389-world-choice-guilds-and-communities/)
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thanks
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If the game release is the same as the beta events for us (i.e. starting on american time zones) the headstart for us would start 7 am or something i hope its not like that but incase it is i think we should atleast look for a backup server if Desolation is full
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-worlds-of-guild-wars-2/ (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-worlds-of-guild-wars-2/)
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I've pre-ordered the game and am looking forward to playing it a lot. You guys decided what server you're going to play on? Also I've heard the servers could be up as soon as 5AM UK time.
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9 AM CEST is when the servers start but they could be up 3 hours before that (i love this vague shit) anyway i think we decided on Desolation
Again though i would like to point out that its a full population server and with it starting at 9 am (or 6 am) not everyone might get on because not everyone will be awake at that point so im asking if anyone has a back up server to go to?
also have you South africans decided? personally i find having more people in a guild better than having 2 small guilds but whatever
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i refuse to play on a server thats gona end up full and then you que to get on. not gona happen.
currently since desolation is the only concrete UK server its overcrowded as fuck as it is alrdy. compared to all other servers that are around there i dont think well be going to desolation.
just look at the link someone posted previously. desolation is the only server that has over 120 guilds confirmed...
next biggest is 93ish for EU.
having said that it could all change so well see. they said migration is free untill everything is settled in
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With GW, you dont queue. It will put you in a separate 'district' until the main one has space. That was the case with GW1.
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Look at every other not-wow mmo release in... forever? You do want to be on as full a server as possible, because not a single server is going to maintain the population numbers they see at release past a month. You especially want as busy as possible a server for as long as possible in a game like GW2 where the more sparse an area is, the less fun you have - it's not much use having "look instant entry to server woo" when you then have no one to play with.
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ye u want a high pop server not a full server... atm everyone in EU wants to go to desolation. no mather who you talk to they are going to desolation. the server will be at capacity and half the people will bitch and moan cuz they left behind. Its gona happen and im gona be there to say: "i told you so" and lol :D
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NO! I wana be the one to say "LOL I TOLD YOU SO!".
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Gandara looks like a good option. Slightly fewer guilds and alliances registered there but still competitive in comparison to Desolation. It's also an English speaking server or UK server or whatever. :)
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I don't think you appreciate the degree and speed that the servers will empty with. Additionally,
With GW, you dont queue. It will put you in a separate 'district' until the main one has space. That was the case with GW1.
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gandara is the turkmaul of GW from wat ive seen on the forums. no thank you.
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ye u want a high pop server not a full server... atm everyone in EU wants to go to desolation. no mather who you talk to they are going to desolation. the server will be at capacity and half the people will bitch and moan cuz they left behind. Its gona happen and im gona be there to say: "i told you so" and lol :D
this made me lol xD u sucha dick lolol xD
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that post is for u. cuz u sleep all day and then ull come on at 1400 on sat and go QQ cuz servers full
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still funneh ok!
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I don't really care, I'll just follow Grish and Kawe, but Desolation is a great name http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Desolation+Row+Alternate+Take/f4Yqq?src=5
We could call our guild "Postcards of the Hanging"!
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better link (http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Desolation+Row+Alternate+Take/f4Yqq?src=5)
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since footmunch fails to supply a server that he thinks is better i would say we should stick with desolation for now
in any case we have free character transfers for a while so if a lot of us cant get on desolation we can allways move to another high/full pop server were we all can join
i also have a few real life friends who want to join in and i told them that its desolation for now
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Make sure and open your patcher regularly up till release
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and log in around 6 AM if the servers get up then because you know bieng vague as shit as to when the servers are actualy up is really a good way to start
"Our servers will be up at 9 AM CEST but they might also be up 3 hours earlier but we dunno lol"
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desolation is the only full on eng dedicated server there is atm, there is no other choice unless u learn to speak german hahaha
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Raph if you teach me german then we can go to german realm
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lets do it!
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wait kage is playing to?
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NO.YES.MAYBE... Not actually sure wether i want to bother or not.
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Here's a picture of my Nord in HOM gear
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welp made some picutures
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Is there a guild up and running?
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Yeah, Iron Edge on server Desolation
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2 Photos:
First is comparison to the original Guild wars (If you are interested)
SECOND IS THE BEAR GOD
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I've just transferred to Desolation. Not that it really matters because you can't play together anyway :(
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you should poke kawe so you can get in to the guild anyway... im sure they will fix that though
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Good game so far. ;D Really enjoying it, I have to say the leveling is a lot more fun than other MMO's have been for me. And they've implemented a lot of stuff that makes you think, wow that makes sense why don't other MMO's do that? Desolation is the server we're on, really good PvP realm by the looks of things and high population. Poke Kawe for an invite. Here's some sexy screenshots.
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I've just transferred to Desolation. Not that it really matters because you can't play together anyway :(
poke me on Toastcleaner. Alternatively, post your name and four digit number thing and I'll invite as soon as you do.
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Few pics.
Last one the entire room moves around
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lets see some pics of the pirate ship city :)
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Fuck pirates, Asuran master race representative Toastcleaner reporting in
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If you are stuck on what race to choose I'll give you a little lore so you can pick a little easier.
Warning: Giant wall of text. if you want 1 race then read that race.
Human: Humans are originally from another planet. The (original) six gods (Balthazar, Dwayna - Leader of the gods, Lyssa, Melandru, Grenth and Abbadon) put the humans onto Tyria. They originated from Orr to begin with and spilt into 3 independent(?) countrys.
A time before the Guild wars happened the god Abbadon became insane and began to take all the water out of the Crystal desert, the other 5 gods imprisoned him in the Realm of torment, anyway back to the guild wars.
You had
Ascalon
Kryta
Orr
In the following years as what would become to known as "The Guild Wars" the 3 kingdoms fought each other for retarded reasons of DERP LAND DERP KILL. They only stopped fighting when the Charr launched a massive 3 pronged attack.
The Krytans defeated the Charr right out
The Ascalonians built a gigantic wall around the entire kingdom, and then got blown the shit up
Orr got blown the shit up.
Because Orr was the first kingdom of the Humans they had many powerful artifacts to the gods. In the original game a single person began to read one of the forbidden texts and the entire city was exploded in a gigantic fireball, rather then let the Charr (The natives of the world!) set foot on "Holy ground"
So Orr sank to the bottom of the ocean taking a giant landmass with it.
The Ascalonians had something called the "Searing" happen. Bassicly the Charr built a device powered by the "Titans" that rained giant fireballs and death from the sky, It decimated the wall and all of ascalon.
Fastforward 5 years you had the realm of Cantha appear south of the world, young heroes traveled there to solve the problem of Shiro Tacaghi. it was pretty boring.
And you also had Elona, land of the golden sun. Elona had a huge problem in the years before were a great undead lord called Palwala Joko raised up an army to defeat the forces of Elona (Vabbi, Kourna and the Sunspears) a great commander rose from Kourna called Turia Ossa who struck down this undead lord and imprionsed him.
after some years the lord Abbadon began to push his realm of torment into the real world. Heroes were forced to travel north and fight back this evil by going into the Realm of torment itself. There they had to fight a GOD face on and kill him. It was here that the slut Koromir who did NOTHING all game just walked the fuck in and took all his power and became the Godess of truth. Thus, five gods were once again Six.
Fastforwad 7 years, You had eye of the north. There you met people who went north into Charr lands to kill the charr outright, and did so sucsessfully. They were eventually called back and made the fortress "Ebonhawke" in Charr territory that still stands in GW2.
Fastforwad again some 20-30 years later, the mad crazy bat shit insane King Adelbern knew he could no longer win against the Charr and made his sword (Foefire) blow up most of ascalon city, turning every human into vengeful ghosts.
Now we fastforward for the last time, 250 years into the future. With the Orr and Ascalonians now dead all that reamins of the Humans is Kryta. When the great sundering happened (Dragons)the undead dragon Zhaitan made Orr rise from the bottom of the ocean, causing massive tidal waves flooding much of the ring of fire, the battle isles and all of Lions arch, Kryta's capital also, the dragon cut off ties to Cantha via it's undead legion of boats and pirates.
Human were forced to retreat north and found Divinity's reach in the lands of Shaemoor.
Human gameplay is: About "Justice", honor and the six gods
Norn: Originally from the far shiverpeaks of the north the Norn are quite literally, giant humans.
They revere the spirits of the wilds as the gods.
The 4 major spirits are:
Bear
Wolf
Raven
Snow Lepoard(?)
As the great sundering happened the mighty ice dragon Jormag arrose from the icy mountains in the north. The Norn fought very bravely against Jormag and are to date, the only race that has physically harmed a dragon by removing one of it's teeth.(It's about 5x the size of norn at max height)
As the dragons onslaught grew worse and worse the Spirits devised a plan. The lesser spirits - Owl, Wolverine, Ox and Eagle stayed behind to fight Jormag while the Norn retreated south. In this battle Owl was out right killed by Jormag and the other 3 are currently unknown as there has not been a disciple powerful enough to communicate with any of these spirits in years.
After the Norn arived south they founded Hoelbrak and put the Dragons tooth on display in the main hall.
Norn gameplay is cenetred around. Hunting, pure strength, ale!, Brawls and the Spirits
Asura: In the original game Asura were underground midgets that thought they were better then everyone. It hasn't changed!
Asuran belive in something called "The Eternal alchemy" were everything has a point and a purpose to something greater. They live to find out the mystery of The eternal alchemy.
During the period of the first game the Asura lived very close to something called "The Central transfer chamber" were a great deal of a energy poured out from a statue. Eventually something called "The Great destroyer" rose up out of the ground and began making an army rightly called "The Destroyers" who dedicated they're time to fucking everyones shit up. They pushed the Asura out of the tunnels they had all built underground and topside.
Eventually, the Dwarves stepped in preaching some batshit insane prophecy about how the Great dwarf had once destroyed this person and it was the dwarves destiny to turn into stone (Literally) and chase the destroyers into the depths of the world. Few dwarves stayed behind and all of the ones that went chased the destroyed into the Central transfer chamber to kill the Great destroyer (With the help of the Asura and humans, of course).
After the battle was finished the Camera said the greatest threat Tyria had ever faced was over. But more is to come.
And then the camera panned up. The Central transfer chamber had a giant fucking statue of a dragon in it. But guess what LOL IT WAS A DRAGON XD TWIST!!!!!!
Fastforward 250 years the Asura now make Rata sum, a giant rubix cube that floats into the home for them.
If you want to play Asura here's what to expect: Cockiness of the highest form, Elitisim, the best animations in the game, hilarious dialogue and TECHNOLOGY
Sylvari: Plant people that came from this Centaurs seed or some shit. They glow in the dark and are pretty gay.
Sylvari - You are a flower that glows in the dark. You are also gay as the Sylvari have sex with everyone/thing - Not joking. (I don't know enough about them to write anything.)
Charr: Charr have a very complicated history. They were once the dominate race on Tyria and wish to reclaim the land the Humans took from them.
The Charr fought against all 3 human countrys and eventually, Ascalon was the home they took back.
In the original game the charr were pure evil. They were lead by the Flame Legion who are bassicly Titan worshipping douchebags who want to enslave everyone and everything with the power of the Titans. At the climax of the eye of the north the Charr rose up against the Flame legion and culled many of the leaders and outcast the rest. The charr were no longer under the chains of opression.
In guild wars 2 - Easily the race that has undergone the biggest change since number 1. They took over all of Ascalon and built a gigantic city made out of metal and whatever else they could find. They are a very "Steampunk" civilization and are really quite cool race to play.
You have 3 "Legions" to choose from
Ash (Sneaky)
Blood (Warrior headline combat)
Iron (Engineering)
They currently all have the very unique story line and are very cool to play. They are currently at the forefront of taking Tyria into the industrial age and have many ressemblences to romans.
Females are also avaliable to play as Charr as they opression against females (Bassicly, they all got put into camps and were used as baby makers) ended and are now playable. They all stand on theyre hind legs and run on all fours
To sum up the Charr: Only the strongest survive, Hate worshipping gods, hate the Flame legion, love Engineering and war, are beastly in appearnce and run on all fours.
I'll most likely add to this list as and when I can be bothered. Sorry for the wall of text and yes I'm aware there is a big gap of knowledge from where
Humans got put onto earth.
Founded Orr
Split off
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How did humans get to Elona/Cantha
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Sounds like sylvarri are gay and one who plays sylvarri should feel gay.
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they so are
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DOUBLE POST
http://imgur.com/a/nMxgv/#6
Here's aload of screenshots of some vistas.
Also a guide on how to use a controller to play Guild wars 2: http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/showthread.php?25192-Guild-Wars-2&p=66670#post66670
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Hate doing double posts but got some cool new screenshots to show off!
Some are loading screens, some are just pics. No real spoilers.
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Lvl 80 exotic armor and weapon for ranger profession (crafted exotics)
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i have more but i will save them for later
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Hey guys! Just transfered to Desolation and would like to get an invite to the guild. ID: Yjnar.5176
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When you see it
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pedobear?
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INDEED goddamn bear photobombed me hard
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Necroing this thread!
Finally got around to install and play Guild Wars 2, was wondering who's still around? I know some South Africans, but I can't get a hold of them!
Where you located?
Add Skymunken.7584 if you wanna play or something!
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i still jam every now and then but havent gotten arround to set my g13 up for it and its not nice on laptop keyboard. will do it this weekend. just poke me on steam bro
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were still on desolation.
busy lvling a thief with some friends lvl 20ish
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Im on Desolation as well, add me Foot
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Im also still around on Desolation. Busy playing my warrior and lvling up an elementalist (around lvl 15). Will add you or you can poke me on Steam too
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Currently playing a warrior around level 11ish on Desolation, I'll poke you later
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Got some lvl 40ish thief or whatnot on desolation aswell as my engineer
dont play it much anymore though
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ill add u this weekend.
cba logging on today too tiered
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Does anyone have a guild running on Desolation? I'm quite lonely in my own :(
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Does anyone have a guild running on Desolation? I'm quite lonely in my own :(
I think I know what you can do to fix that, and it ain't godforsaken GW2! :D
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Don't worry, I found Africalanders, no lonely no more.
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Forever alone
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Never see the Anders!