Felix Lighter
Member
Yeah, it sounds reasonable. I take it, as a guest on a server, there are no restrictions beyond no WvW?
Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
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Yeah, it sounds reasonable. I take it, as a guest on a server, there are no restrictions beyond no WvW?
Wasn't this removed years ago?
There are none. Guesting on a server is exactly the same as if you were just playing on that server. You are not limited in any way as to where you can go or what you can do. The only limitation is if you go to WvW, it will take you to your own server's WvW instead of the server you were guesting on.
In my defense, I haven't played that game in years...after I started playing the 31st of a month and got billed for that entire month because they didn't charge in 30 days intervals.
Guild need to be remade, which i think is a good thing, we will have more active people in the guild, the last BWE there were a big number of accounts offline that didn't go online a single day of the BWE.
Weltall Zero
Member
I played the entirety of BWE2 and the last stress test in an US server (I'm Spanish), and lag was pretty much unnoticeable. I actually intend to take some measurements this weekend if the game has a ping meter; since my GF got an account as well, I was thinking of having hers tied to an Euro server for this beta, for comparison's sake.
I'm from Europe and I played on Henge with the rest of GAF, had no problem whatsoever even in WvW. And my connection is not that great either.
Also worth adding that we were inviting people who just asked for an invite; we probably had a ton of people who weren't GAFers who saw the tags everywhere (and we were everywhere, I saw that GAF or GAFT tag everywhere) and wanted in. Also, I know we had a few people who were picked up because they had similar names to GAFers. For example, we had a guy named rEtro that wasn't me.
ArenaNet's netcode is apparently legendary, so I'm not surprised by this at all. I almost want to say "Okay EuroGAF, roll on Gates and let's do this!" but I would hate to be responsible for a bunch of being having a bad experience. I'm not in Europe and I would hate for us to make a decision on this when we're not actually going to be the ones affected.
I guess EU players just need to take ANet's performance on faith. It sounds more and more like playing on an NA server is viable for you guys. BWE3 is your last chance to try it before launch, so maybe EuroGAF should roll on Henge to check things out? If the majority seems okay, we might just all want to roll as one and hang the regional differences.
And yes, I realize saying this on the same page that I say "Don't leave the server we all decided on in advance!" looks very very hypocritical. To be fair, EuroGAF is a smaller segment of the community.
We should probably have a riddle that someone has to answer before they are sent the invite.
Something simple like "Who created the OT?" or obscure like "What's the fourth word in the third paragraph?"
Lol, Jira is working too hard on the OT to not deserve to name it.
GAF is public though, so that stuff can be public knowledge if people look.
I'm sure we'll have a frenzy of invites at first, but eventually we will need to go through and weed out the people who aren't GAFers. How can we tell? They should have all added their name in the community thread.
I also haven't looked, is there a space of personal notes in the guild window? Our plan was to allow anyone to invite their friends to GAF if they wanted, but without being able to keep tabs on who invite who in game, it seems like that could be a problem. With the cap so low, space will be at a premium for a while.
I haven't played the game, but I will on Friday. I'm just going by all the videos I've seen. I guess it's because I've been playing WoW for so long.
That'll do it, honestly, and not just WoW. MMOs to date are designed to keep players in very specific boxes so encounters can be a design-by-numbers affair; two from the Tank box, 3 from the Healer box, and so on...
GW2 gives every class equivalent tools to perform all roles (obviously some better than others) so picking a profession isn't so much putting yourself in a box as it is finding your place on a Venn diagram.
LumpOfCole
Member
I'm hoping Jira makes a human named 'Jira' and a Norn that looks like a giant version of her human named 'Godjira'
Quadrophenic
Member
Or a Ranger with a drake-pet named Godjira
You, sir, are a winner.
Lmao that's good. I actually am going to make my Human Warrior named Jira and I'll consider the Norn as I was making my Guardian a Norn anyways.
Fun Fact: Retro actually named all of his hunter pets after Kaiju in WoW.
On my short-lived gun-toting Goblin Hunter (named Howitzer) I named them all after WW2 stuff (a bear named Panzer, a wolf named Luger, a fox named Rommel, etc.)
Also, my wife names her pets after TV Butlers. Seriously.
Edit: Also, it should be Gojira. No D. /nerd
cool, thanks. I started a character on a EU server during BWE2 because of my lag concerns, but apparently this doesn't seem to be a problem
Gojira is an awesome band.
Euro & USD prices are the same:
800 for 10.00
1600 for 20.00
2800 for 35.00
4000 for 50.00
And some info from MoB:
Look at what I found in the gem store:
OMG customized finishers - they will be rich.
Imagine killing someone and trolling them afterwards.
Look at what I found in the gem store:
what the fuck?
Look at what I found in the gem store:
Seriously? haha
I want one that makes me dance like I just spiked a football.
Look at what I found in the gem store:
sweet this is the sort of stupid stuff I actually want to waste my money on
BETA:
Henge of Denravi (NA)
Jade Sea (EU)
RELEASE:
Gates of Madness (NA)
Gandara (EU)
Remember, there's only need for one guild in the game, even cross-region.
In the full release? Highly unlikely. The likely reason they gave out gems for entering your credit information was to test out their in game billing services. I highly doubt there will be any free gems at all after release.
In the upcoming beta weekend I would say its probable. They still want to have free gems available to test the Gem Store, especially if they have added things to it.
And hopefully Guild Caps will be removed or significantly higher at Launch. We'll find out in BWE3.
I've just started playing Guild Wars for the first time and I'm working towards Hall of Monuments stuff. I'm using this guide: http://buildwars.forumotion.com/t300-gw1-30-50-hall-of-monuments-guide and I'm currently level working towards level 5 on the Nightfall campaign, playing as a warrior. I have all the expansions. Any helps or tips are appreciated 
My name is Anilusion C and I'm a complete noob.
My name is Anilusion C and I'm a complete noob.
LumpOfCole
Member
Unfortunately it doesn't look like there are free gems for BWE3:
https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/statuses/225284936498814977
But any gems you buy in BWE3 will also be awarded to you when the game launches.
*makes note*
MisterNugNug
Member
Is Guild Wars EOTN going to go on sale during the Steam sale? Its weird that there isn't even a slight discount.
Is the gold-gem market in BWE3? If so, would make a lot of sense to just cash out all your gold into gems when the BWE is over.
I give it about 1% chance of that actually working though since it such an obvious exploit
Fleshfeast
Member
Well, if you purchase gems and spend them, you get those gems back in retail. So it'll probably be based on how many you've bought, not how many you have at the end of BWE3.
Felix Lighter
Member
It works, that's what I did.
Only gems purchased with real money will transfer, converting gold to gems will not transfer.
User Name Here
Member
Look at what I found in the gem store:
Oh cool. I'd differently buy a crazy cool finisher animation pack if they make one. I can just imagine it now...
- Elementalist: burning or drowning or freezing or entombing or electrocuting foes as a finisher based on attument/weapon(s) or conjured weapon
- Engineer: Something based on a kit and/or weapon(s) used
- Thief: Some kind of final shot/stab finisher based on weapon(s) used, like have the Thief balance a dagger on his finger while preparing to shoot a final shot in the victims head for dagger pistol
- Guardian: Stabbing/smashing/beaming of holy or Ethereal light energy or holy fire burning finisher based on the weapon(s) used
- Warrior: A Visceral stab or smash finisher based on weapon(s) used
- Necromancer: Have hands grow out of the ground and slowly pull the foe into the underworld or something else based on weapon(s) used
- Mesmer: Something with illusions based on weapon(s) used
- Ranger: Something based on the weapon(s) and animal companion, like you shoot one last shot into the foes chest and your animal companion mauls the victim
Anyone else have any ideas for wacky or cool finishers?
I just gotta say ALL this confusion about servers and stuff would have been solved if our last podcast was released 
I also will have a way to have it so instead of just letting anyone in, since we have the caps in, we're going to be using the roster list in the community thread so that we can get the people who are suppose to be in, actually in the guild. I'm working on finishing it up by tomorrow night.
I also will have a way to have it so instead of just letting anyone in, since we have the caps in, we're going to be using the roster list in the community thread so that we can get the people who are suppose to be in, actually in the guild. I'm working on finishing it up by tomorrow night.
I just gotta say ALL this confusion about servers and stuff would have been solved if our last podcast was released
I also will have a way to have it so instead of just letting anyone in, since we have the caps in, we're going to be using the roster list in the community thread so that we can get the people who are suppose to be in, actually in the guild. I'm working on finishing it up by tomorrow night.
Are you actually going to go through the trouble of that for BWE3? Seems a lot of work for something that'll just be destroyed after this weekend.
User Name Here
Member
Illusionary Omnislash? I like it!
Not really since the roster he'll be working on tonight will be used for launch anyway. lol