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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
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LumpOfCole
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Taking the above screenshot and adding hacky Photoshop filter effects gives instant impressionism for wallpaper purposes:
Weltall Zero
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Nemesis121
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I was just about to post it lol, just check out of boredom...
BrettWeir
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It was rather annoying, yes. One of my biggest pet peeves. I had to stop watching it.....
ComputerMKII
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Some stats:
FunkyMunkey
Banned
That is actually a very good spread of different types. Pleased with that.
Kos Luftar
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Stormbluff Isle. Nice choice.
I want to play GW2 so bad!!!!!!
I want to play GW2 so bad!!!!!!
Norn thief, 1.20% woo
This may be a silly question but are there race-specific bonuses? I like going with uncommon combinations but I want to make sure that I'm not screwing my character over too severely.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking at.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking at.
Race specific skills only I think.
Anything significant? Anything near the original Will of the Forsaken from WoW?
Complistic
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Yeah I turned it off after a while. Ree especially would just keep raising her voice until jeff stopped talking lol.
No, they are meant to be weaker and more for race 'flavor'
Hooray, ridiculous profession combinations incoming!
(thanks for the wiki link, Mr. Computer)
konstantine7
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How good is arenanet about balancing? Was Guild Wars fairly balanced? In WoW I pvped 90% of the time and it was frustrating to see a particular class or build run rampant and shit all over everything for months at a time.
The sylvari skill was very useful in PvE (snare). I'm sure it will also come in handy during WvW at lower levels, when you don't have other elite skills.
Without the Trinity, the games are very different beasts balance-wise so its really hard to say. Personally, i didnt notice any big balance issues in beta. And if your character sucks in sPvP for a while, well, you can always start up a new profession and play with that until they fix it
I PvP'd in WoW a hell of a lot. And for me, sPvP in GW2 has been much more enjoyable so far. It's more about the player and how well they know / play their class, rather than what gear / resi you've got.
It's great that you can jump straight into sPvP and know people are on equal footing.
As for classes, it seemed really balanced for me. Some classes like the Mesmer are meant to have issues currently, but I'm really pleased with how it's turning out.
Wait for gunbo or someone else who played GW1 back in the day, they can answer it with more authority. If it counts for anything I do remember reading that they're very quick to balance things because they don't have to wait for whole patches to make balance changes and can just make changes on a daily basis as needed.
They changed it in the stress test to only work on a single targer rather than 5 so it's more in line with where it should have been originally.
pain inverter may make asura the best fit for mesmers
Charrzooka. My Warrior will be so much fun. I mean... BAZOOKA!
BrettWeir
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Thanks for posting that Computer.
I'm kind of surprised at the Humans ranking so high. How boring. Very happy to see my choices fall within the middle of the pack. Asura Engi, Ranger, and Necro.
Most definitely!
We don't really know at this point, no reason they can't put it back in if enough people ask for it.
konstantine7
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Thanks for responses about balancing
Thank you!
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
Call me boring then...I prefer Humans over all other classes. Even in WoW all my characters are either Humans, or Undead (dead humans ;P). I play other races, but they are never my mains.
Humans Rule!
Piss it away! A-yo!
I actually have no idea if that's true, I just wanted to get a zinger in there.
pretty sure there has been some coupons available so you can get it at like 47 or soemwhere around there. So id ask and look around if some are still available
And hey, its still better than paying a monthly subscription! (possibly, 100 bucks is a lot of dough)
Interesting thing about that chart: the data was pulled on April 8th, before any of us had even played the game. I feel like if someone took a survey again, the results would be noticably different. I think Engineers are a lot more popular now that people have actually played them, and after awesome Engineer gameplay videos have made the rounds. Also, I wouldn't doubt it if Asura is a more popular race now that people have seen Rata Sum first hand.
Don't get the Digital Deluxe Edition. Nothing in there is worth paying extra for. Just buy the standard edition, and if you feel like giving ArenaNet more of your money, buy some gems (cash shop currency).
I don't know if people know about this site, but...
http://gw2census.com/charts.php
Interesting stuff.
http://gw2census.com/charts.php
Interesting stuff.
Nemesis121
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From a PvEr perspective they were horrible, because PvP constantly ruined the game, every damn week they would nerf skills, gain the nickname anerf but once they split the skills things got better, but Guildwars 2 will start with the skills split so whatever balances they make it will be a proper balance instead of PvP fucking nerf...
I keep missing the coupon codes because I deliberately didn't pre order whilst beta phases where going on. I wanted the experience to be fresh and not like with TOR, hammered the beta weekends for that and when release came around it felt like a deflated balloon. Well that and the fact that TOR was pretty poop anyway!
Hopefully greenman gaming will have some more codes before release, I just have to remember to keep checking.
Hopefully greenman gaming will have some more codes before release, I just have to remember to keep checking.
Yea, I think the general crapitude of TOR is the reason why it felt like a deflated balloon. Hopefully you odnt have to blame TOR for some more money wasted!
And yea, DDE is definitely not worth it. Buy the regular version and some gems, and get whatever you want in the store. Having a bank expansion would be infinitely more useful than whatever crap you get with the DDE
http://digitalgaudium.com/?p=10924
Q: I was pretty excited about the announcement of the Mobile and Web Apps, from the blog post it seemed like a much more complex project than your traditional MMO Companion App. Will the Apps be ready for launch day?
A: For launch we wont have any GW2 apps available for use for players. However, soon after launch well be launching a robust app development program in conjunction with our community that should allow for the development of some truly spectacular GW2 app and website development. Well discuss this more post ship, right now were focused on making the release of the game the greatest it can be.
So I take this to mean ANet will handle the app development of things that require authentication such as guild chat, trading post stuff, map viewing and whatnot that they talked about some time ago and they'll throw out an API for the community so they can do stuff like build calculators and databases.
Q: I was pretty excited about the announcement of the Mobile and Web Apps, from the blog post it seemed like a much more complex project than your traditional MMO Companion App. Will the Apps be ready for launch day?
A: For launch we wont have any GW2 apps available for use for players. However, soon after launch well be launching a robust app development program in conjunction with our community that should allow for the development of some truly spectacular GW2 app and website development. Well discuss this more post ship, right now were focused on making the release of the game the greatest it can be.
So I take this to mean ANet will handle the app development of things that require authentication such as guild chat, trading post stuff, map viewing and whatnot that they talked about some time ago and they'll throw out an API for the community so they can do stuff like build calculators and databases.
Wow. This is awesome stuff. The jump from SWTOR to this in terms of community support is astounding.