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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012
- Thread starter Mr. Luchador
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aramanKain
Member
The quality of the plastic on that thing (I used to have one too) means if you're still using one, that there's no doubt in my mind that it's brown by now.I've been using Microsoft Intellimouse Optical for ages. I really don't feel like I need more than the two extra side buttons on the left and right (and no worries about fat fingering with my thumb, which I feel is the least dexterous).
I have no trouble binding everything to the keyboard, and near the WASD homepoint. Coming from playing a Warlock in WoW, GW2 was a breeze to bind.
Tawney Bomb
Member
Strongly considering giving into the hype. Is elementalist any fun?
Every profession is fun, but the Elementalist is pretty slick. It's probably just me, but I actually liked going dual daggers and attacking people at melee range with a lightning whip or air Chakrams.
It's the master profession. So yes. Made for royalty and the bravest creatures. Do not let the proletariat and less initiated drag you down into the doldrums of the lesser professions. They smell.
AppleSmack
Banned
I would say its the class with the highest learning curve due to the huge amount of skills they have available.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Yay, finished the Wayfarer quests and got my Tormented Weapon for HoM. Only 3 points to go for 30/50.
FutureZombie
Banned
Worming my way out of responsibilities for next weekend is really becoming a lot of work. I'm building quite the web of lies to allow me to play GW2 for the entirety of my waking hours.
AppleSmack
Banned
How are you playing? Did it come out early in some place or is there a regional beta weekend going on?
That's what I'm doing. My first two characters will both be using daggers
He's talking about GW1.
AppleSmack
Banned
Oh ok. Thanks.
If it's any consolation, in 2 hours it'll be 4 days.
Whoa whoa whoa. How's this work? It's still going to be 5 days for me in 2 hours. I'm missin' out man.
http://gw2status.com/
Game launches in 5 days, 2 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds.
Assuming ArenaNet doesn't launch it 3 hours early.
He's truncating the time. The timer will show a big four, but in practical terms it will be 120 hours away.
aramanKain
Member
Ok, that's it, I'm serious this time... got to 23/30 on HoM, that's it - I'm done, no more! Finito! I got my damn cloud sword, hanging up the old spirit spammer wraps.
Rapture
Member
I'm actually going in with that as my main! I don't know what it is but i love close range spell casting. All of the attacks just looked really awesome.
Nemesis121
Member
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Only 5 days left after waiting 5 long years...
I enjoy staff, myself. Not so much pew pew as daggers but the boons and soft control are awesome support for a group.
the latter.
LumpOfCole
Member
G700 Mousebinds, v3.0:
Just WvWvW or structured PvP.
No, there's no PVP outside of the two PVP modes. No ganking while questing.
Ah you have to finish all 4 to get the weapon? I thought you got one for each quest item... Guess there is no reason to rush and finish Proph and eotn then, was hoping to finish those two but there's no way I'll have the energy to get through NF and Nightfall before the 30th.
dragonflys545
Member
5 DAYS! OMGOMGOMG 
So I just noticed that this game is coming out in a few days and in all honesty I really don't know shit about it but I'd like to, I've always enjoyed the idea behind an MMORPG but many games fail to deliver.
I'd like to know what are the things GW2 does great and what things it does bad, what are the pros and cons to this game? Knowing that the game comes out so soon made me kinda want to buy it but I thought I'd ask these things to you guys.
Also I used to love WoW and I played it pretty much constantly for about 5 years until last year since with Cataclysm everything became so repetitive and boring that it went downhill, I keep hearing that GW2 is the only game that comes really close to WoW in terms of polish and great mechanics.
I'd like to know what are the things GW2 does great and what things it does bad, what are the pros and cons to this game? Knowing that the game comes out so soon made me kinda want to buy it but I thought I'd ask these things to you guys.
Also I used to love WoW and I played it pretty much constantly for about 5 years until last year since with Cataclysm everything became so repetitive and boring that it went downhill, I keep hearing that GW2 is the only game that comes really close to WoW in terms of polish and great mechanics.
GW2 works great as an MMO which encourages playing with other people above all else. It's built so that individual skill and accomplishments are rewarded in a way that promotes teamwork and working with others. It's socially the most on point (with respect to its genre) MMO I've ever played.
It doesn't give great blowjobs, however.
It doesn't give great blowjobs, however.
Spehornoob
Member
Best thing you can do is remove the expectations that WoW has given you and read this. It'll give you the best info. Some highlights, though, are that the game offers a very dynamic world, the end of class roles (ie, the trinity), action oriented combat, and massive server vs server PvP
Preorder cancelled.
Sir Abacus
Member
You sure? I'm pretty sure it was on one of the billion Guardian or Warrior weapons.
GhostRidah
Member
A huge update to the client is out
man I cant wait to make my Asura
man I cant wait to make my Asura
ss_lemonade
Member
I've always been intrigued by guild wars for some reason, but never got around to playing it. I'm looking for an mmo to play again (I stopped a few years back because I didn't have the time to dedicate myself to online rpgs), so I was wondering if this will be a good one to start with. My mmorpg experience mostly consisted of ragnarok and trickster online way back (and a bit of maple story), so yeah I'm not sure what to expect out of a full 3d mmo.
This is a great MMO to start with. Specifically cause there's no monthly fee's so a large barrier of entry is eliminated right there. If you're at all interested in MMOs, I'd plop down $60 to try this game out at somepoint. You should be able to get by fine without MMO experience, but the learning curve will be a bit larger and longer.
If youre looking for an MMO that you can play when you want to, not dedicate a whole lot of time to, and still have fun, then this is the MMO for you
http://www.gafguild.com/index.php?t...nfo-for-the-uninitiated-read-me.16/#post-2233
Pretty much all you need to know (and more)
http://gafguild.com/index.php?threads/guild-wars-2-mass-info-for-the-uninitiated-read-me.16/
Read that to get up to speed.
Nemesis121
Member
Holyshit servers are getting destroyed, my DL speed was just at 0.16kb...
Spehornoob
Member
I'm pretty sure "Sloppy fellatio" is a Norn racial.
Awesome now I can change my account name, after using a dead email address.
The main client supposed to say download failed?
Servers are getting hammered, it'll reconnect or try restarting the client.
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