I felt the same way on my warrior the other day. Was tonnes of people in the Charr starting area, and every dynamic event felt like a real clusterfuck. Part of the reason I've been playing the PvP so much.
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Teknopathetic
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"Wow. Rolled a guardian and jumped into heart of the mists. 13k base HP wtf?"
Lowest tier of base HP pool.
Lowest tier of base HP pool.
Dungeons are quite the contrary, if you try to zerg it you will die ugly. The enemies resist more and you need to really pay attention to them. That is from story mode, explorable mode is more hard.
And agree, i just hope in higher levels that type of even the enemies have more hp and better skills, the ape zerging is mindless.
Each BW i play i end up getting to level 13-14 and suddenly get underleveled for every hearth s around me.
Am i doing something wrong ?
What should i do to keep beging ''correctly'' leveled ? Tried a bit of crafting or grinding mob but i have the feeling am not really supposed to be doing taht so soon
Am i doing something wrong ?
What should i do to keep beging ''correctly'' leveled ? Tried a bit of crafting or grinding mob but i have the feeling am not really supposed to be doing taht so soon
Odd, I have a 580 and get 40-50fps (occasionally I dip to 35-38) on max settings.
Are you doing any of your personal story? The zones are designed so you're doing personal story/events/gathering and hearts.
i did my personal story quest until they are 3 level ahead of me. : /
I explored a lot, discovered everything in my starting area (Am Asura) and i even did Geomm lab( some long jumping puzzle that made me rage sooooo much about the collision detection in this game)
RepairmanJack
Member
The second part of the Sylvari zone just seems like it has no events at all.
about 8 hours ago, a couple of other people from here and myself did the jumping puzzle in the Sylvari starting area. Took us an hour to finish it. So after doin all the jumping, I get to the chest...only to find out it had a lvl 2 grey boots for me
Yea I was in the group with you and ended up with armor for another class. Kind of a disappointment to do all that and not get something good out of it.
I feel like I could waste a ton of time crafting stuff and feel like I may not play anymore this weekend and wait for the release.
This sounds like a different one because the one we did at the end they have four security golems.
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Deleted member 17706
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I think I'm just tired of MMORPGs that direct the player so much. I liked the old school MMOs where there was less direction and players came up with their own goals and formed groups to accomplish them.
At least in the newbie areas, Guild Wars 2 seems like the most directed MMORPG yet. Every area you visit there is some quest or dynamic event going on, which guarantees that anyone in the area will only be doing that, since that's the most efficient way to gain experience and rewards. It doesn't help that the exp from individual mobs is abysmal (granted, they die in a matter of seconds).
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I really want a game with a less frantic pace. Even when I just want to explore in Guild Wars 2 (which is a neat aspect of the game with tangible rewards), I constantly feel like I'm missing out by not participating in the events I walk past. It's probably just my personality or something, but the game feels really ADD to me in how it seems to bounce the player from frantic event/area to the next with no breaks in between, never giving the player a chance to focus on any given element of the game.
I'm going to play a bit more today and try to get up to lvl 15 and maybe experiment in some PvP, but so far I can't say I'm a huge fan of the gameplay.
At least in the newbie areas, Guild Wars 2 seems like the most directed MMORPG yet. Every area you visit there is some quest or dynamic event going on, which guarantees that anyone in the area will only be doing that, since that's the most efficient way to gain experience and rewards. It doesn't help that the exp from individual mobs is abysmal (granted, they die in a matter of seconds).
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I really want a game with a less frantic pace. Even when I just want to explore in Guild Wars 2 (which is a neat aspect of the game with tangible rewards), I constantly feel like I'm missing out by not participating in the events I walk past. It's probably just my personality or something, but the game feels really ADD to me in how it seems to bounce the player from frantic event/area to the next with no breaks in between, never giving the player a chance to focus on any given element of the game.
I'm going to play a bit more today and try to get up to lvl 15 and maybe experiment in some PvP, but so far I can't say I'm a huge fan of the gameplay.
I agree, Zefah, and to be honest I've found GW2 to be a very good open-ended game as far as that goes...so long as you're okay playing solo or with maybe just a friend. Turn off the legend in the map, find something in the distance that looks interesting and go explore it. Look around a lot of the walls for random caves. This is the first MMO in awhile where I've been completely oblivious to what level I am because I'm having enough fun just wandering around Celadon seeing all that there is to see.
I feel the same way, except I'm wasting a lot of time trying to pick class.
BrokenSymmetry
Member
It isn't for nothing that in WoW all pets have 90% damage reduction against all AoE effects. Easier than giving them decent AI.
NobleXenon
Member
It seems I have been hearing that BWE3 difficulty level has been toned down or something? I haven't played outside the character creation screen, but I seem to remember BW1, BW2, ST1, and ST2 being difficult, almost like every battle was exhausting. What is the consensus here?
Same for me. I was able to put decent time into the first BWE, but couldn't do the last one and haven't been able to jump into this one yet. Will for a bit tonight, but I'm mostly waiting for release to truly dig in.
Alright, just tried dual dagger ele and damn, it is SOOO much better than what i was using before. Feels like a very fun, mobile melee class with BURNING. Havent tried out any of the other elements yet, but Ill be dropping the Necro for my ele
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Charr Engineer
Slyvari Ranger
Asura Ele
So
Charr Engineer
Slyvari Ranger
Asura Ele
With air you get riding the lightning, pretty cool spell.
Those curious about DX11 support. From the man himself:
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/tech/Direct-X10-or-11-Support/page/1#post307248
Mike O Brien said:
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/tech/Direct-X10-or-11-Support/page/1#post307248
So the Morgan's Spiral 'puzzle' is getting a lot of buzz in area chat. It took me about 3 tries, 4 if you count doing a section again cos I got lost. Yet people are agonizing over it... so being brought up on platformers has proved somewhat useful 
Finished the Sylvari starter area, well worth it: loads of crafting goods, couple of pieces of nice gear and a pretty substantial amount of coin and XP.
I love this game.
Finished the Sylvari starter area, well worth it: loads of crafting goods, couple of pieces of nice gear and a pretty substantial amount of coin and XP.
I love this game.
diffusionx
Gold Member
So how do you make money in this game? Just from crafting shit?
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Feelin' tired of the beta.
Thought that gems were kept on the account, but Retro said only gems bought with money.
SPvP still feels a bit buggy. Had the respawn load screen freeze on me three times, and many times where my finisher doesn't do anything.
Thought that gems were kept on the account, but Retro said only gems bought with money.
SPvP still feels a bit buggy. Had the respawn load screen freeze on me three times, and many times where my finisher doesn't do anything.
Late but... just FYI my gtx 560ti runs it fine on max settings. (1680x1050)
Anyone on Blackgate server and want to join up?
I'm not even playing this one (thought about it and even retrieved my G7). Got enough information and practice in BWE2. And I don't want to time sink just to lose progress. I'll study up the week before launch and then dig in.
Complistic
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So the Morgan's Spiral 'puzzle' is getting a lot of buzz in area chat. It took me about 3 tries, 4 if you count doing a section again cos I got lost. Yet people are agonizing over it... so being brought up on platformers has proved somewhat useful
Finished the Sylvari starter area, well worth it: loads of crafting goods, couple of pieces of nice gear and a pretty substantial amount of coin and XP.
I love this game.
There are a couple tricky jumps but I got it on my third try. The trick is you can't trust your characters animation. It doesn't look like it but you have full control over your character even if they're playing a fashy animation like stumbling forward.
OK, remember what I've been saying about the little rats
They are kinda cool, but just barely.What have I done?!
hi5, another Asura Necromancer present
I'm enjoying the Necromancer quite a bit, looks like I found my replacement for my Elementalist.
been playing a tourney (my first one) with some randoms and we handily win the first two game. Then comes the third match, and the enemy team completely destroyed us (something like 500 to 50 points). As soon as one of them went down, he was instantly revived by his mates - they had excellent team coordination (most certainly an arranged team with voice chat, oh well
). We were absolutely helpless.
I found lightning to be pretty weak compared to fire though. Ride the lighting was sweet, but all the other lightning spells kinda sucked
Ele was damn squishy too. My necro could kill things and actually survive decently. I mean, i had the necro kill one of those centuar captains at level 5, while my ele just got smoked at the same level
Me neither. Was too busy doing stuff with friends to really have had much time to do GAF stuff this weekend anyway; looking forward to joining the guild on release. I did see a gaffer about in Metrica though!
So every single class I've tried is fun so far. It's going to be *really* hard to decide on what to play on release, even if I'm basically decided on engie then ele.
I'm really happy with how much they sped up weapon skill learning; that was one of my few big complaints. It was taking forever to get all the ele skills.
aramanKain
Member
Sounds like he's talking about the speed jumping puzzle, which is a cave in the West central area of the sylvari starting area. I forget the exact waypoint, but it's near a fort and you just follow the river West until you get into a cave that LOOKS like a dead end, but if you jump up you'll know you are there because it's very asura looking and lava-filled.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Easy, switch to water and staff, stand by your enemy, auto-attack and afk.
cartoon_soldier
Member
Wait what? I thought the selection this time was just for BWE...the GAF server was full.
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Deleted member 17706
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No idea what previous betas were like, but the game is extremely easy up to level from what I've played. Probably the lowest difficult of any MMORPG combat I've ever played. Mobs die in less than 5 seconds unless it's a big encounter in which melee can't really participate. No death penalties really, and it's extremely easy to get around. Seems like a game for people who don't like challenge in PvE content (unless it greatly ramps up later on).
cartoon_soldier
Member
I think it all depends on event scaling
I only had an hour and leveled by Thief to level 3 or 4, but when I was level 2 the event scaling at the starter area brought out level 4 mobs and they didn't die in 5 seconds.
Before this, I was only able to participate in the first beta, sometimes you can have enough players around that mobs die just very quickly.
I also had an event in BWE 1 where I was the only player and I died because 3-4 mobs from the event attacked me.
Spazznid
Member
There's an asura doing the complete dance in the background
Call me names if this has been linked before.
Saw an npc doing a variation of this dance on youtube, but this is the player character doing the complete dance.
Call me names if this has been linked before.
Saw an npc doing a variation of this dance on youtube, but this is the player character doing the complete dance.
No, after the BWE there'll be another wipe and you'll reselect on release (or during headstart).
I meant during. Which is really sucky, since the GAF server was full. Oh well, I'll wait until headstart then...