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Guild Wars 2 |OT| Buy Once, Sub Never, Fun Forever
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Necromanti
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I had to wait 3 and a half hours a day ago to get into WvW. I wonder how much worse it's going to get once everyone starts playing.
Now stop fighting, you two.
I got past my initial grumbling over home server issues, and played all day yesterday till level 20 with my sylvari thief. I think those RPS impressions are pretty much exactly inline with what I experienced the game sometimes makes it extremely hard to play with your friends on this early weekend. Hopefully that stuff sorts itself out over the coming weeks.
But on the other hand, in a crowded zone, it's really a lot of fun to be ganging up with huge groups of players to work together on an event. I doubt it'll have the same impact later in the game's life when you're banging out the same quests with just a couple of people.
But on the other hand, in a crowded zone, it's really a lot of fun to be ganging up with huge groups of players to work together on an event. I doubt it'll have the same impact later in the game's life when you're banging out the same quests with just a couple of people.
flyinpiranha
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Holy shit! 3.5 hours? It's going to be unplayable once the official launch happens.
You buy them with skill points.
And they are ''bundles'' or actually kits, they replace your real weapons.
razgriz417
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IMO
Staff is a must and then if you're going conditionmancer, I suggest Scepter/Dagger as your second set
Necromanti
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To be fair, it took an hour the first time... Then I got disconnected after a few minutes and I had to re-queue.
I think I just have rotten luck.
Dead Prince
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i've dual wield sword for my mesmer and other hand is a sceptor. sword is nice especially with his skills and all. not bad if you are playing with others.
flyinpiranha
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He said he wanted to PVP which you can go straight to, he doesn't need to do the shit he's talking about, even Hawkian was letting him know. But w/e ... I'm more concerned about the WvW que honesty. 3.5 hours is insane! Especially since it's not even the "big rush" yet from the initial launch.
No they aren't real weapons. They are Skills you spend skill points on to unlock. I think Grenade and Bomb are both in Tier 2 of the skills.
Switching to the kits / bundles gives you 5 new attacks obviously along with the toolbelt ability.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Oh dear god I just bought 20$ worth of gems.
Not that the game doesn't have glaring PvE faults, but leveling is fairly-set your own pace when it comes to the heart events. If I have anything to complain about on that front, it's that combat gets a bit stale. There's like 2-3 skills per weapon swap that you just go through, so sometimes there's periods where you just sit there waiting for your cooldowns to end. When you have only 5 abilities to work with (not counting the 6-10 skills, which are either passive, situationally useful, or on restrictive CDs), some of which aren't necessary or effective in PvE, any cooldown beyond 10 seconds is incredibly mind-numbing. This is only sort of exacerbated by the leveling curve, which ensures that you pretty much are limited to this type of PvE for hours.
Even the initiative-based thief doesn't really circumvent this problem, and the engineer doesn't have access to all his kits until a later level (and reading up, you wouldn't use most of them because optimal play requires the use of other skills). I don't feel necromancers and warriors aren't worth mentioning in this regard. From a concept standpoint, elementalists might be right up my alley, since attunement switching and combo-fielding might guarantee at least some degree of frantic button-pushing action.
So I find myself just chilling and exploring areas on my Guardian for now. I might be unusual that I prefer the jump puzzles to the combat.
If he wants to do WvW, then it does matter.
Ok, I'm kind of stuck when it comes to jewel crating. I crafted pretty much every earring and ring combo for the starter jewels (garnet, pearl, turquoise, amber etc.), and I'm not a high enough level for the more rarer jewels I've been finding (level 37 crafting). So uh, how do I level up my jewel crafting now? I can't make any more crafting components besides the copper ones.
I also upgraded my thief so he can have the shadowstep ability that's not tied to attacks. It's pretty great, and you can take some shortcuts up mountains or other frustrating areas as well.
I also upgraded my thief so he can have the shadowstep ability that's not tied to attacks. It's pretty great, and you can take some shortcuts up mountains or other frustrating areas as well.
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Depend on how fast your computer is
Mine is too slow for it, get like 12 fps whenever I am doing WvWvW. I just wish spvp would give karma and exp also, or at least some crafting materials.
flyinpiranha
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How so?
nicoga3000
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Jump puzzles remind me of the old Maple Story jump quests, except that now they're actually completable. MS jump quests were, simply put, the worst thing EVER.
Necromanti
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I heard that it's closed for now, and that they'll reopen it once the game officially launches. Don't know if the situation has changed, though.
Man, my framerate is terrible in the Black Citadel. I get like 40-60 FPS everywhere else, but it crawls there. Was fine in WvWvW, too. So glad I didn't make a Charr character.Depend on how fast your computer is
Mine is too slow for it, get like 12 fps whenever I am doing WvWvW.
Just grinding cheap rings until you get to 75 for the next refinement (silver ore)
EDIT: Also buy food or boosts so you can level up quicker.
TheContact
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this doesn't sound like the right game for you
Thanks, I'll keep a closer eye on things today and tomorrow as we near launch.
Necromanti
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You can discover new recipes in the Discovery pane, as well. That's how I leveled up to 70 in no time.
You're right, this game only has PvE and PvE only has events and discovering.
Oh dear god I just bought 20$ worth of gems.
I bought that much just to give further thanks to Anet for this amazing game. Really happy with GW2 right now, aside from a few things.
Those queues are ridiculous. So much demand. Anet staff must working around the clock.
Just means you can get through that other 60 percent that much quicker!
I do need the trading post active as well. Really would speed some things up.
If you can get in, its a freaking blast.
If you go solo, Id recommend finding a group of people to follow along with (not necessarily party), but having folks you know to party with makes it 100x better.
Guild invites are bugged atm, so the officers closed the signups until its fixed and they can invite reliably :/
99.999% if the people in this thread do not give a shit if you powerlevel, prefer PVE,PVP or walks in the rain. Much less reading about it for 2 pages
edit: that is also directed at people telling you how you should play
The more people around me the more I hate my Warrior. Trying to stay within melee range of a boss is a death sentence with a group of people. Too many effects all over the boss and the boss swapping targets every split second watching him turn in every which direction at once makes it impossible to avoid incoming attacks. Ranged weaponry is good for the Warrior but not as exciting as a Ranger and most certainly not as flavorful as an Ele.
I haven't gotten past 10 on any of my toons. DEs are just clusterfucks waiting to happen. They were "epic" for the first few times ... now when I see a DE pop up I'm like "ugh... not this shit again". Its quite depressing since this is a "hook" for the game and I have to put up with this for 80 levels.
I like the idea that everyone is working with each other but its too big of a non-streamlined mess.
I haven't gotten past 10 on any of my toons. DEs are just clusterfucks waiting to happen. They were "epic" for the first few times ... now when I see a DE pop up I'm like "ugh... not this shit again". Its quite depressing since this is a "hook" for the game and I have to put up with this for 80 levels.
I like the idea that everyone is working with each other but its too big of a non-streamlined mess.
Agreed, I experienced that while in beta weekends, thats why I rolled a ranged class now. It's a fundamental problem of the game so I don't think there is an easy fix for that. For now, if you wanna go in againt a boss or big mob, keep dodging a lot and build tanky.
flyinpiranha
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Yeah, Warrior is tough when playing against the huge boss battles. I'll just jump out and shoot my bow, roll in, get a couple hits then roll out.
They definitely have to work on the bosses to be a little more melee friendly. I've really enjoyed them once I realized my role isn't to just stand there and beat on them, but taking away what I feel is 90% of my class with a majority of the bigger bosses is pretty ridiculous IMO.
I do enjoy them though, it's kind of cool having to switch up to a completely different playstyle but I'd rather have my melee be viable without getting one-shot.
They definitely have to work on the bosses to be a little more melee friendly. I've really enjoyed them once I realized my role isn't to just stand there and beat on them, but taking away what I feel is 90% of my class with a majority of the bigger bosses is pretty ridiculous IMO.
I do enjoy them though, it's kind of cool having to switch up to a completely different playstyle but I'd rather have my melee be viable without getting one-shot.
New Nvidia beta drivers out... unfortunately they offer no improvements.
Any others with SLI setups getting some text and icon glitches? For example the neogaf emblem on the guild page is flickering. It goes away once I turn SLI. Also the race selection screen runs at 10 FPS for some reason.
Any others with SLI setups getting some text and icon glitches? For example the neogaf emblem on the guild page is flickering. It goes away once I turn SLI. Also the race selection screen runs at 10 FPS for some reason.
I like the premise of it, the new take on levelling but I also feel the progression curve is utterly broken. It doesn't feel like a natural levelling progression or said better, smooth XP curve. That's what is stressing me out is, you can complete most mapped out events before even reaching 20% of the level set for that area - The rest is dynamic events that differ so wildly in speed of completion, fun and sometimes they just start when you are in the middle of something else, then when you finally want to do it you need to sit around waiting for it.
I hate that feeling of getting 2 bars in a split second and then 40 minutes can pass where you can the most scraped, pitiful XP that is barely worth your time. I furiously look over the map again and again, and again to find what next even I can run to that'll give me the next pitiful amount of XP and then ALL OF A SUDDEN you find a dynamic event and sometimes, only sometimes it's a good event that will earn you decent XP. Others it's about running around the same quarry for 20-30 minutes seeing a super slow progression bar because it only really moves significantly when you kill, pick up, drop something off ... Not the other players.
And it's also just the areas just doesn't seem to hold enough XP as their level range implies. Believe the step is 15-25 where the entrance areas start off low and as you progress is gets higher. I can barely get 4 levels in the entire zone, let alone 10 before I need to visit other starting zones, and scrounge around the world for more XP. I hate that stressful feeling of having to area jump constantly ... It all feels like vanilla WoW right now.
Don't get me wrong, despite what I said out of frustration, I like the system at heart but right now the execution is frustrating, slow and wildly inconsistent. You don't have that "Yeah, I'll make some progress today, enjoy the game and get to level 25!" more like "Shit, can I even get to 20?"
But I'm enjoying the other big part of the game, PvP and WvWvW is both fun and can yield good XP. ( 3 levels in the last 2 hours, +- )
Yes, that is important. Jump in, do your combos while keep moving and when you run out of dodge meter retreat. Use ranged weapons until your CDs refresh and your dodge bar fills up.
anyone know some good GW2 fansites? Either something like http://www.wowhead.com/ (database) or http://wow.joystiq.com/ (just random stuff, guides, blog posts, etc)
Sir Abacus
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Just found a way to get like 1200 XP every 3-4 minute ( Level 21 ), without doing anything pretty much besides using auto walk
You're not using that small cave out in the corner of The Bloodlands in Gendarran Fields are you? Because Arenanet know about it, it's on their list to patch and there's rumors about everything from 3 day suspensions to rollbacks as punishment.
Necromanti
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It also doesn't help that the Citadel happens to be somewhat sprawling in nature, having instances and staircases and so forth everywhere. Very disorientating for a wandering Norn such as myself.
Really makes me appreciate the layout of Hoelbrak, even if it is a bit plain in some respects.I wonder if it's possible for characters to get more stamina so they can dodge more often, because being able to only dodge twice isn't sufficient (IMO) if you are to be a melee tank, especially if dodges interrupt your attack.
Gw2guru for general info. For databases there is gw2db and guildhead, but they are not very good right now.
No, just following Dolyaks that have been bunched up, so I can get the 'delivery' reward from them both on their ( short ) supply run
flyinpiranha
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Exactly, it's just really different from other MMO's where you are limited to your class abilities which in the case of melee ... was melee. At least here I can still get Gold while doing this. Plus a Charr rolling in and out of battle is entertaining to watch.
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