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They do vary a little from race to race, and a lot for Charr and Syl's.
I think page 184 on this thread at the bottom I linked images to what armors look like on race/gender combos so you can take a look.
Ya, I saw that crap last night and did the same. I don't care how they play the game, but I believe if your character is not moving for hours at a time they should be logged out putting less stress on the server.
You know that's right. They need more beard customization too
Norn or Human? Slightly hard to tell with yours, but I'm guessing Norn.
I'm all human, baby.
Escape Goat
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If you solo a lot a Guardian is pretty useless then right? Nobody seems to coordinate or pay any attention in events. Just zerg whatevers moving, loot and leave without any other consideration.
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Installing now! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Also scored Kingdoms of Amalur for $12! This has been a great birthday so far!
birthday ruined
You're going to have a lot of people like that in the beginning. People who don't dodge, won't pay attention. Just mindless noobs.
KoA is pretty good! Unless you mean he's gonna be super sad when he finds out the company crashed and burned after making it so we'll never get any updates or sequels.
Actually Ive seen people talking that rangers can tank better than the more melee centric classes. Esp with that healing spring ability they got and a fully active pet also.
Have not gone deep into one myself, but am going off what Im mostly seeing fly through the map chat. Am sure folks here can set you straight.
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Am having problems getting mumble set up. Cant seem to connect to the server.
Interesting about the ranger. I'm not a big fan of pets but may have to try one out of they ate great at range and ok from melee.
Think I read they have the longest range attack than anybody.
The dodging mechanic is a gamechanger for sure.
Battling multiple Ettins 2 levels higher without ever getting hit just feels so right.
i thought it was 10k. hmmm
Ettins are the best. The game should begin with a level like Dark Souls where an Ettin slowly comes at you and you read "Hit V to Dodge Attacks"
Vigilant Walrus
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Have anyone tried the new 306 Nvidia drivers on their Macbook Pros? How does it run with these drivers?
IMO a untrue generalization. In some events. Yes.
There are lots of reasons. Some of them;
the event system does not know how to reward other types of participations. For example, I stopped fighting a boss, and just focused on ressurection, but this ended me with a bronze medal just because I was not dishing out damage. I was rezzing people left and right and dropping defensive banner buffs to help allies. I felt confident that I was one of the most productive people. They need to reward and encourage other types of behavior than just straight up damage.
Big fights create massive framerate drops for people, and they are simply forced to just tap between targets while moving around to hope to hit something and not get hit back. it happens a lot during escorts where its just killing fields. yellow non-hostile creatures also get killed. everything in the path of the player mob just gets attaacked.
so the lack of frames which makes the game unbearable is a cause. it becomes a "lets get the medal and get the hell out of here".
Also its simply hard to navigate and always understand the context why. it happens dynamically and they are fun, but its the opposite of SWTOR. lilttle presentation but great gameplay.
But there are also smaller events. you come across them all the time. these events require coordination. some will be failed if the escorts are not rezzed or saved or guarded. keeping something alives requires a strategy. as does making the enemy not being able to capture or steal some item or some person.
some events are about choice. I find that in many events, even when its not specified by the event text log, that i can gain completion towards event by doing non-hostile things. picking up items, pressing F on objects to activate or do something to something.
AT THE END of the day, events are more of the same. they are not here to make you kill or collect less. they just removed the social barriers provided by traditional quests. this is not your great story or skyrim imersion part 2. instead its just an excuse to kill things with friends. thats all we could expect.
Some events repeat so fast that the "changing world" falls short. sometimes at least.
IMO I have become surprised about myself. I am being more of a completionist. the hardest content besides ascalon catacombs have been the jumping puzzles. the one in lions arch took me one and a half hour. the part in complete darkness was insane. I had to use the highlight from my bladestorm to find the pillars. jesus.
I find great satisfaction in doing 100% in zones. i got 100% in LA, Divinitys reach, queensdale, norn starting zone. Some zones are bugged. there is a PoI in kessex hills it wont give to me.
the rewards are great to. as are the daily achievement rewards. The game rewards me a lot. I like it. the daily kill variety is great. it even counts lvl 1 critters.
IMO a untrue generalization. In some events. Yes.
There are lots of reasons. Some of them;
the event system does not know how to reward other types of participations. For example, I stopped fighting a boss, and just focused on ressurection, but this ended me with a bronze medal just because I was not dishing out damage. I was rezzing people left and right and dropping defensive banner buffs to help allies. I felt confident that I was one of the most productive people. They need to reward and encourage other types of behavior than just straight up damage.
Big fights create massive framerate drops for people, and they are simply forced to just tap between targets while moving around to hope to hit something and not get hit back. it happens a lot during escorts where its just killing fields. yellow non-hostile creatures also get killed. everything in the path of the player mob just gets attaacked.
so the lack of frames which makes the game unbearable is a cause. it becomes a "lets get the medal and get the hell out of here".
Also its simply hard to navigate and always understand the context why. it happens dynamically and they are fun, but its the opposite of SWTOR. lilttle presentation but great gameplay.
But there are also smaller events. you come across them all the time. these events require coordination. some will be failed if the escorts are not rezzed or saved or guarded. keeping something alives requires a strategy. as does making the enemy not being able to capture or steal some item or some person.
some events are about choice. I find that in many events, even when its not specified by the event text log, that i can gain completion towards event by doing non-hostile things. picking up items, pressing F on objects to activate or do something to something.
AT THE END of the day, events are more of the same. they are not here to make you kill or collect less. they just removed the social barriers provided by traditional quests. this is not your great story or skyrim imersion part 2. instead its just an excuse to kill things with friends. thats all we could expect.
Some events repeat so fast that the "changing world" falls short. sometimes at least.
IMO I have become surprised about myself. I am being more of a completionist. the hardest content besides ascalon catacombs have been the jumping puzzles. the one in lions arch took me one and a half hour. the part in complete darkness was insane. I had to use the highlight from my bladestorm to find the pillars. jesus.
I find great satisfaction in doing 100% in zones. i got 100% in LA, Divinitys reach, queensdale, norn starting zone. Some zones are bugged. there is a PoI in kessex hills it wont give to me.
the rewards are great to. as are the daily achievement rewards. The game rewards me a lot. I like it. the daily kill variety is great. it even counts lvl 1 critters.
Real life duties are gonna keep me away from the game for a couple of days. I am really happy with the game so far, at level 45 with my engineer. The personal story quests have gotten better and the world design continues to impress. The world is insanely fun to explore. I'll probably hit level 80 sometime early next week but there is plenty of content to keep me busy with alts and post-80 skill point farming. I haven't done much WvW either (I did a good deal in BWEs), mostly because the PVE world is so good.
My only concern is the reuse of mobs in higher level areas. I don't mind it so much, but I could see people getting sick of fighting centaurs and bandits again in mid and high level zones.
My only concern is the reuse of mobs in higher level areas. I don't mind it so much, but I could see people getting sick of fighting centaurs and bandits again in mid and high level zones.
Vigilant Walrus
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i should have started in defense. i feel squishy. when you buy the next manual at lvl 40 from your trainer you get to relocate all your points. if you wanna melee get the defense up to start with. i used rifle way to much.
I know I should probably find this out for myself, but I've been crazy busy lately (only managed to long on once since the head start and that was to reserve my name..) so I'm deferring to the Right Honourable Lord GAF.
Have engineers improved much since the closed beta? That was the last time I managed to play one and while I loved the look/flavour of the profession, it felt incredibly underpowered.
Have engineers improved much since the closed beta? That was the last time I managed to play one and while I loved the look/flavour of the profession, it felt incredibly underpowered.
Talk to Wallach on that one. He loves the damn class so much I think he's gonna marry his Norn. heh.
this. so bad.
thetrin
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That's the sad thing about GB. They have huge blind spots in their coverage.
No. And I'll tell you why. The event says to do a specific task. Stop an enemy. Bring back certain items. If you don't participate in the way the event states, you don't get credit. Rezzing people is only going to help them get a better participation. You should rez them, then go right back to nuking. Other people will rez as well, don't worry. It's not your job.
BattleMonkey
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Damnit. The beta nvidia drivers fixed up the game but whatever new patch was deployed recently completely revered any improvements the beta drivers had and now back to the game getting stuck at 5-10fps. Fucking unplayable pos
I have the feeling they entice users to the site because of how "cool" they think they are.
thetrin
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I need to sell my wealth of logs and leather I'm collecting but not using, time to hit the TP if it's up!
I love their videos when they're talking about something they know anything about, but for game journalists, their knowledge of games is....lacking.
I love their videos when they're talking about something they know anything about, but for game journalists, their knowledge of games is....lacking.
quoted for new page. Has this happened to anyone else?
aliencowz7
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Someone keeps trying to invite me to the gaf guild but its not letting me accept it.
ArtistDude88
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Yay orange! Hopefully the market will stay up long enough for me to get the money for my Tier 1 helm (not that it's very noticeable anyways).
SHARE YOUR SECRETS. I just wish my items wouldn't disappear.
Im looking forward to unloading my wares on the trading post. I need cash (for mats i can use)
Just finished the Weyandt's Revenge jumping puzzle, Anet are pure evil.
The jumping isn't too bad but the darkness section. Oh god i wanted to kill whoever made that. Absolute pitch blackness.
Thankfully a bunch were going through it including a nice engineer who used his flamethrower to help us out. My lava font also helped near the end when the engineer had gotten to the end of it before us.
Still, we were able to do it without a death outside of my initial attempt to jump into the caverns.
The jumping isn't too bad but the darkness section. Oh god i wanted to kill whoever made that. Absolute pitch blackness.
Thankfully a bunch were going through it including a nice engineer who used his flamethrower to help us out. My lava font also helped near the end when the engineer had gotten to the end of it before us.
Still, we were able to do it without a death outside of my initial attempt to jump into the caverns.
Out_Of_Ammo
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Can you get minis in other ways besides buying them with gems?
Black market Chests I believe.... not sure.
aliencowz7
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Same thing happened to me, first one didn't even bring up the join option but the second one did but it didn't do anything.
Uhhh dunno what to tell you on that, I just tried it myself and had no issues!Google docs File-Download doesn't work...
you can change traits at any time for like 1 silver (just talk to a profession trainer)
also, the Asura jumping puzzles is a nightmare
Out_Of_Ammo
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Hmm I hope so. I loved those little guys in gw1 but I won't be buying gems just to buy them (especially if they're random).
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