Grats! Got any leftovers for the scrap scroungers out there?
Yep! Depending..What do you need? Anything I have is yours, just not sure how much is left.
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Yep! Depending..What do you need? Anything I have is yours, just not sure how much is left.
Mr. Luchador
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ComputerMKII
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Dat subtle Diablo 3 trolling
Wait, what?
What?
FelixOrion
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I just hope there isn't a lot of grinding. That's one thing that I think keeps me away from MMO-style games, the others being bad computers (eh, still mediocre) and no solid group to play with (at least this time I have roommates to play with, if I get it).
I really don't want to grind and farm. Are my fears all-for-naught?
I really don't want to grind and farm. Are my fears all-for-naught?
ComputerMKII
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Yes.
Leveling Curve Theres no exponential curve. Leveling is linear and plateaus quickly. The amount of time it takes to go from 79-80 is the same as 30-31. Grind is nonexistent, with the amount of various ways you can level through any activity.
dragonflys545
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Need this game now!!!
ItAintEasy
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I remember playing in that first Beta Weekend and thinking that the game was not that great looking and now I can remember why I thought that. Looks amazing now and its only going to get better!
ArtistDude88
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I wish I never logged in for a stress test. I crave more, and 2 days can't come fast enough!
Lovely Salsa
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Did they change anything on Necro the last test?
Creating my Guardian and Ele and hopping in WvWvW with the Ele.
ComputerMKII
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It's not that it's bad, it's just completely random, depending in your CPU, your GPU, your internet connection, your Chinese star sign and your Pokémon type.
There are only three different types. You'll get used to it in no time.
Seriously All of These Things Can Get You XP in Guild Wars 2
Renown Hearts (closest thing GW2 has to traditional questing)
Dynamic/Meta Events- sometimes following an event chain will net you enough for well over an entire level's worth of XP if you follow it through.
World versus World- leveling up in PvP...? Yup. Every beneficial action you perform in WvW- killing enemy players, securing supply lines, capturing or defending a keep, all of it gets you XP.
Dungeons- replayable, can be done in either story or explorable mode, always with lots of XP
Personal Storyline- each storyline quest gets you a big ol' chunk of XP
Skill Challenges
Vistas
Daily Achievements- a set of things you can do once every day for a bunch of extra XP. I didn't know about this in time for any of the betas/stress tests, and still got enough XP from other stuff to get to ~level 20 without repeating a single event/heart, so this blew my mind.
Hidden Achievements- things like completing jumping puzzles, for instance, often get you an achievement, and those achievements get you XP.
Exploration- yes. literally JUST the exploration itself gets you XP. Go to an area you've never been before and poke around = XP. This includes cities, many of which are totally massive and have plenty of incentive to explore besides the XP. But you get it anyway.
Reviving players- taking some notes from TF2 on this one... reviving a downed player gets you more XP than killing ~10 of your average mob. Mmmm, incentivizing teamwork.
Gathering
Crafting/Cooking
oh and
Killing things- yeah, it gets you XP. But just because they couldn't even let this basic concept go without doing something awesome, allow me to explain the concept of Bonus XP: the longer a given mob has been alive in the gameworld, the more XP it is worth above baseline (you'll see a popup of Bonus XP +Whatever when you kill it). So if you go way off the beaten path to a totally unpopulated wilderness area, chances are the stuff you kill will be worth substantially more XP. Plus you can guess the relative age of creatures by how much bonus XP they're worth.
What's your 2500K running at? Chances are you'll be able to get 45-50 fps solid outside of huge WvW zergs with that setup. I haven't played the latest test though so it may be even better. The performance has been a little all over the place between the different tests.
You just need 3 tools...
And pretty much every vendor in the game has them. There's not repairing them constantly either or similar shenanigans.
Yeah. Plus they have 50 uses which is plenty.
Does gathering at a node only use it once even if you "mine" it multiple times like with ore?
Food items only use 1 charge. Wood and Ore take 3 charges. There are some minor variables on the wood and ore but they are negligible for the most part.
You're good. Come Friday night/Saturday morning you'll be able to log in and play!
This stress test:
If my eyesight is failing me, and I hope it isn't, it looks like the moss is growing on the tree bark away from the sunlight. A nice little nod to realistic flora there.
I didn't head in to the Grove in BWE3 but the previous stress test I put all the graphics down to the lowest setting and ran down in to it with a Sylvari. Was impressed at the designs. This stress test I did the same thing but with everything at max. It was intensely beautiful.
I can only begin to imagine how impressed I will be when I go through all the Norn PVE stuff I did in BWE1. I loved the aesthetics of it all in those areas so I'm hoping to adore those zones even more on Saturday.
Mr. Luchador
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Again? How big is it?
Mr. Luchador
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50mb or so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swO_JgRC9bQ
Youtube of some people running through Blazeridge to the Fields of Ruin and then into Ebonhawke.
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Another short YT I found of Flame of Citadel medium armor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIR1nnsdRoo
Youtube of some people running through Blazeridge to the Fields of Ruin and then into Ebonhawke.
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Another short YT I found of Flame of Citadel medium armor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIR1nnsdRoo
ComputerMKII
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We really need to do something about people asking that question all the time, at every single page.
Editing it in to the thread title momentarily would certainly help.
ItachiSWE
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Same as you I think, lvl to 10+, get used to my necro and bindings (Im a lefty so always have to remap), do some pve, look for dynamic events, and then try some wvwvw.
Only gripe is that the headstart is saturday morning in Sweden and not friday night but...
Cameron122
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Never been this excited for an MMO before. Feels good man.
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