Racials are deactivated in PVP so one race doesn't dominate over the others (See Will of the Forsaken, Shadowmeld, etc.)
Kodan are a possibility. Who doesn't want to play as a giant polar bear? Plus, look at their awesome city/sanctuary.
Engineer / Rifle:
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So out of 5 abilities, how many are actually worth spamming all the time? I only see Hip Shot (The one that's meant to be spammed). Outside of the optimal conditions for Blunderbuss, even that one falls away. Most of the other classes have setups just like this, where abilities do more than just damage.
I noticed this in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMmtrJk1a0M Yogscast video too. They cover enough area to come across 3 renown hearts yet there were no dynamic events going on. There's just one at the end that is presumably triggered by the renown heart quest they did.So I finally pulled myself away from the game. I really liked what I played. One thing I did notice is that I didn't see too many dynamic events going on versus finding renown hearts, it could just be because I was in the starter (1-15) area.
mystic mining pick which says extremely efficient at gathering resources and uncovering rare components
Was there a limit on how many times you could use this? The Yogscast guy bought a better pickaxe in one of the videos and I noticed it only had 25 charges. Was wondering if this was the same deal.
I noticed this in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMmtrJk1a0M Yogscast video too. They cover enough area to come across 3 renown hearts yet there were no dynamic events going on. There's just one at the end that is presumably triggered by the renown heart quest they did.
I'm starting to get a little concerned about the dynamic event system. They initially made it seem as if events would constantly be happening with chains going back and forth. It seems like most events just pop a vendor up and the cool chains have been moved to the less common meta-events. There also seems to be a lot repetition to the events that occur where initially they made it seem as if that would be rare. Yes I know.. starting area... beta.. blah blah blah... Still something to keep an eye on though.
Are racial abilities only disallowed in structured PvP? Can you slot them in WvW?
I would have to assume something must trigger a dynamic event. They don't happen non stop - I do remember in previous beta that events were made to trigger quicker to show off some of the epicness. People have to do a long chain of small quests throughout a region to cause major alterations to that region.
I would have to assume something must trigger a dynamic event. They don't happen non stop - I do remember in previous beta that events were made to trigger quicker to show off some of the epicness. People have to do a long chain of small quests throughout a region to cause major alterations to that region.
I would have to assume something must trigger a dynamic event. They don't happen non stop - I do remember in previous beta that events were made to trigger quicker to show off some of the epicness. People have to do a long chain of small quests throughout a region to cause major alterations to that region.Perhaps the 2nd event in that chain is failed and it reverts to the previous event. Causing repetition.
Things like towns getting attacked by centaurs/bandits/zombies shouldn't really need a trigger though. Those things should just happen and if no one's around then the town gets over run triggering a different event. At least that's the initial impression i got when hearing about the system.
Except here, in this case, l2p is the best acronym to use. The game is entirely different from what you know. So learning how to actually use what it's giving you makes sense.
It's the way it should work, yeah. I have no idea how deep that goes in the starting area though, or if they're mostly isolated events until later levels.
I know a developer did comment in the last press beta weekend that the chained events aren't always obvious. One example he gave was people not following the water pipe to check out why the watering system on a farm wasn't working after clearing the farm of worms or whatever was on it. If players had looked into it they would have come upon an event related to the farm they were just on.
I honestly skimmed over the race descriptions and picked the ones that aren't outright enemies of the other races, because I just don't know enough of the lore. The lone Hylek in Ghosts of Ascalon seemed intelligent enough, and we've seen that they'll be friendly in GW2, at least during that fight with the "Small" swamp dragon. However, I think they might be too disorganized or tribal to be a player race.Hmm, all of those races would be interesting to see, but along the current playable races they may seem a little out of place.
Kodan are a possibility. Who doesn't want to play as a giant polar bear? Plus, look at their awesome city/sanctuary.
also i wanna point out normal monsters and even bosses have a chance of dropping equip bags, i just got one from an event boss, its an orange leather bag with 5 slots. you can take them off any time.
I think when people are complaining about "spamming 1" this is what they're referring to not that there's no auto attack or that they didn't know you could toggle an ability to make it automatic. Its that the other abilities are too situational that ultimately you end up "spamming 1" most of the time to kill the mob. Sure there's also utility skills but depending on what you pick those tend to have longer cooldowns and just as situational.
25 uses it has
I'd assume you could since WvW seems more like an anything goes kind of pvp vs structured.
Yeah, you can harvest any resource without a tool, so it sounds like the tools are there to just give you a higher chance to get rare materials or extra resources when you harvest. I can see myself hoarding these until I do harvesting runs.
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression you could gather any resource, you just needed the tools to be equipped.(it seemed like there were allocated slots for each tool in the character equpment. And those could be bought from vendors.
Stop complaining guys, you are just bad at the game because it isn't WoW.
Like I said yesterday, the game has and will continue to get a free pass on any negative aspects by far too many people without so much as a second thought.
I was able to harvest right away but I didn't check if I had tools for them. I know they give you a starter underwater weapon so maybe it's the same way, maybe not. I'll have to check maybe tomorrow if I get to play some more
Are you sure about that? I was under the impression you could gather any resource, you just needed the tools to be equipped.(it seemed like there were allocated slots for each tool in the character equpment. And those could be bought from vendors.
You get nice little exp bonuses from harvesting and from achievements. My first harvest gave me an achievement and a little treasure chest appeared behind me that I could loot for exp. Was pretty cool. Also some mobs drop exp orbs
Some posts breaching the NDA here and there probably aren't that bad, but making a whole thread dedicated to it is downright stupid.I have a few issues with the game so far and they are akin to some of the complaints I've heard here. I thought we'd have a community thread by now to talk about that stuff though.
Some posts breaching the NDA here and there probably aren't that bad, but making a whole thread dedicated to it is downright stupid.
What else would be the purpose of a new thread? Also, I'm pretty sure we got Arenanet staff posting here.What makes you assume the whole thread would be dedicated to only that? At least it's private.
I have a few issues with the game so far and they are akin to some of the complaints I've heard here. I thought we'd have a community thread by now to talk about that stuff though.
What makes you assume the whole thread would be dedicated to only that? At least it's private.
What else would be the purpose of a new thread? Also, I'm pretty sure we got Arennet staff posting here.
Community threads are no longer private, and can be viewed by the public.
I was unaware of that change. Good to know.
What else would be the purpose of a new thread? Also, I'm pretty sure we got Arenanet staff posting here.
The absolute worst impression given to new players, I think, is when you loot a mystic chest. You're redirected to the cash shop when you try to open it, suggesting you buy the key to open it.
You could buy keys from people with gold, sure. But it's kind of a bad first impression on the game itself. People aren't going to know that.
The absolute worst impression given to new players, I think, is when you loot a mystic chest. You're redirected to the cash shop when you try to open it, suggesting you buy the key to open it.
You could buy keys from people with gold, sure. But it's kind of a bad first impression on the game itself. People aren't going to know that.
Yeah, that's a little irritating. I think we all pretty much came to the same conclusion that the worst items in the Cash Shop leak were the Mystic keys and the Megaphone, and I'm sorry to saywe were more or less right. Mystic Chests are going to be the big "Buy Gems Now!" item.
Still, it comes with the subscription-free nature of the game and when you look at what other games do with their cash shops, it could have been a lot worse.
That Mystic chests don't appear to give any kind of gameplay bonuses beyond simple hour-long buffs yet, so I think we're still safely clear of any "Play 2 Win" argument. Not that people won't lose their shit over it anyways.
Looking around at the various other forums, it really seems like the mood has turned around from earlier today. Early it was all doom and gloom from the few, now it seems the good impressions are coming out. Though a common saying is early level PvE does seem kind of boring. It would be nice if they try to head this off and throw people right into some cool dynamic event to start off or something.
Edit:Actually had that same exact issue with the Tera beta. I tried it out a little and couldn't get a single character past level 10. The early game was just boring same old kill x amount of people, which would have been fine, but they had you kill the same exact things over and over. Also battle system really didn't seem any different, would have been a little better if you could move and attack. Just didn't seem natural to have the feel of an fps type action game but then you stand there and swing a sword then move and swing again.
PvE is not the games strongest trait, that's for sure.
Questing is less 'go to this hub, get 8 quests, and quest around the hub' now and more 'run to this hub, do many things to fill a bar up, then move to the next hub once the bar is filled up'. Every hub has an big event that happens at a set interval.
PvP seems to be the focus. And that isn't a surprise to anyone I'm sure.
PvE is not the games strongest trait, that's for sure.
Questing is less 'go to this hub, get 8 quests, and quest around the hub' now and more 'run to this hub, do many things to fill a bar up, then move to the next hub once the bar is filled up'. Every hub has an big event that happens at a set interval.
PvP seems to be the focus. That probably doesn't shock anyone though.
This is all stuff we knew before, too. The videos just made it seem different I guess.
I really don't think pay to win will ever come into question, but people will see the possibility and freak.
Though a common saying is early level PvE does seem kind of boring. It would be nice if they try to head this off and throw people right into some cool dynamic event to start off or something.
Yeah, it has me a little worried on how it plays out. But part of me wonders if it may change with more players playing. With dynamic events it seems like there are a lot of things that are easy to miss that can lead to big events. I wonder if the small player count in a beta is maybe lending to less dynamic things happening and more of just the same stuff happening over and over.
With less players you probably have less people exploring and more people just following the flow of other players around them and what not. If they really do have as many hearts and dynamic events in the game as they say I can't see them just holding them all back for later levels.
I wouldn't even call them 'hubs' really, but I don't have a better word to use either.
Yeah, it has me a little worried on how it plays out. But part of me wonders if it may change with more players playing. With dynamic events it seems like there are a lot of things that are easy to miss that can lead to big events. I wonder if the small player count in a beta is maybe lending to less dynamic things happening and more of just the same stuff happening over and over.
This is why all of these NDA leaks are more frustrating than anything; we're getting info from an incomplete game with all of these unknowns about the population, server set-up, etc. from unreliable sources that may be bringing their own bias to the info they're disseminating. I'm sure ArenaNet feels the same way, which is why we're seeing such radical steps as the watermark wallpaper.
Kodan are a possibility. Who doesn't want to play as a giant polar bear? Plus, look at their awesome city/sanctuary.
Not sure what thread you have been reading. All of your posts, about how negativity is ignored in this thread and met with fanboi responses, have been answered pretty nicely and completely and continue to be ignored by you. But go ahead and continue to drop in on occasion and say how the thread continues to give a "free pass" to things that have been known to be wrong for a very long time.
with a straight face.People are trying to find fault with the game because of their ineptitudes at playing it, and that's just sad.
It's a given at this point; some people are just trained by crap like Allods to see "Cash shop" and mentally process it as "Pay 2 Win".
Before you even leave the human starting instance, you face down a giant.. um... thing.
I think it's just a case of the game starting off slow and introducing elements slowly. It's quite the double-edged sword; on one hand, it's not giving you a ton of crap to do right off the bat so it seems boring. On the other hand, people need time to learn the nuances of the game like Dodging and such.
This is why all of these NDA leaks are more frustrating than anything; we're getting info from an incomplete game with all of these unknowns about the population, server set-up, etc. from unreliable sources that may be bringing their own bias to the info they're disseminating. I'm sure ArenaNet feels the same way, which is why we're seeing such radical steps as the watermark wallpaper.
I've said it twice, and it's true here as much as it is elsewhere. You have folk like Retro, who can make a decent enough argument even if he could make the same points, just as effective, in a fraction of the words, but at the same time you have others that can say shit like this:
with a straight face.
Someone, not in Beta, telling people, who are, that their concerns about the combat are misplaced because they need to learn how to play. Not even going to comment on the "my buddy in Beta said" shit. There were legitimate concerns raised and moderately decent discussion surrounding them in the initial reddit post that stirred the nest. Keep in mind that reddit has had a huge boner for GW2 for a while now. Dismissing all of this with a "I don't know/think that they're really in Beta...", "They just need to L2P", "This isn't WoW/etc." or the ever-present "It's ONLY BETA" just makes me want to close the tab and move along.
I've said it twice, and it's true here as much as it is elsewhere. You have folk like Retro, who can make a decent enough argument even if he could make the same points, just as effective, in a fraction of the words, but at the same time you have others that can say shit like this:
with a straight face.
Someone, not in Beta, telling people, who are, that their concerns about the combat are misplaced because they need to learn how to play. Not even going to comment on the "my buddy in Beta said" shit. There were legitimate concerns raised and moderately decent discussion surrounding them in the initial reddit post that stirred the nest. Keep in mind that reddit has had a huge boner for GW2 for a while now. Dismissing all of this with a "I don't know/think that they're really in Beta...", "They just need to L2P", "This isn't WoW/etc." or the ever-present "It's ONLY BETA" just makes me want to close the tab and move along.
Some posts breaching the NDA here and there probably aren't that bad, but making a whole thread dedicated to it is downright stupid.
Thing is, the population might be 'small' but it's like the first day of an MMO release. People everywhere. I'm not sure if that's the issue or not.
Indeed. :-/ NDA is frustrating. I think it solves less problems than it creates. No NDA and you get a clear idea of the game, problems and everything. Strict NDA and you get murky information and the problems are the ones that will stick out.
For fucking real.
This most definitely is not WoW. That can't be said enough imo. "Well...it's a little like WoW." No. Not at all.
Some people don't want their hype bubble pierced. They'll defend it to the end. But they're also a bit right to defend it until they see for themselves.
I think that the NDA is there to keep unfinished game footage and info from being spread around, but that the reality of the internet and gamers today is that everyone is just going to ignore that anyways. I don't think the info that has been leaked so far emphasizes problems (at least, the leaks I've seen), but without the developers there to comment on the info we just don't know what's working as intended, broken, being re-iterated, or (and this is very important) purposely withheld. Remember, the Press event is playing a completely different build of the game than those who signed up for the Beta event.
This most definitely is not WoW. That can't be said enough imo. "Well...it's a little like WoW." No. Not at all.
Some people don't want their hype bubble pierced. They'll defend it to the end. But they're also a bit right to defend it until they see for themselves.
