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Guildwars 2 beta weekend!
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MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-04-26 07:53:29 UTC
SO! who's going to be there? what class do you guys think you might play? and what style of said class would you go for?

Any thoughts on the PvP, from what I've seen it seems like hitting actually matters, with ultimate abilities being things like a 3 second stun. It feel more like a Dota type game than normal wow fare. Plus I love how you basically get all of the abilities pretty quickly, because there are no level 1 skills or ulitmate skills, every one of the the 100+ skills you could get, you can only equip 5 at a time, comboed with the 5 skills your class gets for the weapon you have equipped.

But seriously, how cool is it that you can pick any ability at level 1, and it can be any skill you could ever learn. That's rad.

No mana, skill based PvP, world versus world PvP looks like a blast!

Also I'm excited to see if all of this pays off or if it's a cluster**** of confusion. We'll see this weekend! anyone up for some eve online meet ups in GW2 this weekend? Maybe see how the PvP fells in the 1000v1000v1000 WvW map feels!

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-04-26 10:37:11 UTC
I'll be activating my fursona.
Kattshiro
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-04-26 11:26:32 UTC
These keep on popping up at times where I really can't play them. Last time I got in made a character and saw the main city/tweaked the graphics...
Rikki Sals
BioLogistics
#4 - 2012-04-26 20:20:07 UTC
I'll be all over this. It's too bad it overlaps with my original plan to sit docked in Jita and watch local comedy during "Jitageddon" (if it happens).

My two main worries with that game are
-If Arenanet do something stupid with the cash shop, and
-How well their servers will be able to handle those WvWvW maps when they get really populated

It's looking promising, and with no sub I foresee myself futzing around GW2 on and off for a good long while.

Will be trying asura mesmer if they're playble this time. If not, charr or norn engineer or mesmer or warrior or... maybe all of them...

They have a pretty (hyper)active subreddit going.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2012-04-26 21:09:28 UTC
:meh:

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MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-04-26 22:46:38 UTC
well if your playing it's time to study up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrUUMVI4NqU

http://www.gw2tools.com

I like how it's non level based mmo like eve : )

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#7 - 2012-04-27 15:05:04 UTC
Hmmm ... wonder of they hype will be well deserved.

Seen so many people willing to drop everything just to play this, wonder if it will be good.

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-04-29 11:27:15 UTC
Loving it thus far. However my desire to play is tempered by my desire to not spoil much of the story line for launch. Also unfortunately without the Asura and Sylvari playable this weekend I can't narrow down my starting main. At first I had ruled out humans because they're painfully generic MMO humans, and had twice attempted a human mesmer but quit because it was boring. But then I rolled a human guardian, and was surprised at how much fun guardian was. That fun let me stick with it for the few critical hours it took for the story to take off.
Shivus Tao
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-05-01 08:51:36 UTC
I'll just leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT_PEsW0LfM

Great beta event overall. Just a few more things I want to try next time, many more things I want to try if they add in Sylvari and the UBER KAWAII DESU NE~ Asura.
MotherMoon
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2012-05-01 09:32:16 UTC  |  Edited by: MotherMoon
Yeah beta was awesome, great to finaly play a skill based mmo instead of a level based one. Was a lot of fun, got a few great kills in WvW.

I only got to level 16, so I used my one trait point to pick the 15% more speed when in air form, would use fire to deal lots of damage, and then change into air to chase them down and apply cripples so my team could catch up.

It really did feel a lot like playing a game of dota

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1206/scimi.jpg
Rikki Sals
BioLogistics
#11 - 2012-05-07 19:46:42 UTC
First BWE was sweet. WvWvW is great; reminds me of RvR in Warhammer, but bigger and better. Clusters of ppl getting slaughtered by trebuchet shots is hilarious. Looks like they have a lot of work ahead of them in client optimization. I like that their gem/gold microtransaction exchange is modeled after EVE's PLEX.

Hope it releases ASAP.
Haven Annaro
Intex Network
#12 - 2012-05-08 19:32:31 UTC
I had a fabulous time in the beta weekend event. Took me back to Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer days. Big smile