Guild Wars 2 - BWE #3: 20-22 July - Return to FORT ASPENWOOD! - Release date: 28 August!

Syphyre

All I know is that I'm not at all dissapointed for having pre-purchased this. I will be playing this game for a long glong time.

Flay

unintentional wrote: »

Flay wrote: »

Are characters reset after every beta event, or just when the game is released?

they said every event originally, i assume it hasn't changed

Okay thanks.

Mortal Sky

Will pre-buying open again after the weekend?

unintentional

Mortal Sky wrote: »

Will pre-buying open again after the weekend?

my guess is yes, they haven't said anything though

Peccavi

Oh hey, best buy is still selling the digital edition. How irresponsible am I feeling tonight?

Zay

I made a feedback thread on the forums, complaining about stuff I don't like

Peccavi

Temptation won

Oh god it's downloading!!!

Stilts

So...it's basically a terrible idea to solo instances, isn't it?

Because it seems like whenever I do them alone, it's pretty damn hard.

But when I even just have one person helping it's pretty reasonable.

George Fornby Grill

instances seriously do not seem to scale well at all.

1 person, too hard

2+ people, we run a train.

Zay

What instances have you guys done?

unintentional

in my experience it's been
1 person, even one level under the recommendation - impossible. completely impossible.
1 person, correct level - you can win by playing really boring, kiting the enemies and rolling to make distance and using ranged attacks only
2 people - fun

theSquid

I'm enjoying necromancer.

I just wish I had more direct control over my minions like you can in LoL.

My micro skills are going to waste here.

Stilts

unintentional wrote: »

in my experience it's been
1 person, even one level under the recommendation - impossible. completely impossible.
1 person, correct level - you can win by playing really boring, kiting the enemies and rolling to make distance and using ranged attacks only
2 people - fun

Yeah, pretty much my experience.

I have done a couple of the human instances and three of the Norn ones.

I've only been with other people for two of the Norn instances, and those are the only ones I've actually had fun with.

theSquid

unintentional wrote: »

in my experience it's been
1 person, even one level under the recommendation - impossible. completely impossible.
1 person, correct level - you can win by playing really boring, kiting the enemies and rolling to make distance and using ranged attacks only
2 people - fun

And that's the thing, I feel that a necro can actually solo a few instances if they could just control their minions to have a positioning advantage.

Veretas

Hey guys also be sure to post on the GW forum with all dat delicious feedback.

unintentional

i did

Zay

unintentional wrote: »

in my experience it's been
1 person, even one level under the recommendation - impossible. completely impossible.
1 person, correct level - you can win by playing really boring, kiting the enemies and rolling to make distance and using ranged attacks only
2 people - fun

Are we talking about story missions?

I found some arbitrarily harder than others

Peccavi

I'm so excited for tomorrow, when I get to complain about overflow servers and broken servers like everybody else.

theSquid

Yeah overflow thing is weird, but that's okay, I'm done with the beta for now.

I approve of Guild Wars 2.

theSquid

Although the music for Plains of Ashford is ridiculously peppy.

It makes me think of the music they'd play in 40's films during the news.

Veretas

theSquid wrote: »

Yeah overflow thing is weird, but that's okay, I'm done with the beta for now.

I approve of Guild Wars 2.

brb printing this quote out and taping it all over the office

Zay

I want to do the swamp thing but it's being all dormanty

I did read two horrible evil books though

AND I found the Temple of Ages, that was rad

Bendery It Like Beckham

unintentional wrote: »

in my experience it's been
1 person, even one level under the recommendation - impossible. completely impossible.
1 person, correct level - you can win by playing really boring, kiting the enemies and rolling to make distance and using ranged attacks only
2 people - fun

The first two thief missions I did 1level under and alone. It wasn't easy but hardly impossible. Ididnt ever die though.

Syphyre

I have to agree. Doing the first 2-3 personal Norn quests solo, at the intended level, were pretty freaking tough. I died a few times.

George Fornby Grill

the server/zone sharding is fucking abysmal. Need an easy way to switch to the same shard as your party, because fuck it takes like 10 minutes to meet up with bros to do a heart.

Stilts

So after playing a few hours of the beta with two different characters, I am...slightly less stoked about the game. Like, I still can't wait for the full version, but I'm concerned.

I liked how GW1 was heavily instanced, largely because it eliminated the annoyances I had with games like WoW and TOR and every other MMO like them. I don't want to compete with people for sidequest spawns. I want to enjoy exploring and taking in the beauty of an area without having dozens of other dudes jumping around. And when I fight through a mob, I at least don't want to be visually reminded that I'm just one of millions who are killing centaur.

Which brings me to the world events. They're a neat idea, but I'm not crazy about how many of them there are. It seems like every time I move a few dozen feet there's another world event going on. They came up so often that I went from, "Oh, hey, these are kinda cool," to "Oh God, not again." I started actively avoiding them. And, honestly, it's tough to tell if you're even doing anything useful in the world events, since there's just so much stuff filling the screen at once. Everyone is attacking all the time and there's a constant fountain of explosions and particle effects. And since I have no goddamn clue what's going on half the time, I just wade in there, mash my hotkeys randomly and hope to God that I don't get immediately targeted by the entire mob and die before I even realize I'm being attacked.

I guess if I were to sum up my issues with this new style of PvE, it's that I don't feel like I matter. I'm just one more schmuck casting fireball into an already huge stream of fireballs.

Thankfully, the story missions still give me the GW1-esque instancing that I loved, but that has the problem of being a little too brutal if I'm trying to solo it.

Veretas

Stilts wrote: »

So after playing a few hours of the beta with two different characters, I am...slightly less stoked about the game. Like, I still can't wait for the full version, but I'm concerned.

I liked how GW1 was heavily instanced, largely because it eliminated the annoyances I had with games like WoW and TOR and every other MMO like them. I don't want to compete with people for sidequest spawns. I want to enjoy exploring and taking in the beauty of an area without having dozens of other dudes jumping around. And when I fight through a mob, I at least don't want to be visually reminded that I'm just one of millions who are killing centaur.

Which brings me to the world events. They're a neat idea, but I'm not crazy about how many of them there are. It seems like every time I move a few dozen feet there's another world event going on. They came up so often that I went from, "Oh, hey, these are kinda cool," to "Oh God, not again." I started actively avoiding them. And, honestly, it's tough to tell if you're even doing anything useful in the world events, since there's just so much stuff filling the screen at once. Everyone is attacking all the time and there's a constant fountain of explosions and particle effects. And since I have no goddamn clue what's going on half the time, I just wade in there, mash my hotkeys randomly and hope to God that I don't get immediately targeted by the entire mob and die before I even realize I'm being attacked.

I guess if I were to sum up my issues with this new style of PvE, it's that I don't feel like I matter. I'm just one more schmuck casting fireball into an already huge stream of fireballs.

Thankfully, the story missions still give me the GW1-esque instancing that I loved, but that has the problem of being a little too brutal if I'm trying to solo it.

Hay so if you haven't posted this in the forum yet you should do this right now.

Stilts

Veretas wrote: »

Stilts wrote: »

So after playing a few hours of the beta with two different characters, I am...slightly less stoked about the game. Like, I still can't wait for the full version, but I'm concerned.

I liked how GW1 was heavily instanced, largely because it eliminated the annoyances I had with games like WoW and TOR and every other MMO like them. I don't want to compete with people for sidequest spawns. I want to enjoy exploring and taking in the beauty of an area without having dozens of other dudes jumping around. And when I fight through a mob, I at least don't want to be visually reminded that I'm just one of millions who are killing centaur.

Which brings me to the world events. They're a neat idea, but I'm not crazy about how many of them there are. It seems like every time I move a few dozen feet there's another world event going on. They came up so often that I went from, "Oh, hey, these are kinda cool," to "Oh God, not again." I started actively avoiding them. And, honestly, it's tough to tell if you're even doing anything useful in the world events, since there's just so much stuff filling the screen at once. Everyone is attacking all the time and there's a constant fountain of explosions and particle effects. And since I have no goddamn clue what's going on half the time, I just wade in there, mash my hotkeys randomly and hope to God that I don't get immediately targeted by the entire mob and die before I even realize I'm being attacked.

I guess if I were to sum up my issues with this new style of PvE, it's that I don't feel like I matter. I'm just one more schmuck casting fireball into an already huge stream of fireballs.

Thankfully, the story missions still give me the GW1-esque instancing that I loved, but that has the problem of being a little too brutal if I'm trying to solo it.

Hay so if you haven't posted this in the forum yet you should do this right now.

Will do!

Bucketman

See this is what I need to hear from people. I only ever played the original GW1, none of the expansions but it was such a great world and I liked not HAVING to be in a party if I didn't feel like it

Zay

Yeah I agree that it just doesn't feel that as an individual I matter, I agree with that.

I left some feedback on the forums already though! A lot of minor things I'd like to see and/or change, but I really love it for the most part.

Zay

and Veretas I've been farting around this swamp for an hour and it keeps not being awake

this event better own completely

Veretas

The Shadow Behemoth is seriously my favorite thing

World as Myth

it does

Stilts

Oh, also, I can confirm that the 2-handed-sword Guardian is, indeed, hella rad.

Zay

Do you guys know if the little island Rotwing used to chill on is in here?

I think I found it, or something that looks very similar, but it's too far to the east to be it

also I really really really love the little details, I pulled up GW1 and was comparing the Ascalon map with what I'd explored and a lot lined up and I was so happy

and I found that Balthazar statue and it was Badazar

and I found the Temple of Ages had a Kormir statue which was super rad

though I couldn't find a Balth statue at the ToA, which was weird since it was important for getting to FoW, it looked like Kormir had replaced him

anyway EVERYTHING IS COOL and this post is a really long run-on sentence

World as Myth

jaron did you ever hear from tate? I emailed him but still have not heard a peep

Stilts

Zay, you just reminded me:

I wonder if we'll get to visit Drakkar Lake. You know, the place where a dragon was trapped?

'Cuz I really hope we can.

I always thought that frozen dragon was really cool.

Bucketman

Oh man you guys are making me want to play this.

Stilts

Bucketman wrote: »

Oh man you guys are making me want to play this.

It differs from GW1 in ways I'm not too crazy about, but it's still a fun game.

I wouldn't have played it for several hours if it wasn't.

Veretas

World as Myth wrote: »

jaron did you ever hear from tate? I emailed him but still have not heard a peep

Nah, I'm sure he's okay. He's got roomies I'm pretty sure. I'll give Katy a text tomorrow to see if his phone was in her car or if she heard anything.