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But now you want your character's build to be more damage based. So you go for armor that has +15 strength and + 5 vitality. So then, that armor is "stronger" for your personal build/playstyle, but it's not "stronger" than my normal lvl 80 armor. It's just different.
Basically, you will not wave your e-peen around with stuff that outclasses everyone in this game.
You WILL wave it around with stuff that might look awesome though!
So yeah, GW2 is about personal skill and how you play the role you assigned yourself, it's not (thankfully) about wasting your life away on "the best item OMGZ"
Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?"
There is no endgame. The game is the endgame. The entire damn game is there to be played.
Levels basically mean nothing, they just put them in cause the WoW crowd couldn't understand a game without levels in it.
You make your own goals, you work towards what you want.
Even explorable dungeons aren't "end game". You do them if you want to, not because you have to.
Want that cool looking armor? Do the dungeon! Want to make your own unique armor? Become a master crafter! Want to find all the hearts? Explore! Jump puzzles, hidden secrets, PvP, it's all there.
DO NOT THINK IN WoW TERMS. It's the worst mistake you can make and just confuses the shit out of you.
@Xagar thanks. I'll look more into those.
I think they will. I was furious at the look of some of the armour available endgame SW:TOR.
Leveling is basically just there to pace your character and give you time to learn the traits and skills as they're available. Maxxing out your character so you can go anywhere will also feel good. Otherwise progression is pretty open ended.
it was mostly just so I'd only have to roll a d8 and not try to find my d6s
Just Finished: Borderlands (waste of $7)/Mario Brothers U/The Last Story/Tropico 4
Currently Playing: NS2/ZombiU/PlanetSide 2/Ys/Dota2/Xenoblade Chronicles
On Hold: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within/GW2/Scribblenauts
Coming Next: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones/X-Com Classic
There is a serious deficit of bullshit to deal with and the barrier to just playing a bit is very low. Instead of playing a lot and maxxing your character out the game is more about selecting the right gear, traits and weapons for your play style and then developing tactics that will make you succeed.
I don't want to be crazy mc huge dude who for some reason can kill a man in two strikes instead of 4 because his new blade is kinda sharper, I guess?
I want to just be awesome and run around and have fun. Maybe do some of the hard challenges and get a cool looking item that everyone will ask me about.
Or just design a cool look with crafted items and walk around the world solving problems!
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Deathbringer
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mallyx's_Hatred
Basically, as Greens ('Unique') the stats are 'maxed' out ahead of time and cannot be changed. The first one can be found fairly early in the Nightfall campaign as a boss drop (which are typically not too hard to farm) in an explorable area. The second is from the end boss of the Domain of Anguish, an Elite area that basically wipes the floor with people who come in unprepared. The differnece between the two is purely down to appearance and stat distribution. Which is 'better' for you would depend purely on your loadout (and in fact neither is that great for Dervishes IMO
You'll also notice that the stats of both scythes can be replicated, the advantage being that the Greens have preset 'perfect' (20% chance) stats rather than having to buy the components from other players.
I don't know how much of this will be the same in GW2, but everything at least sounds like they're sticking to the same overall goals.
In GW1 I went through about 5 max level scythes before settling on a primary one, and the more hardcore of any class would carry multiple weapons to swap between (F1-F4 were bound to weapon slots...F5 too? can't remember) on the fly depending on situation.
Just Finished: Borderlands (waste of $7)/Mario Brothers U/The Last Story/Tropico 4
Currently Playing: NS2/ZombiU/PlanetSide 2/Ys/Dota2/Xenoblade Chronicles
On Hold: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within/GW2/Scribblenauts
Coming Next: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones/X-Com Classic
So you could run around in the lowest level looking armor but with max stats.
So with that in mind, could we please stop posting in this thread. My hype-boner is near critical stage, and I'm not sure how much more I can endure without series complications.
(Actually allergies are killing me and I need to get some sleep before servers come up but I can't breathe)
Well, I got a bad virus, and I wanted to run all my scanners to make sure my computer is clean before I get out of safe mode and hit the internet (I just got the code late last night too). Now I'm at work... I literally haven't had three minutes.
And I won't have three minutes untill I'm back home, 7 hours from now. So hopefully there's no time limit for entering the code! I highly doubt there is though. That would be silly! Especially since I found no warning... though I didn't look that hard.
trust me, I wouldn't have entered that sucker in asap if I could!
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Guild Wars 2: Entriech.3507 | Scythe Gearsnap, Phlork, Irenic
My altoholism will destroy me in this game. Five hours, 58 minutes.
Edit: also yeah, as long as you possess the code you ought to be able to enter it at any time. The only concern is if you hadn't already bought it since ArenaNet is out of stock for the time being.
I typically don't make posts like these because they are inane and mostly pointless but i am really excited guys aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?"
Yes.
Meh, I'm taking this weekend off to "rest" my muscles for the grind starting Monday.
Steam: Jiggle Billy (Charrbroiled), Guild Wars 2: Tyreh, asura Warrior
My only concern is I got a gamestop dud code... heard there was allot of those. Luckily the gamestop guys are awesome at my store, so they'll hook me up with a new one asap if that's the case!
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You are not helpful.
<3
Save it for the release. Beta isn't *as* important.
Steam: Jiggle Billy (Charrbroiled), Guild Wars 2: Tyreh, asura Warrior
ANet has stopped sales of the two digital versions due ensure Beta capacity won't be overwhelmed, so I guess the BWE won't be 1-2 servers at heavy/full and a bunch near empty, but rather most every server at high capacity.
Last night I patched (got a 40-50meg one) and was noting afterwards that GW2 probably has the first login screen in an MMO that made me feel excited to play, probably just the music. One of my biggest gripes with RIFT was that while it did have some decent music, I barely ever heard it and it was not very exciting. AoC's music had a similar effect for a while at login - excitement - at least until the other problems with the game got to me.
Just Finished: Borderlands (waste of $7)/Mario Brothers U/The Last Story/Tropico 4
Currently Playing: NS2/ZombiU/PlanetSide 2/Ys/Dota2/Xenoblade Chronicles
On Hold: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within/GW2/Scribblenauts
Coming Next: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones/X-Com Classic
I better go take a nap. So I can play all night.
And it will be glorious.
This weekend will consume me
Tera open beta started last weekend.
So I'm still trying to decide what class/race to play. I can't decide ):
Tera early access starts this weekend. Leads up to their release on May 1st.
My new computer just listed as Out For Delivery, three days early, which means I must decide between playing GW2 on this crappy computer or not playing GW2 and try to mad-rush through setting it up to play GW2 on the new super machine.
Oh god, the Fed Ex guy will get here right at 3pm, I just know it.
First-World-Problems.