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[GW2]Taste the rainbow VERY SOON in the new thread.

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    BobbleBobble Registered User regular
    Huggles wrote: »
    Yeah, Fort Aspenwood is the plan for release.

    Though I'd put in a vote for Sanctum of Rall as an emergency backup because that story cures cancer.

    I'll second the emotion of Sanctum as the backup.

    Add me to the cadre of people frothing for the game. WaM, seriously, hugs to you guys for everything you've put into this. Some of my favorite material to consume leading up to launch has been the behind the scenes stuff. It warms the cockles of my heart to see all of those regular folks and how much they care about this game. I'm sure you have to be careful about over-sharing to protect the company and whatever, but any time you can share stuff like that about how excited you guys are, it's awesome.

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    MelksterMelkster Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    So you can commandeer a tower or castle in WvW for a guild, right?

    Does that mean that they could sort of function as something like guild halls/homes? Can we decide on a particular tower that will always be our home in WvW and defend/upgrade that on a daily basis?

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    GeodGeod swim, swim, hungryRegistered User regular
    Melkster wrote: »
    So you can commandeer a tower or castle in WvW for a guild, right?

    Does that mean that they could sort of function as something like guild halls/homes? Can we decide on a particular tower that will always be our home in WvW and defend/upgrade that on a daily basis?

    In theory, yeah. You just have to make sure that the tower/castle doesn't get taken over by another faction. You kind of would have to balance whether to have it be on the frontlines (Eternal Battleground), or back in our home server shard area.

    I do know that they're supposed to add Guild Halls at some point after release too. But it's probably not going to be in WvW or anything.

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    ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    Melkster wrote: »
    So you can commandeer a tower or castle in WvW for a guild, right?

    Does that mean that they could sort of function as something like guild halls/homes? Can we decide on a particular tower that will always be our home in WvW and defend/upgrade that on a daily basis?

    You can try to keep it defended.

    No guarantee it'll work though.

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    You can claim a supply camp (and upgrade a supply camp) as well.

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    TolerantZeroTolerantZero Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    You can also buy benefits using influence that gives guild members a bonus when they are in a keep/tower controlled by said guild. They only last about 12 hours, but they can really help.

    EDIT: It looks like these bonuses aren't restricted to just guild members, but to allies defending the fort as well.

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    BethrynBethryn Unhappiness is Mandatory Registered User regular
    Klyka wrote: »
    abobalypse wrote: »
    Has any server been decided for PA people on EU?

    Nothing was decided, but I'm inviting everyone to Gandara.
    We'll have a (probably) pretty big guild there. It's basically a group of Let's Players (Helloween, Kikoskia, Mangaminx and myself) with a combined subscriber base of 70000+ making a Guild for our friends and subs. So we expect quite a few members and every PAer is more than welcome to roll with us!
    I am only joining this guild if it's called "OH GOD BEES". Sub 4 Sub is a terrible name. :P

    ...and of course, as always, Kill Hitler.
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    DacDac Registered User regular
    You know, for all the protestations Blizz makes about genuinely wanting new and unique games to come out that aren't just carbon-copies of WoW, they sure do their darndest to undermine every major new and unique game that comes out.

    Not going to change the fact that I'm going to be there at midnight on the 25th, furiously spamming login. Just now I'll be doing it with the addition of spite.

    Personally, I would've waited on patch 5.0, push it to September 4th. Give people a week to play their hearts out of GW2, then offer them an opportunity for a slight break from it by checking out all the new stuff in a freshly dropped 5.0. Slating it for the VERY RELEASE DAY of GW2 is just a tad aggressive, and all Blizzard is really doing by forcing that choice on me is driving me away from their product.

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    HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    I'm supporting the idea that it's to inconvenience potential jumpers of ship to GW2 as little as possible. They'll get the kinks ironed out whilst people play GW2 then have the pandas ready to welcome the relapsers back with open, bugless arms.

    EDIT: that makes more sense now.

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    BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    I don't see the problem. Blizzard has gotta know their active logins are going to be lower than normal that day. It's a perfect day to patch. :)

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    KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    Bethryn wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    abobalypse wrote: »
    Has any server been decided for PA people on EU?

    Nothing was decided, but I'm inviting everyone to Gandara.
    We'll have a (probably) pretty big guild there. It's basically a group of Let's Players (Helloween, Kikoskia, Mangaminx and myself) with a combined subscriber base of 70000+ making a Guild for our friends and subs. So we expect quite a few members and every PAer is more than welcome to roll with us!
    I am only joining this guild if it's called "OH GOD BEES". Sub 4 Sub is a terrible name. :P

    Guild name has not been decided yet, Sub 4 Sub was just a quick joke :P

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    Al BaronAl Baron Registered User regular
    You guys aren't doing a good job of ignoring this.

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    HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    Al Baron wrote: »
    You guys aren't doing a good job of ignoring this.

    Ignoring what?

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    GeodGeod swim, swim, hungryRegistered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Ignoring WoW and pandas (as per the thread title).

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    FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    get that shit out of the title, looks fucking sad guys.

    what's everyone's plan for the stress test today?

    Are you the magic man?
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    DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Yeah, come on, guys/@corehealer. The thread title just invites a bunch of fan boy arguing. That's lame.

    I love that combo field tool someone threw up earlier. Makes me love the system even more.

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    What is this I don't even.
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    AstaleAstale Registered User regular
    Fanboy arguing and yelling at people for daring to be negative in an MMO thread are the bricks and mortar of this subforum though.

    It's like telling people in the industry thread not to go on a lolsony rant. Sometimes it's better to just ignore it and let it die out.



    Though I don't know why the hell anyone gives a shit, 90% of people I know (personally) have every intention of buying this AND keeping their sub to WoW/swtor/hellokitty. And the other 10% don't play mmos. And I only play with ten people. Anywho, the only game I think this would really have an effect on was tera, and that already seems to be a non-issue.

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    HugglesHuggles Registered User regular
    Geod wrote: »
    Ignoring WoW and pandas (as per the thread title).

    Oh! That.

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    BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    So, for what I've gathered by reading, I could technically play two Engineers and they could both have potentially very different stories?

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    RendRend Registered User regular
    Beltaine wrote: »
    So, for what I've gathered by reading, I could technically play two Engineers and they could both have potentially very different stories?

    Yes.

    You could even play two asuran engineers and count on a potentially very different story.

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    DraygoDraygo Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Klyka wrote: »
    Like I said, everyone is totally welcome in our guild but we are NOT the official EU PA guild.
    I don't know who manages that one but it's not me/us.

    The official EU guild is the same as the NA guild as guilds are cross server.

    Official NA server is currently Fort Aspenwood (I have some reservations about it)
    Official EU server is TBD (get on it slackers!)

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    Kafka87Kafka87 Registered User regular
    Well we were saying desolation but we don't care. Let's go to gandara as well. That's my vote.

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    FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    Are you the magic man?
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    KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    Guild Wars 2 macht frei!

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    FreiFrei A French Prometheus Unbound DeadwoodRegistered User regular
    Klyka wrote: »
    Frei wrote: »
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    Guild Wars 2 macht frei!

    MY NAME IS NOT A NAZI SLOGAN

    Are you the magic man?
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    DetharinDetharin Registered User regular
    It is now <Activates time machine>

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Rend wrote: »
    Beltaine wrote: »
    So, for what I've gathered by reading, I could technically play two Engineers and they could both have potentially very different stories?

    Yes.

    You could even play two asuran engineers and count on a potentially very different story.

    At the start.

    I believe all storylines converge towards the end, but no one is sure how much and some choices you make will still effect the story.

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    TolerantZeroTolerantZero Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Detharin wrote: »
    It is now <Activates time machine>

    Today's date: August 25th, 2011

    Only 374 more days to go!

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    EnderEnder Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    for one

    reddit

    for two

    ...

    reddit

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    KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    Frei wrote: »
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    Guild Wars 2 macht frei!

    MY NAME IS NOT A NAZI SLOGAN

    I love how it actually rhymes :3

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    DetharinDetharin Registered User regular

    Today's date: August 25th, 2011

    Only 374 more days to go!

    FFFUUUUUUUUUU

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    Kai_SanKai_San Commonly known as Klineshrike! Registered User regular
    Ender wrote: »
    Frei wrote: »
    Why would there be reservations about Fort Aspenwood? What is there to be picky about here?

    for one

    reddit

    for two

    ...

    reddit

    Where did you get the idea they have anything to do with FA?

    They were originally on Darkhaven. They just completed a poll making Isle of Janthir and Gate of Madness their primary 2 servers. Which those who do not like the decision are free to roam, there is no way to make SURE no redditors are on the server we choose, because even so some redditors don't consider themselves a part of that community and could be anywhere.

    As should be obvious, because there are at least two of us who use reddit regularly.

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    DacDac Registered User regular
    Frei wrote: »
    get that shit out of the title, looks fucking sad guys.

    what's everyone's plan for the stress test today?

    There's a test today?

    What twitter do I follow for announcements like this?

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    ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    From a cursory check it doesn't look like Fort Aspenwood was even a a contender in the top choices for the official Reddit server.. so uh..

    Probably not an issue in that regard.

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    reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    Beltaine wrote: »
    So, for what I've gathered by reading, I could technically play two Engineers and they could both have potentially very different stories?

    The stories are based on race and every race has three major variants on their stories.

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    StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    Bethryn wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    abobalypse wrote: »
    Has any server been decided for PA people on EU?

    Nothing was decided, but I'm inviting everyone to Gandara.
    We'll have a (probably) pretty big guild there. It's basically a group of Let's Players (Helloween, Kikoskia, Mangaminx and myself) with a combined subscriber base of 70000+ making a Guild for our friends and subs. So we expect quite a few members and every PAer is more than welcome to roll with us!
    I am only joining this guild if it's called "OH GOD BEES". Sub 4 Sub is a terrible name. :P

    My favorite non-NICE guild name I saw in BWE3 was "OMG A PONY".


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    TolerantZeroTolerantZero Registered User regular
    I'm probably going to play some more sPvP as my asuran warrior. Might also do some keg brawling.

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    BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    Dac wrote: »
    Frei wrote: »
    get that shit out of the title, looks fucking sad guys.

    what's everyone's plan for the stress test today?

    There's a test today?

    What twitter do I follow for announcements like this?

    Is the test for pre-orderers? Or just folks who have been in the previous betas? I just pre-ordered a couple days ago :)

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    CyrondinCyrondin I bring the sick beats on you, brother Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    reVerse wrote: »
    Beltaine wrote: »
    So, for what I've gathered by reading, I could technically play two Engineers and they could both have potentially very different stories?

    The stories are based on race and every race has three major variants on their stories.

    reading up on the lore, i kind of figered out that all stories will end up at "time to slay the dragon!"

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    TolerantZeroTolerantZero Registered User regular
    Dac wrote: »
    Frei wrote: »
    get that shit out of the title, looks fucking sad guys.

    what's everyone's plan for the stress test today?

    There's a test today?

    What twitter do I follow for announcements like this?

    https://twitter.com/GuildWars2

    Any stress tests they announce end up going on the front page of the wiki as well.

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