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[Guildwars 2] New Races of Tyria Trailer Out in 720p and 1080p!!!
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Yeah.
And that's compared to a mere 220 or so for the first game, right?
Yeaaah.
I'm gonna stand by my position that the first game really was my favorite. It.. lost something after that. (Even though it technically gained something. 1300 somethings.)
I tend to agree.
I mostly bought the expansion packs because other people in my Guild had done so and I wanted to keep playing the new content with them... the problem was a lot of it kinda sucked (in my opinion). The 12-man instances were particularly ugh.
Don't get me wrong, I still had fun, but not as much as with the first Guild Wars.
Yes. In the ORIGINAL game (everyone likes caps in this thread), the only way to unlock skills was through identifying the items, capturing elite skills, or buying the skills with a skill point and gold. The best way to get Balth's faction was through GvG. You could easily get 1000 per game.
Guild War's soundtrack was one of the best, if not the best, feature of the game.
Still cheaper than WoW. No monthly fee. My point still stands though, the game being in BETA because you personally choose not to play the game/buy expansions is a really stupid thing to say.
Not to mention the fact that now you can buy the "Trilogy" box which includes Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall for around $50
The original had something like 451 or something, with the extra being res signet. A lot of the creep is down to new classes being added as well as PvE specific skills. A lot of the problems with skills came not from the skills themselves but the kinda groupthink that evolved with the game. You basically couldn't compete in PvP unless you were running a FotW build /or/ were with a really really good team. PvE was almost worse as there wasn't enough of a challenge to really worry about non-optimal builds but people would still scream bloody murder if you took Healing Breeze.
And I do think they did a lot to fix the skill issues with the PvP characters and the addition of faction for unlocking skills. It's pretty trivial now to get a build running. And there's a lot of room for casual PvP play with the Alliance Battles/Random or Team Arena and the Jade Quarry/Kurzick Forrest things where you can basically run any build and still do well.
Please. Please. We need to get a small guild together and play this shit again.
Yes, he will. He created the music in the background for the trailer.
A friend and I play almost every night. You're welcome to play with us whenever. We're in a guild of just us two
There was an attempted PA guild a few months back, but I think it died.
And for the record, I still love healing breeze.
That's definitely true. For the first few months, people were still trying a bunch of radical new builds and combinations - and if one combo was really good, Areanet would nerf it. Once another combo got good, Areanet nerfed it. And so on.
The game really is skill and team based...which eventually creates a super high barrier of entry. If you are new and don't know the right people, it's really tough to have fun in, say, the Halls of Heroes. Which is why I suspect that the last time I logged into the game (a year go?), there were just 2 HoH instances, instead of the many dozens I remember from when I was playing. The place is a wasteland compared to it's former glory. And I highly suspect that's more a fault of the groupthink than the game itself.
(Except I think that a good game does something to address negative groupthink.)
I also wouldn't mind playing. Though i have not played in years now. Are you starting from scratch? I'd love to just start a new character from the beginning of Factions since i havn't played in a super long time.
So, if you're still going next week, count me in! I am Neriah Gerasim &co. in game.
I dont have the latest expansion. That eye of the north one. Its the only one i dont have.
Our job tonight is to beat the final two missions of Factions, then head over to Nightfall. But I don't think we'd be adverse to helping other people through missions or anything, or people joining up with us. Playing with people is always more fun than playing with Heroes/Henchies... well generally speaking. We're also doing the odd PvP matches here and there.
I'm "Geod of Exile" in game. I'm on now, playing some Aspenwood matches.
But man, did I ever play the shit out of GW. Mesmer was such a great experience, and with the right setup you could tear anything apart. I wasn't terrible at PvP, but I never had enough time/commitment to get into the guilds.
Everyone who's saying that the game went downhill with Nightfall, yes. Dervishes and Paragons were terricraptastic classes, and the desert, desert, more desert design was boring as hell. The Realm of Torment, however, was the only decent part of the entire game! So much awesome in there, and some serious challenges. Not to mention the inclusion of being able to control your henchmen, which was incredibly useful if you ever wanted to PvE without a full group. So it had some good concepts and wasn't entirely fail.
I actually liked the skill crystals, and the rings. But the method they went with in the end was the best IMO. They had some interesting things in Alpha too, that I'm glad they didn't go with in the end.
I'm still in the attempted PA guild and actually I'm now the guild leader! I can invite anyone if they want since we already have a guild hall (though I don't know what kind and what amenities it offers) and we can do the whole EotN thing or Nightfall or whatever. I have all the expansions but have only finished one of them so I am up for anything.
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I'm currently the leader of an entirely dead guild named the Ping Island Lightning Strike Rescue Op, with a aqua cape bearing a fullsized yellow lightning bolt. My friends and I are large fans of The Life Aquatic. We've got a Wizard's Isle guild hall with some shit in it, I think. I'll have to double check.
But it's freeeeee
Downloading
While I'm counting things.. not sure how many times I've watched my downloaded HD GW2 trailer now.. looks so pretty :?
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
So I guess swords are going to remain one hand only as with GW1.
Yes, anything not expressly addressed in that trailer will be as it was in GW1, or not exist.
o_O
The warriors will now use pixie stix as their weapons. And theirs sheilds will be craft only, from items collected from your enemies genitals.
I'm glad you said shields are crafted from genitals. Otherwise the ubiquitous ball mace would take on a whole new meaning.
waitt ill you craft the Vaginal Shield of Moist
Man, fuck that shield. Too high maintenance, requires an upkeep of gold, those flowers that used to drop in Pre-Searing and everything. Although the 5% chance of crit is pretty neat.
Isn't that the point? :P
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
So, anything I should know to maximize my time with the trial? Full game's pretty cheap these days, from what I remember.