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[GW2]We're all waiting very, very patiently for class reveals. *twitch*

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Floowid wrote: »
    Can't wait.

    No really, I cannot wait. These guys are racing WoW:Cataclysm for my time and attention... I really hope GW2 wins. WoW is cancelled for now, and I would be ok with never going back if there is something else for me to play by the time the Cata Xpac comes out.

    My WoW main was a druid, so I looked at cat and bear ass for 4 years, I don't think I will be starting with another shapeshifter. If the human females are all suitably endowed and scantily dressed, I know what I wanna be!
    With regard to shape-shifting, the Norn do not fully become animals. They sort of take on animal features (and presumably gain various buffs) while still remaining humanoid. That is my understanding anyway.

    edit: Raven form, for example.
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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Raven form? More like IT'S A FUCKING DEMON, KILL IT WITH FIRE

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That looks like an Owlbeast.

    This can only lead to good things.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Darmak wrote: »
    Raven form? More like IT'S A FUCKING DEMON, KILL IT WITH FIRE

    Probably what that centaur is thinking.

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Enig wrote: »
    Darmak wrote: »
    Raven form? More like IT'S A FUCKING DEMON, KILL IT WITH FIRE

    Probably what that centaur is thinking.

    He's thinking he needs to lay off the hookah for a while.

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  • FloowidFloowid Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    While I will admit that RAVEN FORM (can't do it justice without caps) is totally badass, it retains the same problem my druid suffered from. Namely, disappearing armor. Some of my armor was really cool, and I often worked hard to get it, but I rarely saw it.

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Floowid wrote: »
    While I will admit that RAVEN FORM (can't do it justice without caps) is totally badass, it retains the same problem my druid suffered from. Namely, disappearing armor. Some of my armor was really cool, and I often worked hard to get it, but I rarely saw it.

    Such is the price you pay to unleash your inner animal. :winky:

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  • kevbayerkevbayer Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I'm a big GW fan, and I'm really excited for GW2 should it ever come out ;-)
    Seriously though - I am looking forward to GW2 and playing the different races.

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Looks like an info reveal is happening sometime this week.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Good times

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  • Catastrophe_XXVICatastrophe_XXVI Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    does GW work on Macs and can you play with PC owners? My buddy has a Mac and I have a PC. We're looking for a good game we can play through together.

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  • Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    If Mac's can use Wine like linux you can get it working with alot of effort. And yes, you'd be playing with PC people since you are all connecting to GW servers.

    I honestly can't remember the last time a PC game was platform divided in regards to it's multiplayer. Once you get the client working the server doesn't care what you are running.

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  • kevbayerkevbayer Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Entaru wrote: »
    Looks like an info reveal is happening sometime this week.

    Oh? Do tell!

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    kevbayer wrote: »
    Entaru wrote: »
    Looks like an info reveal is happening sometime this week.

    Oh? Do tell!
    As you might have guessed by some of the posts we've been making here, the torture is about to end. :-) Some of you are on the edge of your seats. Many of you know that the anniversary of the original Guild Wars is coming up. We have a few things up our collective sleeves that we’re going to talk about this week. We want as many people to know about it as possible. We’re doing our part with our PR and marketing teams, but we need your help in spreading the word! If you like the stuff you see this week, vote it up on Digg! (If you don’t have a Digg account, you can use your Facebook account to Digg stuff up.) We're super excited at how engaged many of you have been through the Guild Wars War in Kryta viral campaign, and we hope you'll like what we've got cooking for Guild Wars 2 (soon (TM)). :-)

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I guess "in the next few weeks" means "next week". (http://www.killtenrats.com/2010/04/20/interview-with-arenanets-chris-lye/)

    No complaints here. Getting excited again now. Don't fail me ANet (as if you ever have).

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  • kevbayerkevbayer Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Enig wrote: »
    I guess "in the next few weeks" means "next week". (http://www.killtenrats.com/2010/04/20/interview-with-arenanets-chris-lye/)

    No complaints here. Getting excited again now. Don't fail me ANet (as if you ever have).


    Can't wait!

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Enig wrote: »
    I guess "in the next few weeks" means "next week". (http://www.killtenrats.com/2010/04/20/interview-with-arenanets-chris-lye/)

    No complaints here. Getting excited again now. Don't fail me ANet (as if you ever have).

    My attention has been on SC2 Beta lately, but i'm def still stoked for more info on GW2 and I'll get that next week reveal in the OP ASAP once it's available.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Well the interview from last week said "in a few weeks", but now we're getting stuff this week is what I meant. Overall a nice change in time frame.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Kinda hoping this is as accessible for single-player as GW1 was. The Nightfall campaign at least was a lot of fun, even solo.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Kinda hoping this is as accessible for single-player as GW1 was. The Nightfall campaign at least was a lot of fun, even solo.

    I'm sure it will be, Anet seems to learn from everything they do and improve on it.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Kinda hoping this is as accessible for single-player as GW1 was. The Nightfall campaign at least was a lot of fun, even solo.

    They have said it will be soloable. You get NPC companion(s) who helps you solo stuff. Should be at least one companion who is like a GW1 hero companion. There will also be content which requires a group to complete.

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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Kinda hoping this is as accessible for single-player as GW1 was. The Nightfall campaign at least was a lot of fun, even solo.

    How did you get through the Realm of Torment or whatever its called? It was plenty hard for me and the friend I played with to get through that (and I'm just talking about the storyline stuff, the end-game grinding was just run up to the monsters, die, try again).

    Dammit, now I want to reinstall GW. The Realm of Torment was a really cool area.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The Realm of Torment was brutal as shit, no question, but as a Dervish I could usually carve up enemies quickly enough for the huge damage not to matter. There were some enemies that required strategy though, like killing with a bunch of spells at a distance, but I forget what I actually did to win those.

    But I did get through all of Nightfall solo. A real challenge, and a lot of fun. It actually had a good story too, no less! Never did get through the factions story or that last expansion solo. I've heard the final Factions boss is basically impossible to solo.

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  • Cobalt60Cobalt60 regular Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The Realm of Torment was quite possible to do solo. I managed to do the entirety of the Nightfall campaign in Hard Mode with just Heroes and Henchmen. I just exploited the hilariously overpowered N/X Minion Master + N/Rt Healer setup.

    Being in Australia in the KCHS guild it was often hard to get a PvE group going so I did maybe 90% of the Hard Mode stuff with Heroes and Hench

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Nothing is impossible to solo in GW. You just need the right build.

    Sometimes H/H is better than PUGs, in my experience, especially for missions which require specific strategies.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The Realm of Torment was brutal as shit, no question, but as a Dervish I could usually carve up enemies quickly enough for the huge damage not to matter. There were some enemies that required strategy though, like killing with a bunch of spells at a distance, but I forget what I actually did to win those.

    But I did get through all of Nightfall solo. A real challenge, and a lot of fun. It actually had a good story too, no less! Never did get through the factions story or that last expansion solo. I've heard the final Factions boss is basically impossible to solo.

    Factions boss was really easy to do with Henchway, just take a load of Necro Curses to slap on him and he'll go to town on himself.

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  • kevbayerkevbayer Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    With the buffs to the Ritualist running a spirit spammer, you can pretty much get through anything now.

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Kinda hoping this is as accessible for single-player as GW1 was. The Nightfall campaign at least was a lot of fun, even solo.

    Same here. Sometimes I just want to hop in and kill some dudes without all the hassle of getting a group together.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    On the other hand, side-kicking should make grouping easier. That aside, I think it is universally accepted at this point that an MMO needs to have sufficient content that is soloable in order for the system to work well.

    Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of GW1. It seems people expect them to drop the info then. One more day..

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto

    So it begins. go go go.

    spoilered for huge/awesome images:
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    Class #1 reveal. Can you guess?
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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The kind of dynamic "everyone who was involved with killing this dude get loot and 100% exp" non-party party they talk about sounds like a great idea and really makes you wonder why so many other MMOs tend to punish you if someone else whacks at your mob for a while by giving you reduced exp. They're supposed to be multiplayer games, right?

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The combat sounds incredible.
    An Elementalist can cast Fire Wall next to an opponent, and then switch to Water attunement, which freezes all enemies around him. Using the concussive force of Water Trident, he can slam his frozen enemy into the Fire Wall, leaving him to roast in the flames.
    So if you’re playing an Elementalist, try casting a fire wall, and then see what happens when your friends shoot projectiles through it.

    etc..

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    My excitement is palpable.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
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    Can't wait.

    Edit: On a side note, that was one of the things I was kind of hoping would become more common in MMOs and other games in the future: combination powers, either directly (like in Chronotrigger) or indirectly (shooting an arrow through a wall of fire creates a flaming arrow).

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  • YannYann Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Very excited about this.

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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Also, hey, that Elementalist in that picture thar sure is wearing very little.

    What a shock.

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  • sidhaethesidhaethe Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I keep telling myself I'm not going to get too hyped up, that 2011 is still a very long way away and I have other things to do and play between now and then, but when I read that design manifesto I'm not ashamed to admit tears of excitement came to my eyes.

    dammit

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    reVerse wrote: »
    Also, hey, that Elementalist in that picture thar sure is wearing very little.

    What a shock.

    They're going in a new direction. . .

    Not really.

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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    wow

    sounds awesome

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  • kevbayerkevbayer Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So. Excited!

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