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After spending several hours watching videos about the mechanics of this game, researching the lore, the races, the professions, the trade skills, and everything else...I've deduced that I will be buying this game.

I'm planning on playing a Charr Engineer as they seem like Beastmen, but switch the goat with a cat - which is even better because I love cats.

General discussion may commence about the game, not just what race/class you want.

I've been planning a Sylvari ranger and a Norn warrior ever since Eye of the North.

I also need to grind a little to get my EotN reward point for GW 2 up to 30. I don't care about the ranks above it, but I want that Black Widow pet.

Really excited to just play it though. I put a substantial amount of time into GW 1, and climbed the GVG ladder to the top 100 at the games peak, and I want to see how they balance it this time around. Hopefully they avoid the clusterfeth they created by adding hundreds of skills every expansion.

Me and slarg were debating who should start this thread
I've been following the game since it was first announced (played it at gamescom 2010 and eurogamer 2011) so I suppose I'll be buying it.

I'll be playing an asura guardian, a human engineer (my main dakka guild character), a norn necromancer, a sylvari warrior and if character slots allow a charr mesmer (dressed as a commissar).

EDIT: BETA SIGNUP HERE!

https://beta.guildwars2.com/

People that want information on the game or to join the guild should message me on dakka or steam, my steam account is "Quantech" but my screen-name is Professor Doctor Warthog.

Plan on doing a human mesmer. Keep it classy.

I'm kind of disappointed that the Ritualist and Paragon, my two favourite classes from GW1, won't be making appearances in GW2, but I'm glad that they included elements from both classes into the design of the professions in GW2.

Guardians are paragons in all but spear use and the engy got the ritualists mechanics while the necromancer got it's theme.

So who is down for joining the dakka guild?

Sorry, I plan on making a guild with my friends. It shall be called "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants."

I would argue that every class at this point borrows points from the Paragon and Ritualist. They were the two main classes that really defied the holy trinity, since they were so versatile while still being incredibly good at the roles they chose to focus in.

I'm kinda bummed out that Rangers are more pet oriented, which is the one aspect of the Ranger (my 1st and favourite class in GW1) I really didn't care for.

Looks like I'll go Elementalist or maybe Necromancer, if blood magic is still in. Guardian also sounds cool but I like my support classes to be more magic like and less paladinish. All my characters will be human of course, because I'm not a weirdo...

I also miss the Ritualist a lot, the Engineer might be mechanically the same, but planting turrets isn't as cool as summoning spirirts.

asimo77 wrote:I'm kinda bummed out that Rangers are more pet oriented, which is the one aspect of the Ranger (my 1st and favourite class in GW1) I really didn't care for.

They just needed work. Some of the most fun I had on my ranger in PvP was holding HoH with a build one of my guildies made, centering around a bunch of rangers throwing out disrupting shot and pets throwing out distrupting lunge. Totally off the wall and heaps of fun. We hit a roadblock in a 45 minute match against a trapper team, who thanked us with the hilarious irony of saying we had the most annoying build ever.

Pets really just needed some attention in GW1, that the team wasn't prepared to spend time on. Seems they've instead focussed on making them better in GW 2.

As someone who has played ranger in gw2 already it's much better than in gw1, the AI is still a bit derpy though (this goes for minions and illusions too).

You can be in multiple guilds (and guilds are account based like gw1 rather than character based like WoW) so you can join the Dakka guild and play with us when your mates aren't availible, I have around 6 real world friends who I'll be playing gw2 with as well as running the dakka guild with slarg.

@asimo blood magic does return, dagger/dagger necros have lots of it. Blood magic utility skills are also VERY good at support in gw2 as it's all about healing and buffing while damaging and debuffing foes

@fafnir I would agree with you there, the dervish also follows suit.

Watched a few vids (Read: a few), Im a little concerned that there are only 10(?) abilities?
One of the vids bemoaned Warcraft in that at 80/85 you had hot bars full of abilities and it took a while to know what was what and what works best. Ummm so what?
It meant it was a bit more indepth and you had to learn your class a bit rather than faceroll across the keyboard.

Im worried how 10 abilities will hold any interest as the game goes on.


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Having said that it does look pretty decent.

Think of those abilities as basic moves in a brawler or action RPG, they combo with eachother (stomp+firey AoE=huge flaming shockwave of death etc) and synergise to create more complicated effects.

The idea is that you try out different weapons and utility skills too.

Ah ok, makes more sense.

http://www.arena.net/blog/beta-development-update

I beleaf I will be running a Sylvari Ranger, as of right now. While this is my current idea, be prepared for me to branch out into other ideas before the game comes out. Is that vine with everyone?



Oh aye, Commisar Kitty and I will be running the guild, though we haven't decided on what kind of orginization or anything we are going to be running with as of yet. We are open to suggestions.

Going to be porting all my classes from GW 1, with the exception of changing my main to a different name. I played well over 600 hours on GW, and had planned on getting GW 2 long ago.

Guild wars 2 will, be a defining change of the MMO scene, and should finally shut up all the haters of MMO's without monthly fees.

To recreate the feel of my Dervish, I’m going to run a Human/Norn Greatsword wielding ranger.

What’s interesting is that Ranger/Beastmaster was always my favourite sub profession that I liked to give to my alts and heroes. Now all I need is for “Heal as One” and “Rampage as One” to be translated into GW2 and I’ll be in business.

I'm pretty sure both of those skills have something similar in game already.

I'll be making a charr mesmer called "Commissar Kitty" to kill any heretics we come across.

Charr Warrior. And then Asura Guardian, and Slyvari Engineer, and so on until I have one of each profession. I've been watching the newer videos like mad too.

Now to convince my 4 friends to get it and we can dungeon together. And maybe WvW.

Oh yeah, the character limit is 5 at the moment.

Planning a Norn Engineer (rifle and rifle turret), a Sylvari Warrior (rifle focus with greatsword as a backup weapon), and a Human Necromancer (twin daggers to start it up, then axe and focus once life force grows high enough).

Stop talking about it and make this game come out!

This and Diablo 3* are the only things I'm really looking forward to this year.

*As if it'll come out this year.

What class are you running whitey? Elementalist?

corpsesarefun wrote:Oh yeah, the character limit is 5 at the moment.

Hopefully the collector's edition has more slots. I'm planning on getting that.

If not...

Goodbye, money.

Elementalist or Necromancer. I'll end up trying both when I get the game and seeing which I prefer.

Ah man, that's alot of Greatsword Rangers.....

I don't want to be a "Beautiful and unique snowflake" by any means, but if we already have some, no need to have some more....

Maybe sword/torch and shortbow then?

Or maybe sword warrior or sword mesmer?

How does World PVP work in GW2? I heard someone say factions don't fight eachother, but servers do - what does that mean?

I'm aware GW and GW2 is instanced in a large way, so World PvP isn't really a reality aside from their one area they let you do that in, but what do they mean by "Servers fighting servers"?

This game does look excellent, though I am slightly concerned with the quality of certain things due to it not having a subscription fee.

Though that may be an outdated and rather silly feeling, I can't help but give thought to it.

corpsesarefun wrote:Maybe sword/torch and shortbow then?

Or maybe sword warrior or sword mesmer?

Maybe. Quite possibly might go as a Theif, since no one else wants one. Just going to wait and see.

Karon wrote:How does World PVP work in GW2? I heard someone say factions don't fight eachother, but servers do - what does that mean?

I'm aware GW and GW2 is instanced in a large way, so World PvP isn't really a reality aside from their one area they let you do that in, but what do they mean by "Servers fighting servers"?

This game does look excellent, though I am slightly concerned with the quality of certain things due to it not having a subscription fee.

Though that may be an outdated and rather silly feeling, I can't help but give thought to it.

Basically, it's a lot like Shadowbane, but instanced. You teleport yourself to a land where it's see a fool, kill a fool, and the three servers are all represented with people. You fight over castles, resources, towns, and such.

Oh, and the subscription fee shouldn't matter much; the first game was quite excellent, was patched very often (annoyingly taking out some of my best builds ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!) and has a thing set up that you get bonus gold, items, and Influence for completing missions you've done previously on a harder difficulty.

There's multiple servers that a character can be in. Think of it like the worlds in WoW, but you can switch freely between them - within limit, of course.

Slarg232 wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Maybe sword/torch and shortbow then?

Or maybe sword warrior or sword mesmer?

Maybe. Quite possibly might go as a Theif, since no one else wants one. Just going to wait and see.

Karon wrote:How does World PVP work in GW2? I heard someone say factions don't fight eachother, but servers do - what does that mean?

I'm aware GW and GW2 is instanced in a large way, so World PvP isn't really a reality aside from their one area they let you do that in, but what do they mean by "Servers fighting servers"?

This game does look excellent, though I am slightly concerned with the quality of certain things due to it not having a subscription fee.

Though that may be an outdated and rather silly feeling, I can't help but give thought to it.

Basically, it's a lot like Shadowbane, but instanced. You teleport yourself to a land where it's see a fool, kill a fool, and the three servers are all represented with people. You fight over castles, resources, towns, and such.

Oh, and the subscription fee shouldn't matter much; the first game was quite excellent, was patched very often (annoyingly taking out some of my best builds ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!) and has a thing set up that you get bonus gold, items, and Influence for completing missions you've done previously on a harder difficulty.

I see, so all the races aren't divided into actual factions.

Sounds really different, and I look forward to playing it. Its going to be strange playing an MMO without a Subscription fee.