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corpsesarefun wrote:Yeah, we just need someone with the skills and flair to make it.

Anyone interested in joining the Dakka guild that doesn't already have me on steam can you add "quantech" to your friends list please.

Also is this list still correct?

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Guess I need to put myself in gear. Sign me up! And will friend you on steam once I get home from work.

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Alright, got myself into the Steam user group. So what is the list of individual classes everyone is looking at again?

I am looking to do a Guardian: Burning Guardian

I was looking into doing a Guardian that focuses on burning areas of enemies along with spirit weapons while supporting with conditions, boons, and boon removal. Not sure if I did this the best way to not but I like the look of it on paper and I have not seen any videos on how others have tried this out or not.

I am really unsure on what weapon types to use.

Did anyone get into the stress test this weekend (I did not)?

Let me find the information.

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From GuildWars2Forum.com: http://www.guildwars2forum.com/threads/2427-Did-you-guys-get-into-this-Friday-s-stress-test?p=22701&viewfull=1#post22701

I am at work so I can not access Twitter but has said that the Friday stress test is not for pre-purchase individuals. I am thinking it is to stress the servers for the pre-purchase beta access.

I guess to also add, it is only like for 6 hours then it is shut down.

Karon wrote:/vg/ is quite mad at the Stress Test debacle - it is extensively amusing.

Preordered standard edition because the DDE is a bunch of gak that I will not fall for. They've said over Twitter that you will be able to upgrade your Standard edition to the DDE in the future.

Cannot wait for beta on the 27th.

You sure it is on the 27th?

After getting a few CEs before, CEs just are not all that great. I just want to play the game, so just give me the basic edition!

I am hoping it is next weekend, but I believe it will indeed be the last weekend of this month.

Karon wrote:Download beta client from older betas.
Stare at login screen
Listen to glorious GW2 music
Cry at lack of access to game

no need to torture yourself.

Zyllos

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Ya, I was going to post about it from the GuildWars2Forums:

http://www.guildwars2forum.com/threads/2556-First-Beta-Event-Announced-April-27th-29th?p=24499&viewfull=1#post24499

But it seems you beat me to it.

Guardian will be my main character but I would not be surprised if I did not have at least one character of each profession.

Probably understand the underlying mechanics of the game then figure out the DE system and see if it is all that it is cracked up to be.

Then off to some WvW!

Well, it looks like everyone has gotten their e-mail. I will start downloading after work today and will most likely be done by 12:00am that night (nothing like having 50mb u/15mb d connection). Will be painting my Protectorate of Menoth while this happens. And we are using Skype right? Never used it before but I will also grab that.

I also will not be able to get on until ~5:00pm on Friday (most likely like everyone else, work!) but I assume that is when we will discuss what server we will play on?

Well, it is good that we get to think about this before hand. But, having the issues between what server everyone wants to get on, I think I can help with my chosen server could be any server. I have no qualms, unless I happen to get on one and it totally blows but I have not ever noticed an issue while playing on a foreign server (I know it's higher ping but never a gameplay issue). But I absolutely must pick, but still compromise with the rest of the Dakka Dakka players, I would pick a UK server as per Mel's reasoning. It is closer to the US players while still being close to EU players.

QUIET!

You may bring doom to us all!

I will go where the majority goes. Once in place, I can test out the pings. If it is bad, then I will swap on over to the US server.

Interesting, I just logged in also.


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I am still unsure, what server is everyone going to and how will I contact individuals?

Well, I guess I will initially start on Riverside.

Anyone else get knocked off and can not log in?

Ya, I finally got back in but got kicked off again =)

I believe so, Eternal Grove on the US and Riverside for UK/EU. I am going to try out the UK/EU to see if it is plausible for me to play on it.

Still having issues staying on =(


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Getting reports that their servers are overloaded. heh

Same here Avatar, heh. I am not sure if they expected this!

I can not even log in. I am apparently part of the group of people who get the "Can not complete operation" when connecting.

Did anyone get their 1800 gems? It seems I did not.

I got in several hours on my Guardian with Sword/Torch. Man, its freaking awesome to be breathing fire at everything! And the sword turned out very nicely for proc'ing the fire on the Justice virtue due to having a multi-attack ability. Now, I just need to figure out what other set of weapons would fit best.


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Ahhh, now I can not log in. No matter what I do, I keep getting the "Can not log in" error.

Ok, so now that I have played it, I want some grouping action going on! I tried to find everyone yesterday and either I found random individuals with the exact same name as your characters or I missed a character but nobody would respond to my whispers!

Either way, getting on.


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Oh, just an FYI, friends are added by the account e-mail name, not their character name.

After playing around with the Guardian, I think making a Fire Condition based Guardian is going to be interesting. But I was originally going about it the wrong way.

But, I also learned that a Sword/Axe Ranger is freaking awesome as hell to play. Bouncing around, attacking targets at different angles and throwing your boomerang axe!

I also tried to make an Earth Elementalist but all the weapon combinations really did not satisify me. Either too much protection or not enough, there was not a good middle ground. I think Scepter/Dagger did the best.

Ya, when I ran into that Shadow Behemoth in the swamp, it was kinda hard to tell what was going on with my Guardian. I was always right in front of the beast and I could not fit the entire thing in my screen.

Was still an awesome event none the less.