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Do'h knew I forgot something before I left for work.. hmm, wonder if I can get Aura to do it for me.

Was it a big un?

Nah it's like 5 minutes, still that's 5 mins you could be playing.

Also, they fail at time zones. pacific standard time is GMT-8, not GMT-7.

Well that was fun, noticed quite a few more bugs this time but perhaps that's because I'm looking at the game in depth for the second time.

... I missed the stress test.

Divinity's Reach was completely fethed. I couldn't get into it, I kept getting stuck at 95% on the loading screen.

Wasn't that enjoyable.

Only played an hour. I really am getting to the point where I just want it to released so I can just play it at my leisure.

I don't really want to play it so in-depth that the first 20 levels will be like walking through mud when it comes out.

Agreed. It rather disconcerting that all the stuff we do during the beta will be erased and we'll just have to go through everything all over again.

At least the higher-level areas and personal quest progress is locked off in the "demo" in order to stop us from blazing through everything good.


With all the locked zones, I do wonder how GWDatabase compiled that awesome map of the Asuran and Orr zones.

Well, that playthrough gave me a bit more insight into juggling specs, although the water spells for the staff are horrific; one splash-based heal (which requires you to hug the enemy; simply being in melee range isn't enough to catch the splash), one tiny, 4-second AoE heal, and one large AoE heal that requires you to sand still whilst casting, and takes a while to cast.

Not one of those heals is useful in a fight, simply because you have to avoid the enemy, slow the enemy, run around to try and not be caught, and try to anticipate where you'll be once the cast is done.

Unless you're able to sit still and fling spells the entire time, it's pointless even trying to heal yourself; either you sit still to get the full effect, and have it mitigated by being hammered on by mobs, or you catch parts of the heal, and hope the next hit you take isn't critical.

I've also discovered that Fire doesn't play nearly as large of a part in a basic staff Ele rotation as i'd hoped; it's nearly all Water, Air and Earth.

Air provides you with the best balance of damage to other abilites, what with Chain Lightning doing decent damage per cast, and Lightning Surge being on a relatively short cooldown, Gust is vital against melee units, and Windborne giving you Swiftness to allow for quick escapes should you be waiting for Gust, or if you don't necessarily need to waste Gust, and also removing chilled and those sorts of effects, plus Static Field being handy for slowing crap down.

Earth is okay, but lacks anything that really makes you stick with it; Eruption has an extraordinarily long build time after casting until it actually does something, Stoning isn't great unless you're in a party or group event, Unsteady Ground was, from what I could see, unreliable. Magnetic Aura, however, makes Earth a necessary part of the rotation against ranged units, and Shockwave apparently immobilises units (although for how long I don't know, since it didn't seem to have much of an effect when I cast it, if any).

Water, as I explained, is quite pants. The only other spells are Ice Spike (AoE with a delayed strike after cast which causes vulnerability) and Frozen Ground, with only the latter of those being globally useful (although Ice Spike only has a 4s cooldown).

My basic rotation was usually hopping from Earth (start off with eruption against ranged units, followed by aura as damage was dealt; against melee I started off with Shockwave and Unsteady Ground), to Air (for basic damage, speed boosts and general avoidance + damage), then Water for Frozen Ground and healing, then back to Earth to start again if the need arose.

Fire just didn't really play any sort of part; by the time i'd finished with Air and/or Water, Earth would be pretty much off cooldown (highest CD for Earth is 20s), then once done there, Air would be off CD (apart from maybe Static Field, but that wouldn't have long left); trying to add in Fire just messed up my timing and threw my rotation unless it was a group event.

Fafnir wrote:Divinity's Reach was completely fethed. I couldn't get into it, I kept getting stuck at 95% on the loading screen.

this. started a new Human, and couldnt do the "perials of friendship" quest becacuse of freakin 95%.

I got into everywhere fine...

Frustratingly once I got to 175 cooking most of the ingredients I could make (like ginger dressing or ginger marinade) didn't appear on the discovery screen so I couldn't really advance

Was thinking to make my first character a Azura Engineer. Would that work well?

Also, what weapon loadout should have? I was think if having a rifle, but using the kits too (eg flamethrower, etc.)

Whatever you want. They all work.

For my engi I'm going pistol+shield/elixir gun, focusing on support.

JohnnoM wrote:Was thinking to make my first character a Azura Engineer. Would that work well?

Also, what weapon loadout should have? I was think if having a rifle, but using the kits too (eg flamethrower, etc.)

What kind of build are you trying to go for? Lots of conditions (debuffs)? Lots of boons (buffs)? Lots of critical hits? Lots of normal damage?

Do you want to be very mobile or the anchor of a big fight?

im thinking of probably being a secondary party member, who drops turrets and then stays back, heals, helps here and there etc.

There is no such thing as a "secondary party member", everyone tends to be very useful (especially at higher levels).

From the sounds you might want to use the elixir gun, it's a weapon kit that shoots helpful potions at team mates

Try fiddling around here http://www.gw2tools.com/skills.

Quick example I just knocked together before college, lots of helpful elixirs for you http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#e;aaaaa;aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;Zaaa;ZfijZ

howabout this?
http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#e;aaaaa;aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;Zaaa;bWZgZ

Heh, that's pretty much the least supportive build you could have made

Still a fine build, though I would avoid using turrets and rocket boots as the rocket boots tend to blast you out of the turrets range which makes the turrets kinda useless.

Also check the "traits" tab, traits can vastly alter a build in many interesting ways.

ok, thanks for the help.

Finished my Ranger Build.

http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#r;paSXk;cUbaaaaaaaaaZda;baYa;ZgZXZ

Short/longbow, focus on Beastmastering and longe range archery.

Also, does the game have a release date yet?

Chowderhead wrote:Finished my Ranger Build.

http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#r;paSXk;cUbaaaaaaaaaZda;baYa;ZgZXZ

Short/longbow, focus on Beastmastering and longe range archery.

Also, does the game have a release date yet?

Dont think so.

Game does not have an official release date yet, and they constantly tweet that any dates given out by retailers are pure speculation.

Linky don't work chowder.

As for release dates, I'm sticking with the 28th of June.

No earlier than August, I guarantee.

I bet you any amount of money that it'll be out at some point in the future.

Avatar 720 wrote:I bet you any amount of money that it'll be out at some point in the future.

Crazy talk if ever I heard some.

Avatar 720 wrote:I bet you any amount of money that it'll be out at some point in the future.

How much are we talking about here?

I'll take that bet!

I bet it'll have come out in the past, though I AM from the year 2174.

So it will come out 2173.