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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Okies so my 100% set in stone I'm going to be a Ranger at launch flew out the window tonight. Fallen in love with the elementalist class.

I thought they where fun with the staff... then I equipped a dagger.. electro-whips ftw.

Same lol, I was pretty set on playing guardian but lightning whips are too cool.

Doesn't compare to floating up into the air and breathing holy fire at mobs or banishing them across the room

Or using a magic scythe to send a ball of life stealing energy from everyone in its path so that you can more frequently transform in to the avatar of death.

Lacks in banishment.

Some photos from my beta play thusfar :3

A screeny of Tekk The Great, your benevolent leader.


I wasn't aware the inquest dropped such high level gear.


Why I love this game.


And finally a present for Felsi.

Hmm. Is GW2 F2P like GW1 is/was?

Pay and play, you buy the game and then it's free forevermore.

You also can buy some extra in-game benefits and goodies, but they're largely cosmetic or for convenience.


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Oh, and I have to say, for as much as I enjoy GW2, the very worst part of it are its fanboys.

Games looks silly, over-rated, and over hyped. It just seems like another WoW, but that will cost me more money if I buy the game .

It will probably end up like all the other MMORPGs (SWTOR, WAR, GWs, RIFT) it will be played massively for a month then everyone will get bored and hop back on WoW. Hey, you might not like it, but its true.

Im curious, do you do anything other than troll?

Yes. I'm simply expressing my opinion, am I not aloud to? What is a forum for?

I've played the tests and done my research, I do think I'm entitled to voice my opinion.

Also, as a DCM, you think you would know better then to mindlessly attack people online?

Yawn

Poppabear wrote:Yes. I'm simply expressing my opinion, am I not aloud to? What is a forum for?

I've played the tests and done my research, I do think I'm entitled to voice my opinion.

Also, as a DCM, you think you would know better then to mindlessly attack people online?

You're welcome to your opinion but do remember that walking into a thread and loudly expressing an opinion contrary to the general consensus in said thread will normally provoke backlash.

Fafnir wrote:You also can buy some extra in-game benefits and goodies, but they're largely cosmetic or for convenience.


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Oh, and I have to say, for as much as I enjoy GW2, the very worst part of it are its fanboys.

But... I'm a fanboy

Second beta weekend and I still love the game. Tried the Guardian and the Ranger this go round (with a minor stint as an Elementalist). Absolutely. Love. The Ranger. Gonna be rolling that first on launch day with a Warrior, Thief, and a Necro or an Engi to follow.

Also have to say I really liked the Sylvari. They have a great aesthetic design. Props to whoever had the brilliant idea to give them leaves for hair, and to cover certain places Gotta love the classics. So far I really like the Char, but I think the Sylvari are my new favorite race. Like their background and their concept myself.

Never got around to an Asura, but I'm not sure I'd be able to tolerate being so short anyway

Corpsesarefun wrote:But... I'm a fanboy

There there. Have a hat.

I don't have a GW2 hat actually...

Pft. And you call yourself a fan boy

MrDwhitey wrote:Yawn

That is pathetic and you know it.

People do have opposite opinions about this game. I am nowhere near as happy about this game as I was when I played the first Beta Weekend.

This game has a lot of flaws, and it could get boring.

I'll save final judgement for when I start playing it on release, since I did prepurchase, but it needs to be improved a lot to differentiate itself even now from the generic, high-fantasy big bad lore it has going on.

It doesn't have a monthly fee, so I don't regret my purchase at all - I will probably level 1 or 2 characters to max if the game stays as is - but don't act like it is even close to a perfect game.

The lack of monthly fee will be a huge boon to the game. People aren't going to simply play the game for a free-month and quit. They'll quit for some time, come back for some time, etc with no need to reactivate accounts and such.

Apparently people get upset when you disagree with their opinion.

I would know, I do it all the time.

Karon wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Yawn

That is pathetic and you know it.

People do have opposite opinions about this game. I am nowhere near as happy about this game as I was when I played the first Beta Weekend.

This game has a lot of flaws, and it could get boring.

I'll save final judgement for when I start playing it on release, since I did prepurchase, but it needs to be improved a lot to differentiate itself even now from the generic, high-fantasy big bad lore it has going on.

It doesn't have a monthly fee, so I don't regret my purchase at all - I will probably level 1 or 2 characters to max if the game stays as is - but don't act like it is even close to a perfect game.

Generic high fantasy?

Did you play anything other than humans?

Corpsesarefun wrote:

Karon wrote:

MrDwhitey wrote:Yawn

That is pathetic and you know it.

People do have opposite opinions about this game. I am nowhere near as happy about this game as I was when I played the first Beta Weekend.

This game has a lot of flaws, and it could get boring.

I'll save final judgement for when I start playing it on release, since I did prepurchase, but it needs to be improved a lot to differentiate itself even now from the generic, high-fantasy big bad lore it has going on.

It doesn't have a monthly fee, so I don't regret my purchase at all - I will probably level 1 or 2 characters to max if the game stays as is - but don't act like it is even close to a perfect game.

Generic high fantasy?

Did you play anything other than humans?

I was talking about the overarching plot.

Everyone is trying to stop the big bad (Dragons) from destroying everything.

That is generic.

I'm going to play Charr almost exclusively, as well.

In the broadest, vaguest sense overarching plots are pretty much always generic.

It was a little strange that they decided to co-opt the Rift plot.

Really, though, how else are you going to have a plot that will be able to encompass millions of different participants? It's either pure PVP, like EvE and how I assume Secret World is (if it's not, then Pfft.) or everyone against a single Big Bad, whether Organization, or King, or LIche or whatever. With a Fantasy setting, you can't really do anything interplanetary (Rifts already did Interplanar) and Guild Wars 1 already covered the Conquest aspect. They're trying not to have a Faction vs Faction system, so everybody can party up with friends even if some like Charr and some like Asura.

Big Bad Evil Guy isn't a terrible plot- it's a classic.

GW1 had it just fine.

Prophecies had us constantly switching sides and was a bit indecisive.
Factions had us fighting against a unique spin on a zombie outbreak.
Nightfall had us fighting against otherworldly horrors.
EotN had us fighting against primordial forces from underground.
WiK and WoC had us fighting against an entire nation.

GW2 has us fighting against dragons. Rather boring, but flavorwise they're supposed to be primordial forces. I'm just pretending they're scary elementals with wings and my apologetics keep me content.

Dragons are, indeed, rather cliche.

Well, once I saw the shadow of the nightmare or whatever in the Sylvari opening scene, it became easier to think of them as dragonlike elementals.

I don't think the Nightmare Court has anything to do with the dragons. The Nightmare Court just opposes the idea that Sylvari should be enslaved to the hive mind and wish for freedom.

The Eldar Dragons' minions are undead, the destroyers, the icebrood, and the crystalline things we saw at the end of BWE2.

The boss was called "The Shadow of the Dragon".

I think you may be overthinking it.

Nightmares =/= the nightmare court.

The dream is a manifestation of the mind of The Pale Tree (a conscious and sentient being) and The Shadow Of The Dragon is The Pale Tree subconsciously being concerned about Zhaitan/the eldar dragons, the nightmares in the dream are literally nightmares The Pale Tree is having.

The Nightmare Court on the other hand are really just amoral, hedonistic sylvari...

Well I still enjoy the game after my second beta weekend.

Played both Sylvari and the Asura, even though pvp is the main thing I enjoy in the game I actually played the personal story for my Asura a bit, was quite fun.

Finally got around to instanced pvp as well. My guardian went well smiting people with his 2h sword but damn do you die fast in those matches.

I still feel classes with more ranged abilities have the upper hand, you do alot of dmg in melee but its just far too easy to kite people, often I was running right behind someone swinging away and all I saw was miss miss miss miss.

Aye elementalist is close ish with the dagger, probably keep a staff handy for pvp by the sounds of it, had some good range on it.