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Just thought I would give you all an update, and a question for all of you:

Update: I shamelessly stole the name Dakka Korps from our Mechwarrior Brethren, and so that is the name of the guild as of right now, if anyone doesn't like it, please let me know now.

Question: What class/race are you guys going as For your main character. I am willing to go as whatever the group needs me, but I am leaning more towards Warrior, Guardian, or Engineer, and I was wondering what all of you guys were going as so as I could start plotting ahead.

Some sort of firearms user. Warrior with rifle to pull, or thief with twin pistols or pistol and dagger, or perhaps an engineer with rifle primary.

Most likely Warrior with 2H sword or gungineer.

None as I havent decided if I am going to play it but maybe when the time is rigth for a new MMO

Hey guys, as I'm either leader or coleader depending on how how we arrange thing and how slarg feels I felt I should post

I'm going to be running a human twin pistol engy with a focus on utility skills (so support) as my dakka guild char but I'll also be running an asura staff guardian and a sylvari 2h hammer warrior in case we need those.

Out of interest has anyone else played the game yet?

PS, invite Zara Silverblade if you haven't already as that is my gw1 main.

EDIT: oh sod off, apparently my graphics driver issue means I can't play guildwars -.-

I haven't gotten a beta invite (they're doing small closed beta tests this year and possibly next year).

I meant at conventions

They have done two years of conventions all over the world so I was wondering if I was the only one.

So going Necromancer or Pyromaniac in this one.

By pyromaniac do you mean engy with lots of explosives, fire focussed elementalist, guardian with a torch or ...

I'm going to stop now

The elementalist one.

Hehe, good times.

I wouldn't worry too much about balance or synergy, most classes can support/damage/control with most skillsets.

Melissia wrote:Some sort of firearms user. Warrior with rifle to pull, or thief with twin pistols or pistol and dagger, or perhaps an engineer with rifle primary.

Not a Commando?

Devastator wrote:Most likely Warrior with 2H sword or gungineer.

corpsesarefun wrote:Hey guys, as I'm either leader or coleader depending on how how we arrange thing and how slarg feels I felt I should post

I'm going to be running a human twin pistol engy with a focus on utility skills (so support) as my dakka guild char but I'll also be running an asura staff guardian and a sylvari 2h hammer warrior in case we need those.

Out of interest has anyone else played the game yet?

PS, invite Zara Silverblade if you haven't already as that is my gw1 main.

EDIT: oh sod off, apparently my graphics driver issue means I can't play guildwars -.-

MrDwhitey wrote:So going Necromancer or Pyromaniac in this one.

So that's a Warrior/Theif/Engy, Warrior/Engy, Engy, and a Ele/Nec.....

I'll probably go Asura/Human Guardian, Sylvari Ranger/Necromancer, or a Mesmer of some sort.


Hey Corpse, can you fill us in on the various Racial Abilities? None of those have been released yet.

Definitely gonna go Sylvari or Norn, myself. Possibly a norn engineer just to spite the concept of playing to type.

Slarg232 wrote:Not a Commando?

What class is that?

I only know the ones on the site.

Melissia wrote:Definitely gonna go Sylvari or Norn, myself. Possibly a norn engineer just to spite the concept of playing to type.

Slarg232 wrote:Not a Commando?

What class is that?

I only know the ones on the site.

It was a "Class" revealed back on April 1st





That's.... a Big Chicken.


Oh, I might also end up going Charr for a Warrior.

I'll probably have 3 mains. Charr dual axe/rifle warrior, Asuran mace+shield/hammer guardian and Sylvari pistol/shield engi.

I'll make one of each class sooner or later anyway.

Racial abilities are minimal, they tend to be flavour skills (asura can summon a golem mecha suit that any of their team mates can then get into and use, it's cool as hell but not particularly powerful) or weaker versions of class skills that help you out around the starting area (humans start off with a weak self healing skill that removes conditions for example).

Really race is just about how you want to look, what personal story you want to play and where in the world you want to start out.

For those that don't know the asura start out in a giant pseudo-scifi floating city made of stone, the sylvari start out in in a rainforest, the norn start out in some mountains/arctic forest, the humans start out in a temperate coastal grassland with some nearby swamps and the charr start out in what was once temperate grassland but is now industrialised, polluted and corrupted.

Most of the information is on the website (in my sig)

What about the Hounds of Balthazar? Nothing too special, there?

It's weaker than all the other (non-racial) elites though.

Racials are great for flavour (summoning hellhounds and mecha suits? awesome ) and for low level players but aren't very powerful.

corpsesarefun wrote:It's weaker than all the other (non-racial) elites though.

Racials are great for flavour (summoning hellhounds and mecha suits? awesome ) and for low level players but aren't very powerful.

You make me sad; I was planning on having a Alt who was running around with the Fiery Gauntlets of Balthazar, Fiery Dragon Sword, and Hounds of Balzahar is not a good idea :(

It would be awesome!

Especially with a torch offhand

Effective and awesomely themed are different things though.

corpsesarefun wrote:
Effective and awesomely themed are different things though.

That's the problem, though :(

To be fair GW2 is pretty balenced, you COULD feasibly run around with that set up if you were clever about it.

Well, I was always known as an experimenter with builds, so we shall see.

Anyone willing to do the Challenge Mission for "Glints Challenge"? I need a Cloth of the Brotherhood in order to advance my Hall of Monuments.

Alternatively, I will pay to get a CotB.

I honestly don’t know what Class/Race combination I’m going to choose.

In regards to races, I’m tied between human and Sylvari. In regards to classes, I’m tied between Warrior, Guardian and Ranger.

Ideally I want to try and recreate the look and feel of my Dervish. I’ll most likely end up playing as a Guardian although I’m toying with the idea of playing a Great sword wielding Ranger.

A greatsword ranger would capture the whole "whirling dervish" barbarian aspect very nicely however using a pet is pretty much compulsory with a ranger so perhaps a greatsword guardian instead?

I plan to run my main as either warrior or guardian, though which of the two... I'm currently not sure.

Smashy-smashy or shieldy-shieldy? Your choice, I guess.

Or maybe even shooty-shooty or burny-burny.

Both guardians and warriors can be smashy-smashy and tanky-tanky really

Guardians can't use guns though, nor can warriors set themselves on fire to give themselves buffs.

Swordwind wrote:Smashy-smashy or shieldy-shieldy? Your choice, I guess.

Or maybe even shooty-shooty or burny-burny.

Engineers can go shooty-shieldy.

So what are your thoughts on the 8th profession guys?

It's almost definitely a mesmer yet most of the mesmer mechanics (hexes, energy denial, interrupts) are removed from the game, invalid and very rare respectively...