Guild Wars 2 Hype Thread - GS score 9.0 (Hype met)

IS ANYBODY gonna roll a male character ? All you ever see is chicks :lol:

Sagem28

Whenever I do get the game, I'm rolling a Male Norn warrior. It's awesome how puny everyone else is in comparison.

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IS ANYBODY gonna roll a male character ? All you ever see is chicks :lol:

ChubbyGuy40

Whenever I do get the game, I'm rolling a Male Norn warrior. It's awesome how puny everyone else is in comparison.

There are crates that only Asura's can hide behind in two capture points in the Khylo map. Norns are alot easier to read their attack telegraphs, too.

I actually want GW2 just because of the environment designs.

Wanting is not getting though.

You'll be easier to spot in PvP..

There are crates that only Asura's can hide behind in two capture points in the Khylo map. Norns are alot easier to read their attack telegraphs, too.

illmatic87

I don't play MMOs for PvP.

[QUOTE="illmatic87"]

You'll be easier to spot in PvP..

There are crates that only Asura's can hide behind in two capture points in the Khylo map. Norns are alot easier to read their attack telegraphs, too.

ChubbyGuy40

I don't play MMOs for PvP.

[QUOTE="illmatic87"]The time of the stress test is silly.BrunoBRS

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[QUOTE="illmatic87"]

You'll be easier to spot in PvP..

There are crates that only Asura's can hide behind in two capture points in the Khylo map. Norns are alot easier to read their attack telegraphs, too.

illmatic87

I don't play MMOs for PvP.

• Is there a dueling function?

1. If so, do people duel often?
2. Is it fun?
3. Where do they most often duel? (if people are too busy leveling in beta, it's understandable that they don't duel)
4. And is the 1v1 balanced?

Can't wait. Getting this day one.

@Inconsistency

Gonna say it straight: There is no duelling.

They are considering it post-launch if they need it. If it does arrive, expect it to be friendly duels in a PvP looby. It goes without saying that 1v1s do happen. And they happen quite alot atop of capture points in its structured PvP mode. When they do happen, they are actually quite intense: reading attack telegraphs, landing block/counters that have long cooldowns, having to 'aim' to an extent--otherwise wasting a key ability and timing bursts/interrupting heals based on your reflexes.

I dont know how its balanced. Every class is capable of strong 1v1 builds. It you are kitted for 1v1, you most likely run the risk of being flawed in other areas; eg. a Power-Mantra Mesmer has alot of 1v1 potential, but will be very exposed in group fights compared to a Condition heavy clone Mesmer.

But, if I were to make my own judgement from my experiences, it seems balanced according to each professions amount of presence on the field.

It would be nice to have duels. I just dont like the idea of PvP being over-saturated with duelling builds by giving a 1v1 duelling option such special treatment when 2v2 and 3v3 encounters happen just as often. Especially when there is a nice spread of builds that give sPVP its well paced sense of flow it currently has right now; both in hot-join 8v8 and 5v5 tournaments

Ok guys big problem, ive lost connection twice while trying to download the game through the updated (which is pathetic, it doesn't even save progress for me or my freinds.) Now everytime I load the updated it crashes with a fatal error and brings up the submit error support page. but this happens when I uninstall and reinstall it everytime now. Terrible launcher, hope its not a sign of things to come. IS there a legal torrent version of the full pre-purchase client? or a direct download even... its not going to let me do it this way it seems.MBirdy88

Sucks about your issue, both for you and your friends. I wish I could help you, but I can't :(

I have very important questions, as I only really care about dueling:

• Is there a dueling function?

1. If so, do people duel often?
2. Is it fun?
3. Where do they most often duel? (if people are too busy leveling in beta, it's understandable that they don't duel)
4. And is the 1v1 balanced?

Inconsistancy

No duelling yet, might be added at launch, if not, players can rent servers for their 1v1 fights.

As for 1v1 being balanced. It certainly is more balanced than GW1, but the game is still balanced for team battles. Expect relative balance, I havent found anything particulary gamebreaking. Nothing in particular seems way overpowered yet, Nothing to thet scale of bright wizards or anything like that. Of course, some imbalances are there, but the game still hasnt launched yet.

Problem sorted, im just installing it on windows 8 now instead :P Rent servers? can you elaborate?MBirdy88

Good to know it was sorted at least.

As for your question.

You can rent servers in the game, and these servers are private, though you can make them open. While we havent seen these servers yet in action, they will supposedly allow for customizable rulesets and variables.

IS ANYBODY gonna roll a male character ? All you ever see is chicks :lol:

[spoiler] rolling a human female elementalist myself :oops: [/spoiler]

Sagem28

[QUOTE="illmatic87"][QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

I don't play MMOs for PvP.

Inconsistancy

• Is there a dueling function?

1. If so, do people duel often?
2. Is it fun?
3. Where do they most often duel? (if people are too busy leveling in beta, it's understandable that they don't duel)
4. And is the 1v1 balanced?

Yea, I don't do the whole "1v1" happens thing. You're generally not supposed to be fighting on roads in the first place (if you enjoy winning).

Duels or nothing, I only do group pvp as a means to an end.

Yea, I don't do the whole "1v1" happens thing. You're generally not supposed to be fighting on roads in the first place (if you enjoy winning).

Duels or nothing, I only do group pvp as a means to an end.

Yea, I don't do the whole "1v1" happens thing. You're generally not supposed to be fighting on roads in the first place (if you enjoy winning).

Duels or nothing, I only do group pvp as a means to an end.

actually, that 1v1 on my playlist is for a capture point, as the rest of the two teams were busy with the other two points. and it's not like we set it up, i was just moving from one cap to the other and happened to find him there by himself.

but no, there are no "official" duels as of yet. the other option is when your friend's server is matched up against yours (assuming you're on different home servers), you two decide on a remote place to meet up and fight, kinda like how dark souls handles the whole dueling thing.

Yea, I don't do the whole "1v1" happens thing. You're generally not supposed to be fighting on roads in the first place (if you enjoy winning).

Duels or nothing, I only do group pvp as a means to an end.

actually, that 1v1 on my playlist is for a capture point, as the rest of the two teams were busy with the other two points. and it's not like we set it up, i was just moving from one cap to the other and happened to find him there by himself.

but no, there are no "official" duels as of yet. the other option is when your friend's server is matched up against yours (assuming you're on different home servers), you two decide on a remote place to meet up and fight, kinda like how dark souls handles the whole dueling thing.

I already Pre-Purchased this game...I want it so much!

That's because you're trying to do something that isn't in the game.

and you can play with friends if they don't share your home server. you only won't be able to fight side by side on WvW.

BrunoBRS

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That's because you're trying to do something that isn't in the game.

and you can play with friends if they don't share your home server. you only won't be able to fight side by side on WvW.

Inconsistancy

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]

That's because you're trying to do something that isn't in the game.

and you can play with friends if they don't share your home server. you only won't be able to fight side by side on WvW.

BrunoBRS

Yeah, duels might be fine if they implement it properly.

But honestly, I never saw the appeal in duels, MMOPvP in my opinion is only really worthwhile in team battles, 1v1 has always been lame. And gosh, I am glad at the lack of duel request spam.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"][QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]Why not though? It's not like it has to be perfectly balanced or anything.Maroxad

Yeah, duels might be fine if they implement it properly.

But honestly, I never saw the point of duels, MMOPvP in my opinion is only really worthwhile in team battles, 1v1 has always been lame.

Implement it properly? It's not exactly a hard concept to get right, it's just allowing players to attack each other while dueling and for that duel to end when hp=0

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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] actually it has. plus, time taken into making a fully featured duel mode (they don't want to just shove in a half assed feature) takes time from balancing and working on the current PvP. as for the stress test, good god it's appropriately named. pretty stressful alright.Inconsistancy

Yeah, duels might be fine if they implement it properly.

But honestly, I never saw the point of duels, MMOPvP in my opinion is only really worthwhile in team battles, 1v1 has always been lame.

Implement it properly? It's not exactly a hard concept to get right, it's just allowing players to attack each other while dueling and for that duel to end when hp=0

That is rather basic, and boring. No gambling, mobs can attack players, no option to set up special rules, players passing the flag before the duel begins, players having to get to full hp/class resource for a fair fight (made worse that players dont get back to full strength after the duel resulting in downtime after each duel). I would rather they make an interesting duel system than a half assed one.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="Maroxad"]

Yeah, duels might be fine if they implement it properly.

But honestly, I never saw the point of duels, MMOPvP in my opinion is only really worthwhile in team battles, 1v1 has always been lame.

Maroxad

Implement it properly? It's not exactly a hard concept to get right, it's just allowing players to attack each other while dueling and for that duel to end when hp=0

That is rather basic, and boring. No gambling, mobs can attack players, no option to set up special rules, players passing the flag before the duel begins, players having to get to full hp/class resource for a fair fight (made worse that players dont get back to full strength after the duel resulting in downtime after each duel). I would rather they make an interesting duel system than a half assed one.

• Gambling: bet on the duel's outcome
• Mobs, that's a non-issue, don't duel near mobs, every MMO with duels has mobs and you don't duel next to them.
• Special rules, why? What kind of carebear mentality is this "don't use -ability- 'caues I'll QQ"
• Pass.. what? What flag, a CTF flag? Does that somehow matter?
• Full hp/cd restore, abusable, leave it out. Who cares if you have to wait a little while to have everything ready to go again.

Call a simple dueling mechanic 'half assed', start rattling off names of MMO's that have more than a simple /duel.

I guess WoW, you can't duel in instances/bg's/cities, and ignore person = Auto-decline their duel requests, and have a togglable menu option for it.. So complex!

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[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]

Implement it properly? It's not exactly a hard concept to get right, it's just allowing players to attack each other while dueling and for that duel to end when hp=0

Inconsistancy

That is rather basic, and boring. No gambling, mobs can attack players, no option to set up special rules, players passing the flag before the duel begins, players having to get to full hp/class resource for a fair fight (made worse that players dont get back to full strength after the duel resulting in downtime after each duel). I would rather they make an interesting duel system than a half assed one.

• Gambling: bet on the duel's outcome
• Mobs, that's a non-issue, don't duel near mobs, every MMO with duels has mobs and you don't duel next to them.
• Special rules, why? What kind of carebear mentality is this "don't use -ability- 'caues I'll QQ"
• Pass.. what? What flag, a CTF flag? Does that somehow matter?
• Full hp/cd restore, abusable, leave it out. Who cares if you have to wait a little while to have everything ready to go again.

Call a simple dueling mechanic 'half assed', start rattling off names of MMO's that have more than a simple /duel.

Gambling: Yes, but who says the other party will stick to their promise.
Mobs attacking: Yes you can go back where it is safe. But
Special rules: To make duels more varied and interesting.
Pass the flag/banner whatever you call it, while the duel begins SOME melees will try to run to the ranged attacker totally breakin any balance,
Full restore, yes, this can be abused it poorly implemented. But it could also be well implemented.

EverQuest 2 allows for players to bet on the duels. And really, there is a reason a lot of modern mmos dont have duelling.

As for your edit, doesnt change the fact taht people annoy me outside when I am questing or doing dailies/ect. Sure I can ignore them, but do I seriously need to ignore everyone who puts a duel at me. An autodecline option, like one that exists in EverQuest 2 would be so much more effective and convenient. Dont get me wrong, adding duels would be a plus if well implemented, but not having duels in is not necessarily a minus.

Gambling: Yes, but who says the other party will stick to their promise.
Mobs attacking: Yes you can go back where it is safe. But
Special rules: To make duels more varied and interesting.
Pass the flag/banner whatever you call it, while the duel begins SOME melees will try to run to the ranged attacker totally breakin any balance,
Full restore, yes, this can be abused it poorly implemented. But it could also be well implemented.

EverQuest 2 allows for players to bet on the duels. And really, there is a reason a lot of modern mmos dont have duelling.

As for your edit, doesnt change the fact taht people annoy me outside when I am questing or doing dailies/ect. Sure I can ignore them, but do I seriously need to ignore everyone who puts a duel at me. An autodecline option, like one that exists in EverQuest 2 would be so much more effective and convenient. Dont get me wrong, adding duels would be a plus if well implemented, but not having duels in is not necessarily a minus.

Maroxad

When the duel flag drops, then 3 - 2 - 1 duel!? Yea, melee runs at ranged, you just start running away with them just as the duel starts. No one just stands max distance letting ranged get every advantage they can. Or do ranged not have any roots/snares, and melee have no closers or something?

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The full restore isn't particularly necessary, could be done by: Setting it up to tag all cd's used in duel and just reset all tagged cd's and set hp to 100%, probably need a limit on regions for that though, prevent it in bg's, dungeons and near world bosses/PvE events...

I guess at most a normalization of gear level could be a useful "special rule", but not really any more than that. Though I bet people would cry about that: "You didn't work for your gear, why should you be able to duel me and win?" (dumb complaint imo, but it would happen)

I've never played GW1...is there anything I should be expecting?ShadowsDemon

I've never played GW1...is there anything I should be expecting?ShadowsDemon

Well was able to play a bit, and gotten the grenadekit which was pretty neat. Now to just wait a couple weeks, unless they're going to slip in another stress test.

How do I take screenshots without the UI and chat boxes? I can't seem to find the answer on google or in the options menu.JohnF111

Ctrl+Shift+H.

Well was able to play a bit, and gotten the grenadekit which was pretty neat. Now to just wait a couple weeks, unless they're going to slip in another stress test.

[QUOTE="JohnF111"]How do I take screenshots without the UI and chat boxes? I can't seem to find the answer on google or in the options menu.Wanderer5

Ctrl+Shift+H.

screenshot dumping time. fraps is a bad photographer, so out of 61 shots taken in 10 minutes, only 4 were salvageable.

[spoiler] fighting a boss monster we found:

and his wolves getting gooed by my necro friend:

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[spoiler] what do these moas know that we don't? there were like 50 of them on top of that lake.

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[spoiler] random miniboss mob we found. my friend is the tiny dude with pointy ears:

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[spoiler] scenery shots:

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and before i forget...

GUILD WARS 2: THE ONLY GAME WHERE YOU CAN LEVEL UP BY SCREAMING AT BUNNIES:

and before anyone asks, yes, that's an actual quest.

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"]I've never played GW1...is there anything I should be expecting?illmatic87

[QUOTE="illmatic87"][QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"]I've never played GW1...is there anything I should be expecting?ShadowsDemon

[QUOTE="illmatic87"][QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"]I've never played GW1...is there anything I should be expecting?ShadowsDemon

assuming this translates to gw2.. my life is over :cry:

missed on today's test? well don't worry, you can try again tomorrow, from 4pm until 8pm PST.

missed on today's test? well don't worry, you can try again tomorrow, from 4pm until 8pm PST.

BrunoBRS

Link not working, but wow lol.

Edit: https://twitter.com/guildwars2

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missed on today's test? well don't worry, you can try again tomorrow, from 4pm until 8pm PST.

Wanderer5

Link not working, but wow lol.

Just try thishttps://twitter.com/guildwars2

Jeez and I was wondering if maybe if they're going to squeeze in another stress test and there it is, tomorrow.:P With it being later I can have more time with it (probably just WvW stuff).

Jeez and I was wondering if maybe if they're going to squeeze in another stress test and there it is, tomorrow.:P With it being later I can have more time with it (probably just WvW stuff).

Wanderer5

[QUOTE="illmatic87"][QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="illmatic87"] Bad school grades.ShadowsDemon

IIRC 4 unit folks have to submit a writing project, that's ashame, Guild Wars 2 will be great :P.

[QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="illmatic87"][QUOTE="ShadowsDemon"][QUOTE="illmatic87"] Bad school grades.illmatic87

IIRC 4 unit folks have to submit a writing project, that's ashame, Guild Wars 2 will be great :P.

One thing that bothers me is, I clicked through the server select too quickly assuming it was just like any other MMO. now I was locked on a homeworld away from my freinds, which was annoying to say the least. If you have 0 characters why does it need to lock in place?

I hope that doesn't stick to release, I am not buying 1800 gems just to transfer due to a misunderstanding.

Other than that, can't complain.

Takes the crap out of other mmos and makes it fun.

I can play it as a single player game, and jump in with freinds or they can jump in with me to do lower level content and still feel rewarded. and pvp at any time.

Cannot complain, not into the old system anymore, ive grown up. WoW style mmo truly is for people with little life.