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Guild wars 2

Over the weekend was the second beta event for Guild wars 2. So far Arenanet has impressed me greatly with the game. I was never a big Guild wars fan since I was playing wow at the time, but I have to say I am really, really impressed.

Is there anyone else out there looking forwards to Guild Wars 2 as well? If so what are you playing as, or are interested in playing?

I tried out a few classes and so far and the two I really like is the mesmer and the elementalist. To those who have no idea what the crazy person is babbling about, the mesmer uses illusion based magic and can be ranged or melee and the elementalist is ranged that uses elemental magic (fire, water/ice, lighting/air, earth).

What I am most impressed about is the different spells you can unlock depending on the weapon and weapon combos you use. For my mesmer I like the sword and torch combo for melee and the greatsword or scepter/torch for ranged.

For my elementalist, I liked using daggers, but quickly fell in love with using the staff.

I do have to say that the game sometimes got frustrating from time to time when the difficulty of a quest seemed disproportionate to the level. I can freely admit however that I am not used to playing on my own so much anymore as I've been playing mmos with my husband the last three years so my soloing skills have atrophied.

I can't wait for the next beta event, or even another 7 hr stress test!

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Torch as a weapon? That's awesome! :) What other classes are torches useful for? Reminds me of old mobs with torches and pitchforks like in Frankenstein movies hehe.

Wait.. are there also pitchforks in the game? :O

No pitchforks... or at least not weapons, but you get spears and tridents for use underwater which is different to your out of water weapons.

Uhm As far as I could tell it was only for more caster like classes. It illuminated the area small bit when you used it too.

heehee! I just googled, "guild wars 2 torch mob*" and didn't see any pictures of them... yet! I bet there will be at some point though. :)

*Yes, I'm nuts.

hehe should get a group together with our torches out.

Yeah, I was playing with an engineer (and a guardian on last beta) and found that stuff was pretty difficult. I actually put down my Charr necro because she couldn't find stuff appropriately leveled that wasn't kicking her ass. Some of the areas seem to be overtuned or designed for whole groups of people, which isn't going to work all that well once there are less people going through the leveling zones. (I mostly solo and I have NOT died as much in MONTHS of playing SW:TOR or D3 or WoW as I have in GW in just a few days of beta time.)

I can't wait for release. I foresee a loooot of time being spent. (And probably money because seriously only 4 character slots?)

That was a bit annoying! My hubby went from a zone/quest that was 25 to one that was 29+ in the span of 30 seconds back when his character was just 26 about to ding 27.
There are obvious rough patches in the game, and in the personal quests that will probably be ironed out.
I feel the same way about the character slots! I had effectively only 3 slots to work with since I had a friend's character put onto my account. I ended up buying an extra slot with the promotion they emailed us.

Yeah, I didn't get nearly that far, but I had a great deal of difficulty even at low levels because there would only be a few events available for my level. My character has had a serious amount of trouble finding stuff between 6-8. I really hate having to continually do over events because I needed to level. I also noticed that I only got the "Help XYZ person's area" only once, so it was then dependent entirely on random events.

I kept ending up with quests that were on average 2 levels higher than me. Good thing the asura gates were there! I ended up running around the human area for a level and a half on my norn just to play catch up with my experience before I went back to the norn areas.

Yup, me too. I died lots because I couldn't handle if I got more than one mob in those circumstances if there was nobody around (and there did NOT seem to be as many low levels around this weekend, I suspect because most people were playing their higher level toons to see new stuff). And WTF is it with that area by the hunting lodge in the human zone where nearly ALL the mobs are VETERAN???? UGH.

I feel like a noob cause I didn't realize the asura gates were actually portals until like two hours before the end of the beta. I thought they were unimplemented portals to asura zones! LOL

I've been playing everything but Guardian over the weekend and like you I really liked my Mesmer and my Ele. I always hated playing Mesmer in GW1 so its great to see that they have made it a bit more user friendly.

I love that your skills change based on your weapons too. I wasn't a big fan of the Engineer until I got myself a nice rifle and now she's one of my favourite classes!

Like you I found a lot of the personal quests really difficult, but then the whole thing is a beta so I fed that back to them.

The most annoying thing I found playing was that everyone was expecting the game to be perfect. It's a beta of course there are going to be problems. You're playing to help find those problems and to provide feedback! I blocked so many people who were bitching about bugs!

Oh it was horrible! There was one person who was complaining for an hour straight that they couldn't find the last Point of Interest on the map to have it 100% done, and then complained even more when they 'wiki'ed' it and found that half the point of interests weren't even on the wiki map... I was like wtf? its Beta! More than a few people were wtf too.

I know I found my fair share of bugs and broken quests and more than once provided feedback in regards to both. I think the main issue is that the game is so perfcet looking already and it really doesn't feel like it is beta (until you get your but kicked multiple times, especially in personal quests!)

Yeah I think how well developed the game was definitely added to people having unreal expectations. Also I think the fact that pre-purchasing got you access made people think the weekends were early access rather than testing.

Still I am in total love. I mean all the classes I played were fun, some more so than others. The storylines were great and the combat much improved on GW1! And so much game time and replayability :)

I can't wait!

Also don't forget the jumping! Coudln't jump in gw1 and that was so frustrating!
Also, because the game looks so polished, I can see why people think that there should be no bugs or less problems. I'll be sad to see my beta characters go once launch comes (I haven't focused on one character too much for that reason)

The lack of jumping didn't really bother me, but GW was the first MMO I'd ever played and most of the RPGs I'd played previously didn't really have jumping either.

Yeah I've been working out which storylines I want for my characters once they are wiped. Its been nice being able to play around and make sure I'm not too attached, of course I'll end up with one of each class and possibly a couple extra to make sure I play each storyline through anyway :)

The differing storylines certainly is interesting. I love playing through all the options (which is why I am addicted to Dragon age)
During the stress test, I made and played several different charrs just to find out which legion I liked the most.

You 'n me both. ;)

Yeah, it is definitely a more polished beta than the ongoing WoW beta which has had content added a little bit at a time.

Hah, I really disliked the rifle spells on my engineer! I was running around with a pistol and shield because the shield spells helped a LOT.

I seriously hope they drop down the difficulty level some because dying all the time isn't a whole lot of fun. (Although even then I enjoyed it enough that I probably will still be totally addicted.)

Yeah? Next weekend I might check out the shield spells then. I basically dropped my rifle turret, fired overcharging shot to blow myself backwards and then used blunderbust to finish anyone off who came too close. It worked much better for my gamestyle than the pistol I was using previously.

Yeah they do need to dial down the difficulty, that's one of the biggest problems I have with GW:EotN. You're already at max level and basically I can't finish the game on easy mode which is pretty demoralising! It's nice to make things harder for the hard core players, but they need to remember the casual gamers too!

I never got around to an engineer, but they sounded really fun to play.

And I agree the difficulty for some quests was ridiculous. Like there was a spot that was level 8-10 with mobs all of that level... with either a bugged event or something where there were a bunch of level 15 mobs clustered around the waypoint. 5-7 levels is huge gap that not even the best or the most skilled player could hope to overcome.
I am hoping this was an 'oops' on the beta and not something they plan on implementing at launch.

Yeah here's hoping they fix that. I found playing up to about level 10 wasn't too bad and then it was like wow I can't actually do anything. Being mobbed by a group of level 17 monsters on your way to a level 15 task was not cool!

I really really loved my engineer, although I was hearing comments that they are underpowered and that definitely went along with my experience. I expect that's something they will fix before release though.

I HOPE they change the level disparity. I also was annoyed that if I went back to areas that I had done to try to get more levels, I didn't get the "Help this person" quest anymore, just whatever random events popped up, and there were times I went to each area and there were no events. If I could repeat them, it would still be annoying but not anywhere near as bad.

The spell shields... one of them electrifies your shield so that when you get attacked it does damage to your attacker, and the other one has a knockback function which is AWESOME in some places (although seems to be a little unreliable; sometimes it didn't do anything and I'm not sure if that's a bug or not).

Uh-huh, my husband and one of my gfs were going through EoTN content and could not do a lot of it with just the hired companions, and I didn't have a max level character so... :( There definitely need to be more options for casual players, and players with disabilities that don't have the same reaction time and stuff.

Oooo that sounds like an awesome skill. I will definitely be playing around a bit more come next beta weekend!

Yeah I think GW really needs to cater to the more casual gamer. My guild and I made it through the EotN storyline but only just!

That's why I loved using a sword and a torch on my mesmer. The torch allowed me to have defensive spells

Ooo, I will keep that in mind. I didn't try out a mesmer because, ugh, 4 slots. >_< But come release I will probably be dumping some cash to up that to at least enough to have one of each class (... knowing me probably more but hey).

I really need to play a bit more with torches!

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