Guild Wars 2

[xer0s]

I haven't got to play any of the beta, but I'm still very interested in this game.

Could someone explain this name issue?

[Eraser]

Unique names, couple of million of players, do the math. Many names already taken. The MyCoolName537@hotmail.com syndrome.

[Ryoki]

Played for a while on sunday, it's okay eh. Doesn't draw me in the way WoW did back in the day, but then i wasn't really expecting it to. Also, thank fuck for that

There's also a lot i don't understand yet, like the obscure skill points system. I currently have 8 of the things unspent, since i'm only allowed to spend them on a few skills i don't really want, until i reach level 20 apparently, then i get to pick new ones. Wtf? And the professions, haven't figured those out at all yet either. And are there really no instances to play with your buddies before level 40?

It's certainly a very pretty game though, and the big events are excellent fun. And Engineer is a pretty cool class, i be deploying turrets and throwing mines and not afraid of anything.

[Mat Linnett]

Ryoki, get yer arse on Ring of Fire and send me a Steam message. There's quite a few of us playing together now.

[xer0s]

Maybe I should just buy this...

[Pauly]

Very good game.

[Ryoki]

Ryoki, get yer arse on Ring of Fire and send me a Steam message. There's quite a few of us playing together now.

including me, durk, lou, kit

This is indeed the server i am on, huzzah

[Eraser]

So I caved and bought it, hoping that it will run on my laptop. It's downloading right now.
What server should I sign up to to be able to play with you guys, or does that not really matter?

[Eraser]

Yeah I scrolled back a few posts, saw Mat mention Ring of Fire and joined that. What's your nicks? Mine is Eraser.7345

[Eraser]

Ok I have no clue what the hell is going on in this game... Sensory overload.
Runs decent enough at low settings though.

[Silicone_Milk]

Thinking about picking this up tonight. Need something to replace the mindless tedium of WoW.

[Eraser]

Oh, my character name is "Cressen Windfall"

[Transient]

I play as Trichom or Ser Trichom on Henge of Denravi. Still low-level toons thanks to busy work shit, but I'm enjoying it nonetheless.

[Eraser]

Not enjoying it as much as gw1 yet. I wanna do big missions with 8 player parties and, more importantly, not have complete strangers interfere with whatever I'm doing.

[Transient]

/me bunny hops a train of mobs into Eraser's event

[Silicone_Milk]

what kind of characters are you guys playing? I've tried out necromancer and engineer so far. Really liking the engineer. I'm also about to try out a guardian

[fKd]

ive rolled an engie and a hunter so far. very fun game. if ya thinking about getting it, do. 9/10

[Eraser]

I went for Ranger. I played a Monk and a Ranger in GW1, but since a Monk doesn't exist anymore I thought I'd go for Ranger because I'm familiar with that style of play.

[Transient]

I played an Engineer to 14 and a Warrior to 13 so far. Engineers are fun and the idea of turrets for temporary pets is interesting, but the kits you can use all suck. Warriors, on the other hand, have all kinds of choices in combat and I'm still figuring out what I want to stick with. Maybe dual-wielding swords...

[Eraser]

Google maps type of thing for the GW2 world map:

http://gw2cartographers.com

[Transient]

I never realized just how rectangular each zone is before.

[Eraser]

That's probably because the traversable area in each section isn't rectangular.

[Eraser]

Last night I was running around in the Godslost swamp when the Shadow Behemoth spawned. I went over to fight him but the game dropped down to like 5 fps which kind of sucked. He's pretty damn huge though. But he went down rather quickly with only a small group of people, which was a tad disappointing. Definitely do love the idea of these chained meta events and things having an impact on the world. I read that in later areas, (failing) such events have a much bigger impact on the world which sounds pretty good to me

[Eraser]

hmm, they should make it so that it says which professions can use a piece of armor or weapon instead of just saying you can't use it. Now I have to memorize and ask if my non-ranger buddies can use it.

[U4EA]

It's not that hard to remember is it?

Heavy: Guardian, Warrior
Medium: Engineer, Ranger, Thief
Light: Elementalist, Mesmer, Necromancer