Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

I've been playing the PvE for...a bit less than Ush has. Still nearly a year now, though. And there is tons of stuff I've yet to do. And that's just with my main character. I have 6 fully leveled up characters in varying states of game completion 😛 I will be busy with the PvE for a good long while.

The graphics that we saw in the trailer were still amazing. And it's still a ways out from the game's release, too. It will likely look better by the time it comes out, and ArenaNet has always said, as Ush said, that it will be designed to run well on mid-range computers. Frankly, it was beautiful. Though GW1 is still amazingly beautiful, and it's an aging game.

PvP has never really been my thing, though the professions I like the best (Dervish and Ritualist) are really not very good for it. Though I'll always be amused by the time I decided to go into Random Arena with my Dervish, faced off against a group of 4 Dervishes (all using avatars, which is just dumb in PvP), and shredded all of them. Or shadow-stepping in Jade Quarry. Hehehe. That's as much as I do, though.

I agree that the basic focal point is the PvE, but for me interaction with other players is really important. I find it a great experience to play with other people, and I can't bear to play with henchmen and heroes. So I PvE'd until it was bearable enough to get a group, but after Eye of the North it was just impossible.

I can also see how people don't like PvP as much as you actually need all of the expansions in order to be at least a tad bit effective. The money that you would spend in order to buy all of the expansions is pretty intense to say the least. I bought them gradually, so eh.

the thing I loved about guild wars was the clever skill design.. it really felt like they put so much thought and care into each one.. made it a joy to try them all out

skill implementation was awsome, well, through Prophesies & Factions, With the introduction of NF they lost a bit of balance with their Hybrid Professions (loved the campaign - hated the new classes). But for me what made the skill system shine was the limited skill slots. It added a whole new level of tactics to the game.

Add me as 'Lord Spider Vodka'

Nice name 😛

I had an original Lord Spider, but it was a character that I deleted. The next day when I tried to recreate him, the name was gone. ❌

Preordered it today 😄

A summary of stuff discussed at PAX. Seems there are more interviews coming.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/guild-wars-2-pax-2009-t992.html?amp;

Ill be one of those little elf things with technology, they look cool.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
A summary of stuff discussed at PAX. Seems there are mroe interviews coming.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/guild-wars-2-pax-2009-t992.html?amp;

Ooooh. I hadn't seen that thread there yet. I've seen some of the things in there, though, and somewhere (I found it last night) there are scans of that artbook.

Which I really want.

Originally posted by Burning thought
Ill be one of those little elf things with technology, they look cool.

Asura? Yeah, they're pretty neat.

This line interests me:

"Game mechanics won't trickle down, but GW2 lore will trickle down to GW"

The idea that material can be inserted into GW that links into GW2 events raises all sorts of possibilities.

That intrigued me as well. Especially combined with how the lead of the live team said that she wants to do more small content updates instead of big ones like in April.

(I'm surprised you didn't comment on the dragon-infected hippo line!)

http://www.massively.com/2009/11/10/ncsoft-hints-at-guild-wars-2-beta-in-2010-launch-in-2011/

I was hoping for end of 2010, but I'm really not surprised.

Who knows, though. It really doesn't confirm anything either way.

(oh, Ush, I still say we should try out the Codex Arena. From what I've heard about it, Dervishes and Paragons absolutely kill at it)

2011? Jeez. Might as well be never.

I'm not joining randoms for a PvP fight, Peach. Organised teams would just wipe us and the rewards are few.

2011 is a long time indeed. Still- GW is a MASSIVE franchise; they can afford to take their time.

There might not even be a world by 2011!

Originally posted by BackFire
There might not even be a world by 2011!

ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

I'll try and get in for the beta, I guess. I hope the requirements are not too stringent.

Meh, I still want to try it.

And I'm definitely going to be seeing about getting in to beta, of course.