Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve had a concept bouncing around in my cranium. We have a few small War-centric channels around, but they are all basically one person which can limit what you can do. I thought it would be nice to get all of the more active forum users and get them together to do War content for all parts of the game.

I know I stay some stupid/not well thought out stuff which is why I would like to do collaborative work so that we get the most well-rounded opinions. I don’t think I would be able to commit a huge amount of time because I’m working full time and wrapping up my college edumacations but I have enough free time to be active.

Some things that would have to get done:

• Channel/Group name. I’m kind of partial to “Forum Warriors” because nothing makes me laugh more than taking a negative phrase and embracing it.

• Players experienced in PvE, PvP, and WvW.

• Writer/Editors/Commentators. I’m a communications major and a part of this idea is that I get practice in these areas, but I am no expert in any 1 field, which is why I want people to fact check me. It would be nice to get someone who’s more active in the competitive scene of every mode in on this. I might also need to save up for a computer upgrade because GW2 does not play well with AMD stuff. Which leads to the next thing…

• “Cameramen”/“Actors”. It’s one thing to show a optimal build rotation in PvP/WvW, it’s another to see someone play it against another competent player. As I said before, I can record the game somewhat, but it would be nice if any of you with beast machines would be willing to record and help demonstrate.

Some ideas for content:

• High quality guides. There’s plenty of good guides out there, but sometimes they get overlooked due to poor mic quality or the like. The quality is good but the presentation could use help. With multiple people you can also go mock battles and shoot it from multiple angles (first person mode YAY!).

• “How to Fight X.” A video series showing how to best face a particular class. What skills to look out for, what to use your countermeasures on, etc.

• Some sort of Theorycrafting series. Pretty straight forward. If we come up with a promising build, we show it off.

• A series on issues with the Warriors class. I don’t want this to be too ranty. I would like something that is politely structured and is directed more towards the balance team. Many people don’t have time to read a long post, but most have enough to watch a short video. Rather than a long video a bunch of short videos that quickly highlights an issue and offers a reasonable solution. By reasonable I mean something that is simple in concept and wouldn’t require programming entirely new systems.

I don’t know if anyone will actually be interested, but I thought it would be fun. Even if you don’t like me, I would actually want you to be in on this even more because every team needs differing opinions.

Reserved for future posts

Make peace, not war.

/hippie

Well, I’d definitely encourage this. It always seemed strange to me as to why all other classes have stickied guides where warrior does not. Even though, like you said, there are good guides out there. Take Miku’s PvE guide for example. He is still forced to bump it every now and then to keep it up.

Cygnus.6903:

Well, I’d definitely encourage this. It always seemed strange to me as to why all other classes have stickied guides where warrior does not. Even though, like you said, there are good guides out there. Take Miku’s PvE guide for example. He is still forced to bump it every now and then to keep it up.

Maybe I’ll get in touch and ask if he’s interested.

I’d be interested in helping out as I was planning on making a youtube channel for Gw2.

JackSpacer.4320:

I’d be interested in helping out as I was planning on making a youtube channel for Gw2.

Noted, how powerful is your computer? I can play the game fine but I’m not sure I’ll be able to record at a decent frame rate. I can write/edit no problem and plan to upgrade once I graduate.

Why youtube when you can just host each other on twitch.tv?

I highly doubt youtube is more informative than being a streamer really.

BlackTruth.6813:

Why youtube when you can just host each other on twitch.tv?

I highly doubt youtube is more informative than being a streamer really.

On Youtube you can add effects that make for much easier viewing. There’s also the fact that you can edit things down to be as precise as possible. I’ve seen so many videos that have good content, but it’s bogged down by pauses or the presenter getting sidetracked.

Also, a good number of people do not have fast enough internet for Twitch. I know that until recently, I did not. I could play, and Youtube was low quality but watchable but Twitch was nothing but constant buffering.

When I think Twitch, I think tourneys or pure gameplay, I don’t think quality guides.