Guild Wars 2

For the past few weeks we’ve been working hard on creating a Guild Wars 2 Variety show that hopes to feature content from all over the Guild Wars 2 community and it’s Finally here! The Pilot Episode of THE BAM SHOW!

We really need the support or at the very least some interest from the GW2 community to make this project work.

Please leave feedback even if you don’t watch the whole thing!

1:34 – News In Briefs
4:05 – Texx Live!
5:50 – Community Spotlight
19:06 – Ad Break
20:06 – BUGS!
22:18 – Plank’n
23:24 – NPC’s Say The Darndest Things
24:37 – Cover Your Shame!
26:53 – Wars Need Guilds Too!
27:55 – KaabRant!
32:06 – Texx (still)Live!
33:25 – Final Words
36:20 – Credits
37:06 – Bloopers

As always please feel free to email us at DodgeThisBam@Yahoo.com.au with topics for future videos.

If you don’t have a YouTube account or don’t like posting there (VERY understandable!) Please feel free to leave feedback here instead.
Thanks for your time!

The heck? How do you embed videos like that into your posts? Been trying to for ages now. Can’t get it to work.

Lol, nicely done. I still see people whinging to have the dungeons in GW2 nerfed because they are too hard. Just focus on 3 roles instead of one and you’re set.

Vexor.3640:

Bravo! Well done. Now take a deep breath.

:D

HAHA! Nice work mate.

Worked hard on this! Hope you enjoy it.

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Play Guild Wars! – Kaaboose – Parody of “Hardware Store” by ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

I see some people have embedded their video into the forums, Anyone mind telling me how to do this? I understand not wanting to follow a link off the site.

Were you ressing and applying boons? Removing conditions? If so I’d say you were pulling your weight.

Lokai.7850:

Sad truth is you absolutely need someone running a control spec, someone running a buff spec, at the VERY least. Anyone specs into a pure damage spec because they find it enjoyable is just going to get creamed. Bigger problem is by time you realize this you have sunk hours and lots of cash into your gear…and now have to switch it out JUST for that dungeon… that just seems silly i hated it in other mmos and i hope so to.

Or… You could do what my guild does and just have everyone go in with well rounded setups and change what you’re doing on the fly.
And by utilizing combo fields you can easily keep plenty of buffs and debuffs up to minimize incoming damage. I do also recall Anet saying that while you CAN extremely spec for damage or healing in guild Wars 2 your character will suffer in other areas if you do.
I’ve also noticed (at least with my class) that the defensive trees have some major traits that can up damage, and the the offensives tress have defense ones as well. What’s stopping you from utilizing some of these? You won’t have to respec, you can just change them back any time out of combat for free.
Lastly, and please correct me if I’m wrong here, But can’t you heavily alter your stats simply by switching out your accessories?

Gods, What has happened to gaming?
I’m starting to feel old! Back in my day we played games for fun and for the challenge!
The tokens you get do give you unique looking gear however.

Oxe.6142:

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the question about PuG’s for explorable dungeons, we’ve said all along that explorable dungeons are intended for highly organized/skilled groups of players. That is absolutely the case

Forcing the overwhelming majority of dungeon content to require this level of competency and cooperation will hurt the longevity of this game. There are only 8 dungeons, 3 max level and the scaled down versions don’t give proper rewards. Dungeons are the only thing that you can do as an organized group outside of PvP. Having 3/4 of the dungeon content unpuggable severely limits peoples options to just pick up the game and play. If all explorable modes are this difficult and require this much synergy to complete the overwhelming majority of the community won’t do them. There isn’t much else to do. Arena Net should take a serious look at their design philosophy and ask themselves if they really want to be the “best MMO ever” because a game that nobody plays due to of lack of accessible content won’t be.

Look at what happened in Cataclysm. Blizzard bowed downed to the communities whining and nerfed the hell out of the dungeons and raids. it’s pretty much became “Show up and hope you loot drops” It’s one of the reasons I stopped playing.
There is other content you can besides dungeons and if you want an easy mode dungeon experience just join a dynamic event in the over world.

And lastly story mode is not that hard. Have a look here:
http://youtu.be/Gihg4ciH3og
That is my first dungeon run done at level 35. I did try it in BETA but it was so buggy and we were down a player so we didn’t get far.

While you obviously can’t re-spec in the middle of a dungeon you can change weapons, skills and major talents out of combat. You’ll probably notice I did this a few times during the video (And then stuffed up using them correctly!)

AsteriskCGY.5931:

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/relativist-fallacy.html

Ha! Still that doesn’t change the fact I feel strongly that the dungeons should NOT be nerfed. It’s one of the things that killed WoW for me.

This is my guilds FIRST real time in Ascalonian Catacombs (We tried it with 4 in BETA and made it just past the first trap room)
Four guildeis and one pug, And yes we were all on vent. (MMO’s are ment to be a social experience people! Install some voice software!)

http://youtu.be/Gihg4ciH3og

It took less then an hour with around 5 deaths.
What’s the big frikken deal?

I don’t get the gripes with the dungeons. All I see are complaints that the overworld stuff is too easy, and that dungeons are too hard. Which is it?

Also here is my FIRST real time in Ascalonian Catacombs (We tried it with 4 in BETA and made it just past the first trap room)

http://youtu.be/Gihg4ciH3og

It took less then an hour with around 5 deaths.

It is my understanding that Explorable mode is hands down the hardest PvE task in Guild Wars 2. While I do agree there needs to be a better system for looking (Or at least a dedicated chat channel) what you are doing is akin to trying to Look for a raiding group on the fly in old school WoW. You need a guild or some close knit players for this kind of thing.

I don’t get the gripes with the dungeons. All I see are complaints that the overworld stuff is too easy, and that dungeons are too hard. Which is it?

Also here is my FIRST real time in Ascalonian Catacombs (We tried it with 4 in BETA and made it just past the first trap room)

http://youtu.be/Gihg4ciH3og

It took less then an hour with around 5 deaths.

I have my collectors edition box in good nick after opening it and if I ever get the chance I’m going to get it signed by the 5 major voice actors.

G’day Guys, Just thought I’d put a link to our channels parody of Weird Al’s “Hardware Store” here.
It’s called “Play Guild Wars!” and you can find it here:
http://youtu.be/XPBDUaHbsjo

Also! While you’re at it please check out Momo’s own parody music video, “Guild Wars 2 Anthem” – A Parody of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beP4vR6wC8I

Hope you enjoy em!