Doesn’t change the fact that the OP is right, too bad this isn’t Reddit or I’d down vote the crap out of you for derailing this thread Qugi; I’ll just settle for flagging you instead.
I agree entirely, you can’t take a group of people that’s used to the Silver Wastes and hand them a Korean Grind that only lasts for a long week end; I’m opting out. I’ll just keep leisurely lvling my future Reaper, would have been nice to bring him into these events but what do you know, no XP. If ANet was looking for inspiration from season one they should have looked at Battle for Lions Arch; I got about 30 to 40 lvls on a character doing that event while racking up a ton of mats for Spinal Blades.
As far as my old main Guardian no I have zero interest in playing ranged, how ever I’m leveling a Necro because Reaper feels like a an Unholy DK with out the Ghoul but more conditions, and where you cast Dark Transformation on your self.
One thing I noticed when playing Beta all Beta characters start with roughly 75% map completion. If all these Beta characters have 100% core map completion then it stands to reason that the new area is a 1/3 increase over the core map since 25 is 1/3 of 75.
I only got to play a few hours my self but my take away from the experience was that I’m power leveling a Necro STAT. Verdant Brink can feel very open yet claustrophobic and frustrating to navigate with out Gliding unlocked. As long as you get to follow an event chain from the beginning the stories feel very organic and the events are compelling reminiscent of the longer chains in Orr.
Really he seemed to be coming off as a kitten him self Misguided, at least you’re articulate enough to ‘explain’ something; some one in game spelled it out for me so I was able to test run this thing for at least 30 min before having to log off for work. Initial impressions, so far I’m just camping in Glint, my heavy hitting abilities seem to be Utility skill 3 for AOE, and 3rd Sword Skill for AOE, been cycling through the other facets as I can since it seems pretty fast paced so I only seem to be able to use a few skills regularly. I run into some trouble notably during Amber if I got near a bunch of Menders, beyond that this seems quite nice. I tried using the Hammer and Glint abilities but it seemed to feel pretty lack luster with the Damage so I’m just sticking with Sword and Shield.
For the record this is my first Beta Weekend; so therefore my first time using a Rev, I thought since I had the Glint traitline selected I would have the Legend as well.
I’ve got Herald equipped, I swapped out my Shiro Weps for my Herald Weps, yet I’m still stuck with Dawrf and Shiro Legends, I want Dwarf and Glint Legends; what am I missing here?
Yeah I have Herald equipped, no facets I’m stuck with Shiro and Dwarf Dude WTF, seriously I have like an hour a day to beta test before going to work you would think they would make this kitten a bit more user friendly.
You people kill me. Try another class, then come back and tell me how awesome we are, totally delusional i swear. A Tempest can out damage you, a guardian can make you inept as far as survival? What the are you playing?
What is wrong with you?
Yeah, Reaper actually is quite survivable. Running around Solo in Verdant Brink? No problem. The only thing that has given me trouble is a smokescale or two. Those guys are evil. But I can fight a couple archer frogs and a Nuhoc (Nuhoc and at least one archer as veterans) and come out alive, so long as I don’t mess up. Does it take a little while? Yes. But I don’t die (Soldier Reaper)
So try Soldiers than, because my Reaper with the Celestial Gear is getting steam rolled some times.
I’m not feeling it, I kept getting downed by humanoid Mordrem in the intro PS, there was this cave with killer mushrooms that kept making me their plaything, the only places I seemed to do well in were the Amber Fort PS instance, and the Faren chain with eventual Wyrven fight. I’m wondering if it was the gear they gave me Celestial, or the utilities which were wells instead of the shouts.
This sucks because I really wanted to like this as it seemed like a throw back to WoWs Deathknight when it was new.
I only had an hour to play but starting a new Reaper was a mixed bag for me personally. During the PS with the humanoid Mordrem I felt very squishy, I found my self getting downed pretty quickly, while fighting the Wyrven though I had a lot of staying power. I’m wondering if The Reaper does better when it has access to it’s shouts because for some reason my utilities were full of these ground targeting AOEs? Should I swap out one of the trees for Blood Magic for the passive healing?
My wife recently posted on Squishables Face Book page suggesting they might want to work with ANet to make Quagan Squishables, they responded back saying if ANet contacts them then it’s game on.
@Crossaber The fact that they excluded most tradeskills is either short sighted or lazy, I’ll probably just power level LW since it’s dirt cheap but I will always call out bull crap when I see it.
Who’s bright idea was it to exclude half of the crafters from being able to make Tempered Spinal Blades? I’ve literally wasted my time farming dust since champ trains are dead to make the Bloodstone Bricks only to find out that I’m SOL because some designer dropped the ball on every other profession except Armorsmith/Tailor/LW’s. Either make Gift of Blades BOE, come up with versions of it for other Professions, make it available for Laurels/Spirit Shards.
I’ve been camping a GS/Hammer Guardian for most of my time in GW2 bit with the upcoming Forge Elite coming up I’m looking to level an Engineer. I’m looking for a one kit build for open world PVE that will keep me alive and provide the open world zergs with some utility. I always thought Flame Thrower looked pretty boss, is there anything that can hang in the melee midrange area so I can interact with fields and buffs?
Yesterday I must have accidentally vendored or deleted my Ascended weapon during a night of drunken GW2 shenanigans. In less than 24 hours GM Cold resolved my issue and mailed me a new Weapon ( have to buy new sigils but that’s okay I consider it a tax for being stupid ).
I just want verification that my order is being processed, I’ve heard nightmares regarding the company ANet uses for processing payments, I just don’t want to get burned by a haphazard payment method (I’m the type of guy that calls any one and every one in full on Chris Christie mode when money’s involved, from the retailer, to any gov’t agency I can find that will file a complaint.).
Vayne I was only pointing out that the announcement trailer had more information packed into it than what we’re getting from ANet; as I said before this isn’t me saying GW2 sucks I intend on playing both games, but I am saying ANets presentation of what we’re actually getting does suck and perhaps they should have made a video like Blizzard did which was way way more informative.
You’ve got your continent with all the zones clearly labeled with screen shots, some video. All the group content named and listed. Class themed home instances. You’re handed a precursor that you gradually build into a unique themed legendary for your class and spec. They not only redid the PVP system they detailed how its going to work. Seriously they showed you more info in that video than ANet has teased out for us since the expansion announcement. After watching that video I got the impression that the product is done and ready for beta.
So I was just watching a live stream that had a very large information dump regarding an upcoming video game expansion; ANet you guys should watch that because that’s how you announce an expansion and that’s how you lay out enough info to justify kitten preorder!
Any one that doesn’t live in a cave knows what game I was just referring to.
With that being said I absolutely love GW2, and I will definitely buy HoT, but well I might be spending some time playing the competition as well.
I bet A-NET hasn’t even started work on the Warrior, Thief and Engi elite specs yet. With how slow things are going and the lack of legitimate updates on the game’s progress, I’m not optimistic about HoT releasing this year.
They better think of something to tide us over, it’s content droughts like these that made me leave that well known 11 year old MMO with millions of subscribers that I can’t mention by name with out being slapped by a mod.
I’ve got a Guardian I putz around in for casual open world PVE play with the rare dungeon excursion. Currently my 6 armor pieces are Soldiers, my accessories are Berserker, and my Weapons are Berserker, my Runes are the ones that cleanse on Shouts, and my Sigils are Force and Strength.
Would Nomads gear be an improvement over my Soldiers or just keep my set up the way it is?
This whole thread presupposes that they know exactly when release is and have the whole thing laid out in a pattern.
This is a lot to read into going 2 months between elite number 3 and elite number 4.
You would certainly hope so, most other MMO companies announce their expansion, then show you the PVE map with the zones, I imagine from that point they have a regular development schedule laid out like professionals. If they don’t have the whole thing laid out in a pattern like you suggest then are you implying that they are just making this stuff up as they go along like an comedy improv group?
You see my point though right, I mean this prepurchase is just a money grab, they have nothing concrete to really offer for the price to instill confidence they have anything remotely finished; this is basically like a Kick Starter campaign with a bad outline and no stretch goals for funding.
