Guild Wars 2 : Anticipation Station

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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

My copy arrived today, and I was hoping I'd get to play some tonight, but, well... the game looks to be about 25GB in size, and only 10GB came on the disc.

Siiiiigh. It's gonna be awhile.
 
Telephius

Telephius

Ravenpoe said:
My copy arrived today, and I was hoping I'd get to play some tonight, but, well... the game looks to be about 25GB in size, and only 10GB came on the disc.

Siiiiigh. It's gonna be awhile.
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Stroke the box while waiting for the download and give it a pet name IMO ;p
 
Jay

Jay

Have you ever been forced to group during PVE events?

I'm LVL 18 and all I have done is go to area quests beyond main quest.... i find it.... very boring.
 
Telephius

Telephius

I have never grouped really besides with friends, also are you doing just the Heart area quests? or the Dynamic Event area quests?(they are a dark oranged circles on the map) Also dont leave immediately once you do one stage of a D.E. wait for the NPCs to finish their dialogue and move to their next location because they may start up another in the chain.


EDIT: Also if the DEs and Hearts feel too grindy for you, forage(gets xp), pvp like Gas, explore, do the Vistas as they tend to require jumping puzzles to be solved(varying degrees of ease) crafting gets you xp. Don't buckle down on one thing, I am level 24/25 and havent even skipped to other zones to do their stuff besides to do one of my story quests.
 
Telephius

Telephius

I am gonna say GW2 PvE is definately better than DaoC PvE :p It has the charm of thrashing mob camps with your friends but the added flavour of actual themeatic objective ;)

EDIT: Also what class are you playing Jay? I am doing an engineer and I can't get bored of knocking my enemy and myself backwards with an overcharged musket or lighting my enemies aflame with a flamethrower. Could be thrashing mobs boredom is because the class you have doesn't do it for you on the small scale?
 
Jay

Jay

Nope, it was down opening weekend.

I didn't bother yesterday, had to do the groceries and played some War of the Roses.
 
GasBandit

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Jay said:
Nope, it was down opening weekend.

I didn't bother yesterday, had to do the groceries and played some War of the Roses.
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Hm. Wasn't down for me. I can't stand mmo pve, but wvw is pretty much everything I could have hoped it would be.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Just a question: how sensible/important/hard to earn/useful is gold in GW2? I don't think I've ever seen this many banners and ads all over the 'net become "Get gold cheap fast" etc for a game. Seriously, at the moment, I have 5 tabs open, and all five pages have nothingbut gold farm ads for GW2.
 
GasBandit

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Bubble181 said:
Just a question: how sensible/important/hard to earn/useful is gold in GW2? I don't think I've ever seen this many banners and ads all over the 'net become "Get gold cheap fast" etc for a game. Seriously, at the moment, I have 5 tabs open, and all five pages have nothingbut gold farm ads for GW2.
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Due to a peculiar design decision, all interplayer transactions must be for gold. You cannot securely barter an item for an item, but you can send mail with items COD.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Bubble181 said:
Just a question: how sensible/important/hard to earn/useful is gold in GW2? I don't think I've ever seen this many banners and ads all over the 'net become "Get gold cheap fast" etc for a game. Seriously, at the moment, I have 5 tabs open, and all five pages have nothingbut gold farm ads for GW2.
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That's going to happen with pretty much every mmo. Start frequenting WoW threads, and they'll all change to WoW gold.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Ravenpoe said:
That's going to happen with pretty much every mmo. Start frequenting WoW threads, and they'll all change to WoW gold.
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Yeah, but I don't play any MMOs, and don't really follow that much info on GW2. This thread, and the WOW Sexy Fun Times thread are the only two places on all of the 'net that I read about MMOs, pretty much :p
I know the effect of google ads and so on - it's pretty handy when I'm looking for specific stuff. But this thread hasn't exactly been a massive part of my surfing lately, and it's still blocked out all other ads. Now I'm slowly beginning to see other things again...
 
GasBandit

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Man, WvW (or as we call it in ventrilo, Dub Vee Dub) is the bomb. Went up three levels last night (2 from combat 1 from crafting), and got two green set pieces of gear dropped from enemy players. And no PvE whatsoever, not counting camp/tower/keep guard and lord npcs and dolyak caravans.
 
Telephius

Telephius

Gas I hate you I have been avoiding WvW because I like to experience the PvE stuff leveling up but I am now tempted to try it early!


Is it possible ot make coin in WvW? I need get get some gold to I can buy some gems so I can get more bank slots
 
GasBandit

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Telephius said:
Gas I hate you I have been avoiding WvW because I like to experience the PvE stuff leveling up but I am now tempted to try it early!


Is it possible ot make coin in WvW? I need get get some gold to I can buy some gems so I can get more bank slots
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Yes. Enemy players drop loot and coin just like mobs. Only the bags for you to loot are dropped at YOUR feet instead of theirs, in case you're up on a wall shooting down at them or vice versa. Plus, the battlegrounds are absolutely studded with resource nodes for gathering. Also there are WvW-centric "events" going on constantly... supply convoy escorts, attacks, defenses, etc. And because everybody's leveled to 80, everybody stands a chance (though natural 80s will still have an advantage over lower levels due to having more utility/elite abilities and stuff).

For my money, there's no reason to go back into PvE at all. They even have crafting stations, merchants, repairers and trainers in WvW.

Just bear in mind if you go by yourself and run by yourself you're gonna get squashed. Go with friends or check in team chat where everybody is and go with them.
 
Telephius

Telephius

Just did it, I can't believe Ex-blizzard developers did DaoC RvR BETTER than Mythic did with Warhammer...kinda makes me mad and happy at the same time.
 
GasBandit

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Telephius said:
Just did it, I can't believe Ex-blizzard developers did DaoC RvR BETTER than Mythic did with Warhammer...kinda makes me mad and happy at the same time.
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Well, to be honest, almost everything in WvW is stolen from warhammer and DAOC (and almost everything good about warhammer was stolen from DAOC, natch). It's just they also didn't have EA screwing the pooch from above, and really, most of the REALLY bad stuff in warhammer happened after Bioware took it over when mythic pretty much ceased to exist.


Edit: oh wait, you said "did DAOC RvR better"... yeah.
 
Jay

Jay

GasBandit said:
Yes. Enemy players drop loot and coin just like mobs. Only the bags for you to loot are dropped at YOUR feet instead of theirs, in case you're up on a wall shooting down at them or vice versa. Plus, the battlegrounds are absolutely studded with resource nodes for gathering. Also there are WvW-centric "events" going on constantly... supply convoy escorts, attacks, defenses, etc. And because everybody's leveled to 80, everybody stands a chance (though natural 80s will still have an advantage over lower levels due to having more utility/elite abilities and stuff).

For my money, there's no reason to go back into PvE at all. They even have crafting stations, merchants, repairers and trainers in WvW.

Just bear in mind if you go by yourself and run by yourself you're gonna get squashed. Go with friends or check in team chat where everybody is and go with them.
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So which server?

YEAAH
 
GasBandit

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Been on a couple actually, while transfers are free and instant. My old guild seems dead set on Jade Quarry but queue times to get in WvW there are excruciating. So for the past few nights been on Ferguson's Crossing. But will probably end up moving again when things balance out.

Really, any server near the top of the list (it sorts by population, lowest at the top) should be good for WvW. Course it would be nice if the WvW rebalanced vs new opponents like it says it is supposed to. Blackgate and Dragon-something have been kicking fergie ass left right and center.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Telephius said:
Just did it, I can't believe Ex-blizzard developers did DaoC RvR BETTER than Mythic did with Warhammer...kinda makes me mad and happy at the same time.
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Blizzard where always the best at taking the ideas of others and polishing them into a better game, so i'm not really surprised... what i'm wondering now is what they would have done with WoW if they where left free reign (as i recall ANet was a result of them leaving over WoW during initial development)...


GasBandit said:
Jade Quarry
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If i was on that server I'd probably be screaming PLS PROTECT THE TURTLES!!! every couple of minutes out of habit...

Which makes me realise that escort events in PvE should really help ppl understand how protecting caravans work in PvP... pretty brilliant design everywhere in this game...
 
Jay

Jay

Let me know when you decide on a server... I'll start playing again next week. Been busy with other games.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I just spent all of last night playing wvw. I'm only level 9, but decided to take the plunge.

It is brilliant. Super fun. My only complaint is that even with my fairly beefy computer, framerate goes to shit during a big siege.
 
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