[ShivanSpS]

Yeah but its still better than wow and his static world, Rift has invasions, mobs can take quest hubs and from there spawn more mob etc, still GW2 improved that by a LOT.

But still i like the fact that in Rift, there are 4 basic classes, and 8 souls for each, and players pick 3 at will, and can have saved diferent sets and exchange the sets on the field off combat, thats pretty much has the same effect that "every class can do anything", except maybe for the warriors healing others, still there is a support soul on the warrior tree too.
In wow, i see a druid, warlod, mage, etc, i know there is at best 3 options of what it can do. In Rift you see a Warrior, Cleric, Mage or Rogue, and well... 3 souls out of 8 options, you have absolutely no idea of what it is, or what it can do. And all class have a healing/support soul. Compared to WoW, its like the entire Paladin/Warrior/Priest/Mage/Warlod/etc class has been reduced to a single soul in Rift.

But Rift is still attached to the common MMO elements, thats why im looking forward to GW2.

Ill explore the class system in the last GW2 beta to do a proper comparison.

[pecenipicek]

I am at a loss for words. Female Asura Warrior -.-


ITS A MICKY MOUSE!

[Spoon]

lolol

Asura's is such a dumb race, I wonder who it needs to appeal to exactly.
Speaking of which, trying a leaf people mesmer this weekend

I kind of have a complaint about the writing with these guys. In that it feels exactly the same as the writing for the human story line...
These plant people act and feel way too... human. To the point that occasional I forget I'm suppose to be playing something that is not human.

[pecenipicek]

me and my mrs are going as norn. no discussion. we're on gunnar's hold atm, for a lack of any idea on which world to be...

[Spoon]

The norn starting area was kind of boring WoW-ish last BWE though...
I enjoyed cruising through the Char and Human ones more.

[pecenipicek]

ugh. human starter was annoying and a bit too fast for my liking. also, i'm missing the "zoom into first person" thing... as for the charr... they can burn as far as i care.

[Spoon]

i'm missing the "zoom into first person" thing...

Confirmed by the devs that this will be included eventually (probably on release)

[pecenipicek]

i'm missing the "zoom into first person" thing...

Confirmed by the devs that this will be included eventually (probably on release)

woo.

[Mikes]

These plant people act and feel way too... human. To the point that occasional I forget I'm suppose to be playing something that is not human.

Considering their origin, that actually makes sense. The oldest sylvari is some 20-30 years old when GW2 starts. They are completely new to this world and their culture and ethics are supposed to imitate someone elses. If anything they are even more curious than humans and rather naive towards anything that is new to them (and mostly everything is new to them when they emerge from the tree.)
They also feed back their experiences to their tree and to the yet unwakened still dreaming sylvari, which will have these experiences to draw on when in turn they emerge into the world.

Perfect race for roleplaying an innocent/demented bloodthirsty psychopath

In the Guild Wars Special edition from PC Gamer (October 2007), it was revealed that the tree found in Arbor Bay is effectively the origin of the Sylvari.

Ronan, a Shining Blade agent, brought a strange seed he found in a cave during the war to home, but when he finds its hometown razed, decides to plant it and never again fight.

Ronan stayed on this place from then on, possibly as a caretaker.

Later it is revealed that Ventari abandons his previous home and joins Ronan on this new post, creating a new refuge for Centaurs and humans, while the pale tree grew at the center of it. However, their good intentions ultimately fail and first Ronan, and then Ventari, died.

However, before his death Ventari carves a tablet with his teachings, and passes on in 1165 AE. Hundreds of years later the first Sylvari sprout from the tree.

After they were born, all Sylvari became attracted to the tablet left by Ventari, and it's unclear if the tablet itself or the spirit of Ventari shaped their ethics, but what is clear is that the Ventari Tablet is their most precious relic, and that its influence guides their every move. 

[Spoon]

Hmmm interesting indeed.
This doesn't become very apparant when just playing the game as one though.


WvWvW was fun today, lots of large scale battles. Reinforcing castles with siege equipment, attacks and counter attacks.

"The enemy is at our doorsteps, fire the arrowcarts.... FIRE ALL OF THEM!"


"The enemy is massing, what are these ruffians planning?"

Highlight was when our server managed to secure a good foothold in the french server's realm. Even though we were getting attacked by the french on the right and by the other server on the left. Because the other server realized that they couldnt break our hold on our super fortified tower, they broke off and headed north for french holdings there. So we were free to break through the french lines on our right flank and attack their keep. A large portion of our army attacked the front gate, to no avail. While a commando group of people went up the mountain trail and erected siege weapons to take the wall down there. When we were finally spotted by the french defenders, it was already too late and we bursted through the wall, hit the second gate hard and fast and took the keep for our own.

[pecenipicek]

In other news i've managed to collect all the 30 HoM rewards today. woo, ready for gw2 completely and goodbye to gw1 after almost 3 years.

[Fury]

There's a nice countdown timer in the official GW2 site for those who have pre-purchased the game.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Less than 13d and 16h to go.

[Spoon]

Oh my

[SpardaSon21]

Since HLP has splinter groups in ME3 and MechWarrior: Living Legends, we need a guild for this game as well.

Besides me, who will be interested in a HLP guild for GW2?

[Fury]

Yeah sure. According to the wiki, the only requirement to create a guild is 1 silver coin. Apparently doesn't require signed rosters like WoW does, so as soon as 1s is collected, a guild can be created.

I don't think it matters who creates the guild, but I can offer to do that for us.

Of course, the guild might never be big enough to do some of the content with just guild members. But we can worry about that later.

[SpardaSon21]

That's fine, as long as we get the HLP logo on our cloaks.

[Fury]

Well, I think we forgot something quite obvious. We'll be split between US and EU servers as well, which further diminishes our numbers. GW2 allows players to play on other continent's servers, but considering lag, is it a smart choice?

[MatthTheGeek]

Does lag matter that much in that kind of game ? It's not a shooter game.

[Fury]

Actually it does. Avoiding enemy attacks is a core mechanic of combat in GW2. If lag is too high, you'd be dodging attacks too late. There would also be noticeable delay in using abilities/spells/whatever, which would be detrimental to combat.

That said, I have no idea how much of a lag there would be in practice. It might be very much playable despite server being in another continent.

By default, we display the worlds that are hosted in your regional data center, but you will be able to select a home world from either region at this time. So, for example, if you are a European player who prefers to play on the North American worlds, you’re free to do so.

At launch, players will be able to transfer between worlds freely. However, once server populations have largely settled and stabilized, world transfers will be restricted to once a week and cost a variable amount of gems based on the population of the world being transferred to.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-world-of-choice-the-regions-of-guild-wars-2/

[pecenipicek]

well, i've spent most of my GW1 playing time on american servers sooo....

the lag sometimes got bad, above 500ms, and that made the game a bit jumpy, but otherwise...