Guild Wars 2

Big Knox

TheDoc wrote: »

I've rolled a Warrior and an Elementist, as from the lads who are max level, these seemingly are really the only two classes worth playing, as everything else is miles behind in terms of balance.

I'm going to stick with the Necro for a few levels more, but can see myself moving over to a Warrior, or most probably, Elementist.

You're right about Warrior, they are very strong right now but that Elementalist info is very wrong. They are struggling so much in sPvP right now, definitely the weakest class in competitive play.

Warrior, Mesmer, Thief >
Guardian, Engineer (gren spec) >
Necro, Ranger >
Elementalist

The classes have completely different roles in WvW of course but for competitive sPvP the elem needs some serious love and this is coming from a Ranger which has enough of its own problems!

IRL_Sinister

Big Knox wrote: »

You're right about Warrior, they are very strong right now but that Elementalist info is very wrong. They are struggling so much in sPvP right now, definitely the weakest class in competitive play.

Warrior, Mesmer, Thief >
Guardian, Engineer (gren spec) >
Necro, Ranger >
Elementalist

The classes have completely different roles in WvW of course but for competitive sPvP the elem needs some serious love and this is coming from a Ranger which has enough of its own problems!

From someone who plays an Elementalist I disagree. That is all.

Completionist

The ele just requires a much more talented player to take full advantage of all the skills available.

ShaneScouse

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

From someone who plays an Elementalist I disagree. That is all.

And as an 80 Ele I disagree with you :P

I really enjoy WVW on ele and instances, As for being the squishy class I always die last or not at all in the hard dungeons, same for WvW and love playing it.

But sPVP is just a clusterbag. I realise you may have some skills or way of playing that makes you better then 98% of all other Ele players and I ain't saying you don't, but its hard to be a good ele in sPVP it really is.
I do ok considering but when I go on my theif or Warrior or Grdn I just own. I just roll in to few games, most the time I dont even look at trait setup or change skills that much just jump in for the craic, and tend to own lol.

Ele I put alot of effort into the trait set up, what skills and weaps to use on certain maps etc, and its daftly hard to do well in 1v1s or 2v2s etc.
As I said I do ok, but I do always feel like the runt of the litter unless I'm against really bad teams and players, that and I'm literally the only Ele ever in my match ups

delta36

Completionist wrote: »

The ele just requires a much more talented player to take full advantage of all the skills available.

Ouch, someone get BigKnox some aftersun, he just got burned :pac:

Dyr

In comparison to AOC the graphics in this looky very cartoony to me. Any comments on how it stacks up in other areas? Sound/Soundtrack, PVE combat, Story etc?

super_furry

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

Gunnar's Hold. Put your CHARACTER name here for a Guild invite.

Cheers, finally got some play time over the weekend - up to level 10 now. My character's name is Govknuck.

caspa307

im a lvl 12 asurian thief am realy tempted to restart as a warrior..........:pac:

Kiith

I find the warrior to be a bit boring. Guess it's just not my style. My Thief is up to 51 now, and still enjoying it. Also levelling a Elementalist, who is at lvl18 atm.

caspa307

yeah i think im gonna stick with my thief for a bit lol

Big Knox

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

From someone who plays an Elementalist I disagree. That is all.

Have you done alot of sPvP?

In competitive matches they just aren't picked or used as others classes can do their role much better.

Of course they can be played effectively by a decent player but 1v1 they will loose to pretty much every other class if the players are of a similar skill level.

Dcully

Ive now done 5 of the 8 dungeons in story mode and im far from impressed, nothing more than tank and spank so far with pretty boring artwork too.
Shame really as the rest of the world and game is great.

Big Knox

Dcully wrote: »

Ive now done 5 of the 8 dungeons in story mode and im far from impressed, nothing more than tank and spank so far with pretty boring artwork too.
Shame really as the rest of the world and game is great.

Arah the final dungeon is very good apart from a very anti-climatic finish. I do agree about the rest however, nothing special it has to be said!

Dcully

Also the queue for WvW is just too long, unless you have 90 mins to sit around in a queue you rarely get intot WvW at peak times.

Completionist

Dcully wrote: »

Also the queue for WvW is just too long, unless you have 90 mins to sit around in a queue you rarely get intot WvW at peak times.

I am curious how many of those are active players and not either:

1) People sitting afk who are afraid of leaving because they wont get back in.

2) Bots.

Dcully

Completionist wrote: »

I am curious how many of those are active players and not either:

1) People sitting afk who are afraid of leaving because they wont get back in.

2) Bots.

Just logged off there after a total of 2 hours 35 mins in the queue for WvW , what a total joke, you buy a game and cant play the part of it you want unless you have time to sit in a queue for hours.

Roorah

Wow, there some crazy wait times guys. Ive been lucky enough that the server has normally had one I could drop into quick enough

Kiith

I agree about the WvW queues. It's ****ing ridiculous. I've not been able to play in almost a week, and that's the part of the game i was enjoying the most.

TheDoc

Dcully wrote: »

Ive now done 5 of the 8 dungeons in story mode and im far from impressed, nothing more than tank and spank so far with pretty boring artwork too.
Shame really as the rest of the world and game is great.

Endgame makes a mmo
If there is poor dungeons and endgame raids, wont last long

VinLieger

Dcully wrote: »

Ive now done 5 of the 8 dungeons in story mode and im far from impressed, nothing more than tank and spank so far with pretty boring artwork too.
Shame really as the rest of the world and game is great.

Story mode is easy mode try doing explore for a challenge its alson intended as the endgame stuff

IRL_Sinister

TheDoc wrote: »

Endgame makes a mmo
If there is poor dungeons and endgame raids, wont last long

Shame GW isn't based around PvE then.

IRL_Sinister

ShaneScouse

The Qs are long and very vexing for WvW. But you could always go to a lower pop server for while and get insta in and come back to your server in few weeks when alot of the new car smell players leave and the wow addon comes out, Qs will plummet.

I like the dungeons, some of the story modes are very meh like the 40 one that takes 3mins to do, but the explorable is where it gets very good. Some have really good fights. Is a good challenge, but Im defo not with the overall crowd on that, the vibe from ingame and forums etc is that most people dont like the dungeons, its a shame as people just seem unable to do a challenge and just want rewards for no work. WoW Is to blame tbh.

^^ haha that video is so true

Dcully

VinLieger wrote: »

Story mode is easy mode try doing explore for a challenge its alson intended as the endgame stuff

I will once i hit lvl 80

Canis Lupus

So tried my hand at WvW last night... my impressions:

Big group rolls a fort which involved shooting a door for a while then we did the same on another fort. Then our group met a smaller group involving much confusion with me just randomly shooting people. We won and went to roll another fort and then met a group bigger than us followed by more messy clicking/trying to get a target but long story short we all died.

I'm new to it all but it doesn't strike me as having much longevity.

With there being no set dps/tank/heal classes everyone just appears to spam whatever isn't on cooldown and the bigger group wins.

ShaneScouse

WvW is great, but christ balls do they need to fix(or change since Im not so sure its not working as intended) the Limitations on characters and draw distance, its just shocking at the moment. I swear they changed something in patch last week and what was bad is now horrid.

Literally every fight I hear spells and see animations for em, but then the vast sea of friendly and enemy names appear on top of me, most of the time costing me a cheap death. happened 10 times tonight and made me ragequit

Welease

Canis Lupus wrote: »

So tried my hand at WvW last night... my impressions:

Big group rolls a fort which involved shooting a door for a while then we did the same on another fort. Then our group met a smaller group involving much confusion with me just randomly shooting people. We won and went to roll another fort and then met a group bigger than us followed by more messy clicking/trying to get a target but long story short we all died.

I'm new to it all but it doesn't strike me as having much longevity.

With there being no set dps/tank/heal classes everyone just appears to spam whatever isn't on cooldown and the bigger group wins.

Thats the nature of zergs unfortunately... It will (hopefully) sort out over time as people settle down an learn their classes, but it will always remain a somewhat uncoordinated mass.. The biggest issue for "organised" pvp is trying to get groups out into the frontiers together, the queues can be long during prime time with half your players out in pvp and the other half waiting in the queue with no idea if they are 5 mins or 1 hour away from joining. Until that gets fixed, then the primary focus will be unorganised zergs with everyone looking out for themselves.

Kiith

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Big group rolls a fort which involved shooting a door for a while then we did the same on another fort. Then our group met a smaller group involving much confusion with me just randomly shooting people. We won and went to roll another fort and then met a group bigger than us followed by more messy clicking/trying to get a target but long story short we all died.

Zergs are by far the most common way for people to play in WvW, but a zerg can easily be stopped by a well organised group. I've been in groups 2-3 times smaller then zergs, that with a little planning, can beat a much larger group. Well places siege weapons, good use of npc's etc...

There really is a lot of different way's to play.

Welease

Kiith wrote: »

Zergs are by far the most common way for people to play in WvW, but a zerg can easily be stopped by a well organised group. I've been in groups 2-3 times smaller then zergs, that with a little planning, can beat a much larger group. Well places siege weapons, good use of npc's etc...

There really is a lot of different way's to play.

That's precisely why I have always loved open PvP as opposed to Arena-type set # groups.. You have no idea what enemy is around the corner, but with quick reactions, plans and co-ordination you can either win or get the hell out of there alive

Foxhole Norman

Hey lads, looking at getting a new Laptop for college and ant it to be able to run GW2 on High ish settings. I'm looking to spend €600-€750 and was wondering what Processor/Graphics card would be best in this price range.

reaper12

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Hey lads, looking at getting a new Laptop for college and ant it to be able to run GW2 on High ish settings. I'm looking to spend €600-€750 and was wondering what Processor/Graphics card would be best in this price range.

Look for something like an i5 3210m cpu and with a Nvidia 630m/AMD 7670M GPU.

Not sure how it will run GW2, but they are about the best CPU/GPU that you will get in your price range.

uncle_sam_ie

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Hey lads, looking at getting a new Laptop for college and ant it to be able to run GW2 on High ish settings. I'm looking to spend €600-€750 and was wondering what Processor/Graphics card would be best in this price range.

You'll need to spend more if you want to play games on a high setting. For €750 you could build a desktop that would though. Do you really need a Laptop?

Foxhole Norman

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

You'll need to spend more if you want to play games on a high setting. For €750 you could build a desktop that would though. Do you really need a Laptop?

Yeah, the laptop is for College, need it for the course I'm doing. Looking around I've spotted two machines, 1 Acer with an i7 and a GT630M, 6GB RAM and a Samsung with an AMD A10 and HD7650M with 8GB RAM. Both for around 700. The parents will be buying it so will see if I could push the budget.

Completionist

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Yeah, the laptop is for College, need it for the course I'm doing. Looking around I've spotted two machines, 1 Acer with an i7 and a GT630M, 6GB RAM and a Samsung with an AMD A10 and HD7650M with 8GB RAM. Both for around 700. The parents will be buying it so will see if I could push the budget.

When buying a laptop for college you should consider weight and battery life as you don't want to have to have the damned thing plugged in all the time due to a ****e battery and having to carry a heavy laptop around all day does get annoying.

LawlessBoy

Anyone know were the cheapest palce to pick up GW2 is? Ill be picking it up in the next few days.

lemon_remon

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Yeah, the laptop is for College, need it for the course I'm doing. Looking around I've spotted two machines, 1 Acer with an i7 and a GT630M, 6GB RAM and a Samsung with an AMD A10 and HD7650M with 8GB RAM. Both for around 700. The parents will be buying it so will see if I could push the budget.

What course are you doing? Unless you're doing video editing, CAD or something you might be better off splitting the money and getting a cheap netbook, spending the rest on a desktop. Gaming laptops are always a bad idea and are generally not very portable. You also can't really upgrade them which makes them obsolete faster.

ShaneScouse

Highly recommend not getting a strong gaming laptop for any sort of college course or general day use.

They are a pain to travel with and battery time is a joke.

Get yourself a good slim portable with good battery life, and a desktop gaming PC in the future for yourself.

Foxhole Norman

lemon_remon wrote: »

What course are you doing? Unless you're doing video editing, CAD or something you might be better off splitting the money and getting a cheap netbook, spending the rest on a desktop. Gaming laptops are always a bad idea and are generally not very portable. You also can't really upgrade them which makes them obsolete faster.

Software Development is the course I'm doing. The laptop doesn't need to be all that for gaming, just once I can play both GW2 and SC2 would do me fine. Looking at a Lenovo and a Toshiba now from Komplett which seems like decent value.

cherryghost

So Arenanet is taking down Youtube videos now apparently. FFS

uncle_sam_ie

cherryghost wrote: »

So Arenanet is taking down Youtube videos now apparently. FFS

No they 're not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byg3emEocio&list=UUYUY9_i44IDNOs_Ja815mlA&index=5&feature=plcp

lemon_remon

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Software Development is the course I'm doing. The laptop doesn't need to be all that for gaming, just once I can play both GW2 and SC2 would do me fine. Looking at a Lenovo and a Toshiba now from Komplett which seems like decent value.

Yeah, I'd still not recommend gaming on a laptop. I'd consider any laptop that can run either of those games at decent framerates a "gaming laptop".

If you're doing programming the most important things are screen resolution and keyboard. In other words stay away from Toshiba, their build quality isn't the best. Lenovo is good, so are Asus, Acer and of course... Apple.

Personally, I'd pick up a used Thinkpad on ebay for around 100 Euro and throw Linux on it and spend the rest on a desktop with Windows 7. Only problem would be if you're doing C# or Visual C++ in college. You wouldn't be tempted to boot up Guild Wars then in college when you're supposed to be working if you're running Linux

ShaneScouse

cherryghost wrote: »

So Arenanet is taking down Youtube videos now apparently. FFS

nah not really, theres just the usuall hyperbole and rabble rabble going on about it because a handfull of videos that were making cash profits for the uploaders/channels were taken down as Ncsoft doesnt put up with that. As would most mmos companies iirc.
It wasnt even Anet who took them down, was the parent company

Roorah

ShaneScouse wrote: »

a handfull of videos that were making cash profits for the uploaders/channels were taken down as Ncsoft doesnt put up with that.

According to the vid in the previous link they arent even taking the vids down. Just making so they cant be monetised

DesertFox

ShaneScouse wrote: »

nah not really, theres just the usuall hyperbole and rabble rabble going on about it because a handfull of videos that were making cash profits for the uploaders/channels were taken down as Ncsoft doesnt put up with that. As would most mmos companies iirc.
It wasnt even Anet who took them down, was the parent company

Roorah wrote: »

According to the vid in the previous link they arent even taking the vids down. Just making so they cant be monetised

I don't think you guys realise but for a lot of people this is there job and most companies have no problem with people monetizing their videos.

I don't think this effects people with partnerships on youtube, they can monetise away it's just the little guys without partnership that want to monetise their videos are unable to do so.

Sephiroth_dude

Beer and GW2,what better way to spend a saturday eh?

kipple

If you can live with a German keyboard
http://www.computeruniverse.net/en/products/90462353/msi-ge60-i547.asp

Canis Lupus

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Beer and GW2,what better way to spend a saturday eh?

Torchlight 2 and vodka? GW2 really not attracting me at all anymore. Gonna leave it for a while before going back.

Lone Stone

Suppose to be a big patch coming 24th of sep, i wonder if it will fix my stupid minion ai and all those skills of mine that dont seem to work i still love my necro.

ShaneScouse

Whats the Abreviation of that Guild yous have on Gunnars hold? I'm on Deso and coulda swore I saw some 'Ire' or something like that in WvW last night.

Id like to kill some fellow irish men

Sarn

I finally picked this up over the weekend. Enjoying it so far. I might have to develop some alts to find my favourite profession.