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CritCat - Archosaur wrote: »

This is important?

NO WAI

You do obviously, or you wouldn't reply to the thread b:laugh

and you pointed it out because you know this means west arch gates will be safe for you to go white name now b:chuckle

wow why am i not surprised noone has posted one thing in 3 days in Archosaur forums o.O

Couple videos i took of War of the Guild to the power of 2 weekend beta!

Necromancer PvP Video

Closing Beta Critter Hunt Video

b:cute

IBroke - Archosaur wrote: »

What are your general thoughts on G.W.2? How is the pvp/ pve? I've heard a lot of negative, but from what I've seen it looks decent.

Going into the game, i was extremely skeptical firstly because i had played PWI for such a long time, and because there had been so much hype, bigging up and talk about how good it was i didn't think it would live up to it, but i can gladly say it did and did much more.

The PvE system is pretty amazing, it has a quest system like other MMOs but it also has a random world event system were group tasks like defending a city, killing a boss, protecting something and many other tasks pop up. They scale on difficulty according to how many people are in the area so if there's a few for a boss fight its manageable but if there's tons its extremely difficult.

It was a small closed beta but when events popped up the areas were packs (good 50+ on any world event at any time) it is a really effective system at making players work together whilst maintaining a completely solo-able game.

The map size is just ridiculous. I played the beta for about 60 hours over the 3 days (yes i no lifed it) i spent about 50 hours solid exploring the map, as you receive EXP and awards as well as % completion by visiting areas, teleport spots and quest locations. I unlocked just 22% of the world map solid exploring for that time.

This would be my rough estimate to the map size compared to PWI (PWI size being the black square)

World Map Theres also abit more to the map downwards and to the right aswell as a lower and upper level.
World vs World vs World Map

Theres two types of PvP that i know of, both can be joined at any time i believe too.

The way the games servers works out is there's 2 servers, EU and US. You get to pick your server the first time you play and its permanent. Then you choose your home world out of a choice of 24. You can change your home world once a week at a cost.

World vs World vs World is literally that, you fight other worlds on a two-week long period. its always you vs 2 other worlds and it remains them 2 for the 2 weeks, the winner with the most points fights other worlds closer to there caliber. On the map each world has a main fortress, surrounded by supply camps, outposts ect, and then there's one neutral fortress in the center. The idea is to take as many of the points as you can by attacking them with groups of people.

The sheer size of the map makes it really entertaining, as far as i know there's no alert system to tell you if any points are under attack so it has to be scouted out. I did WvWvW for about 2 hours trying to defend one of our castles from blue worlds attack, ill upload a video soon.

The other PvP is a kind of king of the hill endgame PvP. Apon entering your level 80 (the cap level) with endgame gears, all skills, traits ect unlocked. You can choose from tons of customizations for gears ect and literally battle it out in anything from 1 v 1 to 10 v 10. Thats the thing i did for about 10 hours and recorded on my youtube.

ReMakaBo - Archosaur wrote: »

Forgot to mention, you can get fully endgame level/gear and never leave PvP-

I thought i did :O

but in-case i didn't, yea at any level you can press H i think it is, go to PvP and instantly enter the other kind of PvP which is like king of the hill, 3 points on the map one close to your spawn point one close to there's and one in the center. Stand in it for couple seconds to capture, each point you have increases your score by 1 per second, first to 500 wins. Points awarded for killing people too and capturing objectives.

It instantly makes your toon level 80 with a superior set of engame armor per class, and you can talk to the npcs there to buy special items to add effects to armors and weapons (there's like over 100 of them so there's always a unique build) and ofc you set your traits with max points and access to all weapons for all skills, maxed skill trees.

Its really handy for seeing how well your class fairs in endgame pvp and really easily accessible, literally set up your toons weapons, then skills, then traits + armor/ wep add-ons then go PvP till your bored. (note: i pvped for about 10 hours, never got bored xD)

Proski - Archosaur wrote: »

it's a great game, a lot of nice features: the graphics; the classes and skills; combat is really engaging, etc. but for something that was supposed to set a new standard for pvp, I think the targeting system was poorly executed and is average at best. it doesn't give you as free reign to locate, target, and lead shots as I hoped for, such as in an fps or even an rts where precision matters. this, though, is more of an acute approach, and the game suffers for it after the initial "skill" is dumbed down and everything is very dully placed in front of you. and for laptop users, at least with me, the font was indecently small and there was no way to scale it up. thats where it flopped for me, and i don't feel like waiting for a patch haha

I played Te.ra in the CBs and yea i didn't like the targeting system too, i felt melees really suffered with the lack of lock-ons, and requirement of them being dead in the front of you vs other classes like Sorcerer and Mystic who could just lock-on from miles away and **** the **** out of you.

GW.2 has the same system except without the lock-ons, its more skill shots similar to LoL played on the ground and the range for melee is a little more flexible but is also made up by the face melee hits much harder then ranged melee or magic.

Someone i use to know from Harshlands (Desire the veno) is playing and i watched acouple of his videos, hes playing a Warrior who switches between Rifle offhand for ranged damage and quick hits to trigger the Fury boon (buff (20% critical hit increase) then switches to melee sword for a close range massive hit.

www.tinyurl.com/GWCalcu is the PWCalc of GW.2 btw b:chuckle