Hopefully Eorl as character name but if you can't add me that way, account name is froodlemaster.

This waiting reminds me off Burning Crusade launch...

Sea of Sorrows is teh full :(

Setting up shop in Sorrow's furnace Steamspur Mountains until the lines disappear

Character name is VRBones for mesmer

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If you try logging on when it's full you will get pushed to a overflow server, at least in theory.

Ugh this sucks. SoS full so have to make on another realm which will perma lock me out of changing unless I pay.

lolwut

Don't you already have a character there?

I do, but go wherever, free transfers this weekend while they test the service. Haha okay, see ya there!

Haha, alright. Don't rush the character process! It means a lot.

Looks like the Guest feature is disabled for the beta. Awesome idea though.

Pretty much. Let me know your character name DM when you make one, add ya to the guild.

Yeah, I've just logged out because the server seems to be dying under the load. I just had a 60+ second lag spike, about 10 seconds of play, and then it lagged out again. Kind of wishing I chose a lower population server.

Yeah I think we broke the server transfer, and servers in general. I reckon there is at least 100,000+ people trying to log into this weekend if you take the beta sign ups before with 1 million signing up there.

I woke up at around server start up time, and my mate had stayed up the whole night to keep playing through. About 30 minutes in to the charr start area, his whole suburb lost power. He must be spitting chips at this point :/ If the outage continues he may end up having to restock his fridge (still no power, it's been hours now...)

I've tried out all the warrior weapon skills now. Bow and rifle are actually quite nice for ranged damage (rifle has some decent AoE, rifle is single target). Was just trying out guardian prior to maintenance...

I like the engineer but their weapon skills don't seem to pack much punch compared to the other classes I've tried so far. Though I didn't get a chance to try any engineer kits last time, they might be fun.

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Loving this Guardian, so much fun with the shield mechanic and the bubble that stops projecticles. Figured out that skill points are from those blue triangle guys, and you use them to get new skills for slots 7-0.

Also whoever wants an invite to AusGamers/QGl guild just send a message to Eorl or if that doesn't work froodlemaster.

Yeah noticed that to, it's interesting, but makes sense because if you just dodge backwards or forwards you're still in line of sight for a fireball or arrow.

It won't Eds, it will make you so much more eager.

The Warrior is a fucking death machine when equipped with a Greatsword. I love that all of the Greatsword attacks are in a wide arc, it makes it really fun to take on groups of enemies. The world events with waves of enemies are great fun to whirlwind through.

I think they had to tune the Ranger down before in the Closed Beta/Press Beta because it was just way too powerful, maybe they tuned it too far down.

Also, I'll be on all tonight so if anyone is keen for an invite to Honey Badgers remember to message me.

I guess they have no incentive to waste people's time, since they don't have a subscription.
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this is a really good point.

Where is Lion's Arch and how do I get there?

Cheers, found it.

You're right, it's freaking amazing. My first thought was that it was like a huge version of Booty Bay, but I soon came to a more suitable realisation. It's the port town from Hook! I love how all of the buildings are made from old ships, and the scale is just crazy.

It'll be nice when they fix the CPU issues so I can get a decent framerate here.

My thoughts on classes so far having barely scratched them for anyone who cares.

Thief - Can see this being a high damage dealer. Daggers MH and Short bow in off for any situation. Their shortbow skills are far better than ranger that's for sure. Bouncing auto shot? Hell yes. Poison combo field is awesome when combined with 2 - 3 mobs and bouncing trick shot. Awesome looking armor too

Ranger - Very lackluster to me. Only 4 shots and the rest of the skills are all about traps and spirits it seems. I've had traps up to my arse thanks to being a WoW hunter so I don't want to deal with them again thanks. Pet is nice though if as strong as wet paper. Longbow skills are ok, barrage is awesome.

Elementalist - Another high damage class. Tons of spells which will take you awhile to unlock. Daggers were my fav weapon in water attunement because of the Vorpal Blade. Can see this being maybe the strongest class for raw damage.

Engineer - Only 2 types of actual weapons so better get used to em. No weapon switching to make things even more fun. Lots of skills which replace mainhand though so that makes up for it. Quite a fun class, some good damage. This or Thief will be my main. They have fun mechanics and great damage. I love being able to throw potions at people to help them out.

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Well after a few hours on my ranger I retract my statement. They have some great damage in AoE situations, Barrage rocks then. Any future rangers out there save yourself some time and pick the bear as your starting pet. The cat and drake are damage and suck for leveling. They can hardly take 1 mob at a time without needing healing. They can't tank a damn thing. Bears are awesome and I've had them tank 4 mobs at once with my healing well up while I barraged everything down.

For bosses/veteran mobs I set up Barrage, switch to shortbow and start my bleeds going. Using Sharpened Stone to give me 5 stacks of bleeds over next 5 hits which also stacks with your auto attack so your getting 10 stacks quick. Tons of damage over a short span of time if you weave poison fan in. It's definitely down to ranger, thief or engineer for me in retail. Just not sure which as I like them all

Where did everyone buy the game from?

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Some classes don't get that Eorl, so if you get into combat with the wrong weapon you are stuck. Engineer comes to mind. Man Lion's Arch is so bad arse. I was really gunho about the engie but I got her to 10 and some of the packs I unlocked after my praise were pretty shit at times and I can't work out if there is a reset feature. Flamethrower works good when it hits. Sometimes the fire just won't hit for 2 or 3 full channels. Not sure why.

Bought Med pack and that is also super shit as I expect it's not meant for solo play since all you can do is drop health packs. Who would of thought? Then there is Flame Turret which seems to disappear after 15 seconds and the game doesn't start the recharge automatically so you have to manually hit the explode button for it to recharge. Grenades are pretty shit so I wouldn't get them for PvE since you have better options. Lot of wasted skill points figuring that shit out.

I've spent about 98% of my time in the human lands, and I plan on being Asura come retail so I don't think i've spoiled much at all.

I have buckets on standby Khel. Ah true DM, must be a Guardian thing then, because I use my two hander for smashing mobs down and then my mace/shield for protection and pushing enemies away.

Overall, for a "free-to-play" game, this just wrecks WoW and the likes. Everything is instantly accessible and works. All of it makes sense, combat is fun and makes me keep an eye on things. Events and "quests" are really cool, and love seeing the world change because I didn't bother helping out some Charr. Also having NPC's running down the road yelling "Help our village is burning to the ground!" was really cool.

Skill points are really hard to get by the way. Usually involves an elite event. Oh yeah, and being able to pick up a lot of stuff on the ground and use it as weapons is hilarious. Picked up a leg of ham and was fighting with it and when on low health take a bite. Oh and bar fights!

I'm a little bit more interested in it, purely based on how positive the responses in this thread have been so far.

It was pretty cool to start with (the end event I mean), with the Legendary White Bunny and the Champion Moas, but it got a bit repetitive and boring after a while. I was kind of hoping for some big dragon or something at the end, but it was just the Moa invasion. :(

I really loved the whole beta though, and I liked that it actually had an easy-to-use bug ticketing system. While I didn't really find many problems, I still submitted bugs whenever I came across them. One balance issue with the human personal story was really annoying, so I submitted a bug for that, long with some art and spelling issues. Looking forward to the next event to see how much has improved.

I really just want them to fix the CPU bottleneck issue though. The framerate was really bad sometimes. The Legendary Bunny fight was like 5 fps, which is just retarded. I don't see why it should have been anywhere near that low.

I was actually amazed at how smooth and responsive it was for a American server. After playing SWTOR as well the past two days on Oceanic server, I couldn't tell the difference between them.

OK this is just blatant gushing now.

I have no idea what is supposed to be happening in those screenshots, or why the events thus captured were screenshot-worthy.

There were times where the lag was a non-issue, where I could dodge attacks when saw a mob start telegraphing, and that was great. Not sure what the actual ping was, probably like 250ms or so, which seemed perfectly playable. There were other times where I had to pretty much guess when a mob was about to attack, because dodging when they started the animation was already too late. Hopefully when the game launches, it's more the former situation than the latter.

I have no idea what is supposed to be happening in those screenshots, or why the events thus captured were screenshot-worthy.

Yeah, they're not really that relevant to the overall game, just some shots of the mayhem as the servers were closing, with everyone taking on the huge flaming Moa invasion. It was a pretty weird finale to the beta. They're normally just a passive mob that wanders about, but they made them huge and really powerful.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I saw this on Reddit. There's a big diving board in Lion Arch, the main hub city. Someone couldn't quite make it.



last edited by Midda at 19:35:48 30/Apr/12

Added my opinion, thanks icewyrm. Hopefully a lot of MMO's will follow in the footsteps of Star Wars and allow more Oceanic based servers, because it is really an awesome feeling playing at 25ms.

Oh yeah, Guild Wars 2 also offers customised playlist music. Check it out here.

Well hopefully with the success of SWTOR's Oceanic servers and how they are practically full with queues until 10-11pm, it will show other MMO developers that we do matter now.

fucking lol @ that gif

Wouldn't they have even less motivation (from a business point of view) of doing local servers though? Its not like they need to hang onto subscribers after all

Actually it's quite the opposite, they have a high motivation in wanting to keep players in their game and by doing so offering patches/expansions and local services. ArenaNet and NCSoft are quite okay in regards to money, so I don't see a reason why they can't follow in SWTOR's footsteps and put 3 or so servers with Telstra.

I just opened the client for shits and giggles before to see what it'd say, and there was an update and a message saying that there will be a short stress-test on Monday the 14th. It's only for a few hours though, and after I converted the times, it looks like it'll be from 5am to 11am local time. Not very useful. :(

EDIT: Also, this doesn't include any client changes, so there's not going to be any bug fixes or anything. Apparently it's to test some server-side changes with regards to load and stuff.

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Yeah, I'm really pining for this game, it's crazy. It'll be good to be able to just log in and run around for a bit. I also managed to transfer to Sea of Sorrows during the last beta weekend, so it'll be cool if that's now set as my home server.

The event is supposed to be running at the moment, but when I try to log in, it just says "Either there is no current Guild Wars 2 event or this account is not authorized to participate in one."

Can anyone else log in?

I can't find any mention on the net of people saying that the event is up and running either. I'd have expected to hear people at least saying "yay, it's up!" but nothing.

Yeah, event happens tomorrow for us. I dunno if I can be bothered waking up 2 hours early to play it for that long before I go to work. Though I kinda want to.

Official forums https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/stress/news/Stress-Test-May-14/page/1#post169241

I buckled and ended up playing for about 2 hours this morning. PVP was disabled though so I just ended up playing with traits and things for most of the time.