Comments on: A Guild Wars 2 Primer: Five things to know before you jump in

By: grom358

grom358 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:35:42 +0000

I still can’t decide on a profession. Thinking either Ranger or Elementalist at this stage. Looking for a good PvE profession that mostly be playing solo or with couple of friends.

By: vencha88

vencha88 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:04:33 +0000

Asura FTW. Playing as my fabulous little Asura Mesmer dude. Running around teleporting into butterflies and hitting things with a sword.

By: villageidiot

villageidiot — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:30:01 +0000

Stupid iPad and auto correct and stupid comments with no edit capability. Asura… not Acura

By: villageidiot

villageidiot — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:46:51 +0000

Loving it too. After about 6 different re rolls, I’m finally playing and happy with my Acura theif. Still in the Acura starting area, but loving just aimlessly running around and exploring. I always find myself heading to a renown heart, only to get sidetracked and lost for like an hour.

Its early days, but I hope GW2 has some longevity because I’m liking it.

By: bronzed

bronzed — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:06:38 +0000

lordporksword: I forgot one last thing…Cooks can craft dyes when they hit the higher levels ofthe chef profession!

they can make WHAT? bloody hell, time to use all those mats then...

By: agentreachery

agentreachery — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:02:37 +0000

lordporksword, also armoursmith make boxes which slot in like bags

By: lordporksword

lordporksword — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:02:48 +0000

I forgot one last thing…Cooks can craft dyes when they hit the higher levels of the chef profession!

By: lordporksword

lordporksword — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:58:51 +0000

I also am thoroughly enjoying GW2! You just go run in a random direction and go off on adventure tangents for the next few hours!

I’ve seen 4 PC’s running GW2 through a single net connection and never saw any lag, which is great to see!

Crafting is good fun! Make a few alts and have them all doing different crafting professions! My wife has spent her entire time doing the cooking profession. She’s hit 204 already and has pretty much filled her bank and character inventory with all types of interesting food.(which provide various buffs to ya character)

TIP: Be a tailor or leatherworker so you can make 8 slot bags which helps very nicely with your inventory space! A jewler can make rings and earrings at low level which can give a nice small boost to your stats!

If anyone still experiences hardware lockups(with Nvidia cards) make sure you’re using the latest Nvidia beta drivers! (you get warned about this upon install iirc)

By: celticangel82

celticangel82 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:38:25 +0000

I am thoroughly enjoying this game.

By: syncourt

syncourt — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:13:27 +0000

yeapal, I don't know what the actual ping to the server is, but I can definitely say it's a lot harder to notice the latency in comparison to the original Guild Wars. I personally haven't had any 'wtf lag' moments as yet.

By: hadokenx

hadokenx — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:45:27 +0000

Another note, is to keep an eye on your account; more specifically, the email account that is attached to your GW2 account. I already made a thread about it in the RPG/Guild Wars forum about it, so I won’t go into specifics here, but it involves password reset.

By: yeapal

yeapal — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:45:22 +0000

Quick question for those that are playing. What’s the latency like?
I gave up playing the original guild wars because of the atrocious lag at the time.
If this one has a reasonable ping ~200ish then I’m keen to give it a shot.

By: bronzed

bronzed — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:28:19 +0000

Just as a note:

The WvWvW is currently reset every 24 hour rather than lasting the whole 2 weeks duration the war is supposed to last.

my guess is that it’s to give the chance for the matchmaker to acquire some baseline value to use for actually matchmaking the servers since we’re currently at the start of the life of the game and thus the matchmaker have no initial value to judge the servers yet.