Beta Update: What's New With Guild Wars 2?

[Mythor]

Didn't have any lag related issues hitting things in melee. The game letting you fire off abilities regardless of range is an issue though.

[Lord_PorkSword]

No lag for me either..well until the end beta event in the Ascalon map, where it was unplayable.
Didn't know about the Mystic Forge...doh!

Besides that I had much fun. I spent most of the weekend attempting to get my Ele to level 30 but only hitting 27 in the end.
I think they amped up the difficulty a little bit in PvE which made for some very interesting combat in the 15-25 level maps. I can see now why ArenaNet likes commenting on the dynamics of changing your combat playstyle. If I had issues using my staff (and associated skills) with certain enemies I'd switch to a dagger and off-hand combo that gave me a different set of skills which would work very very nicely! Dodging also comes in very handy and I found myslef using it a lot more this time around.

Also found some very interesting and rather beautiful areas so it deffinately pays to explore the maps, especially the rather large lakes they have in the game!
psst there a small Quagan village hidden in an underwater cavern!!

I highly recommend touring through the "Gendarran Fields" map that's above Lions Arch! It's a very nicely crafted map!
Here's a pic:

[spitfires_son]

Another great weekend. Made me even more keen for release.

Didn't notice too much lag. Graphic Performance was much better this time round, I was running high almost constantly which was nice.

Tried my hand at Ascalonian Catacombs: Explorable with a PUG. We killed 2 of the bosses (Spider Queen and one of the ghost champions). Got to a part with the Gravelings and traps and gave up after being killed too many times.

Got to level 43, finished all the zones available in PvE. Tried out some more crafting with I quite liked. Used that to create this awesome looking light armor set.


Also need to start taking more screenshots.

[Lord_PorkSword]

I'm liking that armour M8!
Gunna have to investigate Armour crafting more in the next beta!

[Angeredsoul]

Really? Melee weapons have a huge reach. Daggers seem to have a 2 metre range. I found it ok...

i was referring more to melee abilities marius, especially the ones that involved extended animations where by the time theyve finished the animation the enemy has barrel rolled away or you dont even land anywhere near the enemy

[Helelix]

Really? Melee weapons have a huge reach. Daggers seem to have a 2 metre range. I found it ok...

I think this is because of weapon to character scaling. i.e. if you create a tiny sized human your characters weapons will visually scale to suit your character. But to make it fair, the weapons have a set range regardless of scale.

[Tas]

All the demands are flying in forums now, they are demanding that the game be easier an faster, because it isnt fair they cant get max level in 1 day like other MMO's... When I reminded them rift an swotor an wow are not actually MMO's you should have heard it .

I have a bad feeling the devs are gonna give it to them. I love GW2, its huge amount of fun, but this same argument gets pasted across forums every time a new game comes out, an devs ALWAYS give in.

The game is already so easy you can basically play deaf dumb an blind.... an yet its fun, remove anything now an you reduce it to the level of....those mmo-lite games.

[Vand]

All the demands are flying in forums now, they are demanding that the game be easier an faster, because it isnt fair they cant get max level in 1 day like other MMO's... When I reminded them rift an swotor an wow are not actually MMO's you should have heard it .

I have a bad feeling the devs are gonna give it to them. I love GW2, its huge amount of fun, but this same argument gets pasted across forums every time a new game comes out, an devs ALWAYS give in.

The game is already so easy you can basically play deaf dumb an blind.... an yet its fun, remove anything now an you reduce it to the level of....those mmo-lite games.

Hope this doesn't happen, makes the game last a lot shorter for people. Half the fun is levelling up why do people want to go through it so fast .

[Lord_PorkSword]

All the demands are flying in forums now, they are demanding that the game be easier an faster, because it isnt fair they cant get max level in 1 day like other MMO's... When I reminded them rift an swotor an wow are not actually MMO's you should have heard it .

I have a bad feeling the devs are gonna give it to them. I love GW2, its huge amount of fun, but this same argument gets pasted across forums every time a new game comes out, an devs ALWAYS give in.

The game is already so easy you can basically play deaf dumb an blind.... an yet its fun, remove anything now an you reduce it to the level of....those mmo-lite games.

Hope this doesn't happen, makes the game last a lot shorter for people. Half the fun is levelling up why do people want to go through it so fast .

Can't agree more with yaz both! Too many whingers over in the Official and Guru forums making demands! They should learn how to play properly before complaining....
I want a game that'll take me ages to do everything, especially crafting!

[Helelix]

I want a game that'll take me ages to do everything, especially crafting!

I found it quite hard to get to level 125 in crafting from lvl 100. It starts to slow right down. Although the drop rates for gems seems to have been increased, which made it a little easier. So yeah, crafting is slow, especially when the max crafting level is 400.

[Bronze_D]

psst there a small Quagan village hidden in an underwater cavern!!

They won't have any trouble finding it because anytime someone go nearby it they'd probably get the 'Bloodwitch' champion group event and the respawn point closest to it is next to the village.

If they didn't realize it at first, they will after they died the umpteenth time on Bloodwitch and had to respawn there, probably one of the hardest champion to kill at that level range.

i've seen Bloodwitch eviscerate god knows how many groups attempting it.

[spitfires_son]

I'm liking that armour M8!
Gunna have to investigate Armour crafting more in the next beta!

Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the vendor who sells the tailoring recipe, but I know he's in the 15-25 Norn Area and there's apparently another in Gendarran Fields.

[Fenryrbr]

Did they unlock the higher graphics options in this beta? Those screenshots look much higher quality than what I've seen in previous betas.

[X66WeeD666X]

Any chance this game is going to be coming with a crossfire profile? I'm doubting i'll be running this game at anything resembling a decent framerate off just one of my cards at my rez.

[Stoibs]

Mystic forge? eh? I must have missed an announcement or email about that I guess I was too busy frustratingly doing ZERO damage with my mesmer clones since they nerfed the **** out of them for no discernible reason.