actually world vs world vs world is more like pvp in traditional mmorpg.
competitive pvp is more balanced, like tf2.

yes, u may focus on story event. the pvp are for pvp players.

wun spoil one. the story quest not give us full story only. only demo halfway?
and subject to change based on beta tester feedback, i think.

nope there is no need to join PvP or WvWvW if you are not interested...PvE all the way is fine...

i've been PvP-ing as D+D Ele with 10air30water30arcane

quite fun a lot mobility and huge crits =D

story in beta till level 20 only anyway =p not really a huge spoiler
mostly enjoying random events, exploring... automated quest reception & completion saved a lot of times and players can focus in enjoying stuff
wvwvw can be quite messy at the moment until they optimize the game and give option to disable certain spell effects...
32 kills in a weekend... not really anything great but enjoying all those siege, especially this (click spoiler):



Trading post is awesome, much better and more function than I expected but navigation still need some works
Crafting is surprisingly interesting, never feel such way in any other MMO before!

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 03:35 PM

^yup gotta test out the crafting in the last few hours...with the help of trading post hahah not bad...the trading post although quite confusing at first but once you figure out it is very easy to use...and best part u can sell/buy thing from anywhere no need to camp in front of the npc.... but you need to visit the npc to pick up item/coins

crafting does not feel very grindy, can determine the stats you want on the gears and work towards it...no random stats like in D3 as far as i know...

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Added on April 30, 2012, 3:36 pmin GW2 even the swamp is pretty lol

http://i.imgur.com/Z0L0g.jpg

This post has been edited by SoLiD: Apr 30 2012, 03:36 PM

eh post up ur build using the tool set lor.
http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=...f0ke3e4f8f91l27
use the bbcode link at the bottom.

i no play ele i dunno their skills much.

how is the crafting o? i no try that.
can share with us the details?

ok i post some cleavage.

http://i.imgur.com/ARrmo.jpg



by the way, competitive pvp runs smoothly 60 fps on a 1024 x 768 monitor

I haven't really thought of the traits yet...i just picked out what seems good to me at that time..can't really remember lol

im more focus on getting used to the spells and combos i can use in PvP with Ele there is so much spells...and need to know which attunement to switch to at what situation...i also feel that I need a new mouse with more buttons lol


@deimos itu mana cleavage...ini baru deep valley

http://i.imgur.com/HtV2q.jpg

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Added on April 30, 2012, 3:43 pmgonna have to camp GW2Guru forums for this few weeks d...see the discussion on Ele build...prepare for next BWE

This post has been edited by SoLiD: Apr 30 2012, 03:43 PM

fuiyoh urs is medieval type barbie doll.

yeah elementalist lots of spells can switch them on the fly. O_O

just pre-ordered the standard edition, meh, will join the next beta weekend i guess.

Really had fun with this beta, gonna play the 5 other classes (not mesmer, guardian or ele) next month and only using the first 3 races. Sylvari and Asura i'm only gonna touch when the game is released.

CPvP was heck a lot of fun, like TF2 like deimos said. Theres a sense of familiarity with the Capture Point format
Wv3 was awesome. Tried to capture a keep, kept dying of the guards. Damn strong.
PvE was lovely, i like the instances, the story and the environment.
But one thing throws me off. The fact that when you want to be in the same place with your Guild/Friends is so difficult to play together. Other than the occasional lag and fps issue on my behalf, everything was great

i think there could be a dota style competitive pvp in the future lulz.

i hope the loading time will be much faster once they optimize the code and all etc.
loading time feels a bit slow to me.

and if the server is populated enough, you will not feel lonely when playing.
suddenly a group of ppl appear due to group event, i.e. accompany caravan to town or something like that.

then just join in to kill stuff and all.




eh post ur build using this la. let me see.
http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=...f0ke3e4f8f91l27

This post has been edited by Deimos Tel`Arin: Apr 30 2012, 04:13 PM

I really love the group event. I think I rejoined the same event several times to get my level up. Specially when your next task is level above.

Hmm... Crafting...

1, material
Materials can gain through gathering. Gathering require different tiers of tools. For example axe required to chop wood have rough axe, steel axe, mystic one... If you use low level tool to gather higher level materials, you may just fail and get junk instead. Better tool can be bought from NPC but not every NPC actually sell them. Salvaging gear also another way to get materials. Salvaging with better salvaging-tools may increase your chance to get other valuable items like upgrade stone (mana stone in other mmo...). Mystic Chests (require key to open) sometime also gives materials.

2, recipe
you start with a list of recipe given, after you reach certain level new recipes will start to show automatically.
red : can't craft yet, higher level item
orange : give best exp
green/blue/white : lower level item but still give you some exp
grey : too low level it won't give you any craft exp

Karma NPC (those "hearts" dynamic events) some selling crafting recipe too, usually green items. I don't think those gears can be "discovered" by random mixing stuff as they have unique appearance and that [Shadow] set I crafted only require two materials (one raw material and one attribute item) instead of 3 components (see below).

3, discovery
By combining several basic components you can discover new recipe. These basic components are usually given in your craft list by default. Every *normal* gears have 2 separated main components (dunno about accessories). For example a staff got "head" and "body" components. To create a proper staff you need to combine these two components, and ONE item that will decide the attribute your staff will have.

These attributes items are insignia, inscriptions, etc.... They all appear in your craft list. (insignia for cloth armor, inscription for weapon, etc...)
Attributes we have are +power, + precision, +toughness, +vitality... there should be more I guess.

So the process is like any other MMO...
1, craft component no.1 (refined materials like leather, jute, wood block, etc...)
2, craft component no.2 (refined material + one material you buy from craft NPC)
3, craft attribute item (refined material + loot items like vial of blood, bone shard, bone chip, scale, claw, totem... each of them will give different attribute)
4, combine all these 3 components, you discovered a new recipe.

Crafted items always start with BLUE rank. Of course there are chance for better rank.

4, levelling...
The quick way to level craft skill is to craft completed gears. Of course before you can craft gears you need to craft their components first.
The craft skill probably have 999 levels? o.O...
About level 90+ I can start crafting lv25 gears, that set of [Shadow] gear (also Lv25) require Level 125 craft skill level...
Don't get stunned by the big level number though, this is not AION... Craft leveling is fast in here. Getting to 100 is considered very easy, one gear can almost give you one level (sometime jump 2 level at once).
And with the extra "booster speed crafting" lol... (speed increase if craft in large amount)

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"discovery" function hmm...
Actually once you know what type of component you can combine then it is straight away easy to know what you can do next.
I think it's more like a way to NOT let the NPC feed you with everything; in a way to make things slightly more interesting.

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 04:28 PM

actually if gear from crafting are very good, i wonder if anybody will wanna go for the other crafting like cooking and Jewelcraft, especially cooking, which at this moment doesn't seem very good

im sure everyone wanna craft their own armor/weapons...

Gear from crafting might not be the best... But still they are slightly better than what you can loot (of course green loots are nice). Well we never go to any real dungeon yet so no idea... Guess we should loot [gold] item in dungeon.
Still the special thing about crafting is when you found that FULL SET of gear... muahahahahaha... Distinctively looks much much much better.
Still, I only reached Lv129 craft in this beta, maybe in higher level we got more interesting stuff to do? Like refine [green] item to [gold]?

This post has been edited by M1X: Apr 30 2012, 04:35 PM

y u no join us

This post has been edited by M.I.N.S: Apr 30 2012, 04:41 PM

btw anyone know the max guild members number? later on we need to organize ourself better XD

crap i didn't get to test out the 2000 gemstone they give us >.<"
and the beta has ended...
Hope next bwe they gonna give another 2000 gemstone to try it out

This post has been edited by TimKen: Apr 30 2012, 05:02 PM

er test what? lol just take the gems and buy items? Someone in the guild got charged 1USD after key in credit card info and claim the 2k gem...did they refund the 1USD?