Just so you know, the game has officially entered alpha. A friend of mine in Seattle is or is going to have access to the current build.

Small closed test as usual, 200 people or so?

Moa Chick for unique.

But you can do quest for moa chick

Read back a few pages. We're not going to repeat what we already said.

At least the learning curve for mesmer won't be so ridic this time round. With our latency to the servers, its should be less painful to try and shutdown people compared to all the bar watching in GW1.

Don't worry, you won't get in. None of us will as far as I know. Its closed as in really really closed.

hahah, but I know someone who got into alpha NDA on everything else lah but what to do.

Charr plushies back on sale

You do realise its purely cosmetic right..the stuff?

But if that's your thing, go for it! GW1 was definitely worth the purchase.

The rewards for completing the Hall of Monuments in GW1 is purely cosmetic (when you get them in GW2). They won't be any more powerful than what you can and will find in the game (which isn't hard to do either)

Lot of us have obligations elsewhere, but we still love GW

Its not going to be OPEN BETA just so you know. Ever seen Anet's beta weekends? It'll be like weekend previews.


I doubt I want to play the beta anyway; considering I've already played the demo.

Post dat hero build for sorrow's

Too lazy to finish HoM myself, bet you there'll be even better looking stuff later on.

This post has been edited by ZeratoS: Feb 11 2012, 10:17 PM

Yes you need an invitation to get into the beta.

Its hard to find these days. Not much of a difference anyway, you're best off waiting for sales and picking up the trilogy + EotN. If you're starting off now, it might be slightly harder to get a 30/50 HoM but its still worth getting into.

Asuran thieves are great fun to play ;D I had a chance to play it during Eurogamer. I would say the game is very fast and fluid and you very often find yourself rolling and moving about. Little time to sit and read your skills.


The pets in the HoM are purely aesthetic Might even find something you like better in the game ala rainbow phoenixes from GW1

The videos don't do the game justice. You can choose to stand still and spam skills yeah, but don't expect to live longer than 10 seconds, especially with a horde of zombies coming at you.

I tried that once and got eaten alive.

Yes IIRC.

Too lazy for a few extra bucks. If the time taken ain't too long, shoot for it. Highly likely those idiots playing WoW and moving on will want to twink their characters to hell. Those are the morons who will fork out $500 for a 30/50 account.

Go go go!

It will. Anet is good at making things scale and IIRC the lowest settings will look like GW1, which itself already looks bloody amazing for such an old game.

Don't know the hardware of the press release videos, but the one at Eurogamer was running on top end hardware I reckon there were fps fluctuations when I tried it out (unoptimized at that point).