On Unifi 5, latency to the beta servers in Texas was around 250-300ms. The game is "playable" depending on how you define it. For example when you hit the dodge button the moment you see the Champion Cave Troll raise its fist, you're already dead. I've also had lots of experience seeing my character running circles around Ettins and still get hit by their regular frontal attacks.

As for pre-purchase, it's best to get it early as ArenaNet did limit the number of digital product keys prior to the first public Beta event.

If you enter a command while your previous skill is going through it's animation, the command is registered and "queued" to execute immediately afterwards.

The problem with 500ms ping is not the skill activation, like one would worry about in WoW, rather it's about dodging/blocking those instant-kill attacks Champion-grade mobs throw out.

Asura expected for this month's BWE (if there is one).

Leaked CBT screenshots


Butbutbut... Diablo 3... *_*

This post has been edited by Ojimaru: May 16 2012, 07:34 AM

At this point, likely never. They have even stopped pre-purchases leading up to the first Beta Weekend Event because they were over-capacity.

Ironically the Asia servers in D3 (which are in Korea) give 3x higher ping than the US West servers. As NCSoft is the publisher, any Asian servers will likely be in Korea.

Most of the SEA and Oz players were on Sea of Sorrows (incidentally ranked #1 in BWE1 WvW with 6 wins 0 losses). However the number of servers available for BWE2 has doubled.

Even with slow internet connection, this is the 21st century. Here is my proposed solution:

1. Buy the digital version.
2. Get some helpful person download the game client
3. Get said helpful person to burn a copy of the game client on to DVD (by splitting the 18GB up into multi-part RAR compressed files)
4. Get said helpful person to send you the DVD
5. Buy said helpful person dinner/drink/etc (optional)
6. Install game client.
7. Google the keywords "guild wars 2 beginner guide" and read/watch the 1000001 online guides on the internet.

Didn't have any problems hitting people as melee (Guardian: Sword/Focus; Scepter/Shield). It's the ranged skills I have problem with, especially Blinding Flash. However from what I've heard and seen, Blinding Flash is buggy with its hit detection, even for US and EU players.

Not sure about Streamyx. Basic Unifi works well.

This does and will likely happen during the first week after launch/early start. Things will get crazy the moment the mob train stumbles onto a Dynamic Event, which scales the mob difficulty (more Elite or Champion mobs) and numbers (I remember a bunch of us level 20s getting swamped by an onslaught of level 5 Sons of Svanirs thanks to our downscaling and their upscaling).


There will always be zergs. However, if you've seen any of the Team Legacy WvW videos, zergs are countered hard by simple coordination and tactics.


There seems to be a general misunderstanding in regards to "gear does not matter". All gear at any particular level has the same "item budget", or ilevel if you're familiar with WoW or D3. However, picking the correct gear with the correct stats matters. For Guild War 2, weapons and armor are customized by Sigils and Runes respectively, while accessories (earrings, totems, amulets) are customized by Gems. So, say I'm planning a build that relies on Critical Hits and associated procs, I wouldn't my character want to be wearing items that give +Healing and +Condition Duration.

Was so planning on making a Pyromaniac Sylvari. But it seems that Flamethrowers are more CC than damage. Wonder what Sylvari heavy armor looks like.

You're forgetting that there is no such thing as "server queue" in GW2. If a particular zone is full, you can either join the queue to get in or join the overflow server. In the overflow server, you'll be playing as normal, maybe with less people. Parties and overflow servers were addressed in BWE2



Server population matters only in WvW. Even then not everybody on a particular server will go there.

According to my traceroutes, with results confirmed by redditors, all US servers - including ones SEA and Oceanic players will be connected to - are in Dallas, TX.

Client Download is found at: https://account.guildwars2.com/download
You will, of course, need to have a registered GW2 (beta) key to download. You could also try p2p options.

Beta Weekend Event 2, 3 and full release will be the same client. (Source: ArenaNet Twitter)

Looks like Cari.com.my community will be in Kaineng. As briefly featured in the WvW video below:



This post has been edited by Ojimaru: Jul 11 2012, 08:57 AM

Amazon.com has pre-orders open for the Collector's Edition, comes with all the normal pre-order goodies, including 3-day early access and the next Beta Weekend Event access.

http://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-2-Collect...ds=Guild+Wars+2

"buy the beta"? I sure hope you weren't thinking of paying for the beta access, because nobody is. We are getting access to the Beta and Stress Tests by purchasing the game early, like an early bird bonus.


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