Guild Wars 2 - Page 43

On March 30 2011 04:08 Jonas wrote:
I played Guildwars 2 at PAX and wrote a pretty long post about what I saw / my thoughts about it on the Team Quitter forums. If anyone feels like reading it you can go ahead:

http://www.teamquitter.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=353997#353997

Rest assured the game will be very, very good, even if they are changing a lot of stuff from the orginal.

EDIT: Oh, and this link is a Guildwars 2 skill bar creator, in case you were wondering about the build creation process/possibilities: http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=en

On March 30 2011 05:51 Jonas wrote:
Flow is one thing that the game has a lot of of. The movement and targeting systems are really good, so the game flows like it's nobody's business. My concern with the game is that the support skills and the elite skills all have extremely long cooldowns. like besides the basic "attack" or "throw a fireball" at your target skills, everything else had AT LEAST a 30s cooldown, more likely around a 60 or 90s cooldown. But keep in mind that you have like 7 of these skills in one bar, so you can't use all of them in any short period of time due to energy issues. I don't know if that will make PvP play feel slower than it did in GW1 (the demo only had PvE) but I'm almost inclined to say that it won't matter because the game feels so awesome.

I talked for like an hour with Jon Sharpe (one of the PvP Balance people) and he really knows what he is doing. Like I'm a pretty big GW1 PvP nerd and I was throwing him some tough questions and he fielded them pretty easily. They have people that know what they are doing making this game.

On March 30 2011 05:51 Jonas wrote:
Flow is one thing that the game has a lot of of. The movement and targeting systems are really good, so the game flows like it's nobody's business. My concern with the game is that the support skills and the elite skills all have extremely long cooldowns. like besides the basic "attack" or "throw a fireball" at your target skills, everything else had AT LEAST a 30s cooldown, more likely around a 60 or 90s cooldown. But keep in mind that you have like 7 of these skills in one bar, so you can't use all of them in any short period of time due to energy issues. I don't know if that will make PvP play feel slower than it did in GW1 (the demo only had PvE) but I'm almost inclined to say that it won't matter because the game feels so awesome.

I talked for like an hour with Jon Sharpe (one of the PvP Balance people) and he really knows what he is doing. Like I'm a pretty big GW1 PvP nerd and I was throwing him some tough questions and he fielded them pretty easily. They have people that know what they are doing making this game.

On March 30 2011 13:22 Jonas wrote:
@r33k: You could have just asked me about the projectiles instead of bitch about nobody asking about them.

The projectiles are not DOTA style seeker missles, the spell that exploded after a certain distance was a lot slower moving than most of the other projectiles, and had a pretty obnoxious animation so it's designed to be really easy to dodge.

The majority of the other projectile spells are either cast on a target (like GW1 style) or cast on a clickable location on the ground. Both of which can be evaded by clever use of movement/obstructions, which makes rolling a pretty useful defensive mechanic. But, again, it costs 5% of your energy bar every time you do a roll, so you obviously have to do this sparringly or else you will have no energy to do anything else.

@irninja: He was at PAX

@Wesso: I don't get the reference but I'm definitely buying the game as well

On March 30 2011 03:57 Potatisodlaren wrote:
Okay I've been "re-hyped" for this game. Damn you Arenanet I thought my MMO days were over Thanks for taking the time replying to me Obelisk7.

On March 31 2011 14:41 GhostKorean wrote:
Is the PvP in this game hard to learn? It looks really fun and I'd like to get into it but I have never been able to get into MMO PvP's because of the difficulty (or laziness on my part of waiting 15 minutes for a 5 minute game) of getting a group together to do arenas in -_-

On April 01 2011 03:47 irninja wrote:
You will be able to change your build, if thats what you mean. Im not sure theyre going with the exact same set of "custom-tailor" options for skillsets, like the old attributes. That's something I'd to hear about though. All we've seen is the skills on the surface, not the traits/attributes you can customize behind them.

On April 01 2011 04:39 GetGood wrote:
I was a top 100 monk in GvG but I don't plan on coming back to Guild Wars 2. I grinded away at PvP for a number of years but I hated so many of the balance changes. Just because bad monks couldn't infuse a spike doesn't mean it deserved to get nerfed.