EPTLast beta event you couldn't played the Sylvari (however you spell them) or the Asura as a playable race and lvl25+ regions were blocked off.
Heres hoping that both those barriers are gone.
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Zooper31
United States5713 Posts
Last beta event you couldn't played the Sylvari (however you spell them) or the Asura as a playable race and lvl25+ regions were blocked off. Heres hoping that both those barriers are gone. | ||
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Roflhaxx
Korea (South)1244 Posts
On April 19 2012 06:11 Firebolt145 wrote: So skip it ~ skip it? :| I have paid like 1250 euros to contribute to renovating a bus. Gw2 beta gonna be cewl but still, can't throw all that money down the drain. | ||
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Lewfen
Sweden88 Posts
On April 19 2012 22:28 Roflhaxx wrote: skip it? :| I have paid like 1250 euros to contribute to renovating a bus. Gw2 beta gonna be cewl but still, can't throw all that money down the drain. I think he meant you should just skip the beta weekend. | ||
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ThumZz
Netherlands70 Posts
 also love that they dont have pay to play ;D | ||
Firebolt145
Lalalaland34503 Posts
On April 19 2012 23:08 Lewfen wrote: I think he meant you should just skip the beta weekend. I didn't, but I wasn't serious either :D | ||
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Drorctopus
Netherlands135 Posts
It's just pure gap closers,cc and damage. Defense is for pussies :D | ||
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Roflhaxx
Korea (South)1244 Posts
On April 19 2012 23:44 Drorctopus wrote: Hey guys, what you think of my warrior pvp build? http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#w;pfaap;WgbgaaaaaaaaVUd;dXba;ZYkcb. It's just pure gap closers,cc and damage. Defense is for pussies :D can't say tbh, I feel we don't know enough about how pvp in gw2 is yet to know what kind of build will work and won't work. Like who you'd want to focus fire etc etc. | ||
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Lewfen
Sweden88 Posts
On April 19 2012 23:44 Drorctopus wrote: Hey guys, what you think of my warrior pvp build? http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#w;pfaap;WgbgaaaaaaaaVUd;dXba;ZYkcb. It's just pure gap closers,cc and damage. Defense is for pussies :D If you want CC isn't it better to go for a hammer instead of a sword in the second weapon slot? And the biggest dps you get from greatswords is a channeling spell that you need to stand at one point for, right? | ||
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jtype
England2167 Posts
 Either way, when the site is back up, the blog post should be here - http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-weekend-event-is-coming edit - We're aware of the blog being down at the moment. Our asuran engineers are actively investigating the issue. Sorry about this! ^SL | ||
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chaokel
Australia535 Posts
On April 20 2012 05:06 jtype wrote: Hmm.. New blog post up with details about the upcoming BWE, but site is down for 'scheduled maintenance'? Either that is just a standard landing page when the servers are overloaded now, or their timing was a bit off on this one. Either way, when the site is back up, the blog post should be here - http://www.arena.net/blog/the-beta-weekend-event-is-coming edit - I managed to get through to a slightly broken version of the site (minus the pictures and videos) heres the text at least if you are interested. We’re counting the days until the first public Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event, which begins on Friday, April 27, at noon PDT (GMT-8) and ends on Sunday, April 29, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-8). Hundreds of thousands of players from around the world will get their first taste of Guild Wars 2—and rest assured, we’ll be playing alongside them! There are a couple important things you need to know about this Beta Weekend Event: The only way to absolutely guarantee your access to this or any future Beta Weekend Events is to pre-purchase any edition of Guild Wars 2. Customers who have pre-purchased the game will receive an e-mail next week with instructions on how to download the client and participate in the Beta. This is a public event, which means that you’re not bound by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). So go ahead, feel free to take screenshots, shoot video, blog, tweet, write, or compose a rock opera to share your Guild Wars 2 experience with the world. Let’s take a look at all the cool stuff you’ll be doing during the Beta Weekend Event. Choices, Choices – You’ll create your own personalized charr, human, or norn character and pick from our eight powerful professions. Your choice of race is vital to your personal story, and it determines in which of the huge starting areas you begin as well. A noble human mesmer will have a radically different game experience than a charr engineer in the service of the Iron Legion. Fortunately, you can roll more than one character and sample each starting area for yourself! Worlds Collide – If you want your PvP on an epic scale, look no further than World vs. World, where three teams comprising hundreds of players wage open war across four vast maps. You’ll lay siege to castles, raid supply camps, build devastating weaponry, ambush your foes, and leap into truly massive PvP battles—all for the glory of the server. We’re warning you: WvW is so addictive that you may spend the entire Beta Weekend Event there! PvP For You and Me – After you’ve gotten your feet wet, put your newfound skills to the test in Guild Wars 2 PvP, where small teams battle for points on a variety of challenging, compact maps. We adjust the level of PvP combatants so that all players are on equal footing. If you’ve got a competitive streak or you like playing first-person shooters online, you owe it to yourself to try out Guild Wars 2 PvP! I Love L.A. – For the first time ever, we’re opening the metropolis of Lion’s Arch to beta players. Wander the streets of this cosmopolitan trade hub, chat with traders and travelers from every corner of Tyria, hop through one of the many asura gates to points beyond, or discover the famed diving platform at Diverse Ledges. Lion’s Arch is a city like no other! As you can see, there’s a ton of stuff to do in the upcoming Beta Weekend Event on April 27-29. It’s honestly way more content than one person can experience in 60 hours of playing—and we haven’t even included the asura and sylvari in this beta! Fortunately, this will not be the last Beta Weekend Event before launch—stay tuned for more news regarding the next event. We’ll see you in-game! | ||
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34503 Posts
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jtype
England2167 Posts
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miniwheats
Canada187 Posts
On April 20 2012 06:09 jtype wrote: I was hoping that they would announce some new content for the BWE or something. Well Lion's Arch is new content. I'm sure they want to leave some stuff as a surprise, but yeah that doesn't stop us from hoping. I'm going to go try and distract myself with Tribes Ascend until the beta weekend arrives. | ||
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Wurstbrot
Germany89 Posts
I really don't get the hype about GW2. | ||
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miniwheats
Canada187 Posts
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Morofang
Netherlands45 Posts
And if leveling is not your thing at all, you can go play tourney style. Which, from what I understand from your post, is what appealed the most to you and what you spent the majority of your time doing. I think personally, the point you are missing is that theres a choice. I think running around with my friends, doing adventures that respond to me and my actions sounds like a huge amount of fun. I'm not going to do them for the gear, or the xp, but because it appeals to me. I'm not grinding, I'm playing the game! Thats where the difference lies. However, it does not appeal to you. But, as you already have seen there are other options, including tournement style pvp all the time. You don't need to level for that one. The option is there, which is why theres a hype. The options to do what you want to do. To have fun. Some people will not like this game, you can't please everybody, but they are catering to several categories of gamers and trying to bring them together. On the note of tournement play, I like the system that "makes pve a joke" for this reason, my wow story. For in GW2, I don't have to roll a tank and run dungeons over and over and over again to be able to get the levels and the gear to finally start pvping so I just barely survive until I get enough points to get better and better pvp gear so that pvping will actually be a bit more fun. At a certain point I have the best gear I can get, and only other people with similarly high gear are a challenge. The fun in slaughtering undergeared players goes away very quickly. The fun of outsmarting another player never does. Which, in a controlled enviroment for balancing reasons, becomes a stronger factor. No longer is it the case of Mr Nolifer has the epic sword of over 9000!!!! and does twice the damage I would do if he wasn't wearing the Ucanttouchthis platebody of reduce player damage by 50%, but he is so I am 1/4 of him, even though we are the same level. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On April 20 2012 16:26 Wurstbrot wrote: I played the last 2 beta-weekends and I'm not impressed at all. The gameplay is OK, but the PvE-system is a pointless joke. Why level a char through bad grinding quests, when you can just make a Level1 Char and PvP with your Level80 Full-Equipped PvP Char? I really don't get the hype about GW2. Because... you want to play PvE, not PvP? | ||
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Morofang
Netherlands45 Posts
Personally, any boss fight where people have to think, work together and be pushed to succeed will never be a grind to me, which is why I enjoy DDO so much. If your team works together its a jolly stroll down easy street in the beginning, and if your team doesn't you just carry them. Later on however, if your team is a good one, then every dungeon is an exciting experience and only your skills at the game are keeping yourself and your companions on their feet. If your team is average you'll manage to limp accross the finish line (ahh good times). My favourite times are the barely managing a victory when all hope is lost. Eg me filling the roll of scout being the only one left and managing to lead the boss right into a nasty trap where he dies, to the cheering of my comrades whose bodies litter the floor... Beautiful... Won't be getting that kind of stuff with the downed system however, which is a bit of a shame.. But new times, new styles. I'll be doing my best to have my name cheered out in pve and pvp, and I expect all my friends, new and old, to do the same! ^^ | ||
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chaokel
Australia535 Posts
On April 20 2012 16:26 Wurstbrot wrote: I played the last 2 beta-weekends and I'm not impressed at all. The gameplay is OK, but the PvE-system is a pointless joke. Why level a char through bad grinding quests, when you can just make a Level1 Char and PvP with your Level80 Full-Equipped PvP Char? I really don't get the hype about GW2. ... clearly you only want to PvP, why are you complaining that this MMO (fairly unique in this aspect) lets you skip the 'bad grinding quests' and get straight to the content you desire. You make no sense. | ||
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Lowko
Netherlands286 Posts
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