Guild Wars 2 V2: GOTY 2017 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arenanet - Games

I hope we can pre-order soon, next Sunday is my birthday and all I'd want is Guild Wars 2.

[QUOTE=CowThing;34883816]I hope we can pre-order soon, next Sunday is my birthday and all I'd want is Guild Wars 2.[/QUOTE] Happy Birthday! Mine was just yesterday, I'm building a new computer so that I can play GW2 in sexy quality.

[QUOTE=CowThing;34883816]I hope we can pre-order soon, next Sunday is my birthday and all I'd want is Guild Wars 2.[/QUOTE] Happy Birthday! :D I hope you get into the beta that weekend ^^ [editline]26th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=DeandreT;34884740]Happy Birthday! Mine was just yesterday, I'm building a new computer so that I can play GW2 in sexy quality.[/QUOTE] What specs?

[QUOTE=CowThing;34883816]I hope we can pre-order soon, next Sunday is my birthday and all I'd want is Guild Wars 2.[/QUOTE] Where are you from that you can't pre-order yet?

[QUOTE=Titanium Knigh7;34885186]Where are you from that you can't pre-order yet?[/QUOTE] The GW2 site itself doesn't have any preorder info or a set release date, or information on whether or not there will be collector's editions or anything like that. I think a lot of people would want to hold off until more information about the release is around, myself included.

[QUOTE=Titanium Knigh7;34885186]Where are you from that you can't pre-order yet?[/QUOTE] Where are [b]you[/b] from where you [b]can[/b] pre-order?

GameStop can take pre-orders apparently...

I always only PvP-ed in MMO's so i will love this. Also when is this planed to be released? Q2 or?

[QUOTE=psychojake;34885277]Where are [b]you[/b] from where you [b]can[/b] pre-order?[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-2-Pc/dp/B001TOQ8X4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330298992&sr=8-1]Amazon's got it up[/url]

[QUOTE=DuncanFrost;34881285]did you ever play Dark Age of Camelot? it's pretty much universally agreed to have the best WvW-style pvp and GW2 has taken a [i]massive[/i] amount of influence from it, right down to not displaying nameplates for enemy invaders. It's a known issue and they've already fixed it, it was one of the first things they fiddled with after the beta.[/QUOTE] DAoC definitely had great PvP and if GW2 ends up being anything like it then we are looking at some seriously awesome battles.

[QUOTE=WarRage333;34885359]I always only PvP-ed in MMO's so i will love this. Also when is this planed to be released? Q2 or?[/QUOTE] TBA 2012.

[QUOTE=WarRage333;34885359]I always only PvP-ed in MMO's so i will love this. Also when is this planed to be released? Q2 or?[/QUOTE] GOTY 2017

needs more warrior PvP videos from the press weekend plox

[QUOTE=Pandamox;34886416]needs more warrior PvP videos from the press weekend plox[/QUOTE] Yeah, I definitely think I'm going to be a warrior because they can use almost every weapon...but some of the moves don't look that exciting. I want to see some footage that makes me pumped.

Pretty sure this is coming out this summer as they planned to ramp up the beta a ton between now and the end of April I think. So it isn't unwise to think it may come out soon after. Anyways I'm thinking I'm gonna go elementalist. Not 100% sure yet. I just hope there isn't one really OP class like pallys were in WoW for awhile

part 2 of that world vs world video from yogcast [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxeffOuV_5o&feature=plcp&context=C391f06bUDOEgsToPDskKlvefm0qXxLMLvY8e7K0xt[/media] I'm glad that the servers will change based on skill and stuff from previous battles, so hopefully that will stop most of the steam rolling fests that I was anticipating [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=thrawn2787;34886497] Anyways I'm thinking I'm gonna go elementalist. Not 100% sure yet. I just hope there isn't one really OP class like pallys were in WoW for awhile[/QUOTE] oh god pre-bc and BC days with paladin was the best time of my life. there will inevitably be unbalanced classes that are better than others, but it's like that in every MMO and there's nothing they can really to do make everything PERFECTLY balanced

yeah I'm guessing all the servers with huge guilds will quickly bubble up to the top and leave the servers with lone wolfers alone

i'm gonna join the recommended PvP server and hopefully it's the biggest north american one right off the bat so i can just ride my way to the top like the scrub that i am

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;34886542]yeah I'm guessing all the servers with huge guilds will quickly bubble up to the top and leave the servers with lone wolfers alone[/QUOTE] This is what most of us expect to happen but I really hope it doesn't. Ruins PVP imo. [editline]26th February 2012[/editline] [video=youtube;s4E3raPxpUo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4E3raPxpUo[/video]

[QUOTE=Bullet100;34886985]This is what most of us expect to happen but I really hope it doesn't. Ruins PVP imo.[/QUOTE] honestly i think that'd be a good idea, that means that the bad servers will be matched with other bad servers. i don't think it'd be so fun if you're on a bad server and you have to face two of the the top PvP servers and you get dominated, they're doing it so it's balanced in terms of general server skill

[QUOTE=Pandamox;34886528]part 2 of that world vs world video from yogcast [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxeffOuV_5o&feature=plcp&context=C391f06bUDOEgsToPDskKlvefm0qXxLMLvY8e7K0xt[/media] I'm glad that the servers will change based on skill and stuff from previous battles, so hopefully that will stop most of the steam rolling fests that I was anticipating [editline]27th February 2012[/editline] oh god pre-bc and BC days with paladin was the best time of my life. there will inevitably be unbalanced classes that are better than others, but it's like that in every MMO and there's nothing they can really to do make everything PERFECTLY balanced[/QUOTE] A Charr warrior with a hammer (like in these videos) are really badass. I'm not generally a fan of two handed weapons, especially hammers, but something is especially badass about them in these videos.

[QUOTE=That Ninja;34887389]A Charr warrior with a hammer (like in these videos) are really badass. I'm not generally a fan of two handed weapons, especially hammers, but something is especially badass about them in these videos.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the hammers seem to have a real impact when you hit the ground with them, pretty awesome. Charr warrior is definitely on my list of characters I have to make.

[QUOTE=Pandamox;34887278]honestly i think that'd be a good idea, that means that the bad servers will be matched with other bad servers. i don't think it'd be so fun if you're on a bad server and you have to face two of the the top PvP servers and you get dominated, they're doing it so it's balanced in terms of general server skill[/QUOTE] But even if you're on a bad server and fighting other bad servers, you'd be stuck on that bad server. You as an individual can't advance to fight for a better server that will probably be using more advanced tactics. You'd have to hope that every other person on your server can get better if you want to advance.

I'm thinking elementalist or mesmer.

[QUOTE=Bullet100;34886985]This is what most of us expect to happen but I really hope it doesn't. Ruins PVP imo. [editline]26th February 2012[/editline] [video=youtube;s4E3raPxpUo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4E3raPxpUo[/video][/QUOTE] how does it ruin pvp if your server isn't constantly doing bad?

[QUOTE=CowThing;34887714]But even if you're on a bad server and fighting other bad servers, you'd be stuck on that bad server. You as an individual can't advance to fight for a better server that will probably be using more advanced tactics. You'd have to hope that every other person on your server can get better if you want to advance.[/QUOTE] You can change servers. There's just a cool down before you can join a WvWvW.

[QUOTE=Pie108;34888060]You can change servers. There's just a cool down before you can join a WvWvW.[/QUOTE] A couple of pages ago someone said it cost money to change your world server (which server you fight with in PvP) but PvE changes were free. That sounds more plausible to me than just letting everyone stack on one PvP world with cool downs. dunno if he posted a source though, either way if you want to do serious organized PvP find a guild and know what server they're joining on launch

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;34888172]A couple of pages ago someone said it cost money to change your world server (which server you fight with in PvP) but PvE changes were free. That sounds more plausible to me than just letting everyone stack on one PvP world with cool downs. dunno if he posted a source though, either way if you want to do serious organized PvP find a guild and know what server they're joining on launch[/QUOTE] I don't think there is a source for the changing servers costing money. But the recent AMA on Reddit done by one of the devs stated that they don't know if there will be a way to switch your "main" server for the WvW, or how it would be done. And I guess I'll look into organized guilds, I've never been much of a guild person(In fact I've never truly played a big MMO) I don't like having a guild tag on my name. But if Guild Wars 2 turns out to be as amazing as it looks then I can live with being in a guild.

not all guilds require a tag, I think that's usually clans in FPSs and shit

The videos from the beta had tags at the end of the character's names. That's it. They're all in [ ] and if it's the same as GW1 there's a max of 4 characters.