Guild Wars 2?

Alan_Dunkin · 2012-08-25T12:43:14.000Z

There’s a manual??

— Alan

Razgon · 2012-08-25T12:49:42.000Z

Manresa:

I’ve played for about 90 minutes, but I have no clue what’s going on. I finally got a handle on the weapon/offhand skills after I hit level 4 as a sylvari ranger. Any idea why I suddenly have red streaks going up and down my arms?

Time to take a break and read the manual.

Ofhands for rangers? You dont mean with bow, right?

MrCoffee · 2012-08-25T13:07:14.000Z

Rangers can use more weapons than just a bow.

Razgon · 2012-08-25T13:08:14.000Z

MrCoffee:

Rangers can use more weapons than just a bow.

Yeah, I know - mine started out with an Axe I think

El-Producto · 2012-08-25T14:19:24.000Z

Kadath:

If you buy via GMG you can’t play till the 28th, right?

Wrong. If you bought before the deadline (unsure of date), you can play. I sure am.

Daagar · 2012-08-25T14:22:20.000Z

I assume he means if you buy from GMG now, in which case he’s correct, no more head-start keys.

Manresa · 2012-08-25T14:56:23.000Z

Razgon:

Ofhands for rangers? You dont mean with bow, right?

It just took me a while to sort out what was a weapon, what was an offhand item, and what they each did. Somehow the inventory/equipped items screens weren’t clear to me.

Manual:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/manual/

(not that there’s much in there).

Kadath · 2012-08-25T16:19:07.000Z

Daagar:

I assume he means if you buy from GMG now, in which case he’s correct, no more head-start keys.

Right, this. I can buy for full price and play now via the gw2 website or save 20% and wait till Tuesday, that about right?

Daagar · 2012-08-25T16:27:34.000Z

Bingo, to my knowledge. Since it is a little bit of a crap-shoot whether you’ll hit any of the ongoing performance issues, you might want to just save the 20% and wait to play. What little time I’ve been able to play has been excellent, but not so much for others.

Kyle700 · 2012-08-25T16:56:13.000Z

I tried some world vs world today… It actually works fairly well. The server lag was negotiable, but the amount of random spam on the screen in large engagements made my fps drop.
I don’t understand the way gear works though. Does the PvE gear you earn transfer over?

Jason_Cross · 2012-08-25T17:10:43.000Z

I’m in. I’m Fizzbricket, Asura thief.

Chaplin · 2012-08-25T17:56:56.000Z

Is there an easy way to swap weapons?

JPR · 2012-08-25T18:15:45.000Z

Weapon swap (with ~) unlocks at level 7, I think. Unless you’re an engineer or an elementalist. They swap between skillsets with the F keys instead of with their weapons.

EFlannum · 2012-08-25T20:07:35.000Z

Kyle700:

I don’t understand the way gear works though. Does the PvE gear you earn transfer over?

In WvW you are automatically “sidekicked” to level 80. This means you aren’t as effective as a true level 80 player but can at least affect a level 80. A big part of how this system works is that it takes your equipment and scales it up accordingly. So good gear translates into good gear and bad gear translates into bad gear. Basically, If you are WvWing your going to want to keep your gear up to date if possible.

Note: this is very different from Structured PvP where all players are set to be completely equal.

bandidoquest · 2012-08-25T20:32:46.000Z

The game is fantastic for me so far, after I finally was able to login earlier today, I basically played for 12 hours almost nonstop, which is something that I don’t think I’ve done with any game for at least 10 years. I’m playing with a Charr Warrior and having a lot of fun simply exploring the world taking part in the dynamic events, gathering stuff and doing the occasional story mission. Great stuff!

Chaplin · 2012-08-25T21:50:17.000Z

JPR:

Weapon swap (with ~) unlocks at level 7, I think. Unless you’re an engineer or an elementalist. They swap between skillsets with the F keys instead of with their weapons.

I am a level 8 engineer and trying to get my pistols setup on one set and my rifle on another.

Also when I went to create a new character, it goes all the way to naming and then says it could not connect to the login server and to check my firewall. I can go from desktop to playing on my engineer. Is this a load issue or do I really have a settings problem?

Jason_Cross · 2012-08-25T21:57:14.000Z

Is there a QT3 guild yet? And if so, how to do I find someone on to talk about about joining it?

tomchick · 2012-08-25T22:14:52.000Z

Jason Cross:

Is there a QT3 guild yet? And if so, how to do I find someone on to talk about about joining it?

There is a Qt3 guild, but it’s basically broken and ArenaNet has no ETA for a fix. But post your account name and number in the thread for the guild and I’ll make sure you get added when it’s fixed.

-Tom

EDIT: I was just told unofficially that they are “aiming to quash this bug tonight”.

Kyle700 · 2012-08-26T01:55:58.000Z

EFlannum:

In WvW you are automatically “sidekicked” to level 80. This means you aren’t as effective as a true level 80 player but can at least affect a level 80. A big part of how this system works is that it takes your equipment and scales it up accordingly. So good gear translates into good gear and bad gear translates into bad gear. Basically, If you are WvWing your going to want to keep your gear up to date if possible.

Note: this is very different from Structured PvP where all players are set to be completely equal.

So PvE and WvW are completely intertwined? Does that mean those bonuses like the Artisan bonus and stuff (+2 to critical change on crafting or something) also apply to PvE?

On a different note, does anyone have an opinion on the different thief weapons? So far I’ve run with the shortbow always, and trying to decide between double pistol, sword pistol, or dagger pistol. I find double pistol to be the one I roll with the most because of the rapid fire shot, which brings me to another question… I believe it is the third skill for the double pistol, but is each damage tick its own damage mark, or is it just adding from the last shot + this shot? For example:

At the end of the channel, it gives the number 500.
Is this number the total damage you did for the channel, or is the last tick of the channel, making the total damage much higher?

Not sure if I’m explaining correctly…

DKDArtagnan · 2012-08-26T03:24:12.000Z

I’m going dual daggers with Thief - and I’ve tried all combinations. They just click for me 100% :)

However, WvW seems completely unplayable atm. Lag is extreme and with the overflow technology - I suppose there’s a natural ceiling of players? I have lag even with just a single opponent - so obviously their servers can’t handle it with current limitations.

I wonder how they plan on solving that. If they lower the ceiling - that would mean longer queues. Unlike SWtOR - the world PvP was tested several times during the stress tests, so I don’t know what can be done at this point - that they haven’t already done.