FUCK YES, FINALLY A RELEASE DATE! :D :D :D
So those jerseys DID mean something.
Razgon
1783
Nice! Sounds good they are taking their time as well :-)
Just in time for everyone to be at PAX Prime! Woooo! :D
But seriously, if someone is looking at playing GW2 and has only dabbled in GW1 (level 6 or so), is it worth trying to get some of the memorial stuff from GW1 to transport into GW2 or just skip GW1 completely?
JM1
1786
No, not really. GW1 is an excellent game that I really enjoy playing, but the Hall of Monuments stuff can be a real grind and a new player that doesn’t have the miniatures from birthdays will struggle to get any points in a reasonable time frame.
If you’re still curious, the SA forums had a post with the “best” way to go about this:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3389189&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=118#post404933868
(let me know if you can’t see that post)
Kind of surprised they’re only having one more beta weekend.
Cobra
1788
Wow that’s a bad date to release the game. It’s the end of the school holidays. Can’t they release it one month earlier?
IMO it’s a great time to release. Last week of school holidays, just before the long weekend, end of summer, people are back from vacations…
And for me personally it works great as my “away from home” vacation ends just a week before the 28th. :)
[edit] I do wonder though if the 28th is the launch day or the pre-launch early access day.
28th is launch, pre-access start is on the 25th which is a … Saturday, yay :>
Jag
1791
I’d skip the HOM. You can get a few easy points by completing campaigns and getting some companions., but it is a bit of a slog.
Awesome news. Perfect timing, can’t wait. :)
What kind of sucks is that now I wish the summer would end sooner. :)
walTer
1793
At least we have one more beta weekend on July 20th. Thankfully it is NOT during our summer trip. My wife would probably be upset if I spent it playing GW.
Has there ever been any word if the current client will just be updated or will a new install be necessary?
Reldan
1794
Engineer actually also needs a bit of work. The existing class only has a couple viable builds, and even then you’re working twice as hard for half the effect that several of the other classes get. The devs actually acknowledged this on the beta forum right after BWE2, so I think they’re on top of it and I want to see what they’ve got for BWE3.
DKD: I’m not sure what to tell you because the two classes you tried are the two classes I haven’t tried - I was saving those for BWE3. Thief is actually pretty damn weak in sPvP right now, outside of a build that’s entirely designed around landing uber-crit backstabs that burst around 16k (not a long fight at all).
The default build they have for most classes in PvP is actually a problem that is probably leading to your feeling that the combat is extremely drawn out. It’s like if you jumped into Counterstrike and didn’t know how to purchase weapons so were running around with just knife and pistol. Those builds just don’t have the right stuff equipped to deal significant DPS, and the game has built-in healing for everyone so if you can barely overcome that healing factor then it’s just an attrition slap-fest unless you outnumber them. Let me promise you that with the right weapons, traits, gear, and skills it does not work like this (unless you are specifically TRYING to be as defensive and hard to kill as possible, which is an option). I had a Necromancer built up that could 1v2 or 1v3 a group that didn’t have condition removal skills if I could get the drop on them and catch them near each other (I had an AoE skill that copied all conditions on one guy onto all enemies near him). We’re talking me dropping 25k damage in bleeds and poisons on one guy and then copying all that to his buddies and then watching them tick away 1-2k damage each second until they bled out or got cleansed.
KevinC
1795
The picture of the jersey everyone has been talking about had 28|6|12, not 28|8|12. :)
Well, we just assumed it was the release date and not the announcement of the release date.
KevinC
1797
Ahhh! I didn’t even realize today was June 28th. Touche, sir, touche.
Hooray! Just in time for me to leave for PAX Prime! Who am I kidding, I’ll still prepurchase the Digital Deluxe.
Do you really want a bunch of hyperactive kiddies invading the servers at launch?
For those of you who don’t follow the Bargain Thread, GreenManGaming has a voucher (25OFF-ALLTH-EGAME) good for 25% off anything, including GW2 which brings the price down to $45 for Regular and $60 for Digital Deluxe.
