Guild Wars 2

So to quickly add to my mini review from before..

I've had work everyday since the the first day it came out where I got a nice 12 hour binge on it. I've only been able to play a few hours each night but I've spent this time trying out Thief and Guardian and checking out the other starter zones.

I like how each class has different skill sets for different weapon types but at the same time I don't really like how there is only 5 or so skills for each setup and you can learn them all for each weapon in a matter of minutes. Then the actual skills are over on the other side of the bar. I'm finding the game to be very active with the dodging and skill usage which I like but I can't keep up on the # keys for skills. I like playing 11 and 14 with a controller. I find it awkward to have to feel/look and peck at those # keys I don't use all the time.

Again I dig the underwater stuff. There isn't a lot of it but they did put detail underwater so it usually looks wonderful. I hope there is like a whole zone that is mostly water with big water monsters.

Thief has felt awkward to play. Only because I'd like to dual wield daggers but the stealthy attacks seem awkward to use. I found pistol/dagger to be more effective. Guardian I did last night and felt pretty good. The weapon skill sets seemed pretty effective and I found myself settled on the 2h Hammer for the evening. Haven't found 2h sword yet.

That's about it for now. Too much stuff to type.

Are you sure? This game will run on integrated graphic cards. If you can run FFXI you can run GW2(with minecraft graphics).

Yeah, I have to admit I think they handled that very well.
I play on both my laptop and my desktop and I was comparing the two settings. Apparently the one that changes everything is the texturing setting. Sub, normal and super. Makes a noticeable difference when you look at it and also makes noticeable change in performance. Tested and my latptop (Intel I5 2.3ghz and a radeon 4550m) on normal gets 30 fps but on the sub setting is easily pushing 60-70.

Dagger/Dagger is best when you are sitting on 40%+ crit. When I started thief I was stacking power and had 2% crit. It was miserable. I started picking up precision gear (after I looked up what it did on the stat sheet.. and after level 11 I stacked the trait) and my kill speed when up drastically.

Dagger/Dagger plays more of a hit and run style. Deathblossom > Heartseeker > evade back > Heartseeker X3 will kill most normal mobs when your crit is high.

Sword/Pistol is very good if you don't want to have to play as dodgy. Pistolwhip(stun) > and the name evades me but it's a 7fold attack. Flanking Strike is also good for evading and attacking.

I recommend rebinding some of your keys. (For any class) 1-5 I kept the same. Heal is Mouse3, Utility abilities are E, Q, (last one is static buff I never use) and my Elite skill is Mouse4.

Rebind your movement keys A and D from 'turning' to Strafing and use your mouse to turn.

So only to me you said nope you can't play.

Like he said almost anything can run it...but on older machines it will look like minecraft(not literally...but kinda like XI lol)

is there a benchmark to download, to test a machine, to see if it will run ?

Like I said Seha, I think your PC can run it on minimum, your processor is slightly above minimum requirements, your GPU I'm not too sure about. Not amazingly familiar with 8400GS, however it would presumably allow you to have at least a playable framerate in most circumstances. Mixed results on it though, some say it's worse than the minimum required card some say it's ok.

Yeah, I know what you told me.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

I didn't know it could run on any pc until today, and I told proth @_@

What server are you on Misao? Bought the game today, gonna install soonish (if my internet isn't being a ***).

>_>
I just ran it and native and sub sample texturing.
I feel dirty enough playing it on my laptop while I'm at the office because it doesn't compare to running it on super sampling at home.
But putting it on sub sampling made it look archaic.
The jump from normal to sub isn't that bad, but super to sub is like Crysis to RuneScape xD

Blackgate (Misa is also)
If you get on lemme know.
Lawlserj, Misa and I are in a guild and any of us can toss you an invite.

How many servers do they have anyway? Someone said a server they wanted to pick was full >.>

They are going between full and not full.
Server swapping is free now so people are testing the waters on every server and swapping like mad.

What's the guild name?

How often do these change. I bought this yesterday to play with a RL friend and it finished downloading last night. I went to log onto his server this morning and its full and wont let me select it. On top of that every other American server is also at high. Moving servers isnt an option atm for him cause he also plays with his brother and his friends from Aion. Do this mean I cant get on this server?

Black Hand Of Death.

Small guild mostly Lolserj's friends, all people misa and I play LoL with so we were comfortable with it.

Also whats your IG name.
Omja.8503 for me.

The other day it was every 30min to an hour, but I havent done a swap since like Sat night.

/sigh

Misa, going to see if I can scrounge up a physical copy during my lunch hour today. You win!

Woohoo, if not you can order a digital copy on amazon and DL it at work.
I doubt they will question why your office in specific used 15GB of DL over the course of one business day >_>

If they do ask why your office drained 15GB of bandwidth just tell them you were playing Farmville. you'll be off the hook, and Farmville gets banned from the office. Win/Win situation.

My handle is Bompfu.4201

I am on a dell inspiron 1525.

I found a random thread someplace asking if they can play gw2 on this comp ( its standard, as it came in the package, but i did downlaod a patch thingy for my graphics so ffxi chars would be rendered) and the reply was a no you cant play.

The can you run it site looks really cool, but of course, my comp isnt allowing me to download the add on needed to use it properly so i cant tell for sure if i can play it or not.

I tried even with my entire firewall off lol.

If anyone can verify if i can play on this laptop i would sure love to know for sure heh


edit: it says i cannot download the latest version of java due to internet settings. I am a comp tech nub, so i dunno what to do about that lol... ( just tried the can you play it again lolol)

What are these? >.>

Username.
You can have the same handle as someone else so they random generate you 4 numbers at the end.
My Username is Omja
thus my full username for fl purposes is Omja.8503

Blackgate full atm... guess I play the waiting game XD

Server is measured via traffic as well, during peak hours you might see the server is full, but a lil later it might not.
server transfers are really smooth and free right now, so dont worry if you didnt get in the server, can check every once in a while for availability.

@ Zah, making a ranger named Ashe convinced you?
get a polar bear, name it Volibear~

Can I choose a character name in the game after though? >_>

you can get this when you crate your account, their confirmation email, or character selections screen.


yeah, character name is independent to you.. "account tag". it is just a fancier way to add someone regardless of character name, since sometimes you might want to play a different character, named differently.