ummmmm Guild Wars 2 anybody?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:49 pm
So this game has been in the works for a looong time. I've played the beta weekends a little bit (another one coming up this weekend), and the game comes out August 28th. Basically, this is a giant MMO with no sub fee and a lot more emphasis on upheaving a lot of current MMO standards.
-No holy trinity (dps/healer/tank), all classes can do a bit of each thanks to weapon set switching
-No gear grind (all max level gear has the same overall amount of stats, though you can get continuously better cosmetic gear). This keeps PVP balanced and makes it so the game is not a giant treadmill grind and waiting around for raids like other MMOs, and so parties aren't like "need 1 tank, must be geared" blahblah
-Focus on collaboration (no kill-stealing cuz experience is shared no matter what, dynamic quest events that encourage everyone to work together, WvWvW combat which is basically server vs. server vs. server in a massive central PVP zone). You can also progress in levels doing anything you want (crafting, PVE, PVP, exploration, etc.)
-More action oriented combat (you have to aim your attacks, dodge, switch weapon sets, and not just click and forget). You can switch weapon sets on the fly and each combo has different skill sets. For example, dual axes gives you more quick crit-based attacks, axe+war horn will give you party buffs and stuff, dual swords is bleed-based, sword+shield more defensive, etc. etc.). This means if you want to be a melee DPS you don't HAVE to be a Warrior. You can be a melee Ranger and have a pet, or a melee Thief and have more stealth/poison/stealing, etc. And you can be a gun-toting Warrior if you want ranged (and you can switch back and forth in combat if your enemy is running away for instance).
-Level scaling lets you play with friends no matter what level/content they're doing. If you're level 1, you can go do world PVP and help your server and be scaled up to level 80 while you're in that zone (obviously your gear won't be as good but you can still help out). Oppositely, if you're level 80 and your friend is just starting and wants to do a dungeon, you can be scaled down to the content and still gain experience and rewards. Each dungeon has 3 explorable routes too with dynamic events that change each time you play.
-The main PVP zone is massive and has structures to defend, siege engines to buy and use, underwater combat and secret routes, puzzles, NPC camps, and more. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7khMRQjfsc You can also do instanced 5v5 pvp matches whenever you want if you like more traditional small pvp arenas. I think it'll be fun to get on vent and coordinate some newb smashing either in arenas or out in world pvp in the Eternal Battleground
-It's pretty! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6e9XNCFlqQ cities are huge and very nice looking. Beta had quality settings locked so a lot of the videos online don't look that good currently. Crank up the settings on that new 'puter!
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game ... -GW2-.html Here's a big list of information, mostly up to date I believe, though it looks like a few things might be updated by now.
This guy's got probably the best videos about the game when it comes to commentary, interviews, analysis, walkthroughs, etc. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... 1m9MREJ6kM
-No holy trinity (dps/healer/tank), all classes can do a bit of each thanks to weapon set switching
-No gear grind (all max level gear has the same overall amount of stats, though you can get continuously better cosmetic gear). This keeps PVP balanced and makes it so the game is not a giant treadmill grind and waiting around for raids like other MMOs, and so parties aren't like "need 1 tank, must be geared" blahblah
-Focus on collaboration (no kill-stealing cuz experience is shared no matter what, dynamic quest events that encourage everyone to work together, WvWvW combat which is basically server vs. server vs. server in a massive central PVP zone). You can also progress in levels doing anything you want (crafting, PVE, PVP, exploration, etc.)
-More action oriented combat (you have to aim your attacks, dodge, switch weapon sets, and not just click and forget). You can switch weapon sets on the fly and each combo has different skill sets. For example, dual axes gives you more quick crit-based attacks, axe+war horn will give you party buffs and stuff, dual swords is bleed-based, sword+shield more defensive, etc. etc.). This means if you want to be a melee DPS you don't HAVE to be a Warrior. You can be a melee Ranger and have a pet, or a melee Thief and have more stealth/poison/stealing, etc. And you can be a gun-toting Warrior if you want ranged (and you can switch back and forth in combat if your enemy is running away for instance).
-Level scaling lets you play with friends no matter what level/content they're doing. If you're level 1, you can go do world PVP and help your server and be scaled up to level 80 while you're in that zone (obviously your gear won't be as good but you can still help out). Oppositely, if you're level 80 and your friend is just starting and wants to do a dungeon, you can be scaled down to the content and still gain experience and rewards. Each dungeon has 3 explorable routes too with dynamic events that change each time you play.
-The main PVP zone is massive and has structures to defend, siege engines to buy and use, underwater combat and secret routes, puzzles, NPC camps, and more. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7khMRQjfsc You can also do instanced 5v5 pvp matches whenever you want if you like more traditional small pvp arenas. I think it'll be fun to get on vent and coordinate some newb smashing either in arenas or out in world pvp in the Eternal Battleground
-It's pretty! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6e9XNCFlqQ cities are huge and very nice looking. Beta had quality settings locked so a lot of the videos online don't look that good currently. Crank up the settings on that new 'puter!
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game ... -GW2-.html Here's a big list of information, mostly up to date I believe, though it looks like a few things might be updated by now.
This guy's got probably the best videos about the game when it comes to commentary, interviews, analysis, walkthroughs, etc. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... 1m9MREJ6kM