I was right. Took me an hour and a quarter, 30-odd honeycombs and half a dozen mysterious summoning stones. NEVER AGAIN
Guild Wars 2
- Thread starter bushmins
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Just get the razer naga. Thats the ultimate MMO mouse.
This games does what it says on the tin.
I created a new race in the last beta weekend. I ran around in any direction I wanted and kept bumping into all kinds of dynamic events.
It was refreshing to have the freedom and still find things to do. All without any hand-holding being guided around a single strategically placed tour path.
I created a new race in the last beta weekend. I ran around in any direction I wanted and kept bumping into all kinds of dynamic events.
It was refreshing to have the freedom and still find things to do. All without any hand-holding being guided around a single strategically placed tour path.
thanks mate, i guess it will be a whole new download for the final release?
First off...no.
Once you download the BETA client, you won't need to download again apart from patching that client for the rest of the beta's.
On final release it hasn't been said if you have to re-download the entire thing, but I don't honestly see that happening.
As for a first character to start with, it depends on your tastes.
Don't try Engineer, mesmer or the thief.
Rest of the classes are easy enough to get your noggin around and its just what you want to do and your playstyle.
But for simplicity sake, I'd say the Ranger is the most forgiving to new players, due to the fast number of resources and the pet.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/7907-the-master-of-the-wild/
One thing I'll say, don't expect to melee and stand there toe to toe with mobs, you will die, fast.
If you have ever played any action combat games you will need to use those skills to battle in GW2, otherwise your going to die horribly.
Once you download the BETA client, you won't need to download again apart from patching that client for the rest of the beta's.
On final release it hasn't been said if you have to re-download the entire thing, but I don't honestly see that happening.
As for a first character to start with, it depends on your tastes.
Don't try Engineer, mesmer or the thief.
Rest of the classes are easy enough to get your noggin around and its just what you want to do and your playstyle.
But for simplicity sake, I'd say the Ranger is the most forgiving to new players, due to the fast number of resources and the pet.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/7907-the-master-of-the-wild/
One thing I'll say, don't expect to melee and stand there toe to toe with mobs, you will die, fast.
If you have ever played any action combat games you will need to use those skills to battle in GW2, otherwise your going to die horribly.
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cheers for the reply.
yeah i just tried gw1 free trial and i picked the ranger and like you siad i just got aload of health taken by just standing toe to toe with mobs, whats the best course of action with the ranger then? sorry for the noob questions dont normally play games like this...
whats a good char to do damage from range in gw2?
For Ranger:
you have longbow which is a all out DPS long range weapon
you have shortbow, which still ranged (less range than longbow)
you have axe, which is a mid-range AoE weapon, the axe bounces between foes nearby with a offhand of your choice, torch for fire damage, a warhorn to buff yourself and allys or dagger up close and personal.
Ele:
Staff for AoE ranged damage
Scepter for Single target (mostly) AoE damage, with a offhand of your choice of offhand, dagger up close and personal in your face kind of weapon, focus, support kind of offhand with some unique abilitys to negate damage
Gaurdian, doesn't exactly have viable ranged options compared to the rest.
Warrior has longbow and rifles, longbow is like a AoE ranged weapon and rifle is your single target weapon.
Last you have necro which is a mix of both worlds
Heres a site to check what skills each profession has with what weapons.
Check out some combinations and see what you like.
http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#r
There's no profession that should stay pure ranged just so you know.
Melee do more damage, not that much but still more, due to the higher possibility of them dieing compared to ranged which have little risk.
you have longbow which is a all out DPS long range weapon
you have shortbow, which still ranged (less range than longbow)
you have axe, which is a mid-range AoE weapon, the axe bounces between foes nearby with a offhand of your choice, torch for fire damage, a warhorn to buff yourself and allys or dagger up close and personal.
Ele:
Staff for AoE ranged damage
Scepter for Single target (mostly) AoE damage, with a offhand of your choice of offhand, dagger up close and personal in your face kind of weapon, focus, support kind of offhand with some unique abilitys to negate damage
Gaurdian, doesn't exactly have viable ranged options compared to the rest.
Warrior has longbow and rifles, longbow is like a AoE ranged weapon and rifle is your single target weapon.
Last you have necro which is a mix of both worlds
Heres a site to check what skills each profession has with what weapons.
Check out some combinations and see what you like.
http://www.gw2tools.com/skills#r
There's no profession that should stay pure ranged just so you know.
Melee do more damage, not that much but still more, due to the higher possibility of them dieing compared to ranged which have little risk.
I wouldn't download them now, the client could get updated several times before the next test weekend where you will just have to download them all again.
Guardian has some useful things to get back into melee range of your ememys.
On the greatsword you have Leap of faith, which launches you at your foe. You also have Binding Blade, which will throw a blade at your foe when used, then you press the skill again and it pulls the enemy to you, kinda like GET OVER HERE of scorpion.
On the 1h sword you have Flashing Blade, which teleports you to your selected target.
And for a Utility skill you have Judge's Intervention, which teleports you to your foe.
Untrue, you should keep your client up to date as the same client is used for all the beta weekends, you don't need to re-download anything.
Merge this post and the one above please mod, my mistake
