The unofficial Guild Wars 2 hype thread (with dynamic worlds)

These are the best quality vids yet, looks nice.



The tornado skill looks a bit silly though.
 
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I do hope you can zoom out more than that. My Mrs loves GW and is looking forward to GW2, but she gets motion sickness in games if the zoom is too close (like normal 3rd person games).
 
Sleepery said:
Nice! Although you might remember Age of Conan won best online game of E3 back in 2007 :D
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Back then no-one knew that it was an instanced world or how unfinished the game generally felt (no-one knew till 3 weeks before release tbh) having loads of intentional lies of omission for years then telling your core followers about them a few days before release doesn't bode well.

But many people, including myself actually checked their audio settings after reaching level 20, the game just died for me then. After being really impressed for the first few hours being involved in a story with cut-scenes, characters and voice overs being dumped in a bland instanced world after was just rubbish.

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Woohoo!
 
Anon-e-mouse said:
What a poke in the eye for SW:TOR that award for GW2 is... And I'm waiting for Sept the 3rd, when I get to play it myself in Seattle :D
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VIDEOS AND LOTS OF THEM in glorious 1080p and and omg reviews and get lots of info <3


demo dye system more colours in final.

 
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Human Ranger demo. Best vid I've found that shows off the environments. It looks fantastic.


Oh and a big picture:
GamescomFinale1.jpg
 
Glad someone dug this thread out.

A interesting read here: http://kotaku.com/5619863/forty+five-minutes-as-a-bunny+loving-guild-wars-2-necromancer

Then through the comments: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/938738-guild-wars-2/56040256

^^ That link has some videos that may or may not have some videos already posted in here. Some interesting ones anyway for your leisure.

Best thing i found was this: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/guild-wars-2/11916

Decent quality gameplay footage with commentary from, err someone from somewhere. :D

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/this-gamescom-compilation-information-streaming-t6651.html

^^ A fansite that seems pretty up date, as i thieve bits and pieces from there and post here :D
 
Damn Lyon, that video is the best thing I've seen so far. Looks outstanding! Cheers for posting :)
 
apeZ said:
Damn Lyon, that video is the best thing I've seen so far. Looks outstanding! Cheers for posting :)
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Nay probs :)

The Necro skill blog is up, find it here.

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"The great thing about minions is that they never last long enough to work up a horrid stench!"
A necromancer is a practitioner of the dark arts who summons the dead, wields the power of lost souls, and literally sucks the lifeblood of the enemy. A necromancer feeds on life force, which he can use to cheat death or bring allies back from the brink.

A necromancer feeds on death and decay. Life force is the energy that a necromancer uses to extend his own life. Using specific skills, a necromancer builds up life force by attacking and killing enemies. Rather than going into a downed state when he runs out of health, a necromancer automatically activates the Death Shroud ability. A necromancer can continue fighting in the ghostly Death Shroud form until he either runs out of life force or he gets a kill, rallying back into his own corpse.

Necromancers have a unique set of special skills:

Wells—Wells are persistent spells that allow a necromancer to control the area around him. Created at the necromancer's location, wells affect targets within the skill's range. Well of Blood, for example, applies a regeneration boon to all allies within it. A necromancer can only have one well skill active at any time.

Minions—The necromancer summons undead minions to attack foes and do his bidding. Every minion-summoning spell has an associated secondary spell that appears after the minion has been summoned. This secondary spell destroys the minion while providing a powerful effect to the necromancer. For example, necromancers have a healing skill called Summon Blood Fiend that creates a minion that heals its master while it attacks. After the minion has been summoned, the Summon Blood Fiend skill is replaced by the skill Taste of Death, which allows a necromancer to destroy the minion to gain a larger amount of health.

Marks—Necromancers can also place marks--ground-targeted spells with a variety of potent effects. For instance, Mark of Blood damages enemies while placing a regeneration boon on nearby allies. Marks will trigger after a set period of time, but a necromancer can always trigger their marks on command by hitting the skill again.

Fear—Necromancers use a condition not available to any other profession: fear. A removable condition, fear makes an enemy flee directly away from a necromancer for a short period of time. For example, a necromancer can use Doom to instill fear in a single target.




Weapons
When outfitting himself for combat, the necromancer can choose from the following weapons. The necromancer weapons are:

Main Hand: Axe, Dagger, Scepter
Off Hand: Dagger, Focus, Warhorn
Two-Handed: Staff
Life Force
Life force is a special type of energy used by a necromancer. Once he reaches a certain life force threshold, a necromancer can activate Death Shroud (see below), entering a spirit form and leaving his body behind. Each of his weapon sets have skills that give a necromancer life force, and he gains an even larger amount of life force for kills that happen nearby. Finally, there are utility skills that build up life force, like Ghost Armor, a skill that improves a necromancer's armor and adds life force every time he takes damage.

Pet Evolution
Death Shroud is a special ability--usable by a necromancer at any time--that utilizes his life force as a secondary health bar. Instead of entering a downed state when his health is reduced to zero, a necromancer automatically activates the Death Shroud ability and assumes a spectral form. In Death Shroud, a necromancer has a number of special skills. For example, a necromancer can summon a shadow fiend, a special minion unique to this form. With the ability to tap into Death Shroud, necromancers are certainly one of the most durable professions in Guild Wars 2.
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