omg awesome cant wait for my skinny necro to go into melee lol
i expect more monks named shaolin or something
Gamespot's Guild Wars Eye of the North Preview!
Elena
wetsparks
Just hope that as you gain a reputation with one group, say the dwaves, and you get tired of the dwarves and go to hang out with the Norns, your dwarven reputation won't go down like it does in Factions where if you do something for the Kurzicks the Luxons will hate you until you reprove your loyalty to the Luxons at which time the Kurzicks will hate you.
Ork Pride
Ok, so when do we get the release date?
The Great Al
I feel kind of selfish but would almost rather have a sept 30th release date than an august 31st. That is literally 1-2 days before I move back to school.
Of course, July 31st would be fine
Of course, July 31st would be fine
Malthan
All this talking about grinding reputation with diffrent factions for rewards sounds exactly how the main timesink in WoW was designed ;/ And I hoped GW will remain fun for players who don't want to devote hours upon hours on grinding ;/
Bryant Again
Don't see much of a reason for Guild Wars to have a timesink since it's not pay-to-play, unless they're like counting participation hours or something?
Mister_Smiley
Well from the looks of it around sometime in july it is, but if anything its most likey the the 27th. Anet if i remember right always seams to have GW come out on a Fryday.
The Great Al
What makes you think that it'll be out in July?
Kinn
Just like the first "Developer Diary" this is just another load of advertising spiel written by the devs.
(I'm still gonna buy it though)
(I'm still gonna buy it though)
Mister_Smiley
Ya i had total forgotten about Aug, so i suppose that blows up my idea. Oh well
SerenitySilverstar
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I hope that the mini games deliver, especially the fist fightin' one - I hope it's not just standing in one place, auto-attacking the baddie and pressing 1, 2 and 3 occasionally.
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Phantom Gun
Well this was a suprise. Year around minigames, skill rewards are coming back. Looking forward to this.
allience
what about pvp content? looks like pvp players will have to buy it just for a few new skills and not much else just as in the past..
as for pve, i'm sure the design will be gorgeous. i just don't like the whole grinding concept. i mean it's implied that gaining favor of a race needs a lot of quest grind to get some pve only skills. with loot scale in place, it doesn't look too bright for me. imagine how much grind will be required to get new armors.
as for pve, i'm sure the design will be gorgeous. i just don't like the whole grinding concept. i mean it's implied that gaining favor of a race needs a lot of quest grind to get some pve only skills. with loot scale in place, it doesn't look too bright for me. imagine how much grind will be required to get new armors.
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Too bad the games current state is appaling.
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What about Asura Chess?
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Personally I'm very excited by all this news. I'm really intrigued the timesink minigames and interesting quests. Yet, somehow we're 3 pages into this thread and there's been no "Yet another reason not to buy GWEN". I'm almost ashamed, Guru.
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Ok, so when do we get the release date?
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LifeInfusion
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" you and your eight friends"
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Ork Pride
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August 31st on Gamespot page.
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DOCB22
I cant W8!!!
BTW I hope that "if" we get Gwen as a hero that it's in the first quarter not the end, and she not a %$#@* mesmer.
BTW I hope that "if" we get Gwen as a hero that it's in the first quarter not the end, and she not a %$#@* mesmer.
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what about pvp content? looks like pvp players will have to buy it just for a few new skills and not much else just as in the past..
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Onarik Amrak
Minigames FTW!
I hope Polymock can blow my socks off. Like Traveller said, done right it can be a huge time sink... and entertaining too!
*fingers crossed*
Oh, if there's a title attached... don't make it prohibitively high like Faction titles...
I hope Polymock can blow my socks off. Like Traveller said, done right it can be a huge time sink... and entertaining too!
*fingers crossed*
Oh, if there's a title attached... don't make it prohibitively high like Faction titles...
sindex
I knew it; the design motto for the new dugeons is directly tied to Sorrows Furnace. Well, look who got what they wished for.
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I do not want to start a pvp vs pve argument, but this is just true. PvP did not get much except skills, and I think this is not enough if GW is really a "PvP game", as I was told so often in the past.
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GloryFox
Oh come now I fully expect to see
1) Polymock PvP
2) Fist Fight PvP arena for 1v1
3) New Guild Halls
To expect anything less is silly ANET has always introduced some new aspect for PvP even though PvE requires a greater focus and selling point for sales.
1) Polymock PvP
2) Fist Fight PvP arena for 1v1
3) New Guild Halls
To expect anything less is silly ANET has always introduced some new aspect for PvP even though PvE requires a greater focus and selling point for sales.
sindex
I actually thought this was funny:
You see if you go against the Lich, Shiro, and Varesh again and afterwards the possibility for them to they join you, would seem interesting. I mean it seems feasible since Abaddon no longer has any hold over them. It would be funnier if you could have one skill to summon them all. However I doubt all this.
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It all sounds very good, but what ANet is doing in the current games doesn't match well with their promises for GW:EN. Here's the salient quote:
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Then again, because I'm worried about the grind on the title skills, I have decided that I won't purchase GW:EN until one of the following happens:
- ANET confirms that if a player does all non-repeatable quests in normal mode one one character, he would then have all the title based skills maxed out for that character.
Or
- Someone who started playing GW:EN on release maxes out all the GW:EN title based skills for one character. Though this option will require that I am informed of it, and that I haven't lost interest in guild wars before then.
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Minigames FTW!
I hope Polymock can blow my socks off. Like Traveller said, done right it can be a huge time sink... and entertaining too! *fingers crossed* Oh, if there's a title attached... don't make it prohibitively high like Faction titles... |
Nevin
Amazing, I can't wait.
kazjun
Sounds good, though I hope you can get a decent lvl for the skills just by doing quests and grabbing bounties along the way. Otherwise, there's not much point to the faction skills for me. Plenty of normal skills to use anyway.
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I knew it; the design motto for the new dugeons is directly tied to Sorrows Furnace. Well, look who got what they wished for.
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Nevin
Did anyone notice the new Warrior armor?
Silly Warrior
Yeah looks pretty neat.
I'm sure there will be one set thats really cool, and EVERY warrior will get it.
Sorta like endgame Nightfall armor for warriors. It was cool until everyone had it...sorta...
I'm sure there will be one set thats really cool, and EVERY warrior will get it.
Sorta like endgame Nightfall armor for warriors. It was cool until everyone had it...sorta...
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I do not want to start a pvp vs pve argument, but this is just true. PvP did not get much except skills, and I think this is not enough if GW is really a "PvP game", as I was told so often in the past.
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The reason why there are PVE only skills is that they are unbalanced in PVP. However, I don't think that skills for PVP would be unbalanced in PVE. It means PVP only skills can still be used in PVE and no any problem there. Do you get it?
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Gaile: "It's not true unless A.Net says it!"
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Yeah, i was gonna tell people about the August 31st thing till i read this...ha, but just to give myself a good feeling inside....
WOOT GW:EN ON AUGUST 31 WOOT. <----Don't bash my moment.
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l---Yes i know it's not the date, and i know i'm retarded, so shut it.
and i know this was a pointless post, so i hope you guys wasted your inferior time reading it all...ha.
TideSwayer
Hopefully this "reputation" isn't anything like 'faction' was for Factions. I don't want to have to sacrifice my standing with one group to work on the other (ie. exactly the way faction in Factions was designed). If that's the case, I seriously will think about passing on this. The whole 'faction' part of Factions is what turned me off originally (although with Priest Blessings giving faction these days it's not such a big deal as it used to be - the faction adds up quickly now). I don't mind having to build up reputation with one group so long as my efforts to do it are independent of my efforts with the other groups.
Game sounds good, assuming this isn't a concern.
Game sounds good, assuming this isn't a concern.
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Give us an example for your PVP only skills.
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I just wanted to say that PvPers got nothing except Halls being changed to 6v6 and back to 8v8. In two years of GW. Not too much innovation and change. All that was done to PvP was nerfing and buffing skills
Hero Battles and Alliance Battles were the only new pvp modes that were introduced, and I think this is not enough...
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I just wanted to say that PvPers got nothing except Halls being changed to 6v6 and back to 8v8. In two years of GW. Not too much innovation and change. All that was done to PvP was nerfing and buffing skills
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And PvP'ers get tournaments, and of course the skill changes that are almost always concerning PvP, and not PvE. So...think of Guild Wars PvP like Starcraft. It never radically changes...but its considered a sport in Korean.
At this point in Guild Wars...what we see is really what we get, and will ever get.
allience
silly all i'm saying is that pvp'ers don't get much. when they changed the pvp arenas on an island, that didn't do anything..
keep in mind that the changes to heroes ascent are a major source of complaint. ppl are not happy with it.
and about atms, well it's not as great as u think. a lot of times we end up waiting 20 mins for game just to face a team that forfeits. it's not cool, you don't even get to play much of it.
you should realise that most of the changes done to pvp made the experience worse. i guess the only things that did improve since the release is hero battles.
and it seems like we're not getting anything else. in other words, pvp in gw is stale or frustrating depending in which arena u play.
i'm waiting for the release of new MMOs, that should make anet stop doing things that ppl complain about (loot scale in pve, kill count in ha and other stupid changes). i think anet lacks competition at this point and things should get better when 3 other games get released at around same time
keep in mind that the changes to heroes ascent are a major source of complaint. ppl are not happy with it.
and about atms, well it's not as great as u think. a lot of times we end up waiting 20 mins for game just to face a team that forfeits. it's not cool, you don't even get to play much of it.
you should realise that most of the changes done to pvp made the experience worse. i guess the only things that did improve since the release is hero battles.
and it seems like we're not getting anything else. in other words, pvp in gw is stale or frustrating depending in which arena u play.
i'm waiting for the release of new MMOs, that should make anet stop doing things that ppl complain about (loot scale in pve, kill count in ha and other stupid changes). i think anet lacks competition at this point and things should get better when 3 other games get released at around same time