Info about the FPE

WasAGuest

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eclair
I'm pretty sure if you unlocked anything using your account, it stays unlocked. The only thing they're deleting are the characters themselves.
You're right, my bad. I didn't read carefully enough.

M I D G E T S

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Thanks for the replies, so does this mean I can go to Ember or wherever there is a skill trainer with my skill points and start buying them all? Or can they only be unlocked with a new PvE character?

rancidgoat

rancidgoat

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

[XoO] [AX]

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zehnchu
The pre-order pack should contain a white booklet called Access Key Booklet, it has four keys in it. The first one will be the pre-order it allows you access the FPE, game items, and the 24 hr head start. Next if the friend key, then a trial prophecies key, then an Auto Assault trial key.

If you didn’t get anything like that in the pack then I would take it back to Best Buy.
i didnt get anything but a receipt

Zam Fear

Zam Fear

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2005

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by rancidgoat
i didnt get anything but a receipt
Then you bought it from the wrong retailer. I bought from EB, paid a $5 deposit toward the full game and received a nice box with a CD, a booklet and the paper with the access key. Perhaps you can go back to the retailer and they'll give you a preorder box. Maybe you put your order in before they'd received the boxes?

GraceAlone

GraceAlone

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Phoenix, AZ

Semper Reformanda [SeRe]

It's time like these that morals and responsibility are a real drag...but it's much better to continue collecting a pay check. I'll just have to play when I get home, and hey, who needs sleep right?

rancidgoat

rancidgoat

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

[XoO] [AX]

N/Me

this is a load of crap. Best Buy said that the entire package will be shipped to me. what sense does it make to send me the preview key after the friggin game has been released. . well ill see u guys after i get the game, way to go BB,ya morons.

Rayea

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

everyone plese remember...
theres a diffrence between the pre order boxes, depending on where in the world you are...

we UK folks dont get the blasted friend-keys to let a friend trial GW:P at all....be they in a retail box side or an online order side...which was one of the main reasons i wanted to snag a pre order box in the first place....

oh, and to the deleating of char....are you sure they will be deled, and not just whiped of skills/items/cash ect and reset to lvl 1 so that you can keep the names?
(hopeing its that way....i can live with not having any items, armours ect that i had as a spankey lvl2o in the test, but i would hate to loose a name i spent a while getting together cause the whole thing got cleaned out lol)

Jenosavel

Jenosavel

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Jul 2005

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rayea
everyone plese remember...
theres a diffrence between the pre order boxes, depending on where in the world you are...

we UK folks dont get the blasted friend-keys to let a friend trial GW:P at all....be they in a retail box side or an online order side...which was one of the main reasons i wanted to snag a pre order box in the first place....

oh, and to the deleating of char....are you sure they will be deled, and not just whiped of skills/items/cash ect and reset to lvl 1 so that you can keep the names?
(hopeing its that way....i can live with not having any items, armours ect that i had as a spankey lvl2o in the test, but i would hate to loose a name i spent a while getting together cause the whole thing got cleaned out lol)
If the characters get wiped, the name will become free again. So all you have to do is roll any old generic PvP character in that slot with the name you want and leave it sit there until the Factions release.

forever

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rayea
oh, and to the deleating of char....are you sure they will be deled, and not just whiped of skills/items/cash ect and reset to lvl 1 so that you can keep the names?
(hopeing its that way....i can live with not having any items, armours ect that i had as a spankey lvl2o in the test, but i would hate to loose a name i spent a while getting together cause the whole thing got cleaned out lol)
You will keep the names, just as you said, those characters will be reset to level 1 and wiped out all skills items, etc., but the characters will remain in your account.

dreamhunk

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

:P

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by forever
You will keep the names, just as you said, those characters will be reset to level 1 and wiped out all skills items, etc., but the characters will remain in your account.
I think gaile said you can keep your weapons,not sure on that one.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by dreamhunk
I think gaile said you can keep your weapons,not sure on that one.


NOPE

everything except unlocked skills are wiped.

nothing is kept in inventory as that character is reset

steair76

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

Skills, weapon upgrades and runes unlocked for PVP will be maintained.

BellyFlop

BellyFlop

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Ok Ok so much talk about this Weekend Preview, can we have it now cos i am tired of waiting

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by steair76
Skills, weapon upgrades and runes unlocked for PVP will be maintained.
since this is a PVE event and you are locked out of PVP and the character will be rolled back erasing your runes and upgrades and you cant transfer or store them.............

Quote:
we will not be supporting character travel between the continents of Tyria and Cantha, or between the Battle Isles and Cantha. Also, there will be no vault storage agents available on Cantha, so there will be no way to transfer items between characters.

SylverDragon

SylverDragon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Cheshire, UK

Quote:
Originally Posted by rancidgoat
this is a load of crap. Best Buy said that the entire package will be shipped to me. what sense does it make to send me the preview key after the friggin game has been released. . well ill see u guys after i get the game, way to go BB,ya morons.
But you don't need the preview key if you have a current GW account - you have access to the FPE either on an empty slot on your account, or by sending yourself one of your invites and creating a new account just for the FPE.

Karmakin

Karmakin

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Hey Gaile. If you're still around. I was wondering about something.

The 12v12 Alliance battles. It's mentioned that it is 3 squads of 4....

How are the parties formed? Does one player accept the 11 other players, and they're sorted based on character order. Or do you put together your squad of 4 players (similar to Team Arena), and you're matched with another two squads randomly?

I can see pros and cons for both. In fact, I'd like to see both. But if it is the latter, I think a lot of the worry about "l33t PvP" guilds winning everything is misplaced. After all. YOU could be fighting alongside those guilds.

Count to Potato

Count to Potato

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Imagination Land

I Swear She Was Eighteen [Gwen]

W/

ty for info gaile

Kalidon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Eternal War Lords

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
since this is a PVE event and you are locked out of PVP and the character will be rolled back erasing your runes and upgrades and you cant transfer or store them.............
He said PVP UNLOCKS will be maintained.

If u find an armor during PVE in the preview event, u identify it and find a ritualist rune for example (or a new weapon upgrade, or capping a new elite), ur account will have it unlocked from that moment on.

Starsky-sama

Starsky-sama

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Land of the Z Chest \o/

[NOT]-Nomads of Turmoil.

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more new/added information on official site www.guildwars.com.

I like how the 2nd paragraph started:

"The Factions Preview Event could begin with your creation of a Factions roleplaying character in an area of Cantha called The Marketplace."

OOoo...

VGJustice

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

This sounds great, and I've got a PvP slot I don't mind making into a PvE char for a weekend. I gave away my invites to friends and random passers-by at another forum, so I'll be there to help them out.

Rayea

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

um, i think they said you can make a pvp char in the event, incase you just breeze thru the PvE side and got bored....

as to unlocks...those who are usinf another account,(not their main) will still retain their unlocked stuff in pvp side, so if i wanted to, i could (assuming they become useable on the day of the event) use last months PvP only event account and play pvp side on that....

and when the next events come out, again, and again ect....
(but then..i only like pvp as the snowball arena Bring it Back, Anet i love that)

forever

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by rancidgoat
this is a load of crap. Best Buy said that the entire package will be shipped to me. what sense does it make to send me the preview key after the friggin game has been released. . well ill see u guys after i get the game, way to go BB,ya morons.
If you need access to FPE, pm me with your email address, I'll send you an invitation.