The Factions Update- Things You Weren't Impressed With

The bloody....friggin...load....screens....(dialup) It's 4:15 PM, I've been DLing ALL night, and all morning....I've loaded a grand total of the Market Place, Cavalon, and Pongmei Vally.

Tip to A.Net:
If you're gonna release so many files...next time release them much eariler so we can have a few weeks to download at our leisure. I'll be lucky to be done by Sunday at this rate.

Hey, I LIKE the shoes on that assassin :-p

Looks like a pair of shoes I had in third grade

I LOVe the vampiric horror, but I was real depressed when I saw that the graphic was the same as the bone horror. The flesh golem is great, but I don't see me using it over, say, oob.

I'd love it if they upped the cost to 20 on the little bugger, but made him give me energy with attacks (a decent amount, because he attacks slower than snails).

Oh, and I was saddened that skeletons have _still_ not entered the GW universe. I signed up as a necro on the condition that there would be SKELETONS!

I like the direction they took with armor (a MM set that gives +10def when you have 3+ minions up), but I think the bonus for MM armor is a bit silly. I'm an egomaniacal mage with a penchant for large numbers of dead guys to hang out with! Give me +energy or +regen or even (God forbid, because it would mean higher sac costs) +health.

MM are not tanks, so give us a more appropriate bonus!

I'd definitely love to see more variety in minions! Even cooler, in my opinion, would be elementals for the elementalists. If my ele could summon an Earth Elemental to protect him, I would be happy forever :P

The new ele armor makes me sad that I bought 15k for my guy. I agree with a previous poster that an energy armor set would be nice... but it would also eliminate the demand for _any_ other type of ele armor. It would be balanced if the AL was downed, but otherwise...

Oh, and I'm buying Legionary armor. I love stances and stance tanking, and 110AL is my dream!

The only thing I dislike about the game at all is that there seems to be a bias towards one side or the other, which makes wait times absurd. Other than that, PARTY ON ANET!

(My comp is a 4 year old laptop with a geforce 440go and 512megs of ram and runs this fine. Sucks to be you!)

First I must say Arenanet did a great job in creating this event! I noticed some blocked roads which probably will be accessable in the real game

And that takes me to some points of confusion: I can't figure out how the real game will be just by playing this event. There is a really big difference between the Luxon maps playabillity and the Kurzick maps: The Luxon maps remind me of the happy uncomplicated adventuring in Pre-searing . Lots of space and many ways to avoid unessecary encounters. The Kurzick maps however... Crowded with so many creatures its agro, agro, agro and once more agro... I hope they will change this.

As some other stated, for owners of the original game its no more than an expansion, and I really wonder why they can't dl a special 'add to the original game only version' for a lower price...

o-O god, who woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? its people like u who cause other people not wanting to post. ffs, get some coffee and chill out!

all i wanted to do was find out other people opinons and what they didnt like. shoot me if this is against the law

1) You get faction from competitive missions. The ones with the enter mission button.

2) it isn't broken. You just have to wait longer. It's a pvp mission and if the other faction isn't joining, then it take a long time before it starts.

One thing I really don't like is that if you are out questing and go into a competition town that you just discovered, you are kicked from your party and have no way to reform.

You then have to meet up in the last town that you were in and travel all the way to wherever you might have been in order to finish up the quest.

I'm mostly upset that they didn't give those of us who have already bought GW's an xtra slot. I played the PvP preview weekend and had spent a bunch of faction on some skills and the only way to use them again was to delete one of my 4 characters I spent a ton of money to build.

My 2nd opinion is that this whole weekend seemed really confusing and certain things weren't made clear. After you d/l a mind boggling amount of files and wait for the decomp at every screen your standing in a huge city with no clue what to do. Hard to get with a group when people are d/l files and decomp at every screen. Wonder why they didn't make a file pack to d/l.

I like they 12v12 idea but too many peeps just bail too soon and it's hard to get in a good game. It's much better if you group up with 4 guildies 1st but this doesn't help the new people at all.

Overall I will still buy Factions because Anet has a good thing going here but I definately think they should throw a bone to those of us who have already bought Chapter 1. I hope they consider making an entry level concept. It's ridiculous to be born at level 20 with no way to go up, plus starting level 1 with easier missions is where people learn how to play. Chapter 1 was written very well with excellent character progression. Chapter 2 should imo be a continuance and not a stand alone product.

Thnx for the weekend anet and listen to the people who have already purchased Chapter 1. For those who have not purchased Chapter 1 I am sure that they are LOST and have almost no clue as to what GW's is really about. (I'm pretty lost myself) Seems like it's a cluster in Factions right now but hope the kinks get all worked out.

Just my .05 cents.

List of things I'm not impressed with:

1) Ugly armors for Nec and Ele.
Assasin armor looks more like it was taken from some cheesy anime. Should be black from the start, should cover the whole head, not just the face.

2)Ritualist's Spirits are just recycled versions of Mraggath or whatever that thing's name was.


3)Most new faces suck, allthough I have to admit there are a couple of nice ones. Also, why are they mostly asian, I understand that this is an asian themed game, but what if someone wants some new "european" faces?

3)Katana is a two handed weapon. I love the idea of japaneese swords, but one handed jap swords are named differently.. Was it Wakizashi? or Ninja-To?

4)Most new sword skills feel underpowered compared to axe. Some seem useless.

5)No 1on 1 pvp. Not even in guild hall for training purposes.

There are many other more signifficant issues, but I'm hoping those will be corrected in the final release.


Things I'm impressed with:

1) Most new dances are quite nice.

2)Many great and very useful skills. Many great new hair styles, some nice armors.

3) New interesting features.

Hope Anet reads this.

Atleast this is only the Beta testing stage, so look for more content when the game comes out.

SIGHHH................

since you did not read it i will pass on a little secret.

there is the equivalent of starting presear for people starting a Factions character.

they announced many times FOR THE BWE ONLY you would start out level 20 fully equipped.

FOR THE BWE ONLY.

they do not have weeks for people to learn and advance a character before releasing the game.

this is only a small peak at a very small part of the game so relax.

if you want to grow up in Faction land make a character and spend your formative years in the monestary and then go forth to adventure

I was very impressed by the game... very, very much. The graphics are gorgeous and the area's are really nice!

I agree the Assassin looks skinny and unshapely, the female could pass for a male, seriously. The armor is okay but its sort of asexual.

The HENCHIES do seem MUCH smarter. I took them out with me in a several areas and didnt die once (then again, I had 2 healers, a protection AND a guardian) so that has improved.

As for the lag, not much could be done about that, was rather annoying in a fight, however!

The assassin skills will light up when they are able to used - if its a lead attack it wont but the follow ups and duals will light up once the one that is supposed to be done before it has cast.

The faces for the female assassin (actually for females in general) are absolutely horrid however. I only found one I liked, the others looked reallllllllllllllly ugly! I hope they at least join them all together when its released (or bring ones from Prophecies over).

I'm quite happy and I can't wait for the game to come out ^_^

I hope that this is a small chunk of the game. Well, they did such a good job with chapter 1 so let's hope Chapter 2 will be at least half as good.

I'm more concerned about the gameplay then the looks of characters. I hear alot of people complaining about how certain things look. I would carry a plain stick for a weapon if it had the stats I wanted and wouldn't complain. I think Anet did a good job on character appearance variety.

Henchies running off to the next group of foe and bringing them back to you.

Th double skills are dumb. Extremely. If they wanted to give certain skills to Faction only players that were available in original GW, they could have just included these skills in the core skills set and given the rest of us 30 or so new and unique skills. This was very disappointing. ANet that prides itself on originality has decided to double up skills because they wanted to introduce 300 "new" skills and didn't feel like spending more time thinking it over past 270 or so. Really... disappointing.

i wish ppl wouldnt complain about the load times, it only took forever for the first time you went to each zone cuz it was loading all the AWESOME stuff. i mean cmon, it was worth it to wait a while for it once and when ppl complain about not having enough mission and what not, its a preview not the game...

im personally loving the event and a cant wait till april



i totally agree with this:

Actually Breath Of Fire is not too bad. More like that please
(Although it doesnt really look like a breath of fire... make it blue and it'd be a perfect maelstrom though

It seems the clone skills are here to stay. I'm dissappointed, but oh well, it's not the end of the world.

Play magic the gathering, this is a good thing actually. How many times have you though, if I can take this same skill more then once on the bar?

All in all, I'm happy with the event. I like the new skill additions that I've see and played with (Ether Signet is one of my favorites), I like the new weapon skins, and I like the feel of the game (very different from GW: P). I do, however, have one nagging complaint and disappointment, however...



Lace? What am I? A Mesmer?! Just drop the frills, and I'll be much happier. On the plus side, I LOVE you for adding +Def w/ Stance armor for the Rangers. My Sword Ranger LOVES you! <3

While realizing that this is just a test weekend, I'm rather disappointed that the face I used for my Ritualist during the last preview was unavailable for this weekend.

I am hoping that they will be bringing back all the faces for the final release. Has anyone heard anything regarding this?



Joe

What am i not impressed with...hmn...lets see...

map zones are still fairly small.

The alliance battles are fun, but really just turn into minion factory battles.