Do I want Digital or Digital Deluxe?  i.e. are these perks actually meaningful or junk shit like the trinket of waterbreathing, etc?

Summon Mistfire Wolf Elite Skill*
Miniature Rytlock*
Golem Banker*
Chalice of Glory*
Tome of Influence*

all from https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/

So, for my belated contribution to the OP:

My only lag experience is the first minute or so of joining - it's noticeable, but only somewhat.  Once all the initial data streaming stops, I don't get any noticeable lag.  I haven't done anything but open-world events (no dungeons), so those might be slightly different.

I am having issues retraining fingers to hit the right effing button.  Not the game's fault, but I look like a first time DDO monk trying to run Shan To Kor.

This one's Wine-only, but framerate is in the 20's.  When I log in using my MacBook, though, the framerate is in the 88-95 range... so again, not something for which I can blame NCSoft.  Gonna try a buncha tweaks to see if I can get it to stabilize in the 60's.

The ONLY one of these negatives I am having issues with is the Black Lion Trading Company display is not working at all - UI comes up, but there's nothing in it - both Mac and Linux.  I blame awesomium.

karatekid wrote on Apr 5^th, 2013 at 4:57pm:

Not worth it.  I had in game gold enough to upgrade a bit back and did not waste the money.  Golem Banker, if unlimited uses (*EDIT* Only 5 days, even less worth it), would be useful, but just buy gems or use gold to buy it.  Others are not even close to being worth it imo. Some might like the mini if you wanna be a collector and 'get 'em all'

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The sense of humor of the writers is fantastic - I ran into the NPC's talking about testing the Skrit for IQ last night, had to stop for a few and stop laughing.

I forgot how nice it is to have voiceovers for NPC's as you're walking around.

Yah, I went basic version - got it on sale, too

Wonder if people will be smart and do a pre-download - or if they even will be given the ability to do that.  Nothing would cool down the FTP experience faster than having to wait 3 hours for the download to complete and game to install.

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"More come, yes"

karatekid wrote on Apr 9^th, 2013 at 5:13pm:

Yes and no.  The most grind I've encountered is collecting shit for my Legendary Weapon.  You don't have to deck yourself out in gear from Ascalonian Catacombs to run Twilight Arbor, so not much of a gear treadmill either.  You can get great gear just looting chests from world events and rewards from completing maps (you get a chest for completing all vistas, explorer points, skill points and waypoints per zone).  I've made tons of gold selling the runes that I've gotten from gear for completing the level 80 zones in Orr.

On gear (then I gotta go cook for a few hours):

How many pieces of gear have some "FoS corrupt-a-wish" stat on them?

... that's what I thought.

Thief.  asura d/d right now... was using p/d for a bit.

the combat in this game is great, and flows smoothly.......

I just haven't found a character I really want to play yet.....I have a level 34 human warrior (who I leveled from 11 to 34 in one weekend when ddo was down, I get every vista and such in every zone i go through as I play so ya.....), 21 asuran ele, a lvl 5 sylvari thief, lvl 8 charr guardian, and a level 1 norn ranger.

I really wish they had a "divine" themed class (like the monk from GW1) for more holy casting type stuff......that is kinda my thing lol, although my ele is pretty fun.

kierg10 wrote on Apr 9^th, 2013 at 8:21pm:


i played mesmer in gw 1... neede to try something new