Ok, I'm seriously starting to look at other games. I'm not an early adopter type. I like to see how things shake out.

GW2 looks pretty good to me. Some questions:

1. Who is playing this?
2. What do you like?
3. How does it compare to DDO?
4. Will they be adding races/professions?
5. Are certain builds clearly superior, or are things balanced?
6. Does the game look to you like it has a decent future?
7. What else?

Vissarion wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 11:18am:



Me too, see this post from a few days ago http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1377220948/0#5

I am primarily PvE- and Living World-centric.

There are some balance issues among the classes that ArenaNet both caused and have been fixing.  It's nowhere near the issues that surrounded Rangers or the nerfs to Sorcs a while back; but they are definitely noticable.

Since it wasn't mentioned previously - Elementalists are also a very fun class to look into if you can put up with a couple days of squishiness... they shine at higher levels (55-ish and up).

The biggest challenge for any new player will be gold.  That will translate into slower leveling.  Once you do the first character and run some lvl 80 content for maybe a week, any character you play thereafter will be infinitely faster due to you being able to equip them properly.

Insofar as thieves and PvE (implied above) - I LOVE my thief... yah, they're squishier than Warriors, but I am a speed junky... lots of shadow walking (a sort of teleport skill), dodging, positioning for a backstab, etc.  Adrenaline oozes out of a thief.

I think it's got a lot of staying power with me... can't speak to anyone else.

Biggest advice for DDO players coming in to GW2 new - you cannot jump cast.  I did that for a week and interrupted spells and skills out the ass.

EDIT:  regarding third-party add-ons.  ArenaNet don't play when it comes to anything they deem an exploit.  Even something as silly as a mod to back the camera away from your character so you have a wider FOV is considered an exploit to them.  You're an adult and can do what you will, but word to the wise, their banhammer is like Maban-style.

EDIT:  Just thought of this - the community is a little "saltier"/snarkier than DDO.  Think Khyber with a toothache.

I have started. I got a lvl 9 Engineer going atm. The game looks great, and is pretty fun. I still am learning some crap, and I don't get the grouping quite yet. But I'll figure it out.

Meat-Head wrote on Sep 4^th, 2013 at 4:58pm:


I hope that you like repetitive stress syndrome, since the best spec for Engies is to spam ground-targeted grenades.

If you'd like an alternative, rifle builds that focus on static discharge (you'll see it in your traits eventually) are also pretty good, but less durable.

Bill Z Bubb wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 11:21am:


Indeed, but my wrist still hates me for it.

karatekid wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 11:32pm:

MLP Online?

karatekid wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 11:32pm:


Took longer than expected for that implication. Y'all are slacking.

Vissarion wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 11:18am:


Exactly the feeling I had. I never got to cap as not having mouse look really makes the combat boring. I never new about this mod though, I might actually give GW2 another try.

karatekid wrote on Sep 4^th, 2013 at 10:01pm:




Yak something. A friend of mine had started on there, so I joined it.

I'm up to lvl 14 or 15 now. I'm doing mostly bombs and flamethrower atm. I read grenades aren't as good till later.

Some stuff is kinda hard to solo.

I'm surprised there's no real LFM function in the game. So, there's third-party websites that for? Weird.

Vissarion wrote on Sep 8^th, 2013 at 2:23pm:



I'm noticing. I tried out a guardian too. MUCH easier. I can solo the miniboss events with the guardian.

Meat-Head wrote on Sep 8^th, 2013 at 11:09am:


Yak's Bend - ok.  No big deal, since we can guest on other servers as long as they're on same continent.  Wasn't sure if Oregon had gone all EU on us

Dunno, not done an engineer yet.

It is at first - but that's where the "first character is always the hardest" thing comes in.  I can solo all but the big purple names and dungeons/mists now (2nd character) because I can gear up properly.

The LFM thing really messed me up, too.  I think it was left out due to them wanting to encourage dynamic grouping on world events... but the player community is still hung up on forming a cookie-cutter group to a certain extent.

EDIT:  another benefit of getting gold built up is you can take a brand new character and some gold into the crafting area and easily get them up to 15 or higher with CRAFTING alone.  I have a level 10 mesmer who's not stepped foot out of the city yet and still have ~130 crafting levels to go

There's a guide to doing it frugally out there so it doesn't waste TOO much gold...  http://www.gw2crafts.net/.  It's not the most intuitive layout, but you get used to it.

karatekid wrote on Sep 11^th, 2013 at 3:55pm:



NICE