Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[vrumpt]

I noticed a few new events in starting areas today that i didn't recognize from the last time I was in them. No idea when they were added, but nice to give those areas a little extra something. The ones I picked out were kinda complementary to already existing events, like a big spider veteran appears at the apple orchard in Queensdale along with the event to clear the field of spiders. Nice to see a little xp boost to those lower areas.

[Takiwaki]

That Spider has been there from the beginning. I did see they updated some thf traits very nicely though.

[niwaar]

Yeah that spider is an "option" that can happen. I think its connected to the apple event but I am not 100% sure on that. There is an escort event that can spawn after the Veteran Spider event as well.

There was a "new" event I did notice in Queensdale. I had never seen it before. When the devs asked people to waypoint to the initial Queensdale Waypoint almost immediately there was an event where the Bandit's barricaded the bridge. Its always nice to experience an event or two that you hadn't seen previously. Even if this event wasn't new, it was new to me. Just like the spider was new to vrumpt.

This is going to be a very long 9 days.

[Kachiko]

It's not new since second Beta. It was the end of a bandit invasion, on the near farm, and I saw it a couple of times, though stress test before the last, I didn't see it happen.

I think it's going to be some time before we really know all of the events that can happen in an area and their conditions. It's a part of the game that I really like. I'm still rather worried that, in a few months, the starter areas are going to be pretty empty, as most people have moved on to the higher level areas, and you need more than yourself to do most events. I know WvWvW is always an option, but it's going to be a shame if, even as a high level, you run around a lowbie area and see something new, but can't complete it because there's not enough people around.

I think it would be cool if there was an information panel, that you could bring up, click on a zone you've explored, and see what events are happening. If it could indicate which events you've never experienced before, that would be even better. That way, if you saw something you wanted to experience again, or something new, you could waypoint near it and participate.

[Rhyis.]

I'm still rather worried that, in a few months, the starter areas are going to be pretty empty, as most people have moved on to the higher level areas, and you need more than yourself to do most events. I know WvWvW is always an option, but it's going to be a shame if, even as a high level, you run around a lowbie area and see something new, but can't complete it because there's not enough people around

That happened in WAR. However, because of overflow servers and having only 21 total servers, I think it'll become less of an issue. This game is going to have like 5 times more players on each server compared to other MMOs. Logically there should be at least a few people in each zone if there's a gazillion players on the server.

A lot of people complain about overflow but, in the long run, it'll help the success of this game imo.

[Nate0922]

I'm sort of an altoholic in mmos and this one screams alts to me. The classes seem pretty unique, I seriously could see myself playing most of them. I can see there being a steady stream of new players / alts for quite a while. Plus, as stated above, the overflow system should help as well. Or by that point maybe they'll tune them down like Rift did with it's events.

[niwaar]

Warhammer's main issue with their quest events was the fact they were not dynamically scalable. The event was the same relative difficulty no matter how many players participated and those that did scale were scalable to a "small group" at the bottom end and never a solo player.

Yes Events will always be more fun when there are more people around, but that is the entire reason for the sidekicking system. Remember that because there are no overt rewards to force you to grind a specific area (there could be crafting materials, etc to consider, but im looking at having to do these dailies or kill these specific monsters to get tokens for some specific reward) there should be players just playing in any area of the world they think is cool and fun to do so in. I am sure that the higher level areas probably have some more interesting events but there will always be those people who just want to kill the Shadow Behemoth over and over again for no other reason than they find it fun.

I also would not put it past Arena.net to incentivize going back to older content through achievements sometime in the future. The achievement system is a very nice beginning and will definitely be ramped up to make those achievement whores happy and keep people doing random things in the world. An achievement for defeating the Shadow Behemoth 25 times is not something that is outside of the realm of possibility.

[Takiwaki]

So lets speculate





1:30 in this vid

[Zerocool]

GW2 commercial maybe?

[Zerocool]

New one from facebook page

Spoiler: show

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...42890812_o.jpg

[Arelian]

I'm gonna go ahead and say it's a commercial.

[vrumpt]

It looks live action so yeah I'd guess that would be for a commercial. I'd also be expecting a launch trailer appearing sometime next week as well, so theres that to look forward to also.

Also, you can upgrade to the Digital Deluxe edition for 2000 gems now.
edit: access denied

[Arelian]

I can't access that webpage. I imagine they don't want that live until next weekend.

[vrumpt]

That just happened. Was able to get on it ealier today. Anyway yeah, DDX upgrade for 2000 gems, character slot for 800 gems.

[Arelian]

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/...emstore-items/

If you wanna see some of the new stuff. Guru, I know.

[Takiwaki]

One more week !!!

[Rhyis.]

5 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes.

[Takiwaki]

Give or take 3hrs!

[Dragir]

My only other MMO, that I played consistently beyond a trial (other than Guild Wars), was FFXI... and I am having SO much deja vu.

Official strategy guide by who? Come again?

[Rhyis.]

People actually buy strategy guides?