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Crystal Desert it is! Human Mesmer, here I come.

I just broke down and pre-purchased... DLing now. Crystal desert it is! Not sure If I am going to use one of my common names yet or if I will do something new on a whim but as soon as I know I will post.

New MMO excitement levels rising. Whim purchase endorphins engaged. Nerdgasm eminent in less than 24 hours!

So I am now ready... got the accounts linked (Not that it matters, I dont own the Eye of the North for GW1 so I'm not getting any fancy things), and the game is downloaded and installing. I'm going out of town tonight for a few birthday parties, but sometime tomorrow... I should be able to log in when I get back home.

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The WoW one? I'm in it...but there's the link for anyone who needs it yet.

Mesmer is a ton of fun, though to be honest ArenaNet has been having some balancing trouble with it - nothing that can't be worked out soon, however. Just be aware they're still working on numbers.

Mesmers and Thieves are probably the two most mobile classes, and while Thieves seemed to be more about being evasive and dodging most attacks, Mesmer's are all about deceiving your opponents in PvP. That whole messing with your mind thing isn't just thematic. Between clones, illusions, teleports and invisibility spells, playing a Mesmer is all about not being where your opponent things you are. And then blowing them up.

It's quite fun.

Edited, Aug 24th 2012 2:34pm by IDrownFish

Yay! So excited for tonight and to play with everybody. ^_^ Don't remember if I posted my username here or not, but it's PigtailsofDoom.1492

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So, I'm thinking that since most of you seem to be waiting until tomorrow or later to play, I'll go ahead and get the guild set up tonight. I was thinking we could just use the same guild name that the SWTOR group has, There is No Fifth Star. And we can try and snag the ZAM tag. Anyone have any objections?

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Guild is created. If you want an invite, send me a whisper!

Was hoping to play some (meaning, play with the character creator) before work today, but looks like that won't be happening. I logged in before bed last night, just to check things out. Crystal Desert was full, but I remembered that you were free to switch home worlds at launch so I just jumped on another for the moment.

I'm definitely happy with the number of customization options I've seen. GW2 had, easily, one of the best systems for picking body type I've seen in an MMO.

Just need to decide between Sylvari and Asura for my Mesmer. I'll be out until 9 or so tonight, so maybe I'll try logging on again then.

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Just a quick edit to note that world transfers are free for 7 days, if anyone else ended up elsewhere.

Edited, Aug 25th 2012 9:00am by idiggory

Take gnomes and make them ridiculously conceited and you've just about got it.

Yeah, I thought they looked a lot like taru tarus as well, but their personalities are very different.

Ze Crystal Desert, alas she is full. I rolled on a different server just to see things for now. Hopefully I can play with you all once the initial population stabilizes.

I got a bunch of stuff in the mail that I don't know if I should use it now or sit on it. I did try the pet guy with the fiery sword though. :)

So far the game looks nice and my thief is stabbin like he means it.

I just got home and even that server says full... in fact only 5 american servers are open (but all at high), so I'll be on Sanctum of Rall it looks like

Yup. Shojindo, if you want to either post your ID here or send it to me in a PM I can send you a guild invite regardless of whether you're online or not.

I have my Asura Elementalist up to 8 or 9, I am always a level or two behind my class quest

Even though I have done all the little quests around the world, though I obviously don't know where to go to pick up the little quests that randomly trigger.

If you haven't been already, get the harvesting tools and just gather everything as you see them. The little EXP adds up. As for events, well, some areas seem to have more frequent happenings than others, and at the barest level, I'd say they somehow relate to player activity in the area for some of them. If you really want to chase 'em down, you'll have to frequently check your map for the orange circles/skulls/whatever and WP closest to them.

Checking my achievements before logging, I've done 58 events, myself. There's probably 10 of those I've done 2-3 times in the process and I've only done the starting areas for Human and Norn so far. I'm like 5 levels over my current PS quest (16, with me 21), but I'll get downleveled to that, anyway. And I think the next one is level 20. But yeah, just keep at it.



If I had one major gameplay gripe it'd be the sheer advantage ranged attacking has. I've killed a lot of veteran type mobs or even kited bosses around by plinking them with my gun. While greatsword is my melee weapon of choice for my warrior, being in range is too often an easy dirt nap even if you do dodge attacks decently. And some mobs don't seem to telegraph stuff, so sometimes you're just instantly hit by sh*t, too. A few of the event bosses can be notorious for this, like the little ice dragon between the towers in the Norn north region when capturing those. With the general absence of tanks, this can get old fast.

If you do all the events in an area, you should probably be overleveled. At least, my elementalist seems to be consistently 1-3 levels above the area. But he's only 7 now. I imagine getting gold on the events makes a meaningful difference. I only got silver/bronze on a few, and I didn't compare the exp levels, so I don't know for sure.

As for you Pigtails, Elementalist seems to have a massive diversity in skills due to all the weapon/stance options, but they definitely aren't balanced. I'm finding Scepter/Dagger to be pretty great for fire, but the scepter's air skills are atrociously weak. Maybe try switching your weapons up and go at it again?

Some of the events have been a ton of fun. I'm really happy with them so far. It's a nice way to switch up questing, and it's great to see all the players in the area converge.

Multiple guilds is a pretty awesome feature. Nice way to let us all play together without having to sacrifice other interests, like PVP/Endgame stuff. They just really need to add a way to guild chat with whatever guild you aren't currently representing. Or maybe that already exists and I just don't know it.

I had been grinding them out, then I realized that I wasn't necessarily gaining anything by doing so. You'll have plenty of chances to try new weapons so just go with whatever your best weapon is. You aren't going to use them anyway until then. Scepter/dagger fire is strong. Whatever gives you the wall of fire skill is decent. Ice is less powerful than fire across the board it seems, and air with a scepter.needs a serious buff.

I'm not sure you do, really. Not now at least, with balance the way it is.

At the moment, at least for the weapons I've tried, fire does far more single target and AoE damage than Ice or Air. Ice does some healing, but not really enough--you'd be better off killing your targets much faster with the fire spells. Air is just far too weak--it's supposed to be the single target set, iirc, but it does worse than Fire's aoe skills there.

For example, Fire for scepter gives you 101, 756, and 571 (aoe) damage. For Air, it's 91, 403, and a blind attack (cause your opponent to miss the next attack. Dagger offhand for fire gives you a big Aoe that causes a burning effect (and gives you might when you use phoenix) and causes 403 damage, and the second skill is 941 in a cone in front of you, with a bonus to burning foes. Dagger for air gives you an AoE that does 336 to your main target, then hits nearby targets (dunno if it's the same or less), and a knockback+swiftness skill.

Really no reason whatsoever to use Air in PvE right now. Just stick with fire until everything is balanced. Water is fine if you're grouped, but don't rely on it when solo. I have no clue when Earth becomes available...

So yeah.

Can European players play on NA servers, or are they doing it Blizzard style?