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You just described Hit Girl.

The hair options are pretty much straight rips from Aion, maybe even other NCSoft games. Some are better than others, but I guess character creators just aren't at the point I'd like them at yet. Though, I'm glad this didn't take Aion's approach in allowing people to make 2 foot tall Humans or 8 feet tall Asura. That **** was just dumb.


Anyway, I just finished doing all the starter zones this morning, getting all the POIs, Vistas, etc.. If I had to make one critique, it would be the human side actually seems the weakest in event scripting and follow-up. I can't speak too much on how other race/option PSs go, but I'll sum up mine as a street rat orphan so far.

SpoilerIt starts off with you meeting up with your buddy Quinn, who's apparently got caught up with a nasty thief and his gang. On a promise to get him out of hot water, you agree to help them out initially. You go on to find out they have some big attack planned poisoning the city's water supply, but at this point, they'd also taken your buddy leaving you the choice to either focus on stopping the act or saving him. I chose to save him, which put me in a scenario similar to what an earlier poster noted with a kick butt mob and subsequent waves. This is one of those instances where ranged superiority stands out, especially in being forcefully leveled down, because I basically kited him around plinking him to death. Anyway, after that you find the poison got into the water and killed a few people, but otherwise the city guard handled it thanks to your warning. Your next objective is to take out the bandit boss with the guard captain helping out.

Once you clean up that mess, you receive a letter with half a pendant from someone claiming to know your parents. You go to meet up with them, only to be ambushed by some faction called the White Mantle, which apparently has a long history with the kingdom as a sort of bogey man organization making trouble. You get a few more characters introduced from the queen's guard, who helped survive the ambush. Since we know the WM is involved now, they all decide to attack one of their hideouts to try and find out why your character was targeted. In doing this, they basically find a hit list marking you the child of two of the prior king's spies with the earlier pendant piece being proof of that. So, while trying to find out more and do something about the list, the earlier guard captain volunteers to let himself get ambushed to draw out the WM, but you and the others would be on standby to save him. SpoilerThis was probably the funnest fight of the line so far, as it's basically two small armies going at each other. After this, you're told they did some digging on your parents and found an old listing for a house they'd lived at. In visiting that, you find it in ruins with two tombstones back in a cave mentioning your character specifically as their child.

I haven't progressed past this point yet, but my next stop is the throne room to see the queen. Personally, I feel the tombstones are a red herring and your folks are still alive. They try to suggest whoever brought you to the city must've buried them, but it's such a weird location that it strikes me more as them trying to leave a clue to keep looking.

Anyway, I'm level 33 now and had been working on the 2nd human area. I really wish the AH would get up since it's slowed down my crafting skilling significantly. I've been trying to farm small claws so I can upgrade my armor, but I'm also feeling like ANet has an anti-farming measure installed since I stopped getting drops when farming a specific mob type for like 30+ kills, but after killing some others, suddenly drops came again. But yeah, I have so much green **** I wanna sell that I have literally made new characters just to hold things for now.

Human side quests were definitely weaker (I can only comment on the quests up to level 8 or so), but I enjoyed the main quest quite a bit. I think they probably decided to make Humans, as the traditional race, the more traditional MMO experience.

If anyone hasn't been there yet, Rata Sum is a really cool city. Annoying to navigate before you get the waypoints, but it's pretty awesome design from a purely RP perspective.

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1. First person to create a color wheel/dye pairing/etc. tool for GW2 wins all the internets.
2. FFFUUUUUU- I was just finishing up my Sylvari after spending hours getting him to where I wanted him and the client finally decided it had been long enough and kicked me out. D:

Edited, Aug 28th 2012 2:41pm by idiggory

KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I see your soulless cuteness and counter with my emo trench coat pistol ninja!



In other thief news I have decided that sword + pistol makes thief way way more survivable solo. As much as I love the dual daggers for burst they lack the mitigation and control that sword and pistol gives.

1 shadowstep stab while setting up your reverse portal that you can shadowstep back to instantly with the same button.
2 Pistol whip for huge damage and a stun
3 Black Pistol Shot for blind and more mitigation
4 Shadowstep stab back to portal to avoid mobs big attack and clear status affects (dots)
5 Shadowstep stab back and pistol whip or blind/stealth(slot skill) or heal/stealth(slot skill)
6 dead mob and still virtually full health

I can take out vets and mobs 2-3 level above me (I'm 18 now) with that combo. I love it to death.

I still go Dual pistols during chaotic group events because its easier to get shots in on rapidly dying targets when their is group chaos but solo sword and pistol is just amazing. I also took some toughness traits and they seem to make a huge difference. Going toughness and crit line currently. I might put some into power line soon as well but I'm not sure how much I want to spread vs getting big perks early.

I've only tried Dagger/Dagger for Thief, but that 3rd skill is hella fun.

I've been really enjoying the Asuran engineer. Been playing with dual pistols, turrets, flamethrowers, grenades and other entertaining explosives and combustible materials. Although I enjoyed Mesmer and Guardian during beta, this little guy has me grinning every time I log on.

Pigtails, anyway my wife can get in TiNFS invite? Name is Jazziekins.6027

Thanks!

Next time I log in, I think I'll just make all you guys officers or something, since you're founding members, and then you can invite whoever you want.

Something weird happened to me just now.

Got an email from ArenaNet last night saying someone was trying to reset my password for my Guild Wars (1) account. The mail told me to ignore it if I wasn't the one trying to retrieve it. Then just now I got an email from ArenaNet saying someone had accessed my Guild Wars 2 account from a different country than I normally log in from.

I find this odd, primarily because I don't recall ever creating a Guild Wars 2 account. I checked and double-checked the links and sender. Seems legit.



Sender is: ArenaNet noreply@guildwars2.com
Links lead to: http://support.guildwars2.com/app/account/support and https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/tips-for-keeping-your-guild-wars-2-account-secure/

Does anyone know if ArenaNet created GW2 accounts for those of us who have GW accounts? That would explain why someone was trying to gain access to my GW account and ArenaNet logging it as a breach on my GW2 account (which I don't have). The other alternative is that someone created an account using my email address, somehow managed to verify the account without me ever seeing the verification email, then proceeded to play GW2 from one country before playing it from another, triggering the "wait a minute..." email from ArenaNet.

Just to summarize, I have a Guild Wars account, but I have never set up a Guild Wars 2 account. I have never played Guild Wars 2. I don't even have the client on my computer.

What gives? My Guild Wars account has been inactive for five or six years, so I don't care if someone gained access to it (I've changed my passwords five times over since then). I'm just curious how someone could gain access to an account that doesn't exist and why ArenaNet believes it to be mine. Does it mean I've got a GW2 account running somewhere? That'd be nice.

Edit: Breaking the links so people don't click them, just in case there's dirt at the other end (they seem to lead to the official website, though).

Edited, Aug 30th 2012 3:04pm by Mazra

Don't click on any links in emails you get claiming someone tried to reset your password. It's definitely phishing, etc.

Anyway, loving my Guardian. Level 35 and getting ready to try the Ascalonian Catacombs tonight. Gonna run with Mace/Shield and Hammer and do my best to control enemies and protect my allies

Did some WvW with my guild two days ago and it was awesome. Using Staff and Scepter/Shield is great in that environment as you can control what's going on really easy. Wall of Reflection and Sanctuary are insanely good in WvW to protect your team. Those abilities in combined with Shield of Absorption can turn the tide of battle.

For general PvE and Dynamic Events I'm liking Greatsword and Sword/Focus. GS is great AoE while Sword/Focus is good for smaller groups or solo. Focus gives a good balance of offense and defense.

Last thing I've gotta say: Combos are so much fun and add some good depth to the combat. As a Guardian I can put up Light Fields pretty easy, as well as Fire Fields sometimes. Makes for some great synergy when grouping with others.

Yeah, I just ignored the password retrieval confirmation email, but the "You've been playing Guild Wars 2 from two different countries" thing is slightly disturbing. Forwarded it all to ArenaNet, so I guess they'll be able to tell me when I can restore access to this mysterious GW2 account that I don't have.



KHAAAAAN!

Edited, Aug 30th 2012 4:08pm by Mazra