Guild Wars 2 PlansFollow

Man, altitis. Got an 80 ranger, a 55 elementalist, a 55 engineer, a 16-ish fighter, a lv.3 rogue, and now I feel like I wanna get some character slots to make a guardian and mesmer.

lol, you get last names too Maz.

Also, I really need to log on one of these days...

Me too! Only my characters are much lower leveled lol. I'm really liking my Mesmer though! I'm getting a bit tired of all the snow in the Norn areas, but I love the play style of the Mesmer. I start out with staff to lure the mobs in and summon a clone and warlock phantasm, then I switch to double swords and cut the **** out of them bastards! I kill stuff so fast! And I'm a lot more durable having gone into the Chaos tree first, which gives you perks to toughness. Once I get 10 points in I think I'm going to switch to the one that gives you perks to power.

Ya go for it, I think we're approaching 5k in influence.

Yeah, when I read your post, I figured I'd get it started since it was like a 72 hour build time.

I'm buying WvW upgrades, but only after buying drinks to cover the influence cost.

Maz, it should be noted that at some point, they are supposed to introduce guesting, in which you could be a guest on another server to quest or do other activities (basically everything except WvW). So you could join a server with a strong community during your playtimes, and just pop on the Zam guild during offtimes or whatever. You don't have to be on the same server to be in the same guild (though guild perks are server-specific).

But, most people play these games to take a break from reality . . .

I logged on and sent you guild invite since I didn't see anyone else send one. I'm not on a lot becuase of well, WoW. But you know I'm trying to pop one every few days. I dropped some Sigils and crafting stuff in the GBank.

I've been playing a couple hours a night (or day) at least long enough to finish the daily achievement and finish up some zone exploring.

My brother is on constantly though.

Yeah, that really is awesome. I don't feel guilty for not playing, nor do I feel pressured to play. It's a lot more casual...

Who knows, maybe the F2P genre is worth looking into... I'll have more data come November when TOR goes free.

Yup not in a hurry to get to some "end game" first. Just enjoying the ride super casual and loving it so far.

The only thing I'd really call different compared to other MMOs I've played is the more action-y feel of combat rather than just simple math functions going off automatically or with a button press. Some might argue Tera did it first, but I think GW2 took it a step higher. Meanwhile, Rift did meta-events to basically comparable quality and ingenuity. Honestly, they're just randomly triggered quests. So I can't quite say they're innovative there, and Rift is also looking to up the bar on their events come their November expansion release. The rest of the game mechanics are pretty standard fare, maybe even a bit too much on the mundane side. The prevalence of bugs also isn't help Anet's credibility, F2P or no.

I won't speak on PvP much because it generally disinterests me. I can also point out three glaring reasons why. First, queues. **** that. Second, the general futility of being an individual player. Some may revel in the power and concept of collective zerging, but you're just not going to be organizing random people well enough to adopt actual strategies. Third, off-hours capping. Did you work hard to capture and upgrade that keep? Too bad, some people in a different time zone are gonna undo your work while you and everyone else sleeps.

Two and Three are points I've had contention with when playing Aion back in the day, though with a slightly different spin on the third point. Zerging prevailed there, too. Didn't help when you had a bunch of PvP twinks headbutting with a bunch of PvE casuals, either. But the real issue I'd disliked about their fort system was restricted windows of access. This is sort of the inverse of GW2's problem, where you could've had all the people in the world ready and willing, but you simply couldn't conquer a fort because the game wouldn't let you.

I'm honestly not sure what Anet could do about it other than making it easier for smaller groups of people to invade whenever, but some might argue it'd make it even easier for night crews. On the other hand, keeping a fort when you can defend it usually isn't too tough. So the only defense is to have your own night crew at present. Either way, blah at it all, and add a fourth gripe in WvW repair costs on death.