I didn't do any pve this week but I know on my ele I was dying easy to multiple mobs same level. On necro I was killing 2-3 mobs a few levels higher. This was last beta and before tho.

Yea the pve is pretty awesome. You can be running around by yourself and turn a corner and there are a bunch of people doing a dynamic event. People just form groups without grouping up and complete these things and revive each other and stuff. It's kind of refreshing compared to other mmos with quest guys, fights for mob kills, etc.

I don't know how the dungeons and stuff will be but I usually skip that **** anyway in mmos unless I absolutely need gear from it.

really? ****... i liked my questing slightly on the easy side since it goes faster.

from reading the gw2 forums before they closed em there were alot of threads saying that PvE was too easy, i guess they ramped up the difficulty a bit..

In any other game, this is probably important.

But GW2 has completely de-emphasized getting to max level. With dynamic scaling, being higher level doesn't even really help that much. You get some benefits from traits and extra skills, sure. But the beauty of GW2 pve seems to be that level doesn't really matter. You unlock content as you go higher, but you can do whatever you want to do at any point, and it will always be challenging.

As MMO players, we've been trained by most games to grind up to max level as fast as possible to when the game "really begins." People who blow through GW2 content to hit 80 as fast as possible are probably going to be disappointed when they arrive and say, "Now what?"

I'll probably play Thief/Ranger/Necro, not really sure which. Thief was good but when I did that final dungeon thing (Catacombs?) in the beta I really got it handed to me, I was too squishy to melee and too useless at ranged to be effective.

Gates of Madness would be my first choice for a server because I know other folks there.

I personally HATE games that feel too easy and I like feel I just started but yet I'm near max level.
So I'm very excited for a game that's challenging to play by yourself.

I'll be playing Warrior, by far the most fun I had after trying most of the classes.

TWO MORE WEEKS, ARGH.

Stress Test tomorrow! August 12 from 11:00 AM PACIFIC Time to 12:00 Noon PACIFIC Time!

1 hour only? They're ****in with us now.

In the first two betas, the general feeling was that the game was too hard. So Arena made the third beta easier but a lot of people thought they overdid it. I guess that they're still trying to find the right balance.

I think it's about right then.

I had to use "tactics" against pulls of 3 or 4 mobs, and I wasn't able to just mindlessly spam a button and wait for things to die. That's why leveling in most MMOs is boring.

I remember in WoW, I used to focus on building for AoE if possible so I could just pull 15+ mobs at a time and mow them all down. That was the only way to make it interesting. Leveling my rogue and priest was painfully dull.

RIFT was so boring that I only made it to level 42 (level 50 cap) before quitting outright to go back to WoW.

TERA came around and the combat was good, but I played a Mystic and it was IMPOSSIBLE to solo effectively beyond around level 30, because as a healer I just didn't do any damage. I quit that game at level 53 (out of 60).

SWTOR leveling was great, and I felt a connection to the Jedi Shadow that I was leveling, but I stopped playing that game because the PvP sucked.

I was looking for a PvP replacement in all the above MMOs I tried (except WoW, which was what the other games were supposed to replace) and never found it. GW2 honestly seems like it has the best of both worlds. I was a hardcore progression raider during WOTLK in WoW, but I don't think I ever truly enjoyed it.

Unlike some of my friends who tried GW2 for an hour or two in BWE3 and wrote it off, (though some of the reasoning behind those decisions are absurd) I'm going into this with an open mind and just letting GW2 do it's thing. I'm worried I won't be able to find a decent group of people to PvP with, but hopefully we'll make it work.

I will admit though, as a WoW auction house junkie, I'm kind of intrigued with the GW2 global trading post. I didn't mess with it at all in the beta weekend, but I'm sure I'll find a way to extract large sums of money from the stupidity of the masses. My only problem is that I won't be a camper (ain't nobody got time for that), and with a global system the competition will be fierce.

Yeah I didn't spend much time at all with the trading post, and I am a very economic minded player typically, so I will definitely be looking for ways to make money.

Haven't got to play engineer much. I kicked major ass in Warhammer as engi so I kind of wish I had tried it more. As of now I'm rolling elementalist. Guardian is sweet too but elementalist is more the style I play in other games.

Hope there are a few more stress tests.

Stress Test tomorrow! August 15 from 12 Noon Pacific Time to 4PM Pacific Time!

Damn. Slow ponied. FB announcement was only 25 minutes ago. Oh sheet, twice. People must be checking their FB page 10 times a day like I have.