Guild Wars 2 Roll Call

[crazy canuck]

The game mechanics of the mesmer and necro are completely different.  The Thief is again completely different from both in terms of mechanics.

The one thing the necro and mesmer have in common is they can both provide good support to a group.  Theifs are essentially 1v1 combats specialists - they have one blind that can help a group but it is on a fairly long cool down.

[Martinus]

The game mechanics of the mesmer and necro are completely different.  The Thief is again completely different from both in terms of mechanics.

The one thing the necro and mesmer have in common is they can both provide good support to a group.  Theifs are essentially 1v1 combats specialists - they have one blind that can help a group but it is on a fairly long cool down.

Yeah I know that a mesmer and a necro are different - but I felt there is a similarity in playing them, possibly because they use similar weapons (could be because they both start with a scepter) and are both light armor wearing caster classes. A thief is much different since he doesn't wear light armour but medium (so it is a completely different look) and has vastly different weapon choices.

[Grallon]

Went to the Mists for the 1st time last night - needless to say I didn't stay long once I realized it was PvP.  And I discovered just how bad I am at combat.  I can't control the keyboard commands for the life of me; I'm focused on the screen, not the keyboard so oftentime I miss the right key - end up on A or D instead of 1-2-3 and I die.   I forget the double tap too.  That's probably why I keep missing those jumps in the jump puzzles.  As I said I've never been a fan of twitchy/fidgety gaming.

In any case I'm lvl 76 now - surprisingly easy just by crafting, exploring and doing the heart quests.  But the list of things to do is wearing thin - and made even duller by a sudden massive influx of bots crawling all over the place to farm mats or events.  Naturally the publisher does nothing.  But then again they're Koreans...

So anyone has any suggestions about other games?




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[crazy canuck]

I am sorry to hear you had such a horrible experience spending so much time on this game.  Now that you have once again expressed how terrible it is I am sure you will report back to us in about 2 weeks to tell us how awful it was to level your second character.

[Eddie Teach]

I am sorry to hear you had such a horrible experience spending so much time on this game.  Now that you have once again expressed how terrible it is I am sure you will report back to us in about 2 weeks to tell us how awful it was to level your second character.

[Grallon]

I am sorry to hear you had such a horrible experience spending so much time on this game.  Now that you have once again expressed how terrible it is I am sure you will report back to us in about 2 weeks to tell us how awful it was to level your second character.

That's the spirit!  And you're such a good audience.




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[Martinus]

So after playing around with a thief and a mesmer for a bit more, I think I like a mesmer better. Plus the storyline of "I wish I joined the circus" fits him very well.

Here he is, with his gay hairdo, trying to look butch:

[Martinus]

I am sorry to hear you had such a horrible experience spending so much time on this game.  Now that you have once again expressed how terrible it is I am sure you will report back to us in about 2 weeks to tell us how awful it was to level your second character.

It's especially funny seeing how they have already banned several thousands of accounts for boting, and there are several news items on how they see boting as a serious issue and continue to improve the automatic boting detection to ban them faster - which is where grallon comes down to proclaim that "naturally the publisher does nothing" about it.

Grallon makes me homophobic.

[frunk]

One hint on your daily achievement.  Make sure to finish it on your highest level character.  You get more money that way.

I wish it would let you collect the reward on any of your characters once it is completed, then I wouldn't have to make sure I log in with my ranger before completing.

[Grallon]

Grallon makes me homophobic.

  You really do bring everything back to your 'condition' don't you?



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[crazy canuck]

You know what I really hate about this game?  I cant decide which profession to play!

I was having a lot of fun on my Mesmer and decided to go back and play a Guardian again.  I had a lot more fun this time round.  I think the big difference is I understand the game mechanics a lot better now.

[Martinus]

You know what I really hate about this game?  I cant decide which profession to play!

I was having a lot of fun on my Mesmer and decided to go back and play a Guardian again.  I had a lot more fun this time round.  I think the big difference is I understand the game mechanics a lot better now.

I know what you mean. There is a lot to each profession that you only appreciate after a while. It really takes a while to figure out various synergies between combos, two weapon sets (and mid-combat switching), traits (and the secondary abilities you pick from them), and utility skills.

For example, I thought a mesmer is a weak glass cannon profession, until I discovered that in order to really play him right, you need to swap weapons during combat. Now, with a staff and a great sword, I'm pretty much a terror of any battlefield, killing multiple foes with ease.

[crazy canuck]

For example, I thought a mesmer is a weak glass cannon profession, until I discovered that in order to really play him right, you need to swap weapons during combat. Now, with a staff and a great sword, I'm pretty much a terror of any battlefield, killing multiple foes with ease.

Yeah, I mainly stick with the staff, there is little I cant do with it.  But when things get more frantic and I need some extra CDs its easy to swap to the Greatsword for some extra fire power.

[frunk]

I usually find myself running sceptor/sword and staff with the mesmer.  I like the limited tanking of the double block from sceptor/sword, and it generates enough clones quickly that I can do ok AoE.

Still I'm early enough in its progression (level 18) that when I get a cool new weapon I'll usually try it out for a couple levels.

[Grallon]

I'm on the last ( I think ) instance of the human personal quest - the Source of Orr where you have to kill the Sovereign Eye of Khaitan(?).  I couldn't do it on my own so someone came and helped.  We succeeded only to have to godsdam instance bug on us after it went down... 



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