Guild Wars 2 Public Beta

[lemode]

My initial impressions are that the classes have a lot of kinks to iron out to make them more fun. A lot of core abilities (see: mesmer-illusions, necromancer-pets) feel very weak compared to other classes'.

I'm probably one of the few who are "on the fence" about the whole weapon swapping thing. It just seems like a hassle to have to swap them all the time. Granted, it does cut down majorly on the amount of hotkeys you need, but it feels unnatural. I mean, I just don't see a necromancer swapping from an axe and a warhorn to a staff mid-fight. For a hybrid class like the ranger it makes sense. Just not other classes.

Well, Necro Minion Master Spec and a Mesmer Shreading spec are two things that made them fun to play. I thoroughly tested The Necro, Engineer, Elementalist, and Mesmer.

Mesmer is one of the strongest classes in PvP especially if played right/smart due to their insane control. 1v1 no one beat me when I played my Mesmer not even in my guild of really good PvPers. Necro has 3 really viable builds, you just have to play well. I rarely even swapped out of axe warhorn on the Necro and did really well in team fights and 1v1. Necros minion master is the most ridiculous spec and actually takes the least amount of skill to play of the 3 viable IMO.

While dodging and weapon swapping may be cumbersome to some, you really don’t have to swap out anything unless you’re an Elementalist. That’s the thing people need to realize. Your skill versus someone else, is really all that matters in GW2 and I can’t say that about any recent MMO I’ve played in fact, I can’t say that about MMOs in general for the last 10 years.


I guess it’s either your cup of tea or it’s not. I don’t know if you were only taking about PvE or what but how you feel is honestly no where near what they are actually like.

 

[1Kurgan1]

@1kurgan1, the game is not optimized yet. Also they said that over clocking lowered performance at the moment. Pluss the game is CPU bound right now. Also the a me is not set up for ATI yet.

Yeah, I figured optimization wouldn't be perfect yet. But to be honest, I've played many MMO's during beta that said that, and performance didn't get much better at launch. I've just grown to getting use to the fact that no matter what hardware you got, MMO's don't run that great once a lot of action starts happening. Though if the game is CPU bound right now, and it's dropping my 2600k @ 5ghz down to 15fps sometimes, thats not a good sign, I don't think many people are running a gaming proc more capable than what I got right now.

 

[catnipkiller]

When i was in the beta i was getting about tje same lag as i did in rift. If they dont make this game run off more then 1 core i wont play it. I dont see why a new game cant run off more then one core as most gamers have4 cores or more.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I read that the beta was only using a single core on any given cpu.

Still the game ran beautifully for me so I can't complain.

 

[korhal]

Yeah, I figured optimization wouldn't be perfect yet. But to be honest, I've played many MMO's during beta that said that, and performance didn't get much better at launch. I've just grown to getting use to the fact that no matter what hardware you got, MMO's don't run that great once a lot of action starts happening. Though if the game is CPU bound right now, and it's dropping my 2600k @ 5ghz down to 15fps sometimes, thats not a good sign, I don't think many people are running a gaming proc more capable than what I got right now.

well they also posted on their beta forums that over clocking currently causes less performance. Plus optimization as I understand it is an all or non thing.

 

[xenocide]

well they also posted on their beta forums that over clocking currently causes less performance. Plus optimization as I understand it is an all or non thing.

Fucking Magnets.

 

[killarobot]

I played in the open beta, was fun, waiting for the next one

 

[korhal]

Ya i hope its the weekend of the 19th

 

[killarobot]

Ya i hope its the weekend of the 19th

I hope not because Diablo is coming out that week and I wont know what to play lol

I hope for the Beta the week of the 26th

 

[korhal]

Stress test may 14th 11am to 6pm for pre purchasers.

 

[NinkobEi]

Stress test may 14th 11am to 6pm for pre purchasers.

woot, something to do the day before D3 comes out. Thank you Gw2!

 

[jagd]

This , because i played at beta and had no problem at 1920 *1080 with my currect C2duo 6750 = 2660 Mhz and ATI 6870 was very smooth for me

well they also posted on their beta forums that over clocking currently causes less performance. Plus optimization as I understand it is an all or non thing.

 

[brandonwh64]

Well, Necro Minion Master Spec and a Mesmer Shreading spec are two things that made them fun to play. I thoroughly tested The Necro, Engineer, Elementalist, and Mesmer.

Mesmer is one of the strongest classes in PvP especially if played right/smart due to their insane control. 1v1 no one beat me when I played my Mesmer not even in my guild of really good PvPers. Necro has 3 really viable builds, you just have to play well. I rarely even swapped out of axe warhorn on the Necro and did really well in team fights and 1v1. Necros minion master is the most ridiculous spec and actually takes the least amount of skill to play of the 3 viable IMO.

While dodging and weapon swapping may be cumbersome to some, you really don’t have to swap out anything unless you’re an Elementalist. That’s the thing people need to realize. Your skill versus someone else, is really all that matters in GW2 and I can’t say that about any recent MMO I’ve played in fact, I can’t say that about MMOs in general for the last 10 years.


I guess it’s either your cup of tea or it’s not. I don’t know if you were only taking about PvE or what but how you feel is honestly no where near what they are actually like.

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