Guild Wars 2
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marblea
Legend
play with me***edit: downloading game on my new PC now what have u done.
Great game. Great gearing system. 0 P2W. Dynamic combo system in pvp. Scaled instanced PvP/arenas, Non-scaled World vs World pvp.
You MUST try WvW. It is an experience you have to live.
It is SUPER easy to get yourself a full set of decent gear (super cheap), which are on par with BiS gear (disappointing how few extra stats bis gear gives). But hey, its noob/alt-friendly, letting you go back WHENEVER you want after a long break and still be top tier.
I sunk hundreds of hours into this game playing a Thief (similar to Rogues on WoW), and a Ranger (similar to Hunters).
It really depends what your interests are. I focused a lot on World vs World (WvW), so I found a lot of success in my thief as a target caller/roamer when running with zerg groups (pack of 30+ players vs 30+ players). You have short engagement times, but have incredible burst, mobility, and evades.
When I last played (few months ago), Necromancers were the DPS class to play if you wanted play in an competitive WvW environment. Kinda boring in my opinion because your damage was basically just AOE rot. Servers would run around with 10+ necros and have so many AOEs on enemy zergs that youd just die from aoe/dots.
Make your toons on Northern Shiverpeaks if you havent picked a realm yet, that's where all my toons are at
I should definitely give this game another go.
I got tired of rogue after a while since the new meta completely countered my Thief in WvW. Picked up Chrono Mesmer (support). You can take a look at what "competitive" wvw looks like in the POV of a Chrono Mesmer.
Btw all the red circles are from Necros, like I was saying.
marbleaxd#1542 my discord
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holosmith scourge and herald are the fun specs
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jwl
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I dont use discord, or any voice for that matter. Holosmith looked interested but I like scrapper more - looks pretty durable & tanky. I haven't tested scourge or herald much either. I'll be on in a bit to post my Battletag or whatever its called
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jwl
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I am really enjoying the game. Me and @Sponsor were having a blast the other day doing WvW - which exceeded my expectations of Open World PVP & grew my interest with this game.
Battlegrounds are very fun as well - I played two of them so far: Got destroyed the first, and went 17-1 my second. Game seems to have a much higher skill cap than WoW does (know-how & being farmiliar with your toolkit is very important in GW2)
Other than not knowing which classes I'd like to play, and still being unfamiliar with everything, I'd definitely recommend this game. Nice change of pace, and a breath of fresh air.
Zatox
OG
Good to see you're liking it. Yes the combat is very different from WoW. I pesonally wish there were better debuff tracking as it can sometimes be hard to tell what boons/conditions people are putting out without having extensive knowledge of what every class is capable of. Maybe I'll pop on this weekend. I think I have Sponsor added already, I'll add you if I get on.
Dragpz
Legend
What's actually cool about some armors is their their tail colors can change based on your armor. I don't know which armors specifically change your tail color, because I don't play Charr either (Human Female meta) But I thought that was pretty cool.
As for classes, the "easiest" classes to play are Ranger and Necromancer. Then Guardians, Thieves, Warriors and Revenants. And I think Mesmers are the hardest to play (imo anyway). I mainly sit in a zerg in WvW with my SB/Scourge and just aoe/nuke away.
Also! Right now there's a Roller Beetle event going on ( https://www.guildwars2.com/en/rollerbeetle/)
So if you sign up for their newsletter and do a race, you have a chance to win some prizes! If you don't have PoF or the Roller Beetle mount, that's fine, because theres an NPC you can rent a beetle from at every race location.
Sponsor
Achievement Hunting
About time! Been over due! hahaha
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Crystalpall
the F2P PvEr
I’m too occupied with osrs, but doing map completion on GW2 was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had in MMOs.
Estufa101
Grandfathered
GW2 would have been epic if it had world pvp - I would still probably be playing it, alas it was designed for pansies. Great game in all honesty, I had a blast in alpha and when it first came out (though the devs didn't even come close to what they were promising a year or so before release; mechanics that weren't and still aren't part of the game like action combat/special combos via knocking players into the air and jumping on them while busting awesome counter-able move-sets).