Guild Wars 2

                  (Yes i'm aware there are two other threads about this game, but both haven't been posted in for over a year, so i though i'd make a new thread that'd be updated regularly.)

                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                    Guild Wars 2

                                                                                                          https://beta.guildwars2.com/



First of all... no subscription fees..

Personal Character Story
So when you're creating your character you get asked about your history like who your father was, for example as a Charr you can choose that your father was a Fire Shaman, seeing Fire Shamans betrayed and enslaved the Charr they're treated with mistrust so you're treated badly by NPCs.

Character Creation
The game is using a heavily modified version of the Aion system

Races
4 of the seen races are returning from Guild Wars and its expansions, with the addition of the Sylvari
Human
Norn
Sylvari
Charr The 4 Legions Ash, Flame(Gold), Blood and Iron
Asura

The Combat
So the combat looks interesting from the gameplay videos i've seen there's alot of dodging and strafing, seems alot more action packed than the typical boring click, pour a drink, kill, loot styled combat that almost every MMO has. The game also has another cool feature where if an Elementalist lays down a wall of fire, a ranger fires threw the wall it ignites his arrows and gains additional damage.

Guardian Combat
Thief/Sword Combat
Necromancer Underwater Combat

Professions
The Game will have 8 Professions
Warrior
Ranger
Necromancer
Guardian
Elementalist
Thief
Engineer
Mesmer

PVP
Now the PvP ingame looks freaking awesome, usually i don't play too much MMO pvp due to having to gain full epic gear and 200lbs of body fat, in GW2 it has the Same system GW1 had, being the ability to create a max out character solely for PvP

TotalBiscuits PvP session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHV7HB2BDc

Scale
Now to me scale means a lot to me in a game, i want to feel like i'm in an epicly large world fighting foes who could **** out my house, for instance The Shatterer a midlevel boss which is one of the smaller Dragons.

Music
JEREMY SOULE! 'nuf said, the guy who did Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and lots of other awesome titles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trAzl6aF8J4 An epic song, that if i was ever to take over the world with a legion of evil robots would be my marching theme.

Random Videos
Charr Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3uMlHSbPSY&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBC_ig73aMs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtkPeQI1_Go&feature=relmfu
(i'll add more later)

Concept Art

For the love of God, when does this come out!?!?

They keep saying when it's ready rumors of there possibly being a closed beta in november

At this point it is a wee ridiculous; I can't even remember how long I've been waiting.   

I was gonna make a thread about this when the beta comes out (rumor mill says closed beta is on November)


**** my life I want this game so bad. :c



What do you mean the Charr have bad audio?



There are quite a few gameplay videos out already.

Engineer gameplay
TotalBiscuit tries out Engineer and Ranger in PVP

etc.



Rumor mill says 8th class will be familiar to those who played Mesmer in GW1 (feck yeah!).

It's definitely going to be a spellcaster class though.

The Video for the Charrs intro sounds pretty poo being from a Video Cam,talking about the Charr.. they're going to be my race of choice!, Mongolian/Roman inspired angry race of mega cats? **** yeah.

I loved the first one, mainly because it was the first free to play MMO I'd ever seen. I was like "lol wut?"

I got Guild Wars for everyone I ****ing knew. I had a great ****in' time.

Any up for playing the original some time? want to start getting stuff for the HoM so i have stuff for my GW2 Char

I'd have to buy the whole series again, but I'd be up for it. (it's only 30 quid from the arenanet site! )

Grunar said:

Any up for playing the original some time? want to start getting stuff for the HoM so i have stuff for my GW2 Char

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I never bought any of the expansions.

The expansions were great. Nightfall was better than Factions, granted, but Factions was still immensely enjoyable.

Anyways, if I can get some friends in, sure I'd join.

Will add a poll on which campaign to play.

I'm up for playing with y'all.
Damn fun game.

ALL CAMPAIGNS!


I'mma be a Mesmer

Ranger or Monk here not sur... RANGERMONK

Woot! Factions! :3

It's like a big "**** you" right in my face.

Racist. 

Haha. I love Factions and Prophecies. Owned it for three years now and I've never finished Nightfall. Endless desert. So boring, especially since I'm a completionist that has to do EVERY single quest in the game.