Humberton Guard Guild Website

I was also going to say Ranger for Yrrab

I think I'll most likely be a Mesmer, though Elementalist also appeals and I can never rule out being a Guardian (but I know I'll hate it in pvp)

well jav i have a tip for you .. you can go into pvp at lvl 1 and your insta made lvl 80 .. so make a class you wanna try out and go play it a bit to test it out .. if you dont like it delete it and go again

even if you hate pvp its still a good way to get a good idea on a class

but for me its more than probably gonna be a ranger and a mesmer
might even make a bleed speced assasin just to see how it works . Might be fun stacking 20 to 30 bleeds on someone then running off while they drop dead

oh just remember in pvp they strip all the racial abilities you get in pve

no no jav guardians are insane i saw vids of them taking on like 8 ppl solo and winning or if they didnt win they just caused total chaos till they got backed up

Yeah guardians were a bit overtuned in the last beta weekend.

They're a fun class though, and since you can even equip a staff or scepter you get some decent ranged abilities to use in keep sieges.
Awesome in PvE as well since it's quite a tactical class.

Tried the mesmer out as well but just couldn't get into the whole clone/phantasm mechanic.
It's very much a buff/debuff (boon/condition in GW2) class.

i agree about mesmer cat . i just fancy one class thats a total change from the norm for me . and i keep comeing back to it

hehe i like the look of guardians saw a few running about with rifles too . but the worst guy used a 2 handed hammer . omg he hit hard

thought i would mention another thing i noticed also .. the huge variety in pve quests .. there are the usual go get me 8 of this ones yes . but the one i liked was a small side quest for a kenel master to help him with his wolf pups .. you get morphed into a wolf and have to play with the puppies till you get a heart sign from them
also the fact that anout 30% of the entire pve game will be spent underwater .. and once underwater you get a new set of skills ect which is a niffy thing . not to mention how good the animations are underwater

Oooo, I am properly excited about this now. Client installed, accounts registered. Now does anyone want to borrow two small children from the 25-30th August?

I'm pretty fired up as well. I think there is a stress test tonight?

Sadly I'm not going to be around for the headstart

Yeah, there's a 4-hour stress test tonight at 8pm (i think) UK time.

So if you've pre-purchased you'll be able to log in and play for a bit.
Other than a few issues trying to log in for the first 5-10mins of the previous stress tests, they've been very stable with no problems.

Looking forward to launch now, hopefully we'll be fully moved into our house by then.

Oh thanks for the info on the stress test tonight. I think tonight just became McDonalds for tea night

Another stress test tonight but starting at midnight.

Had a very very brief play last night. Loved the character generation lots of choices to make pretty characters

First tried Mesmer, couldn't make sense of the skill sets at all, but still suspect I'll be making one of these at launch.

Next tried Elementalist, things went boom til I equipped a dagger then I went boom, alot. Will probably also have one of these.

Finally tried Guardian, enjoyed this the most partly cos I really liked the look of the armour and the skills seemed relatively simple to use. Probably have one of these for pve adventures - which leads me to a question.

Can you trade gear easily between characters or is it all the dreaded bind on acquire?

Awful trouble getting at first but managed to play a bit - tried a Guardian, Thief , Elementalist and Ranger.

Ranger here I come to start with Maybe a bit of Guardian and Thief later. Didnt like Elementalist at all.

This on GW"2 gacebook page:

We will be conducting a Stress Test on Friday, August 10 from 4:00 PM PACIFIC Time to 8:00 PM PACIFIC Time. Which as Jav says is midnight here.

I'm pretty sure some of the gear I found wans't bound but I check if I log on tonight what server/name are you ill try posting some to you

I started up on Ring of Fire as that was mentioned in this thread. I did briefly between crashes see someone called Yrrwig and thought it might be you but was booted before I had chance to work out how to send a tell.

Character names were Windraven/Favail/Javai, I may try and stay up for a bit tonight but little 'uns been teething for a week so sleep is a precious commodity in our house at the moment.

Yep that was me Yrrwig/Yrrab/Yrrwigo and one other I cant remember

Didn't get a chance to log in last night and probably won't tonight either.
Bit too busy with packing.

Only 2 weeks till early access launch though

well tried tonight to get on and couldnt kept getting the error code for ports or firewalls .. turned of avast and my winds firwall .. got the same thing .. i have no clue whatsoever how to mess with ports and the website they recomend was garbage

so im sorry to say ill probably be asking for my money back and just forgeting it

I had that as well. Did 2 things and evenually got in

1. Ran the pgram as administrator
2. Closed and relaunched program about 50 times then got in and then it was pretty stable.

Hope its just the stress test/volume

hawkeye wrote:well tried tonight to get on and couldnt kept getting the error code for ports or firewalls .. turned of avast and my winds firwall .. got the same thing .. i have no clue whatsoever how to mess with ports and the website they recomend was garbage

so im sorry to say ill probably be asking for my money back and just forgeting it

Think that's to be expected during a stress test, I wouldn't give it up just yet.

I expected the first hour of the stress test to be disconnects and not getting in game so I went and got some much needed sleep instead.

hawkeye wrote:well tried tonight to get on and couldnt kept getting the error code for ports or firewalls .. turned of avast and my winds firwall .. got the same thing .. i have no clue whatsoever how to mess with ports and the website they recomend was garbage

so im sorry to say ill probably be asking for my money back and just forgeting it

That's the error you get when the login server is down.

They post alot of real-time updates on twitter for the beta/stress tests and i noticed they did a full login and server reboot just after the stress test was supposed to start the other night, so i guess that might have been what was causing the problem.

hmmm well ok ill wait till launch then ..since its like 2 weeks away

Looks to be another stress test 7-8pm UK time tonight (Sunday)

Neat I'll try and be there

Heres a question for you all.

On my guardian the no 1 quickslot had three attacks lited faithful strike, pure strike and true strike - what the difference and how does it work?

It seemed to be a rotation, the Mesmer has something similar with a sword equipped. Could do with a game manual

Just took and defended a keep, picked up a load of gold contributions with Mesmer, either the Mesmer was working quite well or most of the people there never took/defended a keep before.

Yrrab wrote:Heres a question for you all.

On my guardian the no 1 quickslot had three attacks lited faithful strike, pure strike and true strike - what the difference and how does it work?

Quite a few classes have a chain of abilities in slot 1.

You don't have to keep mashing the button or anything, just activate and it's like an auto-attack chain.

There's a nice character builder here that will show you any attack chains from slot 1.
In particular, guardian is one of the few classes that can perform a combo solo. The 2h hammer auto-chain ends with an aoe ground buff, and can be followed up with the slot 2 ability for a combo.

Thanks for the skills link, cant see any significant 'crowd control' on the Mesmer, but maybe not looking in the right place. Did like the style of the Guardian alot and for pve may well be my first choice, Ele for WvW I think, it's good to make thing go boom

There isn't a great deal of crowd control in the game.

Most classes have a very short duration stun, but the majority of CC is in the form of snare, blind and confuse (where enemies afflicted with confusion take damage every time they perform an ability).

The mesmer gets alot of boon and condition abilities, and also quite a few stealth spells. They also get a very nifty group teleport that comes in very handy in RvR.

Hmmm I'm going to get very confused - you know i like simple classes

Yrrab wrote:Hmmm I'm going to get very confused - you know i like simple classes

Heh, can't get any more simple than a ranger, it's pretty much point and shoot

Another stress test tonight (15th August) from 8pm till midnight UK time.

Yay for stress tests at peak EU time.

Also saw the list of worlds has been announced, are you guys set on Ring of Fire, only Desolation and Fissure of Woe sound nice (not based on anything except their names!)

I have no preference for server