Guild Wars Preview

[Axecleaver]

Next weekend is a guild wars preview event. I played this during E3 when they had their 3-day preview and it was pretty fun, but I never found the pvp which is the center of the game apparently. So if anybody wants to try it with me next weekend, here's the client download

http://www.guildwars.com/preview/wpe-clientdownload.html

[Sodom]

Looks very Diablo-y. I'm not sure how busy I'll be that weekend, but I'll try to check it out.

[Siddhartha]

I'll be there - making ....gasp... a ranger

[Axecleaver]

Game on! I set it to d/l the patches before I left today, plan to hit it tonight and see how it goes. Will be making an Axecleaver (of course).

[Lifesbane]

i played for a little while today, its pretty cool. graphics are really nice too.

i made a monk/warrior (by accident actually) and played him through the newb training thing (which wasnt painfully bad, like many are). then i made a necromancer/menser and played that for a while. both the combos i tried seemed to work well. was pretty fun.

[Zutroy]

I made an elementalist/necro named Zu Troy, dunno wtf I'm doing though. How do you use dyes?

[Axecleaver]

Double click dye and then click it on your armor. It made my armor purple in the inventory but it was the same color to everyone else, lol.

Going through a mission now with this pickup group, pretty fun. I noticed there's many copies of a zone (districts) so unless we are all in the same one we will never run into each other.

[Zutroy]

what's your exact name there? I'll add you to my friends list and see if we can hook up for a mission or 2.

[Axecleaver]

Axecleaver. I haven't figured out how to find people there really. I did some pvp, it's random 4 man teams going 4v4. The first few times I just ported in and got instantly ganked, because I had to d/l the map. Then I got a team that was halfway decent and we won 3 in a row before I went linkdead.

The pvp is ok I guess, haven't really figured much of it out yet.

[Zutroy]

Here's a few things I figured out today:

- NPC group members steal loot and money so you're better off either grouping with real people or taking only the minimum of what you think you'll need. I was able to duo pretty much everything on my elementist with an NPC monk.

- Buy loot kits and salvage everything you get that you can't use. Once you have a stack of 10, go to the craft supply seller and sell it for some extra money. If you can come up with a stack of 10 cloth, hide, or scales you can get around 150g. Everything else goes for between 10-60g for a stack.

- The craft supply seller refreshes his loot every minute or so. If you continuously click on him, he'll eventually have what you want - just have to be quick on the drag-drop-click or else someone else will get it first. This was the only way I could get the cloth I needed to craft a new set of armor, it was kind of frustrating.

- For PvP, the only thing I learned is pets > all. I had an awesome group that won like 15 in a row until we got owned by 3 rangers with their level 19 uber pets. I'm thinking that probably needs some tweaking before launch.

Overall, fun game but I can see myself losing interest pretty fast. I like the idea of putting in an actual story arch that you can play through - it makes it feel less like you're grinding. But eventually I can see it becoming like D2 where you just repeat the same area over and over.

Oh, and watch out for the invincible healer boss mobs.

Axe - what's your last name? You can only search for people by their full names'.

[Axecleaver]

I started a new guy, warrior/necro. Debuffs stuff then hits it. Seems to work OK. Axecleaverr OIseult

[Siddhartha]

The final word was -guildwars sucked

[Axecleaver]

Pretty much. It seemed to appeal to a different kind of player than we would tend to want to associate with imo.

[Siddhartha]

Unless you are really into 12 year olds.

Sod?

[Sodom]

No man, I'm the guy that's into mothers of 12-year-olds. You're thinking of Ross.