Curse

hallomik · Jun 28, 2008, 02:49 AM // 02:49

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Originally Posted by GW FAQ

While Guild Wars 2 adds a persistent world, it retains the unique nature of the original game including a strong narrative, extensive instanced gameplay, an anti-grind design philosophy, and strong support for competitive play.

How will character progression work? Will you be raising the level cap?

GW, unlike most MMO's, tells a story. Most other MMO's are much more like a collection of GW sidequests. Kill 10 this. Collect 10 that. There may be some intresting quest chains, but they peter out without a big payoff. The fact that Anet plans to include "a strong narrative" is the most encouraging thing I've heard that there will be a central story. That's the good news.

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Originally Posted by GW FAQ

Yes. You will be able to advance your character to the maximum level without ever joining a group if you so desire. Most content will be designed in a solo-friendly way, though often with mechanisms for scaling up in difficulty when more players are involved.

Auto-scaling mobs? I'll hold my opinions until I see it, but that does not sound like something I'll enjoy.

Konig Des Todes · Jun 28, 2008, 03:01 AM // 03:01

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Originally Posted by hallomik

Auto-scaling mobs? I'll hold my opinions until I see it, but that does not sound like something I'll enjoy.

This is just my guess, but what that sounds like is simply mobs becoming more difficult when more players are in your group, therefore when you solo you won't be fighting a very difficult enemy unless it is suppose to be very difficult, also when you have a full group (like in GW1 getting a caravan run from ToA to Ascalon) the enemies are harder. It seems like an attempt to balance the "player vs monster" concept. Don't really know how it will work in a persistent world, so we'll have to wait and see.

The more I hear about GW2, the more interested I am

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Nessar · Jun 28, 2008, 03:05 AM // 03:05

No beta :c
Solo play yay

Still no screens or videos >.<

Thizzle · Jun 28, 2008, 03:20 AM // 03:20

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Originally Posted by netniwk

Did any of you guys really expect a beta in 2008 when we have zero,nill,nada info about the game??!?

We have plenty of information about the game.

Zesbeer · Jun 28, 2008, 03:22 AM // 03:22

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Originally Posted by Kikuta

I smell details at E3.

there not going to e3

Kikuta · Jun 28, 2008, 03:39 AM // 03:39

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Originally Posted by Zesbeer

there not going to e3

Well isn't that just shit.

HawkofStorms · Jun 28, 2008, 04:23 AM // 04:23

I'm kinda disappointed that they didn't choose to expand the choices of playable races. I mean... we have lots of somewhat sentient species that could be used... Tengu, Centaurs, and Hecket just to name a few.

Earlier there was a lot of speculation that those races a.net announced originally (sylarian, norn, asuran, human, and charr) weren't going to be all of them (since the wording in the PC Gamer was kinda ambiguous, a lot of people thought a.net was holding out). This, however, looks fairly definitive that that is all we are going to get.

hallomik · Jun 28, 2008, 05:30 AM // 05:30

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

Earlier there was a lot of speculation that those races a.net announced originally (sylarian, norn, asuran, human, and charr) weren't going to be all of them (since the wording in the PC Gamer was kinda ambiguous, a lot of people thought a.net was holding out). This, however, looks fairly definitive that that is all we are going to get.

Random question, but how are 5 races even going to work? Presumably, each race will be either hostile, neutral or allied with every other race. Five doesn't allow for obvious ways to have allies and foes.

There could be one neutral race, and of the remaining four, two fight the other two. That is asymetrical and probably not the case.

There could be some kind of round robin where each race had 2 friendly races and 2 hostily relationships. The only way to make that balance across the races would be to make your allies not like each other.

Still seems like one more race (total of 6) is most likely.

Konig Des Todes · Jun 28, 2008, 06:19 AM // 06:19

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Originally Posted by hallomik

Random question, but how are 5 races even going to work? Presumably, each race will be either hostile, neutral or allied with every other race. Five doesn't allow for obvious ways to have allies and foes.

There could be one neutral race, and of the remaining four, two fight the other two. That is asymetrical and probably not the case.

There could be some kind of round robin where each race had 2 friendly races and 2 hostily relationships. The only way to make that balance across the races would be to make your allies not like each other.

Still seems like one more race (total of 6) is most likely.

It is possible that the playable races are all allies towards each other, with maybe an exception of Humans and Charr, possibly Norn could be Hostile to others, or just Neutral that challenges travelers. Asurans, as they control trade and travel it seems in GW2, are probably neutral overall.

We know that Dredge and the Norn are at war, so its possible that the main hostilities will exist between playable races and (currently) non-playable races.

Darksun · Jun 28, 2008, 06:57 AM // 06:57

wow.. gotta love all this idiotic QQ about "grind"
Name a MMORPG with less grind..
Mario Brothers has more grind than this game. Talk about smoking something...

Operative 14 · Jun 28, 2008, 07:14 AM // 07:14

Personally, I would almost hope they didn't set any alliances in stone. It would be nice if they left that to the players in some way.

And also, if they don't add playable races now, there's always expansion packs with new stories. I wouldn't mind holding off on playing a centaur until we had access to the Elonian race of them (Not a fan of the Maguma or Crystal Desert ones). Or Tengu; I'd prefer to play a Canthan Tengu instead of a Krytan one.

NiukNiuk · Jun 28, 2008, 07:21 AM // 07:21

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Originally Posted by Zesbeer

there not going to e3

But they're going to the Penny Arcade eXpo in august

Pleikki · Jun 28, 2008, 08:00 AM // 08:00

Nice

i hope that non grinding thingy works proper :fd

FoxBat · Jun 28, 2008, 08:15 AM // 08:15

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Originally Posted by Sniper22

Lame, seems like there will be a lack of a pure healer/support class now. .

Old news, but you'd be surprised how many people have glossed this over.

manitoba1073 · Jun 28, 2008, 08:21 AM // 08:21

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Originally Posted by Azazel The Assassin

This is just my guess, but what that sounds like is simply mobs becoming more difficult when more players are in your group, therefore when you solo you won't be fighting a very difficult enemy unless it is suppose to be very difficult, also when you have a full group (like in GW1 getting a caravan run from ToA to Ascalon) the enemies are harder. It seems like an attempt to balance the "player vs monster" concept. Don't really know how it will work in a persistent world, so we'll have to wait and see.

The more I hear about GW2, the more interested I am

.

Actually the way I understand it

the more in your party the more in numbers of the creatures you have to fight, ie mob scaling. think of it in reverse of loot scaling. But lets hope not.

Arduin · Jun 28, 2008, 08:28 AM // 08:28

Although most if this is already known to the Guru-people, it's a good thing this info is on the official page. It just might attract some new players.

And yay, no Beta in 2008! Still plenty of time to play and finish GW1.

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Originally Posted by hallomik

GW, unlike most MMO's, tells a story. Most other MMO's are much more like a collection of GW sidequests. Kill 10 this. Collect 10 that. There may be some intresting quest chains, but they peter out without a big payoff. The fact that Anet plans to include "a strong narrative" is the most encouraging thing I've heard that there will be a central story. That's the good news.

Agree on that. For me it's one of the big differences between GW and other MMO's, an actual story.

Zesbeer · Jun 28, 2008, 10:03 AM // 10:03

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Originally Posted by NiukNiuk

But they're going to the Penny Arcade eXpo in august

i knew this. and am exited to take a farry to go see them lol i just gave away where i live in Seattle.

kradens · Jun 28, 2008, 10:57 AM // 10:57

mob-scaling?

is this really a good idea.

did someone at anet play FF8 o.O

Cacheelma · Jun 28, 2008, 11:26 AM // 11:26

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Originally Posted by Anet

an anti-grind design philosophy

Can I laugh?

Free Runner · Jun 28, 2008, 11:53 AM // 11:53

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

I'm kinda disappointed that they didn't choose to expand the choices of playable races. I mean... we have lots of somewhat sentient species that could be used... Tengu, Centaurs, and Hecket just to name a few.

Earlier there was a lot of speculation that those races a.net announced originally (sylarian, norn, asuran, human, and charr) weren't going to be all of them (since the wording in the PC Gamer was kinda ambiguous, a lot of people thought a.net was holding out). This, however, looks fairly definitive that that is all we are going to get.

They're probably holding more races back for expansions if GW2 succeeds. Tengu for Cantha and Centaurs for Elona ect.