GW2: Will it live up to the Hype? Or Overhyped?

[Salamol]

Right now, I have been in 2 betas and the stress test and I can tell you from my experience that combat is going to be hard to grasp, not because of lack of learning, just because the mobs hit way too hard, seems like your armor is made of butter. I understand the need to dodge to dont get totally smashed but what does your armor do if it cannot take couple of hits?

The amount of damage inflicted by just trash mobs is ridiculously high. I just have the hope that something will be done about it.

One of my big concerns is that without being able to outlevel things, balancing difficulty of mobs for all professions could be a difficult task. Soloing 1vs1 mobs can be a challenge if you're a little unsure of what is going on... Pulling 2 or more becomes very difficult in the early levels for new players. I expect this to change once we all L2P and have experience in playing the game.

I think it'll be a difficult game to master, knowing when to use your dodge is really important to avoid the big hits. Dodging into the agro radius of more mobs is also something one must learn to avoid doing

Personally, once I decide on a race/class and start to learn the intricacies I'll be OK. Each time I gain access to the game I roll a new class, learn about a whole bunch of new skills, then make something new at 5~ and that's not a great way to learn your character

[Kantazo]

In the last stress test i rolled a Ranger and that was making more sense. I just hope the other races get more balanced.

[Caydin]

Are you able to rebind your keys in GW2? From what I've read, you have use the F-keys for your abilities. I've used the F-keys maybe 20 times in my life.

[NearioNL]

Are you able to rebind your keys in GW2? From what I've read, you have use the F-keys for your abilities. I've used the F-keys maybe 20 times in my life.

sure you can, it must be!(I say so since I hope so :P)

[Kantazo]

Dunno, in the Beta I had to use the F keys and I hate it.

[NearioNL]

think it was the same in Tera, since you generally only use your mouse-buttons to attack and your skill to add to these attacks.
Is that the same in GW2? if so then I can live with the F-keys, and if not I just buy a new keyboard with macro-keys :P

[Luddfilter]

How many of you pvpers will ditch rift for gw2 next weekend?

[Caydin]

I'm assuming movement is done through the normal WASD, right? I'll have to do some research, but if I have to move with those keys and can't rebind the F-keys for abilities, I simply won't get the game. Those keys are outside my hands normal range. It would simply be too uncomfortable to bother learning.

[Amethyriel]

How many of you pvpers will ditch rift for gw2 next weekend?

lol, i don't know a single mmorpg that has worse pvp than rift

[Zerotin]

I'm going to try it , I wish it had some world pvp as in you can gank people etc , it doesn't have that aspect at all , which is a shame sure you can do it in the server vs server thing , but it's not the same thing , it takes away that world feeling and freedom when you can only do certain things in designated areas.

That is 1 of the things that was fun in the beginning of WoW , overlapping questing areas , no flying mounts so people couldn't fly away , no summoning stones or dungeon finder , so people actually had to travel to instances and fights would break out outside of them but yeah that's all gone now and people just hang around in the cities waiting for queues to pop.

In the beginning there wasn't even bg's so people who wanted to fight did it in the world which was fun anyways , SWTOR had a lack of overlapping questing areas , RIFT seems to have a lack of it aswell ,I'm nearly 50 and I barely see any people from the opposite faction maybe it's lack of population , but I suspect it's lack of overlapping questing areas unfortunately.

I guess it's all a part of a buisness model that is about not upsetting people , something along those lines and I guess it works otherwise they woldn't do it.

[samuszzz86]

Are you able to rebind your keys in GW2? From what I've read, you have use the F-keys for your abilities. I've used the F-keys maybe 20 times in my life.

Yeah your able to rebind the F-keys. They were listed when I was rebinding 6-0 keys to num keys (I use a naga mouse) & changeing other keys like auto-run, looting, swiming down, etc.

Movement by default is ASWD, clicking left & right mouse at same time will move u forward, etc. perty normal/easy camera control to me.

[Parfaite]

I was pretty pumped for it and then I played the Betas and honestly... I got really... bored.
I wasn't into it at all.

[Kantazo]

I was pretty pumped for it and then I played the Betas and honestly... I got really... bored.
I wasn't into it at all.

You lost the cute mustache. And I agree with you when I relog was like what do I do now? No direction no quest line, just waiting there in the middle of no where, no place to go, no quest to do.... Just me and my thoughts.

[Parfaite]

You lost the cute mustache. And I agree with you when I relog was like what do I do now? No direction no quest line, just waiting there in the middle of no where, no place to go, no quest to do.... Just me and my thoughts.

The picture wasn't as recent as the current one. It was about a week or two old, and this new sig is just from today. ;c I'm sorry.

But yeah, I was more interested in standing in town and reading chat then really doing anything. All the quests were pretty generic, just presented differently. Still "Get 5 of this, Kill 10 of these" ect.

Then again, I was also playing alone and I'm one of those people who NEEDS a super active and chatty Guild or party to really enjoy the game, and I wasn't getting any of that out of a beta

[HannonHellbringer]

lol, i don't know a single mmorpg that has worse pvp than rift

I know a few, GW2 pvp was fun, for awhile. hopefully once the population hits a high number, the brackets will come back, the matched wfs will be WAY more effective and the gaming experience will be WAY more fun. Conquest needs LOADS of work, and as I posted before, needs more spark, siege modes.

If you go to GW2 I really do hope you have loads of fun, its got potential, but don't get your hopes up too high, like I said before. Out side of good game play, there isn't much for progression and there most likely won't be to the fact there is no gear progression. If you hate the zerging feel of conquest, you will hate just about everything in GW2. If you have ANY talent in fps' you will do just fine in GW2 maybe to the point in which it is a bit easy.

Oh the mobs do hit hard but I've always been the type to stick and move lol. For those players that DO NOT MOVE, I know a lot of them are in rift. You WILL FAIL IN GW2.