Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by GriselBrand

Expectations?

- Asura/Sylvari

- New zone/DEs Not going to happen

- Personal story progression past lvl 20  Not going to happen

- Tweaking and balancing for most classes

- Better CC  Not going to happen

- More people More then you would love, all the free beta invites will make sure that overflow servers get toroughly tested

 

 

Well, you ruined my expectations earlier then expected. Not that I care much for CC/PvE.. most of my time will be spent in WvW/sPvP.

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by GriselBrand

Expectations?

- Asura/Sylvari

- New zone/DEs Not going to happen

- Personal story progression past lvl 20  Not going to happen

- Tweaking and balancing for most classes

- Better CC  Not going to happen

- More people More then you would love, all the free beta invites will make sure that overflow servers get toroughly tested

 

 

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Originally posted by GriselBrand

- New zone/DEs Not going to happen

Actually wrong - you have at least the Asura/Sylvari newbie zones and also capitals.

I expect it to be mobbed.   You've got more people that have pre purchased by now and of course it's the  last BWE so more people playing again.  

Then how many tens of thousands of free beta keys have been snagged for this event?

Gonna be a whoooooooooooooooooole lot of people.

Originally posted by Justsomenoob

I expect it to be mobbed.   You've got more people that have pre purchased by now and of course it's the  last BWE so more people playing again.  

 

Then how many tens of thousands of free beta keys have been snagged for this event?

 

Gonna be a whoooooooooooooooooole lot of people.

Which is great.  Because it's the WEEKEND and the game's Head Start is going to be on a weekend as well, they can test an estimated load of what it may be to make sure there's not that many issues.

  See, during BWE#1, there was so much trouble that many people couldn't log in at all on Friday.  Saturday fixed most of those issues, but it still happened badly.  

Before BWE#2, they got new server tech (NCSoft throwing more money at them because of the issues on BWE#1?).  So, they tested it with a Stress test of roughly 6hrs.   BWE#2 had less issues of BWE#1, but it still had a few hickups on day 1. 

Now, coming into the final stretch, this is the most important test of the server load that needs to go absolutely right.

New FNCKIUG pvp mode?! Please?!

I will miss that awesome #2 Dragon animation on the old login screen.... :(

Originally posted by cutter666

Graphics card optimisation would be nice.

Amen!  I'm expecting to see a lot of this taken care of in this beta.  Or at least an attempt.  10-15 fps with 8 gigs of RAM, Quad core 8400, and an NVidia 560 was hurting my feelings the last beta.  But, honestly, it never dropped below that for more than a few seconds any given time....so it should be butter smooth whenever they get it right!  (I'm hoping that NVidia free beta keys means that the game is optimized now).

Epicness, on insane proportions. 

I don't have any idea what to expect. I originally was pretty stoked for GW2 when it was announced to be a full scale persistent world, but then some things were shown and/or talked about that really turned me off for my own reasons.

With TSW being a total flop for me, I started looking at GW2 videos for the first time in years and although some of the things that I really dislike seem to still be there, I also saw a TON of things that I truly love. The WvWvW pvp looks incredible and possibly the first pvp since Camelot to give me that same feeling. I am very much looking forward to trying that out in this upcoming (my first) weekend event.

I am a sucker for underwater content, and have been since EQ1. I love it when it's done right. It looks good here so I am looking forward to that as well.

The player housing looks amazing from what I have seen in vids, adapting to your accolades and adventures... wild.

The ambient chatter and nature sounds look great. The day/night cycle looks good. The weather system looks awesome. Etc...

I am going to try to get past the things I do not like, and maybe I will get lucky and those things will have toggles or something... but ultimately I am really hoping to enjoy thios event and then prepurchase and see you folks in launch. If not, I'm thankfiul for the chance to test a bit and see what it's about at the same time.

Originally posted by xalvi

I have a feeling this game has been upgraded or changed so much for the better, and people will be even more mind blown during the bwe3. Other than the interviews about changes to classes that really hyped up people to wonder what and how big things will change, i have opened the gw2 launcher and i have downloaded so many files/gb. Expect big changes at the start of this bwe3, they probably changed most of the game from all these new patches.

P.S - for those that did not patch their gw2 recently, try doing it right now and check out another big download, i thnk this one is bigger than the other one. 33,700 files is probably an extra 2-3gb :p

For those new to the game, they will have absolutely no clue what to expect, or where to begin. WIll indeed be an experience for them.

For those of us that got in on the ground lvl, I wouldn't expect any huge changes outside of the Asura & Sylvari zones. Most of the changes at this point are tweaks. I think the biggest issues will be class balance, bug fixes, and they mentioned a pretty major adjustment to the guild system.

Most of the game will seem more or less the same, but not's not a bad thing. The game is in a really good spot as it is.

I think the biggest surprise will probably be the end of beta event. The last one was pretty cool, even with the snafu. Definitely hope this next one is awesome as well.

you can still revert the login screen back to what it was beforehand

Hopes and expectations:

They've fixed mesmer, as since BWE2 it was gimped to hell with clones being worthless (didn't even take/get aggro), like npc's had an x-ray vision to see which was the real one.

Shatters being useless, specifically the damage one with its horridly nerfed damage, 2h sword auto-attack damage being a joke.

bugged duelist with ever increasing damage and gatlin speed, staff auto-attack being a "hug the ground" missile and not hitting mobs on elevated terrain

pretty much all damage nerfed to abyss par signet of pain.

removal of the stupid PVE portions from sPVP... they've no place in the calculation towards victory in PVP matches.

If it's not fixed by BWE3, i'll have to swap my main to something else. (which i'd rather not do, because all the other classes interest me less than a pile of dung)

i'll only be "blown away"  if some sembance of class balance exists.  that being said im still very excited.

None, however i do have concerns about game optimizations before launch and how WvW will be with alot of people, i have bad flashbacks about Aion. Last beta ran pretty poor for me, the camera was lagging... Changing to windowed mode and trying different window sizes did nothing to help performance and graphics were sub-par.

I expect these things to be fixed before anything else.