Originally posted by Asamof

Using a respec in this game will secretly label you as a 'cheater' online, sharing the same exact title with people who hack character lvls and items. Then you get persecuted by the online community for having this title 

for not wanting to waste your time remaking bad characters

and you will make bad characters, the tooltips are so poorly labeled and the game mechanics can be vague at times. not to mention the many useless skills

I thought the same thing til i played around with some of the skills together, you just have to find the synergys and what works best for you,and is most fun.

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

It seems metacritic attracts a lot of angry people.  D3 being online only and having a RMAH doomed the scores of anything else Blizzard releases after.  I have no interes tin MoP, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go and post a low score in a review for it.

 

It's also another example of how metacritic has zero affect on sales and neither does it reflect true consumer reactions.

Yep

I can go make 20 fake emails,then go make 20 accounts on metacittic and either give a product a krappy score,or a good one.

@ Zikari

Warhammer online: Age of Reckoning implimented the "Guard" skill for the Heavy armor/tank classes. It worked very well, I felt as a tank I was contributing to the team, by being able to gaurd one of my less armored team mates, and it suited the role of a tank.

In a game with out the trinity, peeps are right, you need to learn new tactics and work together a bit differently.

IDK about DAoC's RvR, but atm in WvW (my personal exp) most of the action is zerging.

and people complaining about how there class cant take another class 1v1, is honestly stupid..for the most part imo. PvP is team based play. if you want to win 1v1 you better off playing a FPS or fighting game >.0

Originally posted by Loke666

I dont miss the trinity at all, but then have I played plenty of Guildwars during the years (side by side with a whole bunch of other MMOs though).

I dont mind the healer really but the tank just make any combat into incredible boring skill rotation.

I think it just take some time getting used to, many people have played trinity games 5-16 years and beliving that 3 weeks of GW2 would change the way you play completely is a bit naive.

In a few months if you still play I think you will get the real backfeeling of the none trinity combat, you know when you dont have to think but just react to anything.

Exactly!

I was actually getting frustrated with my proffession around 15-25, until I found my groove/play style,got use to the skills/traits that were availible to me...and once I did...I started to have a lot more fun reacting/switching up skills in the middle of combat to fit the situation.

The dungeons on the other hand...idk only ran 3 but it felt like a rez fest...personall exp,not saying there bad or anyting,lol guess I need to play a few more of them >.0

Originally posted by nuttob
Reminds me of when I was playing EQ1 one day, and some noob got lost swimming in the Ocean of Tears.  Everyone told him in zone chat that there was a huge sea monster that would eventually track him down and kill him.  It was hilarious!!!  We eventuallly let him in on the joke, and got him back on track.

Now that is hilarious!! ^

All in all good read and agree whole heartedly aspecially :

"it appears that many players are stepping up and lending a helping hand. Something I’ve very glad to see."

And thats way it should be. There have been a few communites/MMOs I stopped playing because the community was horride. Hell I remeber in vanilla wow,specificly when I was just starting in felwood,I had  gotten my self into trouble a few times (not knowing the area very well and wondering into danger) and a higher level player (passing by) would actually stop and help me out.

All Loot/Level based systems will always,always have a grind. Get over it, Honetly the only time a Level/Loot based system will not have a grind is when they just hand you the damn loot or make it so easy that there is no point in playing the game.

I played the krap out of Diablo1 and made the choice to grind the krap out of it for gear/loot on Nightmare, and you know what I had a lot fun doing it because I (read I) made the choice to do so, and the game was just fun to play, aspecially when my buddies joined in. Oh and playing with other people, was the other fun part of a multi player/online game.

you dont want a grind go play a single player non loot based system other wise your going to be unhappy for a very long time.

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by fatboy21007
Look out WoW,  some1 is gaining steam XD

WoW has more subscribers than GW2 ever will

(not a GW2 fanboi either)

wanna get technical, it toke wow a lot longer to sell 2 million copies. but who really cares, lets go play some games and have fun!

Originally posted by Muerte_X

Originally posted by tank017
Freedom, freedom to create my own journey, my own quests.no premade quest/theme park style attaching a leash around my neck, pulling me in one single direction.challenge is another factor, I want it to be challenging to get to end level, I don't want to gain a level for sneezing.Basically, the opposite of todays mmos lol..

THIS.

   I would add/elaborate with a ruleset that allows this freedom and the social aspect of guild cities/seige warfare. The games that I have played the longest get me invested with this, because it is not some script that hits an endpoint (or in the case of raiding, a script that plays like a broken record at endgame), but a neverending challenge of politics, warfare, and wealth accrual that you can use to build the landscape around you.

ditto, so far GW2 (for me) has some of these aspects.and no im not a fanboi, i actually just bought it on a whim said wtf, was not going to buy it. honestly glad I did.

I grinded the shit out of Diablo 1 to get the best LOOT. Any game that has a LOOT/cosmetic based system will have a grind some where,but the level grind..not really feeling it my self...the player makes it a grind IMO.

Im only level 40 atm,and still really enjoying the DEs,and ya some times they can get repetitiave,but you know what its a lot of fun when you get distracted from what you were GOING to do because a DE is going on and you see a bunch of players running around,and you decide to join in.

but honestly like the TSW, guild wars 2 went away from the mold a bit, and people dont like it. Why? well imo because you have to relearn mechanics and all the nEW things they did a bit different. And I was one of em, when i first played TSW I could not stand it, the mission system was confusing , and so were a lot of the other mechanics,same with GW2 and the skill swapping and DEs. but after about an hour or 2 in both games I got really into them , and a blast to play.

Originally posted by Deathenger

Originally posted by QuicklyScott
oh god, I hope never.  The questing is the worst part of GW2 :/

Care to explain?

the freedom to do what you want? not stuck to quest A1-A12 to complete a quest chain to get full Xp, Down Leveling a character to keep all areas relevant. I get lost on what I want to do some times because I was so use to going to hubs to pick up the 10 quest go out and complet them then LEAD me to the next area. but not every one likes cream with there coffe,so to speak.

Originally posted by Volkon
I wonder if this means the revolution will be televised?

Oh noz u didnt http://youtu.be/ZT25VFayf-o?t=1m54s

Ok time to go have some fun,laterz.

I have to agree with what some others are saying, shut down aion LOL, CoH even though dated is much better IMO, and both are/were in the F2P model.

But it is what it is RIP CoX , The only true Superhero game!

Originally posted by ironhelix

Yeah, they should have just called them "quest hubs", because that's what they are. You just don't have to click on the guy with a question mark over his head.

Full disclosure: I am loving the game anyway, but it's not the MMO revolution it's being sold as.

I think the DEs a great, ya sure they may be quest hubs,so to speak...but players are/can work together,and do so more often, now that you cant kill still, ninja node,etc so on and so forth.

Originally posted by Praetalus
I honestly didn't think I would like it as much as I'm liking it.

This

The Dynamic Events, node/mob/loot sharing has really created a more organic feel (imo). I personally have not seen so many people working togther in a long time. At times Im planning to go do a specific thing, then find my self caught up in a DE with other playes, and the more there are the more fun the DEs get (imo). And ya at times the DEs can get repetitive but over all its enjoyable not having a "Quest log" full of quests and having to keep track of 20-40 of them at a time. Honestly I did not think the PvE was going to be on par with their PvP, but it is...and imo this is kinda what WAR should have been,I still miss WAR too :(

City of Heros did a similar thing too, cant remeber if cryptic was still involved when it was implemented,the idea is still very cool :^) LOL i miss running games >.0

Originally posted by Reas43

Originally posted by Aeolron
Sorry to see it go but when you have games like gw2 these sub based games are in trouble, my guess is that future mmorpgs will follow in gw2 footsteps

Sorry to harsh your moment of GW2 fanboy gloat but, CoH was F2P.
 

You're a shining example for your peers.

one person does not represent a community, your last comment could easaly be directed at you just for making that sort of statement.

Its to bad  CoX  is getting shut down, had some real fun times playing. Sucks that the F2P model did not work for them :( .

I wish all the peeps at pragon studios the best, thank you for all your hard work in keeping CoX fun.

Originally posted by crazynanny

Originally posted by Newmoon
  Here's a game that did the cash shop f2p the right way. I'll be using my saved up coins to get this expansion.

Don't want to be smartass but doesn't most F2P games offer their expansions well like name says for free? And lotro store is well just like many other cash shops out there. It's only called balanced because there isn't real PvP(I think about equipped and leveled player vs player, not aritficial insta max lvl monster player with no equips) and people accept it in PvE.

I'm however sure that Rohan will be awesome place visually and lore-wise, that one thing Turbine did and still does flawless.

The Fact that you can EARN Turbine Points in game with out spending cash,is the right way imo.

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

What's nice is that you don't need CGI to make GW2 look epic - just make a regular gameplay video :)

This said, I LOVED the SW:TOR trailers, and I think Bioware should stop making games and just do a Star Wars movie with the company that did those :)

The Companies name is Blur, they also did the CGI for WAR and I think DCUO