All Posts by Godliest

Congratulations... Not that I really recall ever seeing you post anything, but that's just my memory. Hopefully there will be some positive change, although I don't know what. Yeah... congratulations anyway.

Nothing.

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Originally posted by katriell
...put much thought into your beliefs and preferences, and the (re)actions that spring from them? Do you examine and reassess them to ensure they're relatively logical?

...? I just ran into a wall of English; and I can't seem to find any way to get through. The answer is probably yes.

How often do you question whether you're right?

Pretty much never, I'm 90% of the time wrong.

When was the last time you underwent a significant intellectual, psychological, or emotional change?

Undergoing such at the moment.

How well do you know and understand yourself?

On a scale from 1-10: 2.

Do you think these questions are silly?

Yes.

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Cricket in your house? Must be terribly annoying. Hopefully you got a very big house considering the amount of space required.

I feel very unique when I say that the game I most anticipate is Fallout 3. All other games I've seen that look promising got no scheduled release or will be released next year.

Guild Wars, and lots of it too.

• Items don't matter: All armors and weapons are as good, the only difference being the visual appearance.
• Titles: A good way to have a goal set for players that provides them with the ePeen they want, yet doesn't affect the actual gameplay.
• No levels: Old and outdated. From the beginning of the game you're on equal level to one who's played the game for longer than you in all ways except one - experience of the game.
• Skill based: Provide the players with a fairly large amount of skills and then let them use their skills (and skill points) as they feel like.
• Controlled PvP: In different arenas and open battlegrounds, but not everywhere.
• Factions: Instead of different races fighting it's the different factions that do it.
• Character customization: Like CoH/CoV but with more changes to the body and different races.

To mention the first ones I could come up with.

There's a lot of stuff to do and accomplish in PvE and PvP is probably the best I've seen in any MMO. In PvE you'll have a campaign to run through in both Normal and Hard Mode, there are titles to gain, skills to unlock, armor to get, builds to try (and make), etc. The PvP is quite awesome mostly thanks to the tactical aspect and the different arenas available. I would definitely recommend you to pick up Guild Wars (and preferably Nightfall since it's the best campaign) since it will offer you something do for a long time ahead.

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Originally posted by kolek
I really wouldn't go with a Mesmer, you will never find a group.

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Depends on whether you PvP or PvE and what the current meta is. Remember that skills undergo changes quite often. Apart from that Cry of Pain is probably one of the best skills for PvE. When he/she gets to where you need to find a group (Hard Mode) the current skills may very well have undergone major changes that makes mesmers a very looked for profession.

Where is the option: "I do not live in America, and neither do my parents!". Although they would probably vote Obama; but that's just because they're from Sweden and think USA is way too liberal.

One Warrior seems to represent the major part of all forum visitors - Furious Typer. My personal favorite was probably Godfather, mostly because it was so true and fit for pretty much all forums and internet communities I've seen. Many other good ones except for those too, thanks for the link.

EDIT: Suppose you could always ask of other peoples opinion on if they would think anyone on these forums fit in one, or many, of the different types of Warriors, kind of makes the post more fun then.

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Originally posted by Enchained
that means its useless for me to go to any contest?

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Not since days logged in only increases your chance - you can still win.

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Originally posted by ricefarmer
i guess im not talkin too much about skill more about defending.
im not a big fan of taking turns hiting till one dies..... like most mmo's
so the skill in this game is basically stoping someons animation with a spell.... and u only have 8 at a time, and can't change during battle?  how the hell u suppose to know what to choose if u dont know what they got?
i can understand how 2 range fighters can use some kinda skill... what about the melee classes if they went toe to toe? how is skill invloved in that?

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As a mêlée profession (i.e. frontliner) you got many different ways of handling the situation. While attacking another frontliner is quite uncommon due their high armor and health, thus not pressuring enough, it happens now and then.

Bull's Strike and Shock are both skills commonly seen on Warriors (the most common frontliners) and are both quite tricky to know when to use. An example of usage is to "Quarter Knock" which basically means to directly after they get up, knock them down again so quickly that they can't even cast a 1/4 casting time skill. Other usages for Shock is interruption, spiking and snaring. However since Shock inflicts exhaustion on yourself learning when to use it and how to use it is necessary; and to do that you need both skill and knowledge.

Choosing your eight skills also requires skill since, as you yourself seem to indicate, must be able to counter almost all situations given. Teams consisting of eight players in total must be able to counter tactics such as pressure through conditions, hexes, interruption, knockdowns, disabling skills and e-denial to mention a few different form of builds. When then making your team you must be able to counter all of these different forms of playstyles, while still being able to pressure opposing team yourself.

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Originally posted by bassec
I'm just a little nervous about joining a random ingame guild. I'd like to see how the player's interact and see if they have a website and all that before I join, you know?

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Website, Ventrilo, Teamspeak and such are quite uncommon for the most "random ingame guilds". I would suggest you to follow Squal'Zell's advise; and then you'll find out yourself how players interact. Joining a guild like [KISS] which focus on having a big playerbase and alliance can be a good idea since you there will be able to find help through actions, and if you're lucky also items. No need to be nervous though as long as you act fairly civilized and state that you're a beginner you'll probably not encounter many problems with any guild you choose.

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Originally posted by Shastra 
GW totally instanced, WOW with few instances... what are you trying to compare here? i know you are GW fan and invested way too much time and money in it but that doesn't mean you are always right my friend.

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71 Hours the last week... That's roughly 10 hours per day; and you accuse Lydon of having played too much? But apart from that I don't really see how you argue against anything, you just state what we already know and then make a personal accusation.

You could say that it's skill based because it's based on skills...? On a more serious note though there is a lot skill required to perform well in PvP. Out a few things:

• Positioning: how do you stand compared to your frontline, backline, midline and opposing teams respective "lines"
• What are the other persons doing: learning the casting animations will be a great help; and watching them to see what is going even more help.
• How is your team faring: is it time to fall back or make a push for it?
• Spiking: Are they doing it, on who and can you prevent it in some way? Try to predict who they will spike and prevent it.
• Pre-prots: Did any go up on the target, which ones and is it time to switch target? To who?
• Target switching: Be sure to always have someone to switch to that's fairly close and worth pressuring.

And that's just what everyone in the team should be doing in general. The backline of course got more things to do revolving around mainly keeping your team alive; while the frontliners will be focusing more on who to pressure; and the midline will be trying to interrupt and prevent pressure and spikes. Apart from that evading is a tactic that's commonly used for dodging ranged attacks and is by no means non-existant in the game.

You usually pay money for the games; and that's what I assume your closest game store will ask of as well.

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Originally posted by bluberryhaze
who am i not laughing at?
 

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I wonder the same thing.

Election for President.

If AoE grinding should be included or not depends to a large extent on how the game is laid out. As an example if AoE farming wasn't possible in Guild Wars there would be no chance to actually farm stuff. In WoW on the other hand where one mob provides much more experience and a bigger challenge AoE grinding is quite overpowered. Depending on how strong and how big a challenge it is to kill one monster AoE grinding/farming should be everything from impossible to a must.