Rest in ease, Rall

i can let the other points slide but to me, D3 has probably worst story ive seen in few years and most uninteresting characters in the whole franchise. all the baddies have horrible disney approved evil laughs and lines, music at somepoints are decent but sometimes very underwhelming ... all the possible plots are very used and some pretty much cliche, nothing in the story became as a surprise, except the death of one character in act1 which was done by most boring character in the game... and there was nothing epic or legendary about the death itself, it was not something that would make your heart miss a beat or making you to stop breathing for a second ...  it was just just about as memorable/moving moment than me taking a dump

i like the gameplay though, and so far ive spend about 150 hours on this game, for one character alone. classes seem decent too, and i dont mind how you build up your character in this game, its pretty ok.

gems ? trinkets ? runes `? oh man theres just so much to learn in this game, and i just wanted to go straight to minies and just forget about the stuff since i thought everyone would be wearing same armor anyways ... aaa i better start googling then.. thanks for advices

i dont know how you guys do it, i wasnt able to kill anyone in the minies alone with my warrior during the whole test ... all my attacks do absolutely nothing, even bulls charge + frenzy + sword waving skill does like 10 % on thiefs, and after that theres no way you can do dmg until you get those same skills come from cooldown. everyone would just kite all my attacks with ease and doing the thousand blades does nothing without bulls eye because opponent will just step one step aside to avoid the whole thing  -_______-

i was in the beta event and i gotta say they i really had fun in the game and the mechanics were simple, yet interesting. im sure you would get into it and enjoy the time you spend in there. definitely felt like a game i would enjoy playing atleast 3-6 months easily, and thats a keeper in my books :)

mondays server's stress test is only for prepurchased users so you wouldnt be getting in with any other beta key anyways, just buy the game dude :D im sure you can save up money from something else, just put like 10 bucks aside every week or so

i think any game you play over 100 hours is well worth the money, i bought my copy of gw2 for 54 € and my friend got it for like 35 € from this one store >.<

thank god it was metal and not dubstep !

@ op

im glad that mmorpgers are finally getting something enjoyable after so long wait of something nice. i hope this year is going to be nice in the mmo history for tera and gw2 and we will keep this level of fun for a long after release as well... i havent played anything after aoc that i enjoyed playing, when talking about mmos so im really pleased that theres something good coming up this year :)

whole friday came just down to point that i was able to create my character and soon after that lot of the players (me included) got booted out from the server and the whole that day i could not log in so i decided by mighnight ( +2 GMT)  that i would go to sleep early and wake up early to play when there would be less traffic. i was suprised how badly the game worked for me with my new radeon 7870, but then again i have only core quad 6600 processor and the game was told to be cpu bound at the moment. i got around 10-30 fps in norn and human homelands, in and out of action

saturday - the pve day - first touch to the game

finally, being able to play the game, i adventured in the cold white mountains of the norn homeland. the big norn warrior feels and moves clunky and as cartoony as the guy from dragons lair but with better luck and without getting into crazy situations. im actually nowadays more fan of a low fantasy genre with more realistic feel/look to the world but the design of GW2 didnt seem unappealing even for me. somehow thought, i felt a bit odd how the character moved. for example when you stop running, your character takes a his last step but then takes his last step backwards when he stoppes.. minor thing though.

somehow i feel like all the rooms, houses, castles seem really big in size, certainly a game for claustrophobic person. for me they felt a bit too big. but overall map desings and look is really nice and atmospheric, kudos to the people who made them. athmosphere in this game overall is pretty good, the feeling, music, characters, how the world sounds and looks really wont make the game feel underwhelming at any given point.

i really had a blast with the pve content, and this is coming from a pvp player. the questing system feels nice and fun, and everyone seemed to gladly help with anything that needed to be done in the world. game felt a bit themeparkish yea but i didnt really mind it though. seems like you cant really faceroll everything in this game, i got downed few level higher mobs pretty fast which restricted me on going back to other easier stuff around my level range. i guess this was also because there was so many players around that the mobs were being scaled upwards but i would get literally blown to bits in a matter of seconds in the frontlines so i decided use the bow more than going to the skin with 2h sword.

i also went forth and adventured to the human side of the tyria, seemed like norns were exotic in there since people would come to me and just hang around watching. i liked the human starting places, some parts actually even more than the norn homeland so i decided to do some leveling up there, after the day was done, i was about level 15-16 at the point i decided to go to sleep because the servers were acting up again in the late night

sunday - pvp day - eat or be eaten

wvw - so i decided to give it a go in the wvw first, but i didnt really get all the things that needed to be done in there until later. i followed some people who seemed to be quite the group in numbers. we actually did conquer few big castles and couple smaller ones even though we were getting pushed at times by enemy force. i had really low fps during the whole time in warfront, it never went above 10 fps which would be pretty much unplayable for any other person but me since im kinda used to crappy computers. after AoC sieges i already knew what to expect, and this was pretty much exactly what i had anticipated for gw2 wvw to be for me, atleast with this computer, atleast now since the game is really poorly optimized at the moment. my friend had like 10-30 fps too with his new computer (i5 2500k, geforce 680).

after dying, i was surprised and annoyed that i would have to be running back for miles from my waypoint. this was so annoying, i tried to look up if there was way to teleport between the castles that we had on our side but it seemed that the whole world didnt have any other options. after few deaths i decided to leave wvw since it was just too annoying to be running the most of the time, for such long time.

minigames - aah finally, some fps. i could finally see whats going on instead of just anticipating when im going to die in a slideshow of pictures that the monitor was showing me in wvw. i first on just went with 2handed sword and rifle set up and it was ok, i was able to spike some players down pretty decently. rifle was pretty good, i felt like it was almost a necessary thing to have but i wanted to try some other builds as well. at somepoint i just decided to go with 2handed sword and on a switch, a hammer for cc. somehow i had accidentally made a warrior that seemed to be keeping foes on cc while other teammates would do the killing.

i wasnt really good at the fighting 1on1, i felt like my dmg output was too low and some chars like mesmers would just heal and kite me and my dmg didnt seem to be going anywhere. i guess i wasnt playing the warrior right :D well atleast i had quite good survivability and im sure the enemy were annoyed how i would just cc and rend them useless. mesmers though, man i hate them, i didnt really seem to be able to kill them alone. its not too hard to spot which one is the real one, but the dmg and cc the mesmer does over time just seemed better than mine and kiting me and healing over my dmg didnt seem even a task for them .. they made me feel really stupid and embarrased. some other people were suprised of me having troubles with them so i guess its just me then.

i guess its a bit early to say, but i felt a bit favoritism for ranged classes again .. but this is what i feel for all games so go figure :D it was just annoying how people could just shoot me while running but i would have to close the gap all the time and when i would try making special hit, like 2handed sword "i whip my sword back and forth"- skill, people would just dodge that with ease, the cc barely works long enough for me to come close and do the same attack either, unless someone else is doing the cc.

overall feeling of the game - after the lag and few things are tweaked like the optimizing game better it seemed pretty solid run, i had a a blast. i didnt want to sleep or eat the whole weekend ... cant wait for next beta and last, the actual release of the game. im not yet sure how long this game would be living with healthy numbers of people in the game but atleast i can easily say that it will most likely keep me playing for first 6 months pretty easily

next beta, im going to try out thief and guardian for sure - they seemed to be doing nice, both in and out of pvp :)