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>>> Hello everyone, my name is Ryan and we are playing Guild Wars 2
Hello
This is Matt
This is an accurate representation of Matt in real life.
as is this... slash wave, yes, there we go.
This is an accurate representation of me in real life.
...uh
lolololol
And, yeah we're playing Guild Wars 2, this is the second beta weekend.
I think we've been playing for about... eleven hours now.
Yes
not non-stop, but altogether about eleven hours.
essentially non-stop, I mean, we went to bed at about 3AM
lololol
uh, we were playing this up until... from about the time the beta weekend went up
up until about 3AM, and then we woke up shortly after the next day and here we are again
This game, in my opinion is not a lot like Guild Wars 1
it feels a lot more like a completely new game altogether, which is amazing
yep
this... this Charr needs to go away... I hate Charrs... get out of here
The way I see it, Guild Wars 1 was just a traditional MMO
where you stand still and just press 1, 2, 3 until the enemy dies
but this one it feels morel ike a full single-player RPG, just in an MMO world
so you've got quests to do, you've got a huge map
which you can get 100% exploration on for bonuses and things like that
you've got achievements
loads of unlocks
as you say all of the things I'm showing them like... achievements
yep, these are all updated daily, if you complete them all you get a chest which has lots of
goodies in
so, umm, it's very... and there's also monthly achievements
as well as the core achievements which don't update at all, they're just there
just like normal achievements on anything else really
apparently I killed 5 people earlier in our PvP session, lololol
oh right, I think I killed no one
sad times
yeah, I think this game is brilliant
it's...
it's very diverse compared to other MMOs, with the means you have to constantly move
around
even when you're in combat
and as Matt's showing the roll system
you need to evade
you've got a little orange bar above your health which is your energy
so if that runs out, you can't evade
aww
why do people do things?!
I suppose we should show some combat then
yes
that seemed a bit unecessary for one, but...
there's some Dolyaks over there
notice that, we're quite high at the moment
you can jump on this one. YES! JUMPING!
if you jump to high... oouuii off something too high, you'll take damage
like this
oww
I love how we did it the same time
also notice that every character has a healing spell
this is in (slot) 6, I have one aswell, Ryan has one
he's an elementalist, I'm a warrior
yes
everyone has one, which has a different little effect aswell
like mine has regeneration, as well as healing me aswell
Ryan just summoned an imp...
and I've got a worm here
and they're all to do with...
uhh, if I show you...
here, these slot skills
essentially, 6 is always going to be your healing one
and then you have these utilities which obviously you unlock at higher levels
if you buy 5 of these, you unlock this row
if you buy 5 of these, you unlock these elite ones here
and this one
you get for your zero, which is all to do with what you get at level 30
however, me and Matt probably won't be delving into that too much in this beta
because, to be honest, we probably won't get that far
and also, the first 5 skills are all determined by your combination of weapons
so Ryan's got a staff, so all of his 5 are already determined
but I've got 2 swords which, if I was to change one of these swords for a mace or an offhand
thing
my skills would actually change
and I'd have to unlock them by fighting
yes
and also as a mage, I can change the attribute
so I can change to water if I feel
and this is more so for healing your allies
lightning
which again, allows you to chain between enemies
uhh... Matt's going to sleep in the snow
and then, of course earth, which is earthquakes and such like that
I still haven't really looked into these emotes yet
there isn't a dance one that I can see, but maybe they just haven't put it in yet
well it doesn't come up 'unknown command', so surely some day...
cheer, whoa
there's a big Pinesoul over there
I think it's asking to be killed
Let's do it
you'll also notice that here we don't have henchmen with us, like you would have in Guild
Wars 1
pretty much because you don't need to, there isn't a healing class on here
and every class can go out and play the game on there own
they don't have to have someone with them
or you could always just have a party member like we do
I picked up a stick
then you can do this
...if I can hit him with it
yes, that it an environmental object, you can find them on the floor
die ye ***
aw, I broke my stick... :(
there's things like rocks you can find n the floor and throw for extra damage
obviosuly, you can't actually keep them but...
it's just temporary
poor Dolyak
lololololol, simultanious sitting
brilliant, why are you staring at his ***?
it looks like I'm trying to milk him
that guy is just getting destroyed
I feel like I should help him
well that was just rude
we also haven't mentioned that we're Norn
yes
in this beta there's 3 playable races, that's Norn, Charr and Human
in the full game there will be Asura and Sylvari aswell
yes, I should probably decrease my use of that meteor shower, just because of how loud
it is (yes you should >_