[Rootax]

After 6 years of EVE Online, i'm pretty bored and I'm searching another online game. GW2 seems good on paper, but i've a question, can you enjoy it if you play mostly solo ? Or are you kind of screwed if you're not in a guild ?

Thx

[Rodéric]

You can play it "solo" (as in not join a guild neither group) and don't need to play long to achieve things.
(30 minutes min I'd say)

In fact you'll be playing with other people in the area, you can help them, they'll help you, there's no competition at all in PvE, resources nodes are instanced per player, monsters xp is shared (and not divided)...

It's just a pure coop game, and you cooperate when you feel like it, a player is always a welcome sight, and never an hindrance, unlike almost all other MMOG.

[homerdog]

I played a bit last night after the client finished downloading half of the internet. I ran around with a crowd of people clicking on things. In the chaos I couldn't tell that my character wasn't doing anything, and only later did I realize that you must press a number key to attack. Lot of good I was!

[Malo]

Originally Posted by Rootax

After 6 years of EVE Online, i'm pretty bored and I'm searching another online game. GW2 seems good on paper, but i've a question, can you enjoy it if you play mostly solo ? Or are you kind of screwed if you're not in a guild ?

Thx

If you're after something different than fantasy, try The Secret World. Has a 3 day trial.

[Rootax]

Originally Posted by Malo

If you're after something different than fantasy, try The Secret World. Has a 3 day trial.

I'm good with GW style, but thx for the tips, I didn't know Secret World.

[green.pixel]

Originally Posted by Rootax

After 6 years of EVE Online, i'm pretty bored and I'm searching another online game. GW2 seems good on paper, but i've a question, can you enjoy it if you play mostly solo ? Or are you kind of screwed if you're not in a guild ?

Thx

I would suggest to stay away from MMORPGs . As for the another online game you could play, how about Action HL2.

[Silent_Buddha]

I'm really digging the crafting system. I think this will actually rival the crafting system in Vanguard at least with regards to recipe discovery.

In fact, I'm purposely avoiding any wiki's/forums/spoiler sites with regards to crafting just because the discovery aspect is so fascinating.

Just thought I'd throw that out there since I now seem to spend most of my game time just playing with crafting and farming mats to play more with crafting. Usually I'm not "that" into crafting, but they sure made it interesting in this one.

Regards,
SB

[Rodéric]

Started crafting too, weaponsmith & chef, it's rather fun, the second require a vast amount of inventory space though ^^

[MfA]

For those still on the edge of buying ... server problems have subsided, auction house still offline, some story quests still bugged. It's pretty much playable now, also for a lot of PvE content you are extremely dependent on server population in your level range (one of the reasons I hate the server system) so if you want to enjoy it now is the time.

[Bludd]

guildwars2.com have stopped ("sold out") selling new serial codes. Who else are digitally distributing this game or at least selling legit codes?

[Rootax]

Originally Posted by green.pixel

I would suggest to stay away from MMORPGs . As for the another online game you could play, how about Action HL2.

I'll end 2 Eve Online accounts. I can't stop MMO just like that, It would be suicide

[MfA]

Is it my imagination or does the WvWvW balance not work so well? All the most organized guilds gravitate towards the servers with greatest organization it seems to me.

[Silent_Buddha]

Originally Posted by MfA

Is it my imagination or does the WvWvW balance not work so well? All the most organized guilds gravitate towards the servers with greatest organization it seems to me.

Well, in theory the following is supposed to happen.

After each WvWvW match, servers are either promoted or demoted depending on their performance. If you have a low pop server with bad organization eventually you should be demoted down to the level of other low pop servers with bad organization. The flip side of that is the high pop good organization servers will eventually end up matched with other high pop good organization servers.

I imagine it'll take a bit of time. The first WvWvW period my server got absolutely creamed. This WvWvW period we're actually competitive against the other two servers we've been matched up with.

So it seems to be gradually working out. I imagine there will continue to be blips if a server gets promoted up due to winning their round. While the opposite could be true of a good server getting demoted to a lower level and wrecking havok for a round.

Regards,
SB

[Dresden]

Went out and finally picked up my copy on Friday. I played almost nonstop until yesterday. For those of you on the fence about this one, I can honestly say it's the most solid MMO since WoW, and assuming the game has any lasting appeal, which I've found it has thus far, it's definitely a solid competitor for the throne of best MMO.

However, the game still needs serious optimization. I'm hoping that upcoming patches and Nvidia drivers resolve some of the lack of framerate stability I've been encountering. There's moments where my framerate absolutely plummets, which is odd considering I'm using dual GTX 580's and an i7 2600 K. My question, is what drivers are you Nvidia users using? I'm using the most recent beta drivers and aren't too pleased with them, thus far. I may revert back to the most recent WHQL's to see if there's any significant performance increases. I've also tinkered with enabling and disabling adaptive Vertical Sync, I'm not sure whether it being on or off is better.

[homerdog]

It runs great for me I use driver 306.02 with a i5-3550 and GTX670. The game is also installed on an Intel 330 series SSD. Don't know if that would make much difference.

[Rodéric]

Core i7 820 + HD5850 here and it runs really well. (40+fps)

[Dresden]

Originally Posted by homerdog

It runs great for me I use driver 306.02 with a i5-3550 and GTX670. The game is also installed on an Intel 330 series SSD. Don't know if that would make much difference.

I had older beta drivers I didn't know there was another release. I grabbed the latest ones and it resolved my issue. I'm sitting on a solid 60 FPS, now.

[homerdog]

Hey what server are you on? My brother and I are on "Tarnished Coast" at least I think that's what it's called. We're not married to it or anything it was chosen at random since we don't have any other friends who play.

BTW Dresden obviously I built a new computer. Not quite as ubercharged as yours but it gets the job done and then some

[Dresden]

Originally Posted by homerdog

Hey what server are you on? My brother and I are on "Tarnished Coast" at least I think that's what it's called. We're not married to it or anything it was chosen at random since we don't have any other friends who play.

BTW Dresden obviously I built a new computer. Not quite as ubercharged as yours but it gets the job done and then some

I'm on Borlis Pass with a few friends. My username is Dresden.4097, so feel free to add me I just turned 29 last night on my Warrior after some extensive crafting/discovery. Most of my gear is Masterwork, which isn't bad for my level.

I remember you telling me about your new setup over Steam. How's that 670 treating you? I'm jelly. GW2 is the first game to actually push my 580 SLI.

[MfA]

Masterwork items are almost all in the 50 cp range on the trading post, that's a single death repair cost in WvWvW ... no reason not to wear masterwork at level 30.

Hell, it might be cheaper to just buy new shit than repair anything.

[MfA]

Hmmm ... wish they didn't have target calling in WvWvW ... don't see why you would want to make assist training easier.

[homerdog]

Dresden I was able to change to Borlis Pass for free. Sweet!

I'll bring my brother over too. We're only like level 15 but by the end of this weekend I hope to double that
BTW my name is homerdog.6871 but my character shows up as Homerless. I think the character name is not tied to the account name. As you can tell I really spent a lot of time with the manual.

Which brings me to another point. I don't know any of the MMORPG lingo. People typing random acronyms into the chat and I don't know what to do so I break out some dance moves. I break out dance moves when I'm nervous.

[homerdog]

Originally Posted by Dresden

How's that 670 treating you? I'm jelly. GW2 is the first game to actually push my 580 SLI.

Forgot to respond to that. The card is amazing. I probably won't replace it until I'm in my thirties (I'm 25 now), since I can comfortably assume that it is well more powerful than the next gen consoles will be. Ditto for the CPU. I'm set

[swaaye]

Originally Posted by homerdog

Forgot to respond to that. The card is amazing. I probably won't replace it until I'm in my thirties (I'm 25 now), since I can comfortably assume that it is well more powerful than the next gen consoles will be. Ditto for the CPU. I'm set

Sure..... We'll see how that goes.

This is another game I need to try on the mangy 3850 sometime.

[homerdog]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Sure..... We'll see how that goes.

This is another game I need to try on the mangy 3850 sometime.

Nah, it's not like it was 6 years ago. Gaming PCs now have a much much higher power envelope than a console could ever have. Gaming PC GPUs in 2006 on average drew much less power than they do today.

Point being, there's no way a console GPU could have the performance of a GTX670 with less than half of it's silicon and power budget on 28nm. Remember with GK104 a lot of the unnecessary GPGPU stuff from Fermi has already been cut out.
As for the CPU, well Intel is so far ahead that a console CPU made by somebody else would be lucky to match Lynnfield.

BTW I would love to be totally wrong