GW2 Question

[Leftnut]

I did not play any betas. Are there any classes or races to stay away from? How about any do or don'ts to be aware of for the GW2 start?

 

[Engnr]

Na, it's all cool. Just pick one and run with it Lefty. I really liked the Ele, the Necro was so-so for me.

 

[Leftnut]

Can the Necros have minions?

 

[skerwball]

yes but not as many as before, its a lot less

 

[hexe]

To say it with the words form Anet: "Look this class is awesome! Like the others..."

But of course you have to stay away from Charrs, they might bite.

 

[Leftnut]

Damm, I use to love running with a pack of minions. I'm for sure going to roll a warrior, but thinking about a archer/hunter or whatever they call them these days.

 

[hexe]

As a warrior you can also wield a long bow or a rifle. The archer/hunter is still called a ranger like in GW1. As ranger you have a pet as class special. As warrior you have just more damage as special. So if you want to go with a ranged weapon but don't like pets just roll a warrior.

 

[T.T.H.]

Actually warrior is the class I never expected to be comfortable with as I prefer ranged fighting over melee fighting. After having tried out several classes which all felt "gnaaaa" to "boooring" I created a warrior and OH GOSH WAS THAT FUN! In Guild Wars 2 warriors can use rifles and I bought him one right from the start and it was a great run-and-gun feeling. In heavy chainmail armor actually which enabled him to take some serious beating. In addition you can simply draw out the hammer and start bashing heads when the enemies come too close.

So my advice:
- warrior is easy, durable and fun (I'll play an engineer nevertheless as I consider them even more fun)
- choose a race different than human (because they are boooring)
- choose your home server wisely because it is account based (and not character based like in other MMORPGs)

Please note that home server changes will be free of charge at the release but at some time will become limited to once a week and will cost you real life money. On the other hand the "guesting" feature will become available at the very same time so once can "guest" on another home server temporarily.

 

[Leftnut]

I tried about 15min of the stress test. Fort Apenwood was full so I chose a diff server just to get in and check it out. Did I screw up or on release does all this get wiped.

 

[Engnr]

I believe everything get wiped.

 

[T.T.H.]

Everything except friends list will be wiped before release.

 

[Leftnut]

OK good to know