Guild Wars 2 and GWJ: Launch Date And Final Beta Weekend

Scratched wrote:

This is kind of cool

Martin Kerstein[/url]]Let me explain what an overflow server is and what it does. It is a technology we also use as our version of a queuing system. When a map or a world you want to log into is at capacity limit, the game will ask you if you want to play on an overflow server - so you can actually play while you are in a queue. Once space opens on your world, the game will ask you if you want to join your friends on your world. And you keep all the progress you made while you were playing on the overflow server.

Wow, that's awesome!

Added some additional links to the coverage section of the OP.

Super excited. I went to play some GW1 this weekend, but my wife can't recover her password. Her account is tied to a university e-mail address that she doesn't have access to anymore. And I don't think we have the paper with her key anymore. *sigh*

I played a tiny bit of GW1. I liked what I saw but my WoW addiction was in full force at the time so I missed most of the wave on this one.
Definitely interested in seeing GW2 and will plunk my bag of coins down when they announce preorders.

Mixolyde wrote:

Super excited. I went to play some GW1 this weekend, but my wife can't recover her password. Her account is tied to a university e-mail address that she doesn't have access to anymore. And I don't think we have the paper with her key anymore. *sigh*

NCsoft support are pretty good with getting your account back. See what information you do have about the account (character names is another one) and see what they say.

Yeah, I recovered my account with NCSoft support when I couldn't remember which email account I'd used. It was pretty smooth.

Scratched wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Super excited. I went to play some GW1 this weekend, but my wife can't recover her password. Her account is tied to a university e-mail address that she doesn't have access to anymore. And I don't think we have the paper with her key anymore. *sigh*

NCsoft support are pretty good with getting your account back. See what information you do have about the account (character names is another one) and see what they say.

I think I tried once before, but it doesn't hurt to try again.

Has there been much presented or displayed in terms of the WvW stuff? I just watched a long video of a warrior getting blown up trying to do the open world PvP stuff and there was a ton of range dps/AoE going off. He basically had to fall back and use a bow or get shredded. Then there was some castle/keep attack, with siege weapons, and I sorta groaned as things started to remind me a lot of warhammer.

Hm, I only saw one journalist play it, and it wasn't that many people - It was only press release after all, and most of the journalists were scrambling to try out PvE.

The impression the guy gave was that it's huge. Like super duper huge. He compared it as thinking it was going to be like Alterac Valley in WoW and saying it's not even close. It's more like a few zones stuck together, and it the large map looked like there were entire locations each faction could capture for their own.

I've also noticed that there are no racial skills displayed in any of the open beta videos, there are a few videos with them checking the tooltip of every skill, none of the Charr/human/norn racials are there yet, I guess they haven't fully fleshed them out yet.

I have two potential issues, one major and minor. The minor one is I can't remember if the minimap was movable in GW1. I like it on the bottom left (Starcraft 2 player haha)

The other is I wonder if the skill effects will be too much in a group environment whether PvE or PvP. It looks kinda chaotic, I wouldn't mind a simplified effect toggle.

I should not have watched all those beta videos. The anticipation is killing me!

I've also noticed that there are no racial skills displayed in any of the open beta videos, there are a few videos with them checking the tooltip of every skill, none of the Charr/human/norn racials are there yet, I guess they haven't fully fleshed them out yet.

There were some pvp videos where they showed the asura battlemech. I believe that is their racial no?

This was the WvW video I was talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzQC...

It shows the maps/areas at the beginning, which are indeed quite huge.

mooosicle wrote:

The minor one is I can't remember if the minimap was movable in GW1. I like it on the bottom left (Starcraft 2 player haha)

Yes you could.

fangblackbone wrote:
I've also noticed that there are no racial skills displayed in any of the open beta videos, there are a few videos with them checking the tooltip of every skill, none of the Charr/human/norn racials are there yet, I guess they haven't fully fleshed them out yet.

There were some pvp videos where they showed the asura battlemech. I believe that is their racial no?

I think in WvW those are siege tools like catapults and cannons, not an actual skill. There was no sign of any of the racial skills in the beta footage which is sad. Hopefully they are still working on them and they just need more balance and have not been dropped completely.

Beta sign-up is now available!

That is all.

Edit: Do it now as it will only be available for 48 hours

Arovin wrote:

Beta sign-up is now available!

That is all.

Edit: Do it now as it will only be available for 48 hours

Was just about to post this as well. I have terrible luck with betas though, so hopefully others will get lucky.

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Scratched wrote:

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Heh, I am still part of (leader and only active member) the original GWJ guild.

Scratched wrote:

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Shoot, signed up before seeing this.

Anyone gotten their "confirmation email" yet? I didn't get anything after signing up. It's been almost an hour since.

garion333 wrote:
Scratched wrote:

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Shoot, signed up before seeing this.

Me too. A friend on skype PM'd me, and I immediately signed up before looking here.

Tkyl wrote:

Anyone gotten their "confirmation email" yet? I didn't get anything after signing up. It's been almost an hour since.

Nope, nothing yet. I'm betting it's because their servers are surely getting slammed right now. It took me 4 attempts for the Scannertron 5000 tool to send my system specs.

Tkyl wrote:

Anyone gotten their "confirmation email" yet? I didn't get anything after signing up. It's been almost an hour since.

Yep:

Thanks for signing up!

Thanks for signing up for a chance to participate in the Guild Wars 2 beta test. We've received your application and we'll email you if you've been accepted. We appreciate your interest in Guild Wars 2!

Sincerely,

The Guild Wars 2 Team

Saw this on a Kotaku post...

FYI, lots of people are reporting not receiving their confirmation emails if they're using a gmail account. Hopefully they're just slow and not failing. People using other email services appear to be receiving it quickly.
Tkyl wrote:

Saw this on a Kotaku post...

FYI, lots of people are reporting not receiving their confirmation emails if they're using a gmail account. Hopefully they're just slow and not failing. People using other email services appear to be receiving it quickly.

I'm using gmail and got mine right away.

What does that guild info mean? They actually place you within a premade guild with that name so you can test out guild features?

No idea really. I guess they want a few well organised big guilds in there, so they'll get some priority. I kind of doubt they're doing any cross-checking with GW1.

garion333 wrote:
Scratched wrote:

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Shoot, signed up before seeing this.

The original GWJ guild is "Gamers With Jobs". SBD was just a temporary home for folks that got back into GW a while back. At the time we didn't have anyone in control of GWJ guild.

DevilStick wrote:
garion333 wrote:
Scratched wrote:

For reference, the GWJ guild name is "Silens Tamen Mortifer"

Shoot, signed up before seeing this.

The original GWJ guild is "Gamers With Jobs". SBD was just a temporary home for folks that got back into GW a while back. At the time we didn't have anyone in control of GWJ guild.

Here is what the current GWJ roster looks like.

IMAGE(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6922261521_6f90df4ecd_b.jpg)
GW-gwj by arovin.summers, on Flickr

Is that going to be the name of the GW2 guild? GWJ? Or something more "colorful" like the other GWJ MMO guilds?

Ascalon Hobo Gang

Got my response minutes after submission. Hopefully you all get yours.