Guild Wars 2

Jag och min mate som är gamla WoW-veteraner ska nu gå över till GW2 när det släpps, vi är så oerhört taggade!
Vi ska spela som rasen "Norn" - Vad ska ni spela som?

Energy

Skills no longer cost energy. This means energy potions are also gone. (Sorry to everyone who so vehemently helped us defend their existence.) In place of the energy-potion button is a new dodge button. This allows players to use the mouse to dodge and lets players bind dodge to a single keystroke. If you are moving in a direction, the dodge will take that into account and dodge in that direction. If you are not moving, you will dodge backward. Dodging now also evades attacks, making it a more effective and understandable way to avoid big creature attacks or to get out of AoE spells. Dodging is limited by energy, which regenerates over time.

Skills

The acquisition of skills is changing. Why? Because it wasn’t helping teach people the game, it didn’t fit with how skills actually worked, and it didn’t carry over the fun collection element that made the original Guild Wars unique.

A weapon’s skills are now learned by fighting with that weapon. Because weapon skills are tied to weapon use, there is no reason to visit a trainer and make choices about which ones to unlock. Instead, it makes more sense to learn how to use the weapon by, you know, actually using it.

Non-weapon skills are learned in a different way. The second half of the bar will be unlocked using a collection mechanic similar to Guild Wars. We want players to make fun choices about how they build their character, so the new systems will help promote this. Along with this, the player progression of traits, attribute-point spending, and skill tiers have been updated as well, but the final implementation is not a part of this build either. For this demo, the trait panel is disabled, and when the new system is ready, we will explain how it works.

You can still dodge by double tapping the directional keys, that hasn't changed. The key bind is just in addition. Just wanted to clarify that. Now I am off to bed, it is almost 2 in the morning here in Germany, good night!

About the customization: all races in the demo are in a different state of things we have added. It gives you an idea about what we you can change, but the "we will add more" is the key. Don't despair too soon

People will be able to experience this at the demo but I thought I'd come in here and clarify the skill learning issue. Learning weapon skills is not intended to be a long arduous process. It is supposed to be a short process that helps players learn their weapons more effectively. For example, you learn your second skill after killing ten foes which happens very quickly (usually before you exit the tutorial). The number required increases slightly as you learn skills but should never become grindy. Once you learn all the skills on a weapon you are done and don't have to keep using a weapon to "skill it up".

Angående PvP'n så står det att tournament play är 5vs5 och dom nämner inte 2vs2/3vs3, kommer det inte finnas då? Jag ser dock att man kommer kunna köra Hot Join 1vs1-10vs10 men Hot Join är ju inte tournament så jag undrar om man kommer kunna köra "Ranked" 2vs2..?