Not to mention there have been polls put forth on this site that indicated a nice spread. I am just to lazy to search through all the GW2 threads to find the link for you.
FLAW! Where you at =P I got my 30 pts in GW1 but the person that got me to play disappeared!! Also he is correct, the spread is very close in number.
Factions are picked mid game (around level 35 iirc) and they are NOT at war with one another. They all seek to end the dragons, and are attempting to do so in different was from one another.
And my main race?
See my sig
So will open World pvp be anyone or only WvW & battlegrounds?
There is no "open world PVP" only WvWvW and competative BG's.
No word on a pvp server that will let you do so?
I really hope they do add at least the option for players like myself that enjoy the thrill of being hunted.
GW2's PVE world is completely cooperative. Instead of quests, there are dynamic events which everyone can take part in and which scale up depending on how many people participate. They want other people to never hurt you or compete with you, for you to never wonder whether that guy is going to screw you over somehow. They want you to want to see other people.
As far as we know there aren't any plans for a PVP server because it's pretty incompatible with this plan. They didn't even really leave it open as a possibility considering there's 5 playable races.
However, WvW PVP is where the action in. It's got 4 big maps that can hold 500 people apiece, and its got everyone from your server working together against players from two other servers. There's a variety of objectives, from supply lines to defend/disrupt, to mines to take over or keeps for your guild to assault. And you can level up in there from 2 to 80 if you want and it runs 24/7. They just posted a big blog post about it today which you can see in another thread.
If you want the feeling of having to look over your shoulder while playing, I'm sure you'll find it in WvW PVP.
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I for one will be playing a Human, but as trends dictate Charr is the (AkA) Bad-Ass.
Side Question, the 3 Orders that you can join in this game will they be picked apone character creation or later on, also will those 3 factions will be at war with each other or can anyone attack anyone no matter the faction? The reason I ask is I am trying to predict what Order will be the Horde/Sith faction because I don't want to be apart of that, I enjoy the underdog.
I like to play multiple characters, classes and races. I will have one Charr for sure as I've already outlined eight characters with names and races, and one is a Charr. Which one will become my "main"? Depends on class play mostly. At this time and point my money is on my main being my Human thief or Syvari ranger and not my Charr Guardian. Again though we shall see.
Factions are picked mid game (around level 35 iirc) and they are NOT at war with one another. They all seek to end the dragons, and are attempting to do so in different was from one another.
And my main race?
See my sig
So will open World pvp be anyone or only WvW & battlegrounds?
There is no "open world PVP" only WvWvW and competative BG's.
No word on a pvp server that will let you do so?
I really hope they do add at least the option for players like myself that enjoy the thrill of being hunted.
WTF?
Oh and my main will be an HUman but I'm going to be an altaholic.
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Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
personally I dont understand people wanting to play Charr, I really dislike their huge mouths that they cannot close >.< Its the one race in Tyria that I think could have been done a lot more with The females look alright, or if they took the shaman skin from GW1 instead of the warrior type that they did go with.
I will be either Sylvari or Asura ranger main but like many, I will have several alts. At least one of each class... IF I can get over the Charr issues =P I had about given up on the Sylvari until I came across a really good character creation portion of a gameplay video... I dont know how this one guy trumped every other creation video I found >.<
personally I dont understand people wanting to play Charr, I really dislike their huge mouths that they cannot close >.< Its the one race in Tyria that I think could have been done a lot more with The females look alright, or if they took the shaman skin from GW1 instead of the warrior type that they did go with.
lol well in order to defeat the dragons we must work together >:D, what race are you choosing?
(I'm not going to bash I swear but just curious, personally I like all races.)
You ninja'd me, I digg the Salvari I might make a Salvari Ranger
Ausra Guardian or Thief depends though.
Still Human Guardian will be my main but those are my alts for those races.
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I'm not afraid to tell trolls what they [need] to hear, even if that means for me to have an forced absence afterwards.
P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
I usually play non-humans in MMOs because humans look hideous in most of them, in GW2 they look great though. So I might play human.
I don't really like the charr. If they looked more anthropomorphic I would roll one but it's better that they look significantly different in looks and motion.
I might add that I've seen the best human models for an MMO yet in Vindictus. They look similar in GW2, not sure if anyone noticed. Well the only peeve one could have for them in Vindictus is that they look "pretty", but in GW2 you can also make them look badass.
personally I dont understand people wanting to play Charr, I really dislike their huge mouths that they cannot close >.< Its the one race in Tyria that I think could have been done a lot more with The females look alright, or if they took the shaman skin from GW1 instead of the warrior type that they did go with.
lol well in order to defeat the dragons we must work together >:D, what race are you choosing?
(I'm not going to bash I swear but just curious, personally I like all races.)
Sorry, I edited that in, Sylvari or Asura.
ROFL and you got in there first =P Yea main will be ranger, cant say 100% on which of those two races yet.
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I wasn't going to play a Charr race at first, until I read the first GW novel, now I'm kind of interested and of course watching gameplay of the race has also been pretty entertaining.
I'm rolling a Slyvari or Norn first and than maybe a Charr second, lol still need to decide on what race I want to roll first, lol
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FLAW! Where you at =P I got my 30 pts in GW1 but the person that got me to play disappeared!! Also he is correct, the spread is very close in number.
School schedule has been rough. My wife and best friend kinda gave up on getting the HOM points and this has made it tough for me to pop in. You get your points? I know you were really making headway last time I was on in December.
Cali mentioned the Char being the lowest on the poles and I think that was about right although I personally plan on playing each race to witness the personal stories. I do think my first character will be Human or Norn so the charr will have to wait for a bit.
/Edit NVM I see Ariboersma actually brought out another poll stat so there it is. Pretty spread out but Char are in the back.
after that time to rerooooooooooooooooollllllllllll
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FLAW! Where you at =P I got my 30 pts in GW1 but the person that got me to play disappeared!! Also he is correct, the spread is very close in number.
School schedule has been rough. My wife and best friend kinda gave up on getting the HOM points and this has made it tough for me to pop in. You get your points? I know you were really making headway last time I was on in December.
Cali mentioned the Char being the lowest on the poles and I think that was about right although I personally plan on playing each race to witness the personal stories. I do think my first character will be Human or Norn so the charr will have to wait for a bit.
/Edit NVM I see Ariboersma actually brought out another poll stat so there it is. Pretty spread out but Char are in the back.
yup got my 30 pts, will actually be 31 tomorrow. Finally got the hubby to play and he is well on his way as well.
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FLAW! Where you at =P I got my 30 pts in GW1 but the person that got me to play disappeared!! Also he is correct, the spread is very close in number.
GW2's PVE world is completely cooperative. Instead of quests, there are dynamic events which everyone can take part in and which scale up depending on how many people participate. They want other people to never hurt you or compete with you, for you to never wonder whether that guy is going to screw you over somehow. They want you to want to see other people.
As far as we know there aren't any plans for a PVP server because it's pretty incompatible with this plan. They didn't even really leave it open as a possibility considering there's 5 playable races.
However, WvW PVP is where the action in. It's got 4 big maps that can hold 500 people apiece, and its got everyone from your server working together against players from two other servers. There's a variety of objectives, from supply lines to defend/disrupt, to mines to take over or keeps for your guild to assault. And you can level up in there from 2 to 80 if you want and it runs 24/7. They just posted a big blog post about it today which you can see in another thread.
If you want the feeling of having to look over your shoulder while playing, I'm sure you'll find it in WvW PVP.
"Gamers will no longer buy the argument that every MMO requires a subscription fee to offset server and bandwidth costs. It's not true you know it, and they know it." -Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet, 2007
I like to play multiple characters, classes and races. I will have one Charr for sure as I've already outlined eight characters with names and races, and one is a Charr. Which one will become my "main"? Depends on class play mostly. At this time and point my money is on my main being my Human thief or Syvari ranger and not my Charr Guardian. Again though we shall see.
WTF?
Oh and my main will be an HUman but I'm going to be an altaholic.
I might get banned for this. - Rizel Star.
I'm not afraid to tell trolls what they [need] to hear, even if that means for me to have an forced absence afterwards.
P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
personally I dont understand people wanting to play Charr, I really dislike their huge mouths that they cannot close >.< Its the one race in Tyria that I think could have been done a lot more with
The females look alright, or if they took the shaman skin from GW1 instead of the warrior type that they did go with.
I will be either Sylvari or Asura ranger main but like many, I will have several alts. At least one of each class... IF I can get over the Charr issues =P I had about given up on the Sylvari until I came across a really good character creation portion of a gameplay video... I dont know how this one guy trumped every other creation video I found >.<
lol well in order to defeat the dragons we must work together >:D, what race are you choosing?
(I'm not going to bash I swear but just curious, personally I like all races.)
You ninja'd me, I digg the Salvari I might make a Salvari Ranger
Ausra Guardian or Thief depends though.
Still Human Guardian will be my main but those are my alts for those races.
I might get banned for this. - Rizel Star.
I'm not afraid to tell trolls what they [need] to hear, even if that means for me to have an forced absence afterwards.
P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
I usually play non-humans in MMOs because humans look hideous in most of them, in GW2 they look great though. So I might play human.
I don't really like the charr. If they looked more anthropomorphic I would roll one but it's better that they look significantly different in looks and motion.
I might add that I've seen the best human models for an MMO yet in Vindictus. They look similar in GW2, not sure if anyone noticed. Well the only peeve one could have for them in Vindictus is that they look "pretty", but in GW2 you can also make them look badass.
Sorry, I edited that in, Sylvari or Asura.
ROFL and you got in there first =P Yea main will be ranger, cant say 100% on which of those two races yet.
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this... I NEVER play humans.. I dislike playing what I am in fantasy games so always get away from the human races... but they did them soooo well!
I wasn't going to play a Charr race at first, until I read the first GW novel, now I'm kind of interested and of course watching gameplay of the race has also been pretty entertaining.
I'm rolling a Slyvari or Norn first and than maybe a Charr second, lol still need to decide on what race I want to roll first, lol
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ok I cant figure out how to post it but the CURRENT as of right now, without old data is this break down of races
Asura 16.1%
Charr 15.4%
Human 31.4%
Norn 16.8%
Sylvari 20.3%
http://gw2census.com
if you want to do your own search by w/e and add your character(s)
At this point I'm not sure what race I'll play, but I definitely know I'm going to make a Mesmer. It's just the one class that really stood out to me.
Edit: Disregard that, I'm playing Asura, I took another look at the races and then chose accordingly.
I'll play all the races but start off with Sylvari.
School schedule has been rough. My wife and best friend kinda gave up on getting the HOM points and this has made it tough for me to pop in. You get your points? I know you were really making headway last time I was on in December.
Cali mentioned the Char being the lowest on the poles and I think that was about right although I personally plan on playing each race to witness the personal stories. I do think my first character will be Human or Norn so the charr will have to wait for a bit.
/Edit NVM I see Ariboersma actually brought out another poll stat so there it is. Pretty spread out but Char are in the back.
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I never make a human race first go character.
Why? I'm already human! Need variety!
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Asura yyyyyyyeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
after that time to rerooooooooooooooooollllllllllll
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im possibly going to play norn.. i like the idea of shapeshifting just sayin
i was also thinking norn ranger
Charr is the only race I *dont* want to play.
I'm thinking more that 90% of Charr will be furries. I'm already seeing people with furry avatars talking about the Charr on the fan sites. *Shudder*
I'll be humann.
it's ok, we know who will be easy kills in WvsWvsW - keep an eye on the charr they'll have targets painted on there armor
yup got my 30 pts, will actually be 31 tomorrow. Finally got the hubby to play and he is well on his way as well.
MY THOUGHT EXACTLY ^^
Prob asura for my first char :>
I'll be going either human or Norn. The character models for Charr, Sylvari, and Asura look laughably bad. They remind me of bad Korean games.
I'm leaning towards Norn. They look pretty badass.