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GuildWars: Factions, Beta Weekend
TigerWolf2
Member Posts: 10
As you might already know - the guild wars factions weekend is this weekend! I have a few spare passed im willing to give away but these are on a first come first serve basis. PM me your email address and ill send it to you.
Information about the weekend is avalaible here - http://guildwars.com/events/ingame/factionspreview.php
Factions Preview Event
Join us the weekend of March 24th for the FactionsTM Preview Event! This will be your first chance to visit the breathtaking continent of Cantha, the newest world of the Guild Wars saga. During the event, you will get the chance to play roleplaying and player-versus-player characters, and to pursue a variety of gameplay options, including story missions, competitive missions, and a new form of PvP called alliance battles!
Your FPE Experience
The Factions Preview Event could begin with your creation of a Factions roleplaying character in an area of Cantha called The Marketplace. There, a series of NPCs will provide you information about the factions of CanthaThe Luxons and the Kurzicksand will assist you in getting to the capital city of the faction that you choose. Once you arrive in the capital city, you may explore the areas of the world that are opened for this event. You may also undertake the four Factions missions available in the FPE or engage in an exciting new form of PvP, the alliance battle. Here is a bit of information about the mission types that you can experience:
Story Missions: Experience two of the missions that let you participate in the quest to stop the traitor Shiro Tagachi. Visit the outposts for Eternal Grove and Gyala Hatchery to jump right into the storyline!
Competitive Missions: There are two teams within a competitive mission; one each representing the Kurzicks and the Luxons. Getting into the mission is quick and easy: You simply click "Enter Mission" and you automatically are partied with other members of your faction in either Ft. Aspenwood or The Jade Quarry.
Competitive mission objectives vary from mission to mission, but here is an example: The Kurzicks are nearing completion of a new sonic weapon, called the 'Vengeance of the Gods,' that will give them a significant advantage in the war. In the Ft. Aspenwood competitive mission, you will join the Luxons in an attempt to break into the Kurzick fortress and destroy the weapon before it can be completed, or you will join the Kurzicks and attempt to repel the Luxon invasion. Both sides will be competing for control of amber mines, as amber can be used to strengthen fortress defenses, increase the speed at which the Vengeance of the Gods is constructed, or increase the power of the massive siege turtles that the Luxons are using to break into the Kurzick fortress. During the mission, you will encounter members of the opposing faction, as they are trying to take control of the same amber mines.
As with any competitive mission, although you will encounter enemy players, completing these missions relies more heavily upon killing NPCs or monsters rather than engaging members of the opposing faction in combat. Should you choose to engage the enemy faction, you will find that the gameplay mechanics are different than elsewhere: There is no penalty to those who are slain (no death penalty) and those who die are re-spawned quickly.
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I dont know how to send a PM here..
But i post my email in the topic.. 
qrush3@hotmail.com
Yeah i dont know how to pm here either so.. here u go ch4osl4yer@yahoo.com
Well, I've been playing the Factions Event and so far it's been a bust. There are bugs in the game, such as AI teammates not attacking in combat, and when they die they are dropped from your team. Also, you can be standing right next to a monster and unable to attack, receiving the message "can't see target."
If you already play GW, be advised that you won't get an extra slot for a Factions test character -- you'll have to delete one of your four existing GW toons.
As far as we can tell, this aspect of the game doesn't work. We tried repeatedly to enter one of these competitive missions and all we ever got was the countdown timer resetting repeatedly.
Unfortunately, the community for GW is pretty bad. Arenanet doesn't have an official GW forum (which boggles my mind) so you can't ask questions of the people in charge. The best you can do is go to a fansite and ask a question -- which will result in conflicting information. Good luck asking questions while in-game, as well. Once I saw the volume of abuse heaped on people asking perfectly legitimate questions, I turned off the Local chat.
My friends who play the regular GW say that Factions is significantly harder, even without the bugs.
It looks great, but it's not fun in the least.
im about to pm but just incase i can't figure out how ill post here anyway: zoltargg@yahoo.com