Guild Wars 2 Review

Items are important thing in GW 2 . There are several ways to find Items and that are, looting from slain enemies, chests, Gathering materials. Opening various container, dungeons, Daily or Monthly achievements, vendor , gem store. crafting, mystic forge, transmuting

Map in GW 2 is huge, and Its separate on lot of zones , and zones are separate by LVL’s. There are a lot of cityes and each races have a capital city ( Asura – Rata Sum , Charr – Black Citadel, Human – Divinity’s Reach, Norn – Hoelbrak and Sylvari – The Grove ). There is often rewards related to specific regions of Tyria, and I think that is preety cool.

Graphic In game is soo nice . A lot of good effects and NCsoft done a great job here , and the graphic requirement are not high at all , and a lot of old configuration can run it easy. That is big plus for them.

This is great MMORPG , its buy-to-play game,with a lot of option in game and you should try it.I rate it with 8/10.

The feeling that the world really lives and breathes are getting stronger by various events that drop in time to time, where a number of players suddenly have to drop everything that they are doing to focus on an attack on a nearby village instead. This is just an example though, so it can happen other things too.

Everything that takes place results in experience points and it is soon clear that the journey to level 80 will be an entertaining one. My only complaint here is that the illusion of Tyria as a living place is disturbed, slightly if you happen to visit the same place as before. For example, a farmer might need help with the exact same chore again and again. Overall, the game invites me to continue along the highway in the form of a main campaign, but it is you are still allowed to wander off and explore other parts of the world.

What happens in the main campaign is decided, nicely enough, by a bunch of questions during character creation, where for example, I can decide if I woke up with amnesia from when I got drunk or whether I participated in a tavern fight against my old rivals who must now be put into place.

This means that I can create a character of the same race a few times without repeating myself too much, and this kind of simple ideas raise the gaming experience to become something much more than just another World of Warcraft clone. In addition to this, you can detail your apperance excellent in many, many ways.

The game’s eight classes are quite different from each other without ever falling into a classic RPG designs. It’s never given that anyone is going to heal while another receives a beating. Instead, battles take place in an ”adventure style” where you have to dodge, attack, heal yourself and keep track of what the enemy really does.

The word ”dynamics” enters the picture, and represents the difference between something as simple as shoot an arrow with the bow from a hill and to do it on the same ground level as the enemy. Because I never have to have an enemy in sight to shoot an arrow. Instead, it is enough that I press the button “1”.

The higher up I am located, the farther the arrow will go, and the farther the arrow goes, the more damage it does. Positioning and strategy suddenly becomes very important aspects at the same time that the various attacks and my faithful pet brings another couple of meters deep to dig in.

As if that were not enough, different types of weapons offers various types of attacks which must be unlocked before they can be used. A giant hammer for example, is a slow, powerful and is focusing much more on to hold the enemy in place while a smooth two-handed sword are using completely different, faster types of attacks.

In addition, all classes are using two different sets of weapons from level 7 which also offers variety and freedom. Concretely, this means that I, as a ranger can help my pets even at close range, if I want to, and I do, after all.

Sometimes the number of players on one place tends to go to extremes, which means that I barely have time to shoot more than one arrow before the enemy is dead. This should not be anything but a result of too few and overcrowded servers.

Everything from the design of the game’s massive bosses and vast countries to the softness of the animations when my character is jumping our of the way of an attack to respond seconds later with a burning fireball is in absolute world class. No other currently existing online role-playing game looks like good and I have no problem with awarding top score in graphics to Guild Wars 2.

Except for soft and pliable animations, they have put ridiculous amount of time devoted to the design that places all possible competition in the corner. Just when I think I’ve seen everything I’m surprised by something new that either towering in the distance or just lurking in the form of a cool detail. Little things like fire spells turn into lava and act quite differently under the water enhances the experience yet another notch.

Even the music is doing its job perfectly where especially Sylvari theme made ??me drop a few tears. At least almost. Well, maybe not tears but I at least started to sweat a bit. They are blending harp with piano to create the right atmosphere for the tree’s cautious symbiotic living with nature. If I listen to the Norn theme instead, they offer me deep drums and a ransom to brass section which reveals a more traditional warfare.

It is noticeable that the sound effects have been selected and recorded with care. They don’t have the same impressive footprint like, for example Diablo III or Battlefield 3, but here, Guild Wars 2 is an unrivaled winner in its genre. In a perfect world, I would have been blown off my chair from an explosion, or felt completely isolated from the world above while swimming in deep water. But obviously, that’s a bit exaggerated, but I still think it could been a little better. I still can’t complain about it though.

Speaking of water, it takes place in large parts of the game below the surface, where each character is equipped with oxygen masks from the outset. This is one of the parts that I was worried initially, because everyone hates water maps? Fortunately, Arena Net have solved it all nicely by giving significant boost to the swimming strokes and, as I mentioned earlier, designing underwater attacks differently than on land. To cross or explore the lake is simply quite fun, rather than a slow and frustrating burden in many other games in the genre.

Those who do not feel comfortable with exploration, but rather focuses on the series’ mainstay, battles between players, can always teleport to immense battlefields and immediately get boosted up to level 80 and related equipment. This has never been the most attractive side of the online role playing games for me, but for those who appreciate the grandiose wars against others will be able to drill down to this for many years to come.

The game system is quick and easy to enter in. Blue meets Red and each class is equally important. There is always reason to fight when the rewards, in the form of new equipment await the most ardent. But at the same time, it’s nimble fingers and understanding of the game that apply if you want to win, because the statistical differences are smaller than ever in Guild Wars 2. Something that I personally appreciate, even if I have said that I will spend more time to just exploring and bosses than PvP.

I could go on talking and talking forever. Go into detail about each individual class and race, tell us more about skills, babbling about different professions, talk about instances or type about each character’s personality development. I’m not gonna do that though. It would be boring for me and ruin it for you rather than help you. The only thing you really need to know is that you must own Guild Wars 2, whether it’s because you want to give online role-playing a first chance or because you’re tired of World of Warcraft’s time consuming gear-grinding.

Finally, I would also note that this is the future of online role play. This is exciting, fresh, and fun. For real. Now you just have to decide whether you want to join and play or if you want to remain where you are.

SPvP is 1v1, 5v5 or 10v10 arena style PvP. It’s actually pretty bare bones compared to Guild Wars 1 with only 1 game mode and 6 maps but they’ve said new stuff is on the way. Conquest is the only game mode available at the moment, it’s mostly typical but they’ve added a few additional objectives to some maps to spice it up.

WvWvW is quite a huge addition to the game, it’s call World vs World vs World because it pits 3 servers against each other. WvWvW takes place on it’s own playing field completely separate from the PvE world. It’s a huge playing field with one whole zone for each server. Each team is fighting for control over forts, points etc I admittedly am not a huge PvP guy so I can’t say a whole lot on it but there’s quite a bit of stuff to do even for non PvPers. The only issues I’ve came across are it’s hard to see what’s going on in larger fights. You’ll need a beefy computer or turn down the settings quite a bit vs the rest of the game to not run into a slideshow in larger battles and the game currently struggles with ghosting were some players are mostly invisible when you have fights with large groups of people. ArenaNet has acknowledged this fault but doesn’t yet have a fix yet as it’s a very complicated issue.

Character development is handled pretty well, it’s simple but still allows choice. Each level up you get a skill point and a trait point. Traits are used to enhance your stats for example Rangers has 5 Traits and each one gives a different bonus for example Marksmanship gives +10 Power and +1% Condition Duration per point invested up to the max of 30. Every five Trait points invested you get a Minor or Major trait. It goes Minor, Major, Minor, Major etc. Minor and Major Traits are like little perks you can apply, one example is Steady Focus – “Damage increases by 10% when endurance is full.” At 5 – 15 – 25 Points invested you also get one set trait.

Skill Points are used to unlock Skills. Weapon skills are unlocked automatically by using a weapon. You skill bar is locked at 10, 5 weapon skills, 1 heal, 3 skills and 1 elite skill. Skills are unlocked via a menu and can be swapped out at anytime other than in battle. Skills are generally a pretty broad range of effects allowing each class to fill multiple roles, there are roughly 25 skills per class. You won’t earn enough skill points going to level 80 to unlock them all but at level 80 you’ll continue to “level” and gain skill points. You also get quite a few skill points through skill point challenges spread throughout the world making unlocking all the Skills possible.

Combat is mostly the standard fair but they’ve add dodging and a roll mechanic into the mix. The roll mechanic is linked to a endurance meter. The meter allows for up to two rolls in a row. The Combat can be nice, especially on harder foes but the lack of attack skills and monster density in some zones still can make it feel more like a typical MMO in PvE. I really miss the large amount of skills in Guild Wars 1. It definitely helps spice up PvP a bit.

The world of Tyria is massive, it’s split into huge Zones so it’s not truly open world. Zones have a set level range and your level will scale down to match it. The game features Fast Travel to Waypoints that you must travel on foot too first before use, it’s a bit too expensive in my opinion and kinda an immersion breaker but given the worlds size it’s nice to have them. The game features no way to directly trade with other players, quite odd but it does have a mail system to easily send friends items and for trading they have a Auction House that can be accessed at anytime. Items can be put on the Auction House and Bought from anywhere but you’ll need to travel to an actual Auction House to pick up any money or items.

Guild Wars 2 features Vistas which are scattered around the world, they are short cutscenes that show off Guild Wars 2’s impressive art. Speaking of which one benefit of having Zones is each has a completion tracker. As you find Vistas, Points of Interest, complete Skill Point Challenges and Hearts you’ll be updated on how close you are to completing the Zone. Once you do you’re rewarded with a chest of goodies, experience and money. It also tracks how close you are to 100% map completion, a task that’s sure to keep the explorer in you busy for quite a while.

Crafting is another big feature, I’m not a big crafter myself but the system is polished and works well. It’s not overly complicated but still deep enough to satisfy. You gain experience for crafting as well so technically it’s possible to level from 1 to 80 purely on crafting alone. Achievements are also in, featuring daily and monthly goals plus tons of individual ones for killing bosses, completing Jumping Puzzles… participating in Events etc. It works well and your total is account wide. Speaking of Jumping Puzzles… there are quite a few of these in the game. It’s definitely unique, they can be a lot of fun while really frustrating too haha. Each one awards an achievement upon completion and you get a chest of random loot as well.

Guild Wars 2 is absolutely brimming with content. For Guild Wars 1 fans the journey back to Tyria can be wonderful but you might end up with culture shock as it’s a huge departure from the first game in pretty much every way. MMO fans will find a lot to love here but for everything Guild Wars 2 does right it’s low amount of skills especially attack skills and high monster density resulting in some Zones being fight after fight you might find yourself hitting the same repetitive wall as other MMOs.

Regardless of your tastes you’ll find a MMO that’s trying new things with art you have to see to believe. Guild Wars 2 is a genre changing MMO, it’s more an evolution than a revolution but I think it’s sparked a change and will have every MMO released from now on rethinking the typical MMO formula.