Guild Wars 2 - Who's Planning to Play?

[Wren]

Oh my god!  So awesome.

Fixed!

Also, stress test tomorrow Aug. 9  12pm-4pm PST Probably a good idea to patch now if you haven't run the patcher recently.

[Kharvek]

THAT WAS NOT FIXED WREN. 

[Vylin]

Apparently Felicia Day did the voice for one the Asura's...I forget the name, but I think its the one in blue with the big gauntlet that was helping during a golem-judging event.

[Gellin]

Oh my god why.  So creepy.

I might have to agree with Kharv here. The art for them outside the game was much less creepy than the ones in the game.

[Wren]

Apparently Felicia Day did the voice for one the Asura's...I forget the name, but I think its the one in blue with the big gauntlet that was helping during a golem-judging event.

Yep she voiced Zojja who you interact with through-out your personal story.

Also there's this: http://youtu.be/jS85KJsw2rg

[Wren]

Another stress test: Friday Aug. 10th 4pm-8pm PST (a little more eastern time zone friendly!)

As usual, they will be actively working on the game during the stress test so expect possible game issues as a result. (although in general I've rarely noticed a problem even during the stress tests)

[Wren]

Pretty nice video with a lot of gameplay and shots of the world, worth noting that all of this is actual gameplay and not cutscenes (with I think maybe the exception of 1-2 seconds of closeups of two of the bosses)
Also has some nice commentary from the devs:

http://youtu.be/0PDeq4oXnRI

[Vylin]

Careful of watching videos! I had decided to play an Asura Warrior until I saw someone playing a Mesmer (who knew what they were doing), and now I am back to not being sure what to play.

Warrior
Engineer
Mesmer

ARG! Less than a week left to decide!!!

[Wren]

Yeah I'm waffling between guardian and mesmer, they were my favorite to play in the beta and mesmer just got a nice boost to resolve some its underpoweredness (that's a word, sure).


More people should play this because it's going to be fun. *nods*

[Vylin]

Yeah, Guardian is also looking really good...and Elementalist seems to offer to most robust variety of gameplay. GAH!

The only thing I know for sure is I don't want to play Ranger. Thief was alright, but not what I was looking for. And REVIVAL!mancer I am 100% neutral on.

[AdmiralShardy]

Played Thief throroughout BWE 3 and am sure of it now.  Soooo much fun.

More people should definitely play this game.  I can't wait!

[Marco]

The game looks very good, but I'm not expecting a mass exodus and I have a huge backlog of very good games I paid $5-10 for, so I'm not likely to fork over full price for this.  I'll definitely pick it up when it's cheap, but that could be a while.

(Also, planned or not, Blizzard did an excellent job of scheduling interesting but low-risk stuff on top of the GW2 release date, while still making it possible to play GW2 for a month and then pick up pandas at launch.)

[Snique]

I am also waiting for GW to become cheap.  My summer skinflint purchases have been very hit-and-miss so I don't actually have a gaming backlog but I did just drop $40 on MoP and $60 pre-ordering Borderlands 2 so I probably can't justify another $60 on top of that.

[Wren]

If I see any good deals I'll post them!

Also: Stress test today 12pm - 4pm PST

[Vylin]

There might actually be some deals a few months after release. If I recall correctly I think they've already completely recovered production costs via Pre-Orders. I could be wrong though since I have no source to cite.