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16 - it's in the your dad was a hero and left you a bequest and you have to find the key quest-series.

Here's the wiki entry (spoilers, if you plan NOT to play a charr through... but serious, this is effing HILARIOUS when you watch it play out)

Yeah, I think it was awfully sweet of him to notice people were sad on the forums about missing the Wednesday chat, and come chat with us, even if he was uncomfortable That's the spirit of PS in a nutshell, to me.

Hitstreak - you guys are the gift that keeps on giving, seriously. <3

No, I literally mean "who is this guy" and "I miss Andy." I wasn't sneering "who is THIS guy, he'll never replace Andy! *shakesfist*"

I honestly had no idea who it was.

The funny thing is, if you go to his recent posts, MOST of them are in this thread.

Basically so far it's been they're not encouraging a boycott. He plays GW2.

He and Andy are playing a lot of League of Legends.

He can't make any comment whatsoever on anything about NCSoft in any way.

He'd have loved to see a chair assault powerset, and a zombies-with-football-gear enemy group, but he's tired of zombies as an enemy in any venue. He wants to be a ninja assaulting a pirate ship.

The screenshot of Marauder was a set piece and wasn't going to happen in-game.

Everyone is obsessed with his shirt.

It's true. Haunt and I have been duoing games since we met in COH 8 years ago, and we were lucky enough to bump into a fantastic RP guild last week. I've never felt so comfortable with a group of people so quickly in my life <3

Stay out of the thread I'm enjoying and there's much less chance of that. I don't care much for you and your "burn the furriners!" attitude either.

For the record? I bought GW2 well before the PS shutdown, and as a digital copy, it was un-returnable.

You may have noticed that before Zwill left, we were given permission to discuss other games here.

So GTFO our thread and stop crapping in it.

Did you bother to go threadcrap in the Secret World, Champions, WoW etc threads?

Yay! No raids! It RUINED COH IMO when they added the pseudo "endgame" raids!

Yay, I could make my Sylvari look EXACTLY the way I wanted her to, despite loot drops, using transmutation stones!

Yay, my gaming partner and I play the same classes in almost completely different ways, thanks to weapon choices and skills!

Yay! I've got an 80, 4 30s, a 20, and a 15 and I'm not even close to "done with" or "tired of" the game - it only gets "old" if you come at it from a WoW-MMO mentality - coming at it from a COH "I can play who I want to be today because the journey is the point, not how fast I can win/end it" makes it indefinitely enjoyable!

Yay, that every game is different and saying "well, I can't fly in this game so it won't be good!" and things like that only makes you sound like an ***!

+1 that.

COH was so much better when the "endgame" was just continuing to enjoy new content and roll new characters. I never liked the Incarnates - and all the new powersets PS was putting out were much more of an "endgame" for me.

I said they're not TOTALLY cold and bloodthirsty. They're bloodthirsty in a hot-blooded kind of way, which is different to me than like, the intro to 300.

Also... you chose Blood Legion. BLOOD LEGION! I mean, if there's a violent meathead section to the Charr... it's Blood Legion!! I haven't done Blood Legion (got an Iron and Ash) because they're the least interesting to me, but Rytlock is humorous and intelligent in the cutscenes I've run across him in. Which was nice, because I hated the Edge of Destiny book, it was nice to like Rytlock in-game.

Teaching younger charr to fall into the ranks that the ENTIRE society is built on has to be regarded as just sense. He's not going to make it otherwise.

I think the combo of the quote and sig kinda says it all.

Look, there's ONE thread where we're talking about GW2. If you don't like it, don't come in here and threadsh!t. Move on.

Yup, Charr and Asura are the least-played races. Most-played is Human, which boggles me. I'm a human every day!

And yeah, that's kinda the point of the levelless system. You're not supposed to be able to just run around scot-free and stripmine the lower level zones. You're supposed to be playing them! Personally, I like it. Lower-level mob drops are worth WAY more than the ore ever will be, anyway. If it aggs on me, I need to kill it and strip off its hide!

Sure am! Just like Virtue! *RPer gangsigns*

And the flip side of that is that the humans drove the charrs to the point where the whole Foefire had to happen, so the root of the problem was still the humans showing up and stealing the Charr land and shoving them out, IMO. The race is SO well designed, and I really their their story-quest is the best-written in the game (not alone in that thought, either!) They're just such a well-rounded race.

Yup, that's certainly true. Though I stick to only 2 attunements (TBH, I would probably be twice as effective if I'd bother to learn the skills from all 4 of my attunements, but I cannot be arsed to do so. Fire/Water 4ever! LOL) there is quite a bit of dancing between them. It's fire to zip around and get crazy with the mobility and damage, water when my partner and I start taking heavy damage or need to kite (yay chill!) and then back to fire as needed. I also run with Arcane Shield, Sigil of Storms and Signet of Air, with the Druid or flower turrets as my elite. Works really well, for me anyway.

That's part of what I love about the game - I've yet to meet anyone else who plays their Ele EXACTLY the way I do. There's no one true path/spec. No one yet has hollered at me in a group because I wasn't in Water attunement and "let" them die by blasting instead of supporting. It's kinda great!

Gah, yes, I'd LOVE that. I've wanted centaur toons in some game - any game - for ages! And the centaurs are really well-developed, AND there's several examples (Ventari, the ones with the treaty with Lion's Arch) who give a good story "in" to having a friendly faction.

I will pray for this, yes indeed. BUT I still want Skritt first >.> Sorry, I love rats!

Dagger/dagger FOR LYFE!! And honestly, I find my Elementalist to feel much more fun and powerful than my guardian. Just dinged 80 on the Ele and not even a little tired of her
30 fire/30 Water/10 Arcane spec, I never even touch Air or Earth.

YES! I can't wait for them to add Skritt. They've got Kodan and Tengu obviously positioned, but man, I want SKRITT!!

Actually, I think he can say exactly that. In fact, I wish that folks would say things like "I don't like X" rather than "the game/devs screwed up with X." So you don't like monster races - that's cool. You're entitled. However, that doesn't mean the game screwed up, the setting is bad, the devs missed a mark, etc. It means you don't like what they're offering. And that's totally cool. There's a game out there for just about everyone. (One less now )

Because classic EQ1 was all about high-end raids and tagging the spawned boss before anyone else did, it was all about grinding the same things over and over for literally hours on end, with your whole guild, in an effort to get one rare thing to drop. This bears literally no resemblance to GW2.

I duo and solo every single zone, on a light-armor elementalist (which is reputed to be underpowered!) and don't find that much of a problem. Yeah, the mob density is greater, but it's usually not overwhelming if you don't just run face-first into everything. (My character tends to run face-first into everything >.>)

Yes, for the upper-level zones, people tend to group up. If nothing else, the events need large numbers of people. However, I think the game kinda assumes you made a friend or two, or can find someone to group with, by the time you're 80, if that's a thing you want.

They're reaaaaallllly not. My elementalist is my highest-level character and she's an absolute powerhouse. There's a steep learning curve, but my god are they awesome!

Female player here... yeah, I do. You have NO IDEA how refreshed I was to have 2/5 of the races have NO BREASTS at all (I still don't know why Sylvari have them, except that the Pale Tree is essentially churning out human simulacra made of plants) and 90% of the armor models are shared between males and females... which means, while you CAN dress your females skimpy, there's lots of options not to... and you can dress your males skimpy (or not!) as you like, as well! Whee!

Except they're not giant-kin. I've never seen that claimed anywhere. They appear to be "large humans" according to the official wiki, thought cross-breeding isn't viable. There's not a single word about giants in it. Not to mention, every actual GIANT I've come across (not the Jotan, but the guys that are city-tall) are proportioned exactly like very large humans.

Well, diff'rent strokes and all that. To me, there's PLENTY of opportunity in every game out there to enjoy human characters. The fact that Anet put THREE out of FIVE races in the game with some sort of inhumanity in varying degrees is, to me, breathtaking and happymaking. I was never happy with the level of "unhuman" I could achieve with COH's character creator - over half my characters had some level of animalistic or fairy-ness, and all of them were still, in the end, completely people-shaped. (with funky, deformed legs, because the artists screwed up the joints on the animal legs SO BADLY)

I'm really happy with all the races. They're all very unique, all have their own signature silhouette, all have very distinct racial features. The humans are extremely pretty, the Norns are a big freakishly superheroic, and the Sylvari are weirdly uncanny-valley pretty, Charr are big and bestial and Asura are small and creepy.


Haha, no. That's not what I meant. THAT is my spider-queen from LOTRO. She's a SPIDER. Not a cheesecake Drider :P My spiders don't need boobs or faces, thank you!!


Because they're not a race of giants, and giants are human-proportioned anyway.

As a female player, JUST giving us player models that aren't size 0 is amazingly refreshing. And I like the fact they don't look big in their own places. They shouldn't.

There's an amazing sense of scale in GW2 that I never really felt in COH. 90% of my COH characters are tiny. Like, as small as I could make them. The WORLD never felt too big for them, though occasionally in a crowd I'd have moments of "lol, where's my character? I'm like knee-high on everyone here!"

When I go into human lands on my Charr or Norn, there's a definite sense of SCALE. The world isn't sized for them. They feel huuuuuge. Asura feel perfectly suited for their own zone - bring them to Hoelbrak, and you FEEL freaking TINY! When my Charr ranger walks around and I see a human next to my lynx, I always have a moment of doubletake. That lynx looks TINY next to my Charr, but she's actually quite large - I just never ever see her next to other characters.

I loved that so much!!

Man, all the cultural gear is lovely, except the humans, which is kinda goofy. My Sylvari bought a set of the leafy culture gear ASAP.

No, "you" don't. Maybe YOU personally do, but don't generalize. Lots of us are loving the "levelless" feel to the game.

That is literally the craziest thing I've ever read. Like, I can't get my mind around it. Did you ever PLAY old school EQ??? GW2 is light-years away from that - some swarming undead don't even scratch the surface of it!!

Because there's no need to group out in the world. And as has been pointed out in lots of threads, most recently and eloquently by Arcanaville, most people DON'T WANT to group up with strangers. They want to play the game at their own pace, or with their own friends.

Personally, I found the game extremely social. I RP in /say wherever I'm at, and I now have a friendlist full of RPers, some of whom I've grouped up with for questing simply so we can continue to RP together. It led to an couple in-character guild invite, so now when I want to do dungeons, I have 2 guilds of people that I enjoy spending time with that I can group up with.

I love - LOVE!!! - the fact that the game in no way forces me to group up with strangers in order to complete content (which COH became very bad about when all it added were trials, trials, trials!) but it also doesn't penalize me for not wanting to group up. In previous open-world MMOs, if you don't group up with the other people who are converging on the same quest mob/item, then it becomes a dirty tooth-and-nail fight to tag the mob first, and then NO ONE helps you with it. They stand there and hope you die because you tagged it before them. Now I can converge on a quest mob alongside other people, no one tags it, we all kill it, we all get rewarded and we all go our separate ways.

It's a pretty great balance between allowing you to play at your own pace and at the same time letting you be a contributing part of the world.

Well, to be fair? The humans did it to them first. Ascalon and all that area belongs to the charr before the alien invaders showed up and pushed them out of it. Humans just came out of nowhere, took their land and built a big wall to keep them out. That wasn't "your" starting area :P

Except that doesn't tend to be the case in actual practice. While, yes, people's zone-wide cries of wanting to group up to do overworld tasks tends to go unanswered, people are constantly forming PUGs to do hard tasks and dungeons. I see it all the time - so much so that I usually tune Map chat out completely unless I'm actively looking for a group. There's no dungeon finder, there's no way to "automatically" form a team without interaction, it's the same as COH (minus the DFB group finder instaporter :P) - you call for a PUG and you form it. Or you go in-guild. Like every other game.

Personally, the leveless-ness of the game has lent me a freedom that I'd previously only felt in COH. Because the game is about exploration and crafting and finding things at your own pace, I don't feel any pressure to play any particular character, or to level. In other MMOs, there's been a feeling that I NEED to get at least 1 character to max level asap so I can participate in all the content with my guild or friend group. And playing alts always felt like taking time away from improving my main.

With COH and with GW2, I can pay more attention to "who do I want to be today?" I can enjoy every character equally, and take time to RP them and let them experience the world, because there's no rush. If one of my friends needs help in Metrica Province, I can go help them on ANY character. Yes, the dungeons are level-restricted, but I don't feel in a rush to start doing those either, since they're tweaking rewards right now and I'm not in any burning need to get the dungeon sets for cosmetics just yet. My green gear is fine all the way up through the level 80 dungeons. I can get rare gear if I want it. Right now, my Sylvari is in a full set of rares, transmuted to look like my level 35 cultural gear, so my loot in no way affects my look.

It gives me a happy!

Yes indeedy.

That's a bummer. Me, I adore big cats, so the Charr are totally dreamy. As someone who is a huge fan of anamorphic animal characters, I'm overjoyed by them, especially that they run on all fours when they don't have weapons out, and have a hunched and non-human silhouette. To me, Tauren are the disappointment of wanting to play an animalistic race, and having them be basically humans in fursuits. Charr step at least one more step away from that, which makes me happy.

Honestly, I love your design on Praxis (she's gorgeous!!) but I find her far more creepy and unrelatable, personally, than I do Charr.

Sidenote: Honestly, the giant spider race in LOTRO's PvP made me so happy. A completely non-bipedal, non-human race to play! The wargs were ok too, I liked that they were wolves that NEVER turned into humans.

For me, if you want HUMANOID characters, you get that in every single solitary game out there. Finding places where that gets stretched is harder.

And yeah, to me the Sylvari are really close to perfect in being both alien and relatable. I'd have made every single character of mine a Sylvari if my RP partner would have been amenable to it, I just love them THAT much. But seriously, I personally <3 Charr and can't get into Asura at all, so I get where you're coming from. To me, if I can't find my character at least a little "attractive" (not sexually, but in where you like the way they look and find it pleasing) then I can't get into it. It's why I almost never play male characters, I hate the way male toons look most of the time. That's why I had an Asura for about 8 levels and then rerolled another Sylvari. Couldn't do it.

Though personally, I think if you're going on a scale of actual attractiveness, Norn females are the top. Hotcha!

It's a shame you didn't like being a giant awesome heavy-set tiger monster. Charr > Asura when it comes to "steampunk" tech, they're much more magic-tech.

Also, they're reptiles, not fish!