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What were the opinions of the game itself?
Excellent! Its about damn time a developer had the balls to redefine how an MMO is played, and also not charge a monthly fee! I didn't level too far as I really just wanted to try out each class and the 3 available races thus far. The Sylvari and Asura are what I'm most excited to play as.
{were locked in this beta} Warrior was the most fun for me, as I really enjoyed getting toe-to-toe with mobs and having total control over dodging their abilities and spells, arrows, etc. Nothing has a homing feature, so if you watch for the enemies tells you can dodge just about everything, though you have to be careful not to run out of stamina.
Not having quest hubs was awesome, just wandering around and oh look that looks fun or that NPC needs help. The dynamic events are usually lengthy and have multiple stages and activities of participation, for instance if you don't want to fight mobs or they're being killed too fast, you can do collection, or feed animals and whatnot. One thing I really loved about the combat was that it wasn't a jump in and destroy everything in a few secs. Most mobs I encountered put up a fight and did quite a bit of damage to me, you had to heal and dodge and use all your abilities to stay alive, especially when you pulled or linked several enemies. Also being able to join in on any battle or have others help you without being penalized was great, and everyone gets rewarded in the end.
One other feature I really enjoyed was the Karma system, for completing dynamic events or helping NPCs. Granted I didn't find anything spectacular to spend the few Karma I did earn, but I was only lvl 3 too, but every dynamic event had a Karma vendor NPC with various goods to purchase.
Anyway, I could keep going, but if ya can't tell already, GW2 is spectacular!
<message edited by Khalus on Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:45 AM>