re: UPDATE*** Guild Wars 2 - OPEN BETA - Reviews/Reactions

Whoa, this surprised me:

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Further to the revelation that sign-ups for the next closed beta test for Guild Wars 2 reached one-million in just over 48 hours, NCsoft and ArenaNet are proud to announce another impressive statistic: during the peak periods, sign-ups reached a rate of 4,000 per minute!

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I thought it may be only 25-50k

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Guild Wars 2's next closed beta test is scheduled for late-March

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Not sure if invites have gone out yet

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11. From level 11 to 80, you receive one trait point per level. This means that every level 80 character will be assigning 70 points to help define their character.

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41 for SWTOR

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11. From level 11 to 80, you receive one trait point per level. This means that every level 80 character will be assigning 70 points to help define their character.

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You got this from:

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A really, really good read.

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Is there a link to a sign up for the next beta?

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They had a 48 hour window. Already passed.

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Did i need to have already purchased the game awhile back for a chance at this?

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Nope.

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Ive been following GW2 gameplay on yogscast for the past few days, im loving it so far. defintely going to play a ranger.

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Want on the exclusive list?

Bump

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They had a 48 hour window. Already passed.

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Want on the exclusive list?

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Sure. I know im going to be dropping all other games when this comes out.

No one else going back to 1 before the release to get the bonuses? Figured that's the best use of my time now.

But it also reminded me of some of the more annoying things about GW.

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I was thinking about working on my HOM. So far I have the hierloom armor, a few weapons, and a companion.

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How much have you unlocked?

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I just have the linked account, so three pieces of armor. But I do have 6 characters worth of presents (so the rare and unique minatures), and all three campaigns ready to be beat (I played mostly PvP back in the day).

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The amount of plat you need to buy heroic armor sets and companions is ridiculous, so I fell short of my goal of getting the bow.

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For the sets you can just farm the single drops that you need. Not sure how fast that will go. I'm working on beating EOTN now. Then I'll finish out Nightfall. Then factions, then prophecies. I figure at the end of that I'll have enough plat and what not to buy a few armor sets, spend some time farming and get the odds and ends. If I don't hit 30, oh well, but it will be nice to have a few free things.

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I completed the expansions on my Ranger about a year ago, and slowly started rep grinding and working trade chat for some of the materials. Ended up getting the end game norn momument armor and half of the asuran set. One of the nightfall sets takes.. I believe 500+ Plat. About the only way to do it, is salvage everything you find and sell stacks.

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That makes me sad. Too much grinding. Guess I won't get the armors, wonder if I can earn enough in other places to cancel that out.

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That will defintely help. I may have a few extra i can trade you, to dedicate in you hall.

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That might help. I don't know what I'll have left after I dedicate them all. Trying to get to 20 (which I think I can get) for the extra 2 points.

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LINK

This may be of some help.

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Thanks. I'm already scrounging some guides to get the basics. I have one character who is literally like two missions away from beat Nightfall and two missions away from beating Factions. But I have the entirety of Prophecies to go.

So if anyone wants to join in on the original campaign, I'll be running that in a few weeks (beating all other campaigns first, and I have some solid heroes, so it should be easy, MM FTW).

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Here's the link for the reward calculator if anyone else is curious.

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Yip. I got up to 8/30 with 20 pets.

So I have 6 pets left over (undedicated) one of which is gold and one of which is purple. So I can either go for the full 30 for yet another point... OR sell the pets for mucho gold. Tough decision.

Leaning towards selling, if I really can get like 100k for the lich, then I do that easily. I can fund the rest of my hero builds so content will be that much easier. And the rest can go to buy armor and weapons.

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ChroniX

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there may be a good way to work something out. I'm willing to sacrifice do whatever to help anyone else around here. Depending on how hard this all becomes, I really just want 26, 30 isn't completely necessary for me, as I won't really be playing war/ranger much if at all. If those last 4 points are easier, sure. But I won't go crazy over it.

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Here in the next few weeks, I may attempt to get 5 statues for another 3 points (it would be great to get pvp statue too for an additional 3) and sell all my swag for mini pets or armor.

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I did enough resource collecting a long time ago to get some good materials, or at least enough to not have to farm the easy stuff. That leaves diamonds and ambers and all the rest. The hard part.