the end

The servers just shut down in a blaze of lag. Champion mobs spawning everywhere.

Even with the lag and crashes when in mass fights, it was a fun! Working together in stead of kill/loot stealing. Taking part in dynamic events without the need to be at a particular point in a quest chain. People joining up without lfg spam. Reviving people without being a dedicated healer. Thank you ArenaNet for putting the multiplayer back into MMORPG.

I feel the same way. During the large scale pvp the lag was insane but I still had a blast!

I hope the next weekend isn't too far away!

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Beta weekend was a lot of fun.

Thankfully I had no lag until Sunday evening around 8pm EST. Agree about the world events or area events. They where a lot of fun to jump in and tackle and I was amazed at how helpful folks where, I would die and several would run over to help me rezz or kill the mobs beating on me. I tried pvp but at level 2 I was getting my butt handed to me. LOL

I hope they work some of the bugs out as GW2 looks like it could be a very fun game up and thru end game.

I only ended up logging on for part of the day on Saturday due to real-world commitments. Boo. Hiss.

Since I had limited time, I stuck with PVE. I didn't bother with the main questline, but opted to run amok and check out the dynamic events. I tried most of the classes for a bit (Greatsword Mesmer was a blast), but I ended up focusing primarily on the Ranger, the Guardian, and the Elementalist.

Ranger was a lot of fun. It was a little different from most "hunter" types I've played before, which created a nice bit of a learning curve. Had I more time, I would have tried out some more weapons options. I'll be focusing on the Ranger some more during the next BWE.

Guardian was awesome. Let me say that again. Awesome! I used a hammer as soon as I could, and I felt like a god. I loved combat with the Guardian. It felt like I was actually "messing sh** up" and not just swinging around a giant, featherweight, 2-handed hammer. I'll definitely be playing one at launch.

The Elementalist was everything I wanted in a magic user and more. The attunements were wonderful. The healer in me liked Water; I had fun healing some of the tougher dynamic events. I tried to push my limits with the Elementalist, switching in and out of various attunements during combat and figuring out what worked best with what. With my staff, I found myself spending a lot of time going from fire (initial dmg) to water (snare/quickie heal) to air (knockback) to fire (finish em off). I'm pretty sure the Elementalist will be my main class at launch.
(edit: I'd also like to state that if anyone loved the Druid class in WoW -- but couldn't find anything remotely similar to it in other games -- ought to give the Elementalist a whirl.)

I'd love to hear what the rest of you thought about the classes you played.

I tried the warrior and the elementalist but must admit I did spend a fair bit of time exploring rather than fighting.

I did love the Whispers Adepts 'secret hideout' dialogues as they were quite fun. Of course a few errors had to be submitted as text really made no sense at all the way they were written. Lions arch is gorgeous.

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I tried the warrior and the elementalist but must admit I did spend a fair bit of time exploring rather than fighting.

I did love the Whispers Adepts 'secret hideout' dialogues as they were quite fun. Of course a few errors had to be submitted as text really made no sense at all the way they were written. Lions arch is gorgeous.

I completely forgot to check out Lion's Arch! :pinch:

I'll have to make that a priority during the next BWE. ;)

Only down side to the weekend was missing all of you.. I was so lost and overwhelmed I probably wouldn't have been much company anyway..

Otherwise I had a blast!! The end event with the monster bunny was to funny.. DE were great fun and WvW brought back the excitement of having a purpose behind PvP..

I tried out Ranger, Engineer, Guardian, and Warrior.. the surprise class for me was the Engineer.. Not a class I thought I'd be interested in at all but I want to try them all over the BWE so I gave him a go and fell in love with it.. I think Ranger will still be my main but Engineer might well take the place of Warrior as my second..

Still have a lot more to test out though.. so who knows..

Lion's Arch is huge. At level 10 I made 3/4 of a level exploring it to 100% complete. The only professions I didn't try were the Guardian and Mesmer. Really liked the character and story of the Norn Engineer, and liked all the professions. That's what I'll start with although there are still 2 races to try. The dynamic events reminded me a lot of The Rift, but better. Awful lot of dying in the game though. So many players for the end, someone wrote in chat that their screen looked like somebody smeared water color all over it. Pretty much right on that. Fun time!