May 2012
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April 2012
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WatchHey guys! I just want to let you know that my wrap-up/impressions video is currently uploading to Youtube (it took over 12 hours to encode the file, it’s 40 minutes long). I’ve got another video currently encoding (not near as long, I promise). Until I can get something of mine up on Youtube, here’s Gamebreaker TV’s Scott Hawkes talking about his biggest impressions of the...
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Bear With Me!!!
Okay guys, bear with me just a little bit. I’ve got a bunch of videos coming up. In fact, I recorded I think 350GB worth of video. I’m literally sorting it out right now, only taking a break to type this. I also snagged about 100 screens throughout the weekend, and can naturally pull more from some of the videos. I didn’t get to do everything I wanted for various reasons, but...
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On The First Day Of Beta...
Hey everyone! Right now, the servers are down for half-an-hour while they throw in some bug fixes and updates. So, I thought I’d take the moment to give you a little bit of what I’ve been doing, what we’re seeing, and what I think of it all.
So, what I’ve been up to thusfar, I immediately jumped in and got into the Darkhaven server with the Gamebreaker TV guild (Agreeance...
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WatchWith less than 10 hours until the beta, here’s one last video before we start. It’s the second half of the Q&A from Gamebreaker TV on PvP featuring Mike B and EIC Scott Hawkes. I will try to get one last post in tomorrow before beta goes live, but I’m not making any promises since I’ll be doing last minute preparation and set up and double checking everything is in...
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Update: Beta Server Change
Hey all! If you’ve seen my previous post and were planning on joining me in the GW2 beta starting tomorrow, please note that I am changing servers!!! I will now be on the Darkhaven server. Sorry for the confusion. Gamebreaker TV has since announced that they will be on that server, and I am changing to join them. You should too! We can all join the GBTV guild that will be going on.
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No Dedicated Healers - This Includes Real Life
Hey everyone! So we’re about 38 hours away from the beta right now (so excited!!!), and I wanted to give you guys some advice. I already did a top ten things to keep in mind for the beta list, but those were ally tips for what to do in-game. These are going to be more tips about your health. Not all gamers are Cartman (MOM! BATHROOM!), but we still need to be wary of our health and our...
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WatchHere’s the last video in GBTV EIC Scott Hawkes’s series entitled “A Guardian’s Tale”. He’s taken us through the first roughly ten levels of the personal story of humans with the choices he made. You know how I always talk about the press being really bad players? At least Scott admits he played poorly. Things to take away from this video: you’re stuck in...
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WatchAs promised, Mike B and Scott Hawkes finally got out the first of their two-part PvP Q&A series. This one is really long, but it’s really good.
Also, I’ve got a question in here.
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Join Me In The Beta!
For everyone that’s going to be in the beta, you’re more than welcome to message me and stuff when we’re all in there. Hell, you might be lucky enough to be grouped while I’m doing video. But, you can chat with me when I’m paying attention to chat. You can ask me questions live, and I might ask them. Anyway, I wanted to invite you all to join me in the beta. I’m...
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ANet Blog: Servers - Choosing and Transferring →
Blog from ANet listing all of the servers and talking about how they’re going to work. That’s a LOT of servers for a beta.
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“We’ve started sending out emails with instructions for where/how to...”
– GW2 Twitter
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More (Or Less) Dots - Conditions & Boons
I realized that, as much as I’ve talked about them in other posts, I’ve never actually done a post to talk about conditions and boons in Guild Wars 2. ANet’s got their own system for this, and they’re going in a new direction with them like with most of their systems. This new system is, like much of the game, very straightforward. But, it’s also so different from...
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WatchScott Hawkes, editor in chief at Gamebreaker TV, has been doing this pretty nifty series called “A Guardian’s Tale”, where he’s going through his experience playing his guardian last beta. Today he put out part five, but this is part two. I’m skipping part one, because we’ve all seen character creation. We’ve also seen the human intro before as well, but...
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Don't Trait On Me
I’ve realized lately that a lot of people seem to have difficulty with the trait and attribute system. Since we’re all about to be getting into the game and having to use it, here’s a quick primer on how it all works.
Attributes
Attributes are what you generally call “stats”. There are nine general attributes: Power (attack damage), Toughness (armor), Precision...
nickytwothumbs asked: Hi, I've just starting using Fraps/Windows Live Movie Maker in order to vlog my time in Guild Wars 2 to YouTube. I was wondering if you used Half Size or Full Size recordings? The Full Size recordings are HUGE but don't suffer from the degradation of Half Size...
Anonymous asked: what will the End-of-Beta Ceremony involve?
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Preparing Yourself For Beta - What To Keep In Mind
So, I feel it’s my duty to help make sure everyone has the most positive experience with the beta possible. As such, I came up with the top ten things for everyone to keep in mind during the beta to ensure that they love Guild Wars 2 as much as I’m going to.
10. Make Yourself a Checklist
Guild Wars 2 has a lot of stuff to do in it. If you force yourself to go without sleep the...
tummyhug-deactivated20120507 asked: Your new logo is awesome. :3
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WatchLast night’s GuildCast: BELIEVE THE HYPE
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articfrost asked: will you be giving commentary? i usually find commentary awesome, but if not, that's still cool. i'll be playing beta as well still but i'd like to see videos if i missed anything
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Revised Beta Plans
Hey everyone! First off, we some changes to the theme today with a new logo, new header, and new background! Don’t panic, everything else will stay the same. I just wanted to give you guys some updates and revisions on the videos I intend to come out with after next weekend’s beta. I’ve added a 1TB hard drive to my system so I’ll have more space to spare for videos, which...
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The Beta Weekend Is Coming
The following is a word-for-word copy post of the ANet blog to help everyone see it since ANet just overloaded their own servers with traffic.
We’re counting the days until the first public Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event, which begins on Friday, April 27, at noon PDT (GMT-8) and ends on Sunday, April 29, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-8). Hundreds of thousands of players from around the world will get...
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ArenaNet Announces BWE Content! →
Today, ArenaNet gave us the promised blog post to announce what would be available for the Beta Weekend Event next weekend. Unfortunately, almost no one can view it, because every time they tweet any blog, they crash that site. They’ve DDOS’d other websites over the last few weeks (most recently Kill Ten Rats), and now they’ve done it to themselves.
Edit: I have reposted the...
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System Specs For Beta
So, thought I’d just go ahead and post my system specs and hardware I’ll be using throughout the beta. I’m already including the one upgrade I’m picking up later next week (new HDD). Also, if you haven’t heard yet, the beta is NEXT weekend 4/27-4/29. Available content will be announced soon, and I’ll cover that for you as well (naturally).
HDD: 1TB+300GB
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“Good news!First Beta Weekend Event will be from April 27-29. We will let you...”
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Plans For Beta
Sorry for no post for a couple of days. The news stream has more or less run dry now that pre-purchase has gone out. all of ANet’s everything is going into making sure that pre-purchase runs smoothly and answering questions about that. That said, I’m still working on some other stuff to post, it’s just taking a bit more to get compiled since we’re now running on nothing but...
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A Unique Training Experience
So, I hope by now that everyone’s gotten their pre-purchases done and registered, especially for the Collector’s Edition. Now, we’ve got at least a couple months until the game goes live and only a couple weekends that we can play GW2 before then. So, I thought I’d share with you another game that’s incredibly beautiful, beyond enjoyable, and a good way to prepare for...
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E Sports: It's In The Game
Sorry this is coming today instead of last night. My friend kept me out a bit too late. Anyway, today let’s talk about eSports. Everyone else has been talking about it. ArenaNet has been talking about it. Now, it’s my turn. ANet has said many times that their goal is to get GW2 accepted into the eSports community, but it’s not an automatic thing by any means. I want to take a...
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Of Pre-Purchasing And Beta
This is kind of going to count for today’s post. So, it’s now April 10 in most of the world. It starts in three hours for Seattle, where ANet is located. That means today is the official start of pre-purchases for Guild Wars 2. You don’t need to hurry, unless you’re after the Collector’s Edition, which you should be. Make sure that you’re going through an...
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How To Be A Good Boss...Fight
Now that I’m done being stupid and closing the window on a nearly finished post, let’s talk a little bit less GW2 specific today. I want to look at boss fights in MMORPGs and what makes a good fight. What makes a boss fight good? What makes it boring? What makes it memorable? What makes it frustrating? We’ll look at why Guild Wars failed, why WoW succeeded, and why Guild Wars 2...
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Expansions - Too Soon?
Hello again everyone! Tonight’s a pretty laid-back feeling night, so I thought I’d take a laid-back topic. Rather than all of that serious business about what’s out there and raging about it all, let’s look at things that might be one day. I’m talking expansions, and where ArenaNet is setting themselves up to be able to go. Naturally, with the game not even out yet,...
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Carrot On A Stick - For The Love Of The Game
Hello again everyone! This weekend I will be back on top of regularly posting like a good boy now that I have extra time. This week might get thrown off a little bit for having a TON of stuff going on, but I’ll try to not miss more than a day. That said, there are a lot of posts still to be coming in the future, so there are lots of opportunities to read what you want to read. But, I...
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ANet Blog: Role of Squads in WvW →
This is from the official blog. It’s written by Jordan Massey, one of the programmers. In it, Jordan talks about squads and the role they play in WvW.
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WatchJust a little bit from GBTV talking about Kerstein’s statements about official forums.
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Flipping Coins and Rolling Dice - Decisions Made...
First, sorry for skipping two days. Things suddenly got busy. Anyways, a lot of people out there are having trouble deciding which of the eight professions they want to play as their main in GW2. If I weren’t so completely about maintaining that elementalist is always my original profession, I’d be having this problem, too. So, I figured today I would help make things easier for people...
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Character Blog Project
Evening everyone! Before I start tonight’s topic, I want to ask again for any ideas for a post or anything you kind of maybe think you might be interested in reading about PLEASE get submitted to me. You can use the “Got A Question/Request?” button on the right side to let me know what you want, and I’ll do a full post on it (provided we have enough information on it). Now,...
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It's April Fool's Day
So, there’s no real post tonight. Why? Because starting several hours ago, it was officially April Fool’s Day in some relevant parts of the world (UK). In fact, it was six-and-a-half hours ago that the official Wiki put up their April Fool’s Day prank. So what does this have to do with my blog? Simple, I’m taking a moment to tell everyone to not believe that they read....
