Fury

[Wyrm]

For the moment I'm going to make things as broad as possible so I don't stomp all over the NDA:

The NDA has been lifted. The only restriction that (as far as I know) still exists is that if you took screen shots from before it was lifted, you still can't post them.

You're going to want a guild to play with.

And there we have the big crux of the game. The way it seems now, people are migrating over to this from other MMOs, which means they already have their groups, so if you're like me and are from a GW guild that, aside from one other person, isn't interested in the game, you're pretty much out of luck.

I'm in the beta for this weekend and after a couple Bloodbath matches I have to say I'm not as impressed as the hype suggested I would be. Gameplay/control seem awkward (if I try to use a melee skill from range it says "target not in range" rather than just moving me over to them like GW does) and (especially in towns) laggy, kind of like I'm playing GW with a 500+ ping. What's worse is I don't really have a clue what I'm doing. The rather pitiful tutorial didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know from playing GW aside from how charges work, which I could have figured out just by looking at skill descriptions. A lot of the disappointment I'm feeling might be because I'm stuck in this game's version of random arenas since I don't have a clue what I'm doing (I'm pretty sure that had I only seen Random Arenas (or, as it was called way back when... the Competative Arena) I would never have bothered with the game).

I wanted to play a healer (my primary GW vocation is monk), but since your introduction to the game is Bloodbath matches... well, I wound up as whatever the nature melee is called, thinking buffs would be an easy starting point. Unfortunately, since it's a PvP only game there's no PvE content for me to get used to control and skill usage (aka I have no idea what my buffs are doing since I get killed with or without them), I'm basically getting owned in Bloodbath, although the last time I played I did manage to score a few kills (though I have no idea how I did it).