Another Guild Wars Beta Event

[Wyrm]

P.S. It would be great to see a report(s), after everyone's limited play time, of how the game is progressing.  I would really love to know if there is any change to henchman control to help those of us who tend to not play with real folk (was gonna say solo but that isn't really true with henchman).
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Henchman have been improved a bit. There's still room for improvement, though, as they still tend to walk straight through poison when there's a path right next to them.

You can actually make it through some of the missions with just henchman though. There are still a few where the henchman will be underleveled and you'll have to restart several times because your monk just stood there while being attacked. Oddly enough, there was one mission I tried about 6 times with a party, then said screw it and did it solo with henchman. Got through on the first try.

From what I've played, there's still a bit of balancing to be done with the enemies. Often times if you're against a group of more than 3 you're in for a lot of problems, especially with a group of monks/mesmers. Nothing quite like having 5 hexes on you all at once. Enemies are also still a little too powerful. It's one thing to go up against a fighter with really high hp, but when a mage can get in your face and stay there for a while, there's something wrong. In all fairness though, that's a problem with quite a few games, not just this one. Enemy mages always have a ton of hp while allied ones die fast. That must be an unwritten rule in games.

My Warrior/Monk did fairly well, once I actually decided on a skill/attribute plan rather than trying to be a jack-of-all trades. He made it to level 12, and got through the quests that weren't in the last free weekend (for us non-pre-order people). There was no Lounge guild this weekend, which is ok since I only new of 2-3 other people from here that actually played this weekend. Got invited into the Realms Beyond guild with/by Drasca early this evening, which was kinda nice for the few hours left.

Well, there's still a little bit of time left for the weekend so I might as well do some sightseeing.