After toying with the idea for a few days, I've decided to pick up Guild Wars 2. Bought the game a few days back. This is despite not having followed it at all through development and beta testing and knowing very little about the game proper. I'm nervous about diving in not knowing much about the game's mechanics, but I'm hoping that it'll add some to the charm so I've been trying to stay at least a little in the dark.
I played the original Guild Wars and absolutely loved it, so I have faith that its sequel will deliver. I played it briefly in that nebulous period between FFXI and WoW. It's been ages now since I played it; I have this strange problem with Guild Wars where I can't get back into it whenever I try to go back. I'm not a big PvPer but of the MMOs I've played it was Guild Wars that had the PvP I enjoyed the most.
My primary concern right now is that I don't know anyone else who's planning on playing it, and this has proven to hamper my experience with other MMOs in the past. I'm fretting slightly over how much I should balance my attention between PvE or PvP too, being as GW was traditionally more of a PvP focused game (which is great, IMO MMOs need to pick one to focus on) and myself not having a strong taste for PvP. But who knows, I've played smatterings of PvP whether it be in the original GW, WoW, and SWTOR et al. in addition to arena style PvP a la MOBAs (LoL, HoN, Dota 2) and found some enjoyment.
I've been following Taugrim's amazing MMO blog more closely as GW2 approaches. I've used his guides as references for SWTOR before and it's quality stuff. He's generally more focused on PvP gameplay so I'm letting it be my introduction to GW2's PvP.
I'll mayhaps convert this blog to a Guild Wars 2 focus coming up in a few weeks; we'll see how things roll along.
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