Necromas

It always annoyed me that my steam forums password and my steam client password were different because I'd always forget the forum one.

Now, I'm kind of glad I did that.

For a long time in Guild Wars, until they changed the armor mechanics, I wore suboptimal armor on my necromancer because the armor that gave you more energy was basically nothing but a set of brown briefs and tattoo-like scars that cover your whole body.

The keys from here are already gone, but I was able to get in using the 50/50 thing by just going to the hellgate website and clicking apply now.

There's a quest where you actually get to fire it.

Guild Wars Dervishes.

Kind of makes me disappointed they got so much attention with the recent update.

I'm hoping the steam screenshot thing one day evolves into something like Bungie's amazing Halo file sharing service/website.

And as far as the games themselves, how come strategy games are the only PC games that have a decent in-game replay system?

Dear Russian gamer comrades,

I look forward to killing you soon.

(if our shards ever get to do battle in warfronts)

They just did another patch to update the coin lock system so hopefully it's kink free now.

On warriors...

Beastmaster: Duh, you get a pet, it wont tank because it wont be able to get aggro but it will do a bit of damage. Level cap on the pet is 30.

Champion: Not only do you get bull rush, but you also get punishing blow, which is the strongest low level finisher for direct damage.

Paladin: I disagree on aggressive block being useful at low levels, it increases your block rating, not your block chance, most low level warriors that aren't tanks have such a low block rating it wont even increase your chance to block by 1%. Other than that they have an attack that does a weak attack power debuff and a finisher that is a weaker version of punishing blow.

Paragon: Pointless to do at 0 points, you only get a dual wield attack and a dual wielder will be a paragon as one of their main souls.

Raver: What OP said, you get a ranged ability that can be convenient to pull with.

Riftblade: Just wanna note that storm blade gets really weak after about level 20, once my warrior hit the 20's it went down to about a 1% difference in DPS.

Warlord: What OP said.

Void Knight: Very useful for pvp, even against warriors the most common builds (riftblades) use non-physical damage.

On mages...

Archon: What OP said, a DoT and a nuke that are weak but give nice 5 minute buffs.

Chloro: Radiant spores is kind of nice for large battles, but then odds are someone else is gonna be using it anyways.

Dom: Neural prod is kind of nice too even though the damage is low because none of the other mage souls have a no-cooldown instant cast DD spell.

Pyro: You get an instant cast DD nuke that does more decent damage but has a cooldown.

Storm: Nothing useful at all, both abilities rely on synergy with later abilities in the soul.

Warlock: Life leech is bad, the healing's not free, you're spending time and mana to cast it, and it's infinitesimal. The Archon 0 point DoT is better.

Elem: Tank pet, capped at 30

Necro: Damage pet, also capped at 30



Vindicator/Archmage: The pvp souls, they all just give a stun break at 0 points which is nice against ganking, and maybe if you know ahead of time you might have to worry about a stun/snare from a mob.

This is the one MMO where I'd be willing to 'pay my way in' to the beta by preordering a special edition or something. It would be pretty sweet if they did something like that.