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Tigerfeet, Tasha from Split Infinity Radio, and I talk about necromancers and computers a lot. Plus I give you the scoop on Doghouse Systems and their podcast.

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Sequel Scuttlebutt
OMG Necro!
Necro mechanics: Marks, Pets, Fear, Death Shroud
Casey from The MMO Report talks about Guild Wars 2.
New, cleaner videos released of the Gamescom demo.
Blizzard passes out flyers at the GW2 demo.
Impressions of GW2 from outside the heavy GW community.

Speculator’s Corner
Will the necro have support capacity?
What will the next profession reveal be?
Update on when we think GW2 will release.
Rob Alden asks

Hey there I love the show! I know there are no official system requirements known for Guild Wars 2 yet but I was wondering what you speculate the requirements might be?

The first Guild Wars System Requirements:

Minimum system specification

* Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98
* Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or equivalent
* 512 MB RAM
* 3 GB available HDD space
* ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 series video card with 64 MB of VRAM

Recommended system specification

* Windows Vista/XP/2000
* Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM
* 4 GB available HDD space
* ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 series video card or above

Based on games out now though it seems like the recommended requirements might barely be the minimum specs for GW2? Or will they be scaling down there specs to something more along the lines of the first Guild Wars?

My Specs are listed under this but even now my graphics card is on the mid to low scale when it was on the high end when I first bought it a year or two ago. On the Windows Index scale my graphics/gaming graphics are at a 5.3/5.5

Windows 7
Intel® Core™2 Duo T9800 2.93GHz (6MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M, 2GB – SLI® Enabled
320GB 7,200RPM

Will I be able to run the game on my computer with full detail and settings maxed out? If not what do you think I should change? Someone mentioned a cheap $109 XFX ATI Radeon HD 5670 1 GB DDR5 DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card HD567XZNF3 But I don’t even know how I would go about installing it since I’ve been using Nvidia on it. It’d probably break lol

And Phillip Broomhall asks

Hi guys and girls reading this, I’ll admit I have only just this past week listened to the latest Relics of Orr podcast (#11) but am steadily making my way through any that might have information about Guild Wars 2 that I myself may have missed.

In episode 10 of the Relics of Orr show you all talked about the dynamic events system as well as breifly talking about dungeons. I was just wondering whether you think ArenaNet will likely throw some dynamic events in the game which will unlock and also prevent access to various dungeons, so for example.

Dungeon A is currently heavily guarded by a huge force of centaur.
A dynamic event starts where players are tasked with taking out the centaur general in charge to weaken the moral of the remaining force.
- Upon defeating the general in charge the remaining centaur forces retreat to Dungeon B.
This allows players to explore dungeon A, however Dungeon B will now be cut off and inaccessable to players until a new event which will see the centaur pushed away again, thus unlocking access to Dungeon B but preventing access to Dungeon A.

I hope the example above wasn’t too confusing, so what do you think? Is this something ArenaNet may do to give players a choice in which dungeon they want to explore.

Togo’s Soapbox
I thought Guild Wars was an MMO, but this sure doesn’t feel like an MMO. What’s up with all this instancing?

Protips
How to get more than three heroes right now.

Canto6 (Intro)

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Tasha (Split Infinity Radio) and I talk about her visit to Gamescom 2010 last week in Cologne, Germany.  She tells a lot of things that may not be as easily discerned from second hand footage, such as some small issues that the demo still had, the absolutely pro nature of the dye system, as well as considerations and observations of the newly announced necromancer profession.

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Sequel Scuttlebutt & Speculator’s Corner

Gamescom post-game show.

Togo’s Soapbox

Guilds, and namely, Alliances. How do these work?

Protips
How does the faction of an alliance/guild factor into daily gaming? How is it achieved?
Will Relics go Luxon, also?

Emails

Mike Roberts says:
Hi all,
Great show, keep it up.
Question for you. Do you have any idea on what the PC requirements are yet?? Heard a rumor that it GW2 will need a 1 gig video card. Thanks.

Long time fan

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Alex Emory says:
Ryan – Tasha – TigerFeet – Louden
First off…nice show…

1. So healing is nice…but, for the team, prot is better. I play a monk more often than not (I, too, like to feel needed) and healing your team is a re-active thing…once they take damage you try to heal them up. Protection, however can be used proactively to mitigate the damage in the first place. Most groups look for HB or UA monks (for different reasons) but fail to see the advantages of having a prot monk in the group: a) makes the healing more manageable for the other monk (if there is one) b) negates or reduces damage taken in the first place so spikes are less effective on individuals/team c) can focus on one player if the game circumstances change and someone needs to be more of a ‘tank’

I made my monk for the same reason as the others…was a RANGER and groups were always waiting around for monks. But as Tiger pointed out…there are PLENTY of bad monks out there (people who have a warrior mindset…especially). It would help if people remembered that this is a ROLE playing game…and the role you choose should be one that you are willing to play.

As an evil side note…even now, healing is the responsible of all players in the party. If you are a front line guy and getting pounded, retreat is your responsibility and give the monk time to heal you. Healing the party is the monks job…not focusing on one bozo who bleeds like a stuck pig but refuses to fall back…then blames others for his failure as a player.

AND…you didn’t start playing a monk with the hope of it carrying on…don’t be a quitter

2. Rangers – People who don’t play rangers usually don’t understand what a ranger is supposed to be. Rangers, like other professions should be used to full fill specific roles. People who try to play outside that role are usually disappointed … and disappoint their team … and perpetuate bad attitudes towards rangers. Rangers are ranged players who are not primary damage dealers but condition dealers/spreaders … natural spirit users … Splinter (although splinter is better utilized by a Rt) among a few others…again…a role…

3. Why do we have to change the name of Guild Wars? GW and GW2 is simple enough

4. The manifesto video rocked and keeps the hype going strong (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome …Tina Turner…gotta remember that!!). More recently revealed in the Gamescom videos, we will have necros (as everyone expected). Also, Horia Dociu pronounced his name ‘do-chew’.

MAYBE (specualtion alert) the dynamic events will wax and wane. Centaurs attack a village…if we help they may be defeated…but will come back in the future as a stronger unit…and will continue to return…stronger and stronger until they win. Then the in town adventure will be retaking the village…and we attack again and again (as their defenses get weaker and weaker) until we take it…then it repeats. Silly bunnies…

now…for Glaive way. Unfortuantely people believe that any class can do this…and while technically true (and warriors can technically heal), if there are 4 Rts running it vs 4 eles(or others) the total damage is reduced by 1800 (not that the enemy can take that much) but glaiveway runs much better with Rts. It is also a close area and multiple damage kind of thing. It works VERY well on tight groups. Also needs the protection on Imba or ST Rt. Typical group in DoA is 3 Rts Glaiving, 1 SoS, 1 IMBA, 1 AotL MM, 2 monks…but really…any tank that can ball up the badguys will do.

Again great show…and if you neeed a Ranger to get the job done then you probably understand character roles more than most…(actually…what characters do you ‘need’ to gat a job done in this game).

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Canto6 (Intro)

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