How much is it to play these a month?you buy it, and after that there's no cost. like diablo or whatever. or as darknecrid would call it........p2b///f2p
Also this makes me miss Hiretsukan. I remember helping him apply for his job there.
Hat stealing emu-creature..... *sigh*
edit: oh the top of your first post says free. is that right?
How much is it to play these a month?
Also this makes me miss Hiretsukan. I remember helping him apply for his job there.
Hat stealing emu-creature..... *sigh*
edit: oh the top of your first post says free. is that right?
Ahh Mad King Thorn always brings in the good times.
If I just buy the original, what am I missing out on? Will I hate it, or will I be able to do a lot of cool stuff up until the point where SORRY YOU CANT GO THIS WAY UNTIL YOU BUY X EXPANSIONthere's nothign like "you can't go to x part" in any campaign. all the campaigns are separate, but you CAN take a high level character from one campaign to another through quests. only things you will be missing out on will be the new skills added in those expansions, Heroes, being able to join a faction and such things.
oh ok, they are all standalone but you can link characters between them? interesting.........you can pick all 7
kinda like cov/coh then
well the original is still the cheapest so i think i will try that one
edit: actually ebay has a cheap copy of factions, so one more thing: if you get factions but dont have the original, how many classes can you pick from? factions unlocks 2 more, but if you dont have the original can you only pick from those two or what?
oh ok, they are all standalone but you can link characters between them? interesting.........
kinda like cov/coh then
well the original is still the cheapest so i think i will try that one
edit: actually ebay has a cheap copy of factions, so one more thing: if you get factions but dont have the original, how many classes can you pick from? factions unlocks 2 more, but if you dont have the original can you only pick from those two or what?
Oh, I didn't see that bit about the trial key. That'd be pretty good, as I dunno if I'll like it at all and just wanted to get the cheapest one to try it.
So yeah, that'd be really awesome, thanks!
In my opinion I would go for Nightfall unless you plan on buying them all at one point. If you just want one Nightfall is the best for the fact that it has alot of powerful skills and it has heros. You also get Paragons and Dervs unlocked which are great classes.
Becarful on buying it from ebay since when you buy Guild Wars you are really buying a CD-key for an account. You can download the client online from the Guild Wars main site, but you need a key in order to actually play in factions. If someone already used the key then your SOL.
Also EotN is not $50 when I bought it. I think you need to check out the price.
Someone was actually just convincing me to try this game an hour or two ago and it looks pretty neat, i was trying to buy nightfall but the site isn't letting me.
WAS IT ME!? =D You know it sucka.
I decided to start playing this game again as well! Need to save money and buy other stuff BAD, but I want the other expansions (just factions and nightfall), so right now only got prophecies.
handsome lambyour class over view can be a little misleading. Pets on rangers can be very powerful, they can do more melee dmg then some warriors since they don't have adren and can spam more. The only draw back is you have to keep yourself and you pet alive. You also didn't give an example of a thumper.
Ritualist also do a TON more then spirt spam. I think of them as more of a like a Monk 2.0
They have Weapon spells which act like enchantments, but they can't be removed. Also they can out right heal others and can ever spike for dmg. You can also say more about the assassin as well.
Hmmmm, I just don't see Buffysummers (which is the wow name length limit) being worse than X Autumn Leaves X oh god I bet they let you have the Xs and everything.tbh you only really have to put up with your friends names anyway, everywhere is party-instanced apart from towns (which are really literally just SELL GET QUESTS GO areas) so yeah the name feature is really not that disasterous
I knew 8 spells THAT'S IT was a design choice, like it didn't happen by accident. I meant more does it play well. I guess if 8 spells is what you're used to and everyone else has 8 spells it's all fine and dandy
Will probably give it a go soon, look out for The Mighty Odin XI :cool:
Hmm seeing all of this discussion almost makes me want to get back into it. Is Eye of the North worth getting, or should I just wait for Guild Wars 2?
Also I think I already have DN on my friends list, but I main a 20 SS Necro, unless they nerfed that and I need to get one of my other guys up to 20.
SS Necro still works fine.Well I have Factions, but I got bored with it pretty quickly (seriously the new classes aren't that fun). I played the open Beta for Nightfall but I don't actually have it. I never really got into PVP when I played it before, and I doubt I will this time, so that doesn't really affect me much.
I'd recommend getting Factions/Nightfall first unless you have them already, then get EotN. I only really recommend EotN to people who have all 3, simply because EotN's PvE is actually pretty hard and other campaign skills help greatly in it. And the skills it does add aren't really into the PvP metagame yet cause most of them aren't too hot.
Well I have Factions, but I got bored with it pretty quickly (seriously the new classes aren't that fun). I played the open Beta for Nightfall but I don't actually have it. I never really got into PVP when I played it before, and I doubt I will this time, so that doesn't really affect me much.
I'd like to try this now but playNC won't let me buy it ("come back tomorrow and try chump"). Does anyone have a trial key left I could have?
I have Guildwars: Prophecies but got bored of it.
MAYBE if i can get a deal on one of the other games ill plug em in and play with you guys.
doubtful though but maybe
(i loved the fact you can ink your clothes to w/e color inks you had ... it was soo cool)
Yeah, thanks for that HL and thehunter :D
I had a small go today, I rolled a ranger. It gave me two options: "roleplaying faggot" or "pvp masta" so you KNOW what i had to pick but I don't know if I did it right. As I understand it pvp characters are premade level 20 characters with predetermined stat points/gear or whatever that you can only enter pvp instances with and roleplaying characters are ones you can do anything on but start from level 1. Is that right? If so is there any benefits to rolling a character from scratch for me?
All I did so far was to speak to all the Masters of Learn to Play and play some trial arenas with some bot friends against bot enemies but the game seems quite cool. The controls are REALLY unnatural for me at the moment, it's the WORST that I can't swing my camera around with left click while I'm attacking. Seriously, is there anyway I can do this as I would in wow? The camera seems DETERMINED not to let me see anything good, when I start shooting it sometimes swings to the side and shit to give me a better look at my characters chest but no opponents. The only thing I've found useful in this department is Z to look behind me.
That guild vs guild looks pretty great. Am I right in thinking you get different abilities in the different games? Doesn't that affect pvp at all, like DAMN I WISH I HAD EXPANSION N THEN I COULD HAVE MORTAL STRIKE? Or have they made it so that builds made with prophecies abilities can be just as effective as ones in the rest
the way arrows work with damage and shit changing depending on height advantage is fucking cool.
Oh cool I got a cheap copy of Prophecies not long ago. Right now I play (very) casually. But I really ought to use a better graphics card. Maybe I'll try to do some GWing eh.
(FUCK I actually left GW but I'm back to mention this shut up.)
I find it funny that as soon as heroway hit the top GvG that they nerf it off the map, yet it took them a month to nerf it out of HA lol.
so what expansions would you recommend to some one starting out, who's interested mainly in PVP?
Wintersday events are prolly the only reason I will get on GW after 3 months of inactivity... the events are just so much FUN!
The thing is... I'm not a big PVP person. I really fell in love with the PVE but thier just wasn't enough to do. WoW was good for like 3 weeks but every quest is the same...
I'm personally waiting for GW2. Though I might make another char... I never created a paragon primary.
not enough to do!?
wut
i've played since release and still doing stuff
but then again i pvp heavly so...
i'm working on vanquishing EotN ATM
My Warrior, Assasin, Archer, Dervish, and Necromancer have EVERY armor, I think the Necro may be missing just one from EoTN though.
I think having every armor in the game would be extremely hard to do and overall not worth it, so I don't believe you sadly.
Don't bother, theHunter's definition of every is crap, he said he did everything in Mass Effect but in reality obviously didn't given his playtime.
and yeah, getting every armor in the game would be the dumbest thing i've ever heard, why did you keep crappy AL8 Ascalon armor or whatever, and more importantly where do you find space for 725 peices of armor? (and 725 is assuming you only took 1 set of each individual type of armor, ie: Charr Hide for Prophecies, in reality if you had every set of armor for each of those classes you'd have some 2000+ armor peices.)
Every basically means "all Elites, Obsidian, and Eotn". If it was anyone else who played the game they woulda know what I meant. Do I have to spell everything out now or will you continue havinf your id 10 t error?
Meh, you seem to be the single GW player that doesn't understand, but yeah I have all those and all titles are maxed on my Warrior besides Legendary Defender of Ascalon.
Meh, DarkNecrid I would just let it go. He is clearly telling lies just to stir the hive.
Some of the elite armors are actaully nice so its not wrong to have one or two sets. I have 4 sets on my Ele, Elite pyromancer, Luxon, Ancient, and Dwarven. Along with a cool pair of Dragon gloves. Right now I am also working on my destroyer gloves.
I am a male ele. Also GWAMM gives you nothing, but the pretty title. I know of some people that have it. Right now the only extra thing you get for the title max title is the rainbow phoenix (which is the biggest pet in the game when it make it to lvl20) when you get PKM.
hahaha
I love how on wow we have normal snowballs you can buy a stack of for 50c or something and hard-packed AV snowballs with a stupid knockback that just pisses everyone off but Guild wars has a whole fuckin snowball pvp mode
The bug was fixed.
I've got Guild Wars now and played it an hour or two. Currently a level 5 Necromancer/Elementalist.
What's your IGN, I can add you and we can group and stuff when you hit level 20. :D
I would be willing to.
I just played the trial with DN and I am hooked. I'm gonna get this on ebay so hopefully we can play more!
Just got prophecies and eye of the north.You still interested in leveling post searing? I just started a Warrior/Necromancer this morning, he's only level 4 now, but I plan to get to about 8 and clear to searing later tonight, if you are interested though, my in-game name is Ansus Videar. Send me a whisper!
I like wow an awful lot but a lot of current aspects of the game are really gay and Tom Chilton, being the infinite asshole that he is, just. doesn't. understand what made the game so good in the first place
so yeah I'm very seriously considering giving guild wars another go because it seems to have absolutely everything I want from an mmo (I know it isn't an mmo) apart from world pvp. I really love world pvp.
Can you clarify some shit about the game for me again DN or whoever else:
Is EVERY DAMN THING in the game apart from towns instanced? I do not like instanced content, this is one of the things that makes me want to punch tom chilton in the dick.
Are the people as gay as they seem in youtube videos of pvp? I watched some ridiculous video of some guy doing WHOA 4V1 or whatever and in chat it was a constant spam of "noob runner" etc etc etc. This is not a big issue since there are people like that in wow and cs and tf2 any game that I care to play
In what appear to be instanced matches teams seem to be able to talk to each other. Doesn't this lead to enormous faggotry?
Is there a duelling/1v1 system? I know the emphasis is on group pvp but I do enjoy duelling.
If there is a duelling system, how balanced? I hear very good things about the game's overall team balance but does it work 1v1 too? For example, one of my 70s on wow is a mage. Versus equally geared and skilled opponents, the only things ACTUALLY BEATABLE 1v1 are warriors, paladins and offspec rogues. Obviously the mage can play a vital part in a 5v5 team but 1v1 it's a very different story.
Is it not very confusing that although you can only have 8 abilites at one time (and I do like this idea now), there are 100s to choose from for each profession? For example, a warlock's casting unstable affliction... I don't know what that is, it's not in the cookie cutter builds I'm used to seeing, I have no idea how to counter it until I see its effect. Does success in guild wars pvp require a ludicrous amount of study?
How big a part of the game is gear? It seems like a small part and I like that so much. I've geared up 2 characters on wow and I'm sick of the whole concept of CLOTHES FOR BETTER FIGHTING.
HL said something ages ago about getting rep with Balthazar or something. Does this game turn into a rep grind? The only thing worse than a rep grind is mote farming and I will not do it.
I saw something about catapults somewhere? are some of the pvp or gvg or whatever instances like SIEGES or whatever? Because that is a large selling point for the next wow expansion and it would tickle me pink if guild wars was already doing it in a probably better way.
edit: how customisable are keybindings and the general UI?
edit again: if you do not have a decent guild to play with (and being an absolute new player at this point I'm guessing I won't) are you forced to play in awful pugs
edit AGAIN, jesus christ: as I understand it there is no seperate realms for EU/US and so on. Doesn't latency cause some problems with this setup?
if you could answer those questions I'd really appreciate it alot :-D
Is EVERY DAMN THING in the game apart from towns instanced? I do not like instanced content, this is one of the things that makes me want to punch tom chilton in the dick.
Are the people as gay as they seem in youtube videos of pvp? I watched some ridiculous video of some guy doing WHOA 4V1 or whatever and in chat it was a constant spam of "noob runner" etc etc etc. This is not a big issue since there are people like that in wow and cs and tf2 any game that I care to play
In what appear to be instanced matches teams seem to be able to talk to each other. Doesn't this lead to enormous faggotry?
Is there a duelling/1v1 system? I know the emphasis is on group pvp but I do enjoy duelling.
If there is a duelling system, how balanced? I hear very good things about the game's overall team balance but does it work 1v1 too? For example, one of my 70s on wow is a mage. Versus equally geared and skilled opponents, the only things ACTUALLY BEATABLE 1v1 are warriors, paladins and offspec rogues. Obviously the mage can play a vital part in a 5v5 team but 1v1 it's a very different story.
Is it not very confusing that although you can only have 8 abilites at one time (and I do like this idea now), there are 100s to choose from for each profession? For example, a warlock's casting unstable affliction... I don't know what that is, it's not in the cookie cutter builds I'm used to seeing, I have no idea how to counter it until I see its effect. Does success in guild wars pvp require a ludicrous amount of study?
How big a part of the game is gear? It seems like a small part and I like that so much. I've geared up 2 characters on wow and I'm sick of the whole concept of CLOTHES FOR BETTER FIGHTING.
HL said something ages ago about getting rep with Balthazar or something. Does this game turn into a rep grind? The only thing worse than a rep grind is mote farming and I will not do it.
I saw something about catapults somewhere? are some of the pvp or gvg or whatever instances like SIEGES or whatever? Because that is a large selling point for the next wow expansion and it would tickle me pink if guild wars was already doing it in a probably better way.
edit: how customisable are keybindings and the general UI?
edit again: if you do not have a decent guild to play with (and being an absolute new player at this point I'm guessing I won't) are you forced to play in awful pugs
edit AGAIN, jesus christ: as I understand it there is no seperate realms for EU/US and so on. Doesn't latency cause some problems with this setup?
The thing is, is that unlike in WoW, Guild Wars has definite skill types (Attack Skills, Enchantments, Hexes, Rituals, Shouts, etc.) that all are taken care of in the same way, just their effects are different.
thanks for the answers you two.
This was pretty much how I hoped it worked. If I start playing I really don't want to be the chump who doesn't know to save his Blink for Intercept or whatever the fuck.
I just looked on the PlayNC site and the pvp pack seems to only cost £11.99. Even if I don't like the game that is worth my while, I'll buy that now.
I think I made an error here, I made a new account on my email address which apparently I used last time I played (it did not have a problem with this) but then I could not log in with my password when I started the game. So I reset my password and got in and it still has the silly ranger I made with a trial key ages ago but it won't me play. Account management is down for maintenance.
Gay.
HL what am I fucking supposed to be logging in with?
my master account is markandahalf. the pvp pack is on that account
my game account (what?) is markandahalf@plaync apparently
I can only log in with the email address [email protected] which gives me my old trial account
Attempting to contact the playNC support will do nothing but give me a form to create a new account which will only make matters worse still.
Is playNC really this retarded?
HL what am I fucking supposed to be logging in with?there is no .com
my master account is markandahalf. the pvp pack is on that account
my game account (what?) is markandahalf@plaync apparently
I can only log in with the email address [email protected] which gives me my old trial account
Attempting to contact the playNC support will do nothing but give me a form to create a new account which will only make matters worse still.
Is playNC really this retarded?
So I bought the game and crossed over to post at lvl 5 last night. I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything fun to do, since even though it's an MMO it seems to be built heavily for single player.
My name is Chuck Falcon if anyone wants to do something interesting I suppose.
So I bought the game and crossed over to post at lvl 5 last night. I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything fun to do, since even though it's an MMO it seems to be built heavily for single player.
My name is Chuck Falcon if anyone wants to do something interesting I suppose.
Oh well, it's kind of retarded to pay more for a game per month than I pay for heating/water.
Guild Wars is all about playing with friends. They don't have to be your real life friends, but guild mates if you get what I am saying. Pug are normally horrid. You either have people who don't know what to do or they are doing it another way that conflicts with the way others are doing something in the same groups.
Besides that you can also solo(when I say solo I mean you bring heros and hechmen. You should never really do a real solo anymore unless you are green farming), but you can't solo everything in the game. Its just impossible.
Wow subscription per month is like the price of about 3 beers in england.
Ok so I got a trial and played GW over the weekend. Holy shit this game rules. I really like the balance they have, and the strategy involved in your 8 skills. I played a Monk/Mesmer as my RP char and that is a really fun combo. I made a PvP char (Monk) last night but didnt actually get to do much. I think I had about 4 or 5 flawless victories in the trial things you do or something i dunno. But yeah I really like how you can just get right into PvP action, or play an RP char for a really nice single player experience.
So anyways I'm probably gonna end up buying this game because its awesome. I kinda just want to get prophecies (the first one?) so I have that 1player. If I buy Nightfall or Factions or the other one or whatever is there still RP chars and all that? I really like the PvP in GW (well what ive seen anyway) but I'd rather have the single player stuff at first so I can get used to all the classes. If really PvP requires me to buy a different game that is fine but I think I want prophecies first.
I can't believe I never tried GW before I can't believe I've wasted so much time and money on WoW. I did a netherspite/prince run in kara last night and we played for maybe 3 hours and didn't down anything. Then it was like 11:00 so I created the PvP char and after about a half hour I did those trials or whatever and totally owned and it was so much fun. GW owns.
pbAoE eles are better then trappers for that.
Rather than introducing another skill update this week, we're finishing a new system to balance key skills separately for PvP and PvE. Within the next few weeks, we'll introduce PvP versions for a handful of skills. These skills will work the same way as normal skills, but have different number values (damage, healing, cost, recharge, and so on). We will do this as sparingly as possible and start with very few skills. So that we don't confuse players, we intend to keep as many skills unchanged as we can.
PvP versions are designed to target only specific skills. With such a system we can revert high-impact nerfs, such as Light of Deliverance and Defensive Anthem, to make them strong again in PvE. When we see something becoming severely imbalanced in PvP, we'd like to avoid harsh PvE nerfs without creating different versions of a large number of skills.
Skills that differ in PvP will have (PvP) at the end of their names when in PvP outposts and matches. These skills will automatically be adjusted within PvP outposts and matches. All players have to do is equip the skill as normal, and it will use the PvP version where appropriate.
We've decided to release our next skill balance update simultaneously with these changes. We can take full advantage of the new skill balancing mechanism and avoid multiple balances over a short time frame.
I beat Prophecies a while back and I meant to ask, is there only one Deldrimor Talisman available per character (I know you can buy them from others though).
I tried fighting Glint the other day but only got it down to half health before it picked everyone off one by one, we weren't prepared at all.
(Thinly veiled attempt to keep the topic alive)
Cool! Whats your IGN?see how late I reply to you hahahaha
see how late I reply to you hahahaha
sorry I got way busy and stopped playing for ages since my computer was crapping out every time. but now I'm hopefully back (new computer) and ready to start again! I wanna play some with GWs since it'd be cooler with people I know (sort of) (plus GW's c00l :cool:), though time zones may make that a problem sometimes. HL: did you say you had a guild?
I have no characters now, and pretty much no experience, so how should I begin? (Don't even know shit about CCORPGs.) I only have Prophecies right now, and will probably stick with that at first since I'm new.
I'll probably have to wait until next month too, since my internet is not so hot right now (stupid brother downloaded a lot).
ps whats a ign
My name is Ivellinos Gal, I'm a necro and I'll eventually go mesmer to become a curse-based necro.
(was Spiteful Spirit severely nerfed after they made AoE or is it still effective?)
So far Guild Wars runs fine so my name is Ivellinos Gal, hope to see you guys online sometime. Do you guys roleplay or anything like that?
Charr bags where added for prema-pre people.
Someone was selling charr bags for 450 gold heh.... Anyways, is it just me or are the drop rates for dye in pre-searing a lot higher than what they used to be? I've found 2 brown, 1 green and 1 silver dye so I have quite a lot of gold now (over 1k hahaha). I'll probably finish pre-searing tomorrow or something
I just finished pre-searing and I must say I haven't enjoyed GW like this so far. It gets a little lonely though but I found a guy that's pretty cool hahahaha. That's the only downside to the game so far.
I'm trying to do a good skills bar that has more curses and domination magic hehehe
Also since this is a new character I would recommend only going into one skill set till you hit 20. This makes what skills you have more powerful.Well right now I only use curses, domination magic and soul reaping. I'm having trouble finding some necromancer wands though, and most players aren't selling any.
near the end of the month hooray!
so since I'll be starting soon, do you think I should begin with PVE or PVP? where do most GWs hang out and so forth?
get on #capcom thats where we chillax and #netplay is pretty inactive from what ive seenaaaah gotcha. that's handy to know, thanks.
With my getting of broadband, I'm considering getting into this. How big are patches usually? And also, can i use a friend's disk, or do i have to buy it?
Ok. I had to order the game online from EB Games online store, cause they decided it'd be a good idea to stock Eye of the North but none of the others in the stores.
Well yeah. But it says american in the top corner somewhere if i recall.
I freaking love this game... I was hooked at "no Monthly fees"... then when I actually got into it... I can't stop...I'm pretty sure they're sticking with no fees in GW2. I gotta play this game again. It's been a long time, since I've just been so hooked on TF2. SOON I will be back. SOON.
(I should get the expansions -.-)
Can't wait for Guild Wars 2 though...
Hopefully no Monthly fees
I wanted to play Nightfall the other day so I got my DVD from the case... and it snapped right into two! So, does anyone know if Nightfall works with an ISO or a no-dvd crack, I do have the original authentication key installed and everything? (i want to know before i commit BANDWIDTH to download anything)
i've actually stopped playing it just recently except to just talk to people (i've pretty much done everything that i want to do before GW2). i might start playing next month when they revamp the titles, but I've mostly just been playing TF2 (and very soon L4D) lately. The only exception is now, because of the Costume Brawl which is the best thing they've ever made. i could prolly help you out when you hit level 20 tho.yeah this for me. i'm on for a little bit each week right now, since i have class and exams. and TF2 usually makes up my gaming now since i can just jump in for a round or two. but in a few weeks it'll be vidcons all day so wooooo.