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Originally Posted by Merkuri  Hmm... Guild Wars sounds interesting, but significantly different from WoW. I tended to solo a lot in WoW, but even though I was soloing it was fun to see people walk by, hear them in the chat, or fight side-by-side with them picking off a particular kind of mob. I don't know what it was about just being able to see other people that made it so entertaining, but it was.
It sounds like Guild Wars only has a small number of regions where you can see people but the "meat" of the game is just you and your party. If I were to solo through those it would probably end up being a very lonely experience.
About how long does it take to do an instance in Guild Wars? One of the reasons I didn't group often or do many instances in WoW was that I tended to play in short bursts. I didn't want to be stuck at the computer because I was in a group and it would be rude to leave in the middle. |
Think of it like this, in WoW terms.
Each little town and major city that has a flight point is a "shared zone", which is open to anyone. You need to reach them by foot to open them, but then can automagically go to any of them.
Everything else is an Instance. It's just your group. It's not a "dungeon", it's all the wilderness and everything. Significantly, monsters will not respawn while you're in an area, but the enter zone resets when you leave it.
GW2 is supposed to be more like a combo of GW1 and a regular MMO, but info has sort of stopped, so not sure of the status anymore.
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