Guild Wars

[hong]

Yeah, I'm a bit late to the party.

Who here plays Guild Wars? I've just got it (GotY Edition), and have been having quite a bit of fun in SP. I've just completed the starter area last night. I got pwned when I ventured north of the wall the first time, and had a hoot in the last starter mission. I got teamed up with 3 guys I'd never met before, and we were thrown against 4 other random guys. We lost the ensuing chaotic fight 5-8, but it was great fun.

I'm now in the ruins of Ascalon with a 9th level warrior/ranger, and the healer and warrior henchpersons tagging along. I have no idea what I'm doing but it's all good.

I'd like to check out the MP aspects, but don't really want to group with complete strangers. Anyone want to link up with this noob for some questing and/or PvP? I'm Thelisana The White (old BG name) on the American server.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Yeah, I'm a bit late to the party.

Who here plays Guild Wars? I've just got it (GotY Edition), and have been having quite a bit of fun in SP. I've just completed the starter area last night. I got pwned when I ventured north of the wall the first time, and had a hoot in the last starter mission. I got teamed up with 3 guys I'd never met before, and we were thrown against 4 other random guys. We lost the ensuing chaotic fight 5-8, but it was great fun.

I'm now in the ruins of Ascalon with a 9th level warrior/ranger, and the healer and warrior henchpersons tagging along. I have no idea what I'm doing but it's all good.

I'd like to check out the MP aspects, but don't really want to group with complete strangers. Anyone want to link up with this noob for some questing and/or PvP? I'm Thelisana The White (old BG name) on the American server.

I've run through the original Prophecies campaign and I'm playing Eyes of the North now. I have Nightfall also, but mostly I've just used it to get Heroes for my Prophecies guy.

(Heroes are like Henchmen, only more customizable.)

I mostly play solo, since the guy that started me in GW ditched me. I've since formed my own guild (with me as the only member... I just wanted a cloak) and otherwise been playing on and off. I've still got a ranger in Pre-Searing, made to match up with another buddy that flaked on me.

I liked all the little touches that remind of Pre Searing, but it's a bit irksome that Lions Arch is sort of the "central" city and you don't get there for a while. I missed out on lots of holiday stuff because I hadn't reached it.

 

[hong]

How do you get Heroes for a Prophecies character? I thought they were exclusive to Nightfall and EotN?

 

[Banshee16]

I've got Guild Wars as well. Haven't played in several months, as I'd quit for about a year, started getting back into it, and couldn't find anyone to team up with. Everyone was spending all their time dancing in the towns.

I've got a pre-sear warrior/monk, and a post-sear elementalist/mesmerist.

Banshee

 

[Thanee]

How do you get Heroes for a Prophecies character? I thought they were exclusive to Nightfall and EotN?

You can use the same character for Prophecies and Nightfall, that's how.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Vocenoctum]

How do you get Heroes for a Prophecies character? I thought they were exclusive to Nightfall and EotN?

Once you add them to the same account, it opens up cross-over quests. Pretty high level though, 15th at least IIRC. (Which, you hit soon enough I suppose.) Then you take the quest at Lions Arch and skip over to Nightfall whereupon you can do some quests for Heroes.

In addition, Eyes of the North adds Heroes that're accessible to any campaign, but you need to be 20th level for that.

 

[trancejeremy]

I've got Guild Wars as well. Haven't played in several months, as I'd quit for about a year, started getting back into it, and couldn't find anyone to team up with. Everyone was spending all their time dancing in the towns.

Yup, that was pretty much my experience as well. Especially in the later parts of the campaign. I was spending most of my time trying to find people to do missions with, not actually the missions.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Yup, that was pretty much my experience as well. Especially in the later parts of the campaign. I was spending most of my time trying to find people to do missions with, not actually the missions.

Well, that's why they have Heroes/Henchmen, so you don't need fleshy folks.

 

[trancejeremy]

Well, that's why they have Heroes/Henchmen, so you don't need fleshy folks.

Yeah, but I found I simply couldn't do the later missions by myself with the henchmen. Even bought the strategy guide, but didn't help.

To be honest, I'm probably just not a very good player, and for most of the earlier missions, I was just overleveled. But for the later missions, they are meant for people already at level 20 (and ascended) so I couldn't do that.

 

[Thanee]

Didn't find it that hard to get a mission party, but getting a decent mission party (like people who do not quit right in the middle of the mission, or who do not just run through the whole thing mindlessly) was a rare thing, indeed.

Bye
Thanee