Guild Wars

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

So, today I bought Guild Wars - Night Fall Special Edition (Nightfall + Eye of the North). I make hong personally responsible if I don't end up liking or playing the game a lot.
(I still have Universe At War, Assassins Creed and Perry Rhodan lying around here, having little motivation to go on with either of them. I need someone else but myself to blame now for the money I waste. The saddest fact is that I played Need for Speed - Most Wanted extensively, the cheapest of the 4 games I bought in the past few months!)

I am focussing on the single player aspect for the moment, I am not really keen on the massive multiplayer part, though I probably would want to play with a few friends online. (Or maybe some Europeans from EN World? That would be cool, too...)

Amusingly, a few hours after I bought the game a good friend of mine called me (or rather ICQ-messaged) me he had bought Guild War Factions + Eye of the North.

Am I assuming correctly that if we wanted to play together occasionally, one of us would have to get the either Factions or Nightfall? At what level does Eye of the North affect the game?

Well, I just reached Level 5 playing a vanilla sword fighter so far. It didn't seem as boring as my WoW playtest/demo experience, and the leveling times seemed fast (I guess it's just true for the first few levels).

 

[Bront]

FOr nightfall, getting to Eye of the North is easy at level 10, and while it's content is Level 20, you get bumped up (your heroes don't though).

For Factions, you need to get to Kaenieg City, which is after Noob island, so you'll likely be close to 20th level anyway.

You can both play togeather in Eye of the North, but yes, you need Factions to play with your buddy (or he needs NF)

As for leveling speed, Factions is the fastest due to the quests, but Nightfall is still pretty fast due to the bounties that give you double XP.

I prefered Axes to Swords in GW, but that was me. Mostly, I liked having an unconditional deep wound, though bleeding is nice if you can cause it.

My in game name is in this thread a bit earlier, say hi if you ever see me on (which you might, I play at odd hours, and have gamed with a few Germans).

 

[Vocenoctum]

Am I assuming correctly that if we wanted to play together occasionally, one of us would have to get the either Factions or Nightfall? At what level does Eye of the North affect the game?

You're correct, you'd need the other game to play. You can also take a character from one to another at higher levels.

Well, I just reached Level 5 playing a vanilla sword fighter so far. It didn't seem as boring as my WoW playtest/demo experience, and the leveling times seemed fast (I guess it's just true for the first few levels).

Early leveling is fast, it slows a bit, but you'll hit level 20 midway through the plot. The game tops at 20. At higher levels you still have gear to max out, and of course you can re-aspect for specific missions, so getting different skills is also important.