Guild Wars

[dystmesis]

I'm starting a new campaign this weekemd, anyone want to compare Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North?

Does any know of a way to transfer a character from one account to another?

Prophecies: Easy campaign to get started with, rather slow (for GW) but this allows you to really get a grasp of things before it gets difficult, also the most free-roaming of the three, letting you walk almost anywhere if you feel you're up to it.

Factions: The fastest of the three main games, you can easily get to level 15-19 on the starting island and should reach level 20 really quickly. The early cooperative missions with two teams and the fact that it's impossible to go anywhere if you don't complete the prerequisite quest/mission means factions is rather tough for the novice. The best thing about factions used to be competitive missions/alliance battles, but like a lot of GW PvP, aren't what they used to be a few years ago.

Nightfall: A good balance between the two above, Nightfall offers a faster progression than prophecies, and much more space to roam around than factions. Nightfall also offers instant access to heroes, something starting players in the other two wish they had. Nightfall also has arguably better classes than factions, and there's a lot of good skills to be had.

Eye of the North: An expansion, it requires one of the others to play. Enemies in Eye of the North can take quite a beating, the quests take you all over the place to complete, and you have to travel long distances between outposts. Not recommended until later.

 

[Bront]

I'm starting a new campaign this weekemd, anyone want to compare Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North?

Does any know of a way to transfer a character from one account to another?

Assuming it's the same account, you mean moving between campaigns?

You simply do the quest in the major port city to move between campaigns.

This weekend is a festival weekend. Not sure what they're doing, but it's the Canthan new year.

 

[DMFTodd]

Assuming it's the same account, you mean moving between campaigns?

I meant moving characters between ACCOUNTs, not campaign. My wife and daughter have characters on one account. Got a new computer, want to move one of the characters to a new account. Looks like it can't be done which is really annoying.

 

[Bront]

I meant moving characters between ACCOUNTs, not campaign. My wife and daughter have characters on one account. Got a new computer, want to move one of the characters to a new account. Looks like it can't be done which is really annoying.

Yeah, I don't think so. You can always ask.

 

[DMFTodd]

As if not being allowed to transfer a character isn't annoying enough, we load up GW on the new computer and try to buy a new account. The PlayNC site won't let us buy a new account - just says sorry, can't do that right now. You can't get into the Guild Wars store to buy an account until you enter an access key... but we've used both access keys that came with the original game. Had to actually go to the store, buy another game, just to get the little piece of paper with the dang access key. Used that, got to the GW store, bought the new account, finally got playing.

Why wouldn't they make it easy for a someone wanting to give them money? Grumble.

 

[Amazing Triangle]

The PlayNC site has always sucked it has no bearing on the game and how it plays.

 

[Vocenoctum]

You can't get into the Guild Wars store to buy an account until you enter an access key... but we've used both access keys that came with the original game.

Heck, coulda posted here, I'm sure one of us could have scrounged up a trial key for you.

 

[Evilhalfling]

well its the cathnan new year - anyone manage to get a celestial rat, from the luck bags?

I have similar issues with GWen, the fights are just too hard for casual play - I died 4 times trying to walk to a new town!
on the funside I got enough Asura points there to get sunglasses - getting 400 kills when I cleaned a map, those bonuses are kinda fun to stack up.

 

[Bront]

I got 2 bags with token earned from racing, haven't opened them yet.

 

[hong]

Hello, old thread!

Caught up with Evilhalfling today and kicked some destroyer butt. Minions are cheating, mang.

I think I've just about exhausted all the single-player content in GW. Got Legendary Skill Hunter, got Vabbian armour (HUBBA HUBBA), and all 3 protector titles plus EotN. Still haven't seen the Underworld or FoW. Need to find a guild with more Austrian members, because all those western hemisphere people keep some crazy hours.