Guild Wars

[Evilhalfling]

well I just got Protector of Elonia title with my rit. Now she is going for vanquisher there...

After a long struggle against it, my ele is working on Ursan form.
Apparently all the eliete missions are now possible by 5 guys using Ursan blessing and a pair of monks. Ursan Blessing changes all your skills, and adds armor and health (lots of)
it also inflicts unstopable energy degen, and ends when you run out.

My ele has 103 energy and an axe steals energy, yeah he does 1pt damage per normal attack, but thats what skills are for.

These two have also accumulated several statues each in the hall of monuments, but are the only ones im playing in GWEN.

anyone else still playing?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Need to find a guild with more Austrian members, because all those western hemisphere people keep some crazy hours.

I know what you're talking about. Try playing an Asian MMO from North America, you're 12 hours off and on the other side of the international date line. "What I thought the war was tomorrow? What the event was at 3 in the morning yesterday?"

 

[Bront]

Apparently all the eliete missions are now possible by 5 guys using Ursan blessing and a pair of monks.

From what I've heard, that's the only way to PUG them now. Many guilds or alliances organize to do them sans ursan.

I still play regularly. Bounce between several different characters, and have a growing guild of people who are on at all kinds of different times. I haven't spent much time in GWEN, partialy because the grind of getting up race ranks doesn't appeal to me much, and some of those PvE skills are overkill, but then, I just haven't done much in GWEN, and what I have done was enjoyable, so I guess it's not that bad.

My main Mesmer has Protector of Tyria and Cantha, and halfway to Elonia. No one else has finished anything, but I just finished fully ascending my Tyrian monk, my Warrior is in the Desert at L19, my L18 Ritualist just needs to do the attribute point quests and is 2 missions away from Ascention, and my L18 Paragon just needs to do the Consulate Docks and Hunted! to ascend. I haven't spend much time on my Elementalist, I deleted a dervish for the PvP slot, and my Ranger was going to stay in Pre-searing for a while, but I think I'm going to rename him, so I'll promote and loot him first (I think he has 3 plat and 15-20 dyes)

Meloran Avenro is my Warrior, Dawn Hayes is the Mesmer, and Faith Hayes is the monk. Feel free to say hi, and if you need a guild, mine's always open.

 

[JediSoth]

*performs thread Necromancy*
"Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha"


Well, I've just ordered Nightfall from Amazon and look to start playing it sometime next week. The dervish looks like a very cool class. Anyone got any helpful tips for this GW newbie?

JediSoth

 

[Bront]

Find a good guild, often there's someone on who can help you out. (I run one if you're looking, it's small but has some active people, we have our own forums at http:\\guildwars.bront.org )

You get a primary and secondary class (the secondary comes a little later, after L5 in Nightfall), but your secondary can eventually change, so don't worry if you don't like what you picked.

Also, keep in mind, your primary is the only profession you get your primary attribute with, so you generally want to try to use it, or else chances are you're better off with a different primary for that build. Also, this generally means you want to sparingly use skills from your secondary, as they often don't synergize from your primary as well as skills from your primary.

Try to keep yourself using only 3, or 4 if you have to, attribute lines. Otherwise you end up too spread out and none of your skills do squat.

Don't be afraid to tweak your build for an area or encounter. You can change everything in an outpost, and there are few builds that can walk over everything. Also, some skills are more useful at lower levels than they are at higher levels, and vice versa. Since you're generally almost always at higher levels, be aware that some of your favorite early skills may be less useful later.

Maintained enchantments are usually bad. Maintained enchantments on warrior classes are always bad (Exceptions involving specific farming builds). Basicly, they gimp your energy regeneration, which is bad to do, but very bad when 1 cuts your regen in half, and 2 remove it completely.

In PvE (The story line), you should rarely need a self-heal. Your party should have healers in it, so you don't need to heal yourself. This doesn't mean you should never take one, but defined rolls help a party function, as does synergy.

Speaking of Synergy, remember, you may only have 8 skills, but so does everyone else in your party (or a few less if they're henchmen). This goes along with spreading yourself thin. Let the elementalist cast the fire storm, the monk heal you, and the paragon use his shouts to augment your abilities.

Get familiar with these 2 websites:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Very useful.

Me, I tried a Dervish, but found the Paragon and Warrior more enjoyable.

Anyway, have fun, and feel free to look me up in game. I'm Meloran Avenro (I have other names, but that one works, friends list is by account, so friend 1 character, you friend them all)

 

[Mercule]

I got a trial account with a new graphics card and played my 10 hours on Saturday.

I started out with an assassin in Factions and found it mildly entertaining, but not enthralling. Then I switched to an Elemantalist in Nightfall. Wow. That was a lot of fun. I see that Amazon has Nightfall for $21, so I'll probably pick it up next time I'm getting something (that'll push me over the free shipping).

 

[Bront]

Low level (starting) play is a bit different from the higher end play, but I have 5 characters I brought from starting to max, so I enjoyed the beginning a lot.

Assassins are an aquired taste, and tend to work better in PvP than PvE

 

[JediSoth]

Thanks for the advice. I started playing Nightfall a couple of days ago. I'm still going through the newbie quests, but I made a pair of sisters:

Jamila Abdallah - Dervish
Setara Abdallah - Paragon

I got used to City of Hero's interface, so it's taking some getting used to and it was disconcerting the first time I logged off and I logged back into a totally different location (I guess I was in an instanced area...I thought I was in a town).

 

[Evilhalfling]

My dervish finished Nightfall, with only a few sidetrips.
My Paragon had to go all over the place for good skills, and is prolly closer to beating factions than nightfall.

Most of the time I can be found playing my Ritualist Rene Xa.
she is trying to vanquish (kill every last monster, in hard mode) Factions.
26 of 33 areas done.

I think I spend less time playing, (a new daughter is not compatible with a 2 hour dungeon crawl) but i'm still there a lot, and would be glad to help/chat.

 

[Bront]

Thanks for the advice. I started playing Nightfall a couple of days ago. I'm still going through the newbie quests, but I made a pair of sisters:

Jamila Abdallah - Dervish
Setara Abdallah - Paragon

I got used to City of Hero's interface, so it's taking some getting used to and it was disconcerting the first time I logged off and I logged back into a totally different location (I guess I was in an instanced area...I thought I was in a town).

If you want, I'll send you a guild invite when I can.