Guild Wars, Anyone else play? Options

[Olav]

I'd never heard of this game until I saw this thread, and a few days ago when I was buying another game (Dreamfall) I saw that they had huge amounts of Guild Wars - Special Addition' or something standing in the shelves with other new games.

So is this a multiplayer game only, or also single player?

[Ibis]

Olav,
It is a delightful combination of both. You start out in a greenland and play solo until you hone your skills to a certain level. Then you are pitted against the invading enemy and go through something called The Charring - in which the beautiful greenery is totally scorched by these huge firebolts that burn the land and leave behind these pits with the remnant cyrstalbolts sticking out. Very ugly.
Then eventually you go over the mountains up to greener lands again.

After the charring, at anytime you have a choice of whether to fight alone, with a party of "mercenery" NPCs, a real party of other players or a mixed party of player/merceneries. It is really cool and at different gates and at different times it is more beneficial to choose real players/NPCs/go it alone.

I hope you will give it a try. It is great fun and it is free online. In fact, it was the first MMORPG since Diablo to be free of monthly payments and it has started a trend amongst the other mmorpg's of giving 1 year free trial (Anarchy Online), Shadowbane has gone completely free now (until it crashes-no maintenance will be done to the server), free 7days with Dungeon & Dragons, .... go to www.mmorpg.com - - - and check out what's going on. Everybody seems to be getting on the freebie train now. Yay!! Way to set a trend, Guild Wars.

[Olav]

Thanks for the great discription, Ibis. Sounds like just the kind of game I'd like. I especially find the concept of being able to choose single or multiplay interesting. I'll pick it up the next time I get the chance.

Cheers!

edited typos...

This post has been edited by Olav: May 8 2006, 08:21 AM

[Wolfie]

One update on what Ibis said, the cataclysmic event that destroys the tutorial type place is called The Searing, rather than the charring
The main enemy in the first area are called the Charr though

[sirrom2007]

did u get factions yet wolfie?

[Ibis]

OMG Wolfie, you are right! The Searing .... I am getting mixed up about fighting The Charr aren't I? I actually really like the look of those huge crystalline looking arrow-type formations that stick out of the craters in the seared landscape.

Thanks for the correction!

[Wolfie]

OMG Wolfie, you are right! The Searing .... I am getting mixed up about fighting The Charr aren't I? I actually really like the look of those huge crystalline looking arrow-type formations that stick out of the craters in the seared landscape.

Thanks for the correction!

Lol any time
And still no factions, probably sometime next week

[Wolven]

I love it, but im waiting to get some cash for Factions cant wait!

[Wolfie]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
My copy of Factions finally arrived! Can't wait to start my assassin

[sirrom2007]

yeah i should get my copy this week.

[Ibis]

So Wolfie, would you play it a bit and then give us a report on whether it is worth the money for Factions to get 2 new characters? I'm not sure about that, whether I really need 2 new chars. But let us know if they also add more new content ok?

[ThePerson98]

Im waiting for factions to be cheap to buy. Im going to be buying more character slots. Starting to get back into guildwars. But it is only really fun if you are playing with people you are friends with. Such as getting everyone on and playing. Or PVP.

[sirrom2007]

well if u wanna get 2 lvl 20 fast then get factions.
u get like 3,000 exp 4 really ez missions.

This post has been edited by sirrom2007: May 15 2006, 03:11 PM

[Wolfie]

Well Ibis, i had a chance to play FActions for a while, and it's good fun. All the proffessions seem to have gotten a bunch of new skills, and the two new proffessions are both good fun too. As others have mentioned, you get a lot of exp fast, but they've balanced that by making the enemies pretty tricky right from the get-go.
Also, they added an entire new landmass to play on, not quite as big as the one from the original by the looks of it, but still quite expansive

[Ibis]

Thanks for the update Wolfie, sounds like this might be worth buying then

[Wolfie]

They've updated the storage now for those who have factions. You pay another 50 and there's another tab in the storage that can hold 250 of every crafting material there is, but you have to buy the upgrade for each character, much like opening a new storage account. Also, you cna only get the upgrade in Cantha, so if you have charactes who aren't there, you have to wait til they reach lion's Arch and can travel there before you can make use of the upgrade. Still cool though, means no more crafting materials taking up space in my storage

[Ibis]

This sounds fascinating. I have heard that Factions is more 'Oriental' oriented, whatever that means. I could definitely use more storage space. So Cantha - is that a town in the new landmass?

What is you all's favorite towns in Guild Wars? Mine are definitely Lions Arch - I love fighting in the arena there. My characters aren't very high in level yet. My ranger is highest and she is 18. I also like Beetletun )I think that's how you spell it) and the hot springs town near there which I can't remember the name of. I like Scoundrels Rise too.

What is your favorite monster to fight? I love to kill Mergoyles and to collect their skulls. I also like to fight those giant tree creatures. My favorite mission so far was the one where you teleport that pyramid-thingy back and collect true disciples along the way.

Look for us when we play ... The Explorers Club Guild with a dark green cape with a bright gold sun on the back.

[Wolfie]

This sounds fascinating. I have heard that Factions is more 'Oriental' oriented, whatever that means. I could definitely use more storage space. So Cantha - is that a town in the new landmass?

What is you all's favorite towns in Guild Wars? Mine are definitely Lions Arch - I love fighting in the arena there. My characters aren't very high in level yet. My ranger is highest and she is 18. I also like Beetletun )I think that's how you spell it) and the hot springs town near there which I can't remember the name of. I like Scoundrels Rise too.

What is your favorite monster to fight? I love to kill Mergoyles and to collect their skulls. I also like to fight those giant tree creatures. My favorite mission so far was the one where you teleport that pyramid-thingy back and collect true disciples along the way.

Look for us when we play ... The Explorers Club Guild with a dark green cape with a bright gold sun on the back.

Cantha is the name of the Factions continent lol

Favourite town..... Droknar's Forge Good fight's outside, lots of people inside. You guy buy pretty much anything ther, be it from a player or a trader. I got Gargash's Recurve Bow (a green bow)for the guru price of 7 platinum and a Fiery Storm Bow of Fortitude (+29hp) for 6 platinum :DMy ranger is nicely kitted out now, because i also dyed all his armour silver lol

Favourite monster to fight... don't really have one lol

[Dantrag]

I have a question about Guild Wars....

If I bought Factions right now without owning the original, could I still play or is it just an expansion?

[Wolfie]

You can play factions without owning the original, you just wont be able to travel to Tyria (the place where the oiginal takes place) or do any of the things there.