Hello homosexuals of /vm/ we're playing GW1 in current year, we've got a 4 man group so far going through Prophecies from scratch together. We have space for 2-4 more people and we're hoping to beat all the games content together with no heroes or hench (or very few if possible). Come join us make a new proph character this is a great time to try GW1 with real people if you've ever been interested
We’ve only just started prophecies (~3 missions in) and it’s easy to catch up / do side quests when someone is afk
Maybe continuing today at 4-5 PM we'll have to see who's available
this game not only has soul, but heart. oh lord.
im in, questing here and there, getting some skills. -also turns out I already bought most of the skills I can unlock through quests. Should I not be so eager to buy skills at the skill vendor next time and just wait to get them for free from quest givers?
Lots of skills are only available from trainers, not quests. It’s generally best to save your skill points for learning those, but it’s not a big deal if you want to skip a skill quest or two
Skill trainers can also teach you skills you’ve unlocked on other characters, which can get you some really powerful skills right away. I’m going to avoid that on this run personally, since it’s fun to make do with what you’ve got.
For proph yeah, proph has a lot of its skills in quests. Skill points aren't hard to get but sometimes nice to make sure you don't run too low
Yeah I think a good rule of thumb for our group is no elite/normal tomes unless there is a skill you desperately need for your build, and no using skills available in future campaigns (aka, no going to nightfall to pick up a skill while we're in proph, but can go to nightfall to past campaign if you REALLY want) Also looks like we have 3 people so far, wonder if our 4th will notice
I’ll be on my ele in 15
sweet we'll see if warrior friend notices we should definitely do that steam group idea though
I'm here. I had a nap and I need to quickly get some food in the oven. Give me 15-20 and I'll be in.
>game isn't on steam
>let's make a steam group!
Valve shilling knows no bounds.
>too new to remember Steam groups for anything
We know.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/29570/Guild_Wars_Trilogy/
It was on sale a week ago anon. Would you prefer we used Skype instead like they did back in the ancient days? lol
You could stop being obtuse.
>moron is too stupid to find the store page for Guild Wars
>"hurr durr you are too obtuse"
Do you require a manual on how to breathe just in case you forget and asphyxiate??
never understood the skype homies when we had xfire
Wasn't Skype free when Xfire voice servers cost money to host? Or am I thinking of Vent?
Is Ventrilo still a thing?
Please take a break
4 homieS IN A ROW PLAYING RIGHT NOW
AT BORLIS PASS
TWO SLOTS OPEN
WE'RE AROUND LEVEL 10
Bought the game when on sale, still stuck in pre-searing Ascalon, trying to get to level 10 to do Vanguard quests.
I ain't leaving until I finish every single quest.
Trying to reach level 20 do get defender of Ascalon? We can invite you to the Ganker guild if you want
Try support, they're usually pretty good about stuff like that especially if you have the old activation codes
Our group has hit level 10-11 and we've stopped at Frost Gate for today. We'll be playing at 11 AM EST tomorrow in hopes of reaching Lions Arch
If anyone's interested in joining we're still real early on and we got spot in our group
I can’t login to my old 2005-2008 account anymore. It asks me to reset my password via email and I don’t have access to that email address anymore. V stupid, v frustrating.
Definitely ask support. I was able to recover mine with just the serial number on the back of the box I had in my desk drawer and maybe a character name
Make another character to reach for post searing stuff? I admire your dedication to pre searing but I fear post will be really boring for a LDoA
We have a guild. If you want to play with us feel free to drop your name for an invite.
TWO HOURS TO GO
If we want to play early just post when you show up, even if we want to start half an hour early.
Should we try to advert on Ganker and do we want to before or after today's session?
Forgot to reply to this, maybe advert after today's game. I don't think anyone's going catch up to our group within an hour lol. Think we aim to hit LA for today then see if we can't get 2 more people
is pvp still possible in this game like whatever the mode was called where you'd get 3 random players to team up with? id love to play that shit again so bad
Yes you can still PvP but most people you'll see are bots.
The community gets together every week to PvP together on Saturdays they do Fort Aspenwood. I think I've heard AB still happens but not sure I know some major guilds still run it.
2/4 online, other half get on in.
Sure, I’ll be on my ele in a minute
We made it to Lion's Arch today!
We have room for FOUR (4!) more players!!
Catching up takes little time at all and the game right now is overall low-investment so if you have ever wanted to play, NOW is the time.
>What do I need to play?
At minimum, Guild Wars Prophecies. However, I recommend Trilogy since it also includes Factions and Nightfall campaigns which we’ll play eventually. Eye of the North is just end game content, get it if you like the other 3.
>How long will it take to catch up?
We’re only at Lion’s Arch, which takes about 3 hours if you ignore side content. We’ve been going back to get side content whenever 1 person is afk, so it’s easy to catch up there.
>What class should I pick?
Whatever looks interesting. You get to pick a secondary class, and you’re allowed to try them all in the tutorial zone before you decide. They’re all fun and viable.
>How do I join?
After you make a Prophecies Roleplaying character (not a PvP only character), drop your character’s name in the thread and we’ll send you a guild invite.
>I recommend Trilogy
Huh, I just checked and maybe the Complete edition is better for your money. Trilogy is $30 on Steam, but complete edition (including the $20 EotN) is only $40. That might be the better deal, but Steam probably goes on sale more often
how shit is this game compared to gw2 (a very shit game)?
gw1 and gw2 are very different, but it would help if you said what you don’t like about gw2
gw1 is tab target, not action combat
gw1 is instanced outside of towns & outposts (ie, you won’t see any other players outside of towns, you get your own instance). Because of this, they can do some neat tricks like enemies appearing in their own parties. Enemies use player classes & skills, so you fight them in groups with a healer, frontline, 1-2 casters, etc. Gw1 content isn’t really designed to be soloed, but there are controllable AI party members (Heroes)
There are ~3 thousand potential skills to go on your 8-slot skillbar. You can come up with all kinds of combinations.
>it would help if you said what you don’t like about gw2
it's on the cusp of being a themepark, the endgame is needlessly and unbearably grindy, everything is for skins, stats are almost meaningless, you can almost entirely get through the game by mashing your keyboard when in combat, the world is massive but tiny because you can tp anywhere instantly, cringe playerbase
from what you said gw1 sounds almost like a multiplayer dragon age game
>grind
for mechanics, this is basically nonexistent in gw1. The best armor in the game (statewise) is available straight from vendors, and while you have to get pretty far in Prophecies to get it, Factions almost gives it away. In fact, since we’ve reached Lions Arch and can travel to Factions, we could skip ahead and get the best armor after only ~3 hours of playtime, give or take. I suspect we won’t, since that would make prophecies a little too easy. Prestige armor, which is cosmetically much cooler, does require some grind. There aren’t many purchasable cosmetics, so this is how you show off.
Weapons are a different story, but if you need a specific one there’s a million you can buy these days because the game is 17 years old.
>stats
How you allocate them actually matters, but you can respec for free in any town. Try any build you want, but it matters what you commit to for that zone.
>button mash
Some builds are more forgiving, but as I said enemies have parties and player skills, so intelligent skill use goes a long way
>fast travel
It’s there, but the world feels rewarding to explore.
>player base
Only the diehard fans are still around, so they’re pretty cool
i appreciate the breakdown
No problem. People still playing this game are usually pretty passionate about it, so I’m happy to explain.
Its like a card deck building game, but RPG. Vertical progress is low, but horizontal progress is massive. You get 8 skill slots, further into each campaign you get more skills you can unlock. Elite skills you have to hunt down from bosses, each class has 20-40 elites and about 100~ skills. You shuffle your skills (while in a town) around like a card deck to have the perfect skill set to deal with the obstacle.
You dual profession to create synergies between different classes or build a deck of npc who follow you around who compliment your build, such as running a necro who can weaken the armor of enemy with curses, then running a warrior with skills that trigger with bonus effects if the enemy is weakened.
GW1 and GW2 are nothing alike, you can only imagine the GW1 playerbase rage when GW2 was released and it didn't remotely play anything like GW1. GW1 is a strategy RPG, GW2 is an action combat game.
GW1 has very very nice visual integrity, very few glowy items unlike GW2 where the end game is become disco ball.
Teleportation is extremely limited (only very sparsely populated towns around map).
I like both games, but I'll always fondly play GW1 a thousand times I love every aspect of the game. The combat system (and WvW) are the one redeeming factor about GW2 imo.
Are we still playing Sunday at 11am EST?
I have my weekly aq20 raid at 12 EST so I can play for an hour beforehand, or earlier, or afterward. Raid should be 2 hours max.
Gotcha. I’ll be around in ~2 hours then
Whenever people are available. I'm good to go whenever just need to know when rest are good
I have an ironman ranger in the desert level 18, im willing to back track to play with real people though
We aren't doing true iron man so I wouldn't want to mess up your progress but we'd love to have you along, our group doesn't have a ranger currently so would be cool. You could also make a new character and catch up to us pretty quick but your choice. Just let me know player name to invite to the guild.
We normally do most story progress on Friday/Saturday, sunday is usually side questing.
I should be free in around half an hour if anyone wants to play. I have a feeling our eurogay will be absent.
Sure, I’ll be there in half an hour
Sounds good
regretfully confirming. I might get on in about 2 hours or so, however. if you're not on, I'll do some LA exploration meanwhiles.
lol apparently theres a wedding taking place in Lion's Arch right now. How quaint.
Are the players getting married or is there a gw ERP community
the former... i assume? vOv
Oh yeah I forgot there was wedding outfits in this game
Also we plan to do our next meetup on Friday and Saturday at 11 AM EST. Did we want to try and meet for any other days this week? Tuesday will be bad for me, but I'm free every other day of this week at almost any hour.
Yeah I'd be into it. Wednesday might be spotty for me but we normally play for short intervals so I could fit some time in.
How about Thursday?
Also Wintersday starts next week on Monday, if we're online for the first day it might be possible to do some of the special wintersday PvP arenas, as sometimes people do it on the first day.
Same, Wednesday is not great for me but I could probably do another day
Turns out I can do tomorrow any time between ~9:30 and ~1:30
If any of the anons who wanted in but haven't made it yet want help catching up, I'm down to help with that.
Cute. Need help with anything?
>tfw no gf to get married with in a game
It hurts bros.
>tfw met my gf at a generic party and not in GW
>ywn have an in game marriage
psa: runes are stupid cheap right now
this is the lowest I've seen vigor, prodigy's, windwalker,, or really any derv/mesmer/general runes in the couple years I've been back playing
good time to kit out some characters or heroes
Glad I'm not the only person who noticed that. Yeah would highly recommend mesmer runes if people are trying to kit out some heroes.
I have no idea what's going on with the GW1 economy as of late, GotT are inflating at an insane rate, nearly doubled in value over span of a year and continuing to increase. Value of ecto isn't decreasing either despite the sheer volume of ectos in circulation.
gott are a hedge against botting because there's an account-based limit and the supplies are hard to bot (so many, changing weekly), plus there's constant demand from people wanting to open their own gwen doll and yakkington despite the horrendous EV
I have a few stacks of ecto from casually selling gott but nowhere near enough to buy really rare irreplaceable shit like minis, and it's really hard to know what to hold when someone can spin up a bot farm and devalue whatever you've got. armbraces have gone up a fair bit too, from like 100e to >150, but they could get botted or some random boomer with 3000 duped arms could decide to crash the market, and there's nothing you can do
Likewise sitting on like 5 stacks of ecto from selling GotT. I'm just surprised at how quick the value jumped it's been at a stable 3-5 ecto value for as long as I could remember, seeing people buy them for 11 ecto each right now just insane to me.
Speaking of Runes, I salvaged a +3 Earth Magic yesterday while cranking through Winds of Change. Wasn't Big Rod planning on being an Earthgay? I'll throw this your way if you want it.
>39 plat for superior vigor
I swear it was 35 last time I checked.
haven't been on a ton recently, but that beats the hell out of 100plat or being sold out, and 800g for minor vigor is just stupid cheap
the mesmer/derv runes are more dramatic though
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fendi_Nin_(Zaishen_quest)
>never ran Shards of Orr and already have its basic quest in my logs
YOOOOOOOOOOOOO we runnin' this dungeon today.
I'd jump in but I don't think I have a character far enough into EotN for it
Still deciding between air and earth.
Let's get you through EotN then so you can do more things. Do you even have a character that has completed all campaigns+EotN?
>Do you even have a character that has completed all campaigns+EotN?
Not on this account, I don't think. I can see if I remember the password to my old one
soosc or just playing through? I haven't been playing with you guys, but either way I'll come through if it's night-time est
I'm going to try it with my heroes here shortly if you want to hop in.
On that note, why does some of my (heroes') gear have Energy Storage +1 and some pieces don't?
can't get on til later sorry
heroes have +1 to any attribute on their headpiece, so if you put a +2 energy storage rune on it, they'll have x+1+2 energy storage. anything else is just normal runes that don't stack
Frick sorry, it's Energy Recovery +1, not Storage. Like I just added a Vigor to a pair of hero boots and the Recovery is still visible/active.
I think elementalist armor just gives energy regen, the same way ranger armor gives +armor against elemental damage
That would make sense.
If I frick up doing Shards of Orr, we can try later. I remember having a tough time a while back but I've also been upgrading my dudes heavily now.
We did it! That was a ton of fun and I think I'll be doing another dungeon tonight, perhaps a shorter one. It took me until level 3 before I had realized that I had been here before but I got WTFpwned by standing together, in a small corridor no less, by a group of those Skeleton Wizards that AOE'd my ass down. With some careful planning and pulling and positioning, that only real trouble or scary moment(s) was a group of wizards later on, and the first wave of the boss fight before I saw that the undead version just had a ton of hp.
Any advice where to check out next?
bogs is pretty easy, and you might roll the dice and get a froggy
anyone on now and want to do shards of orr?
As a reminder for our GW1 group we are continuing proph Friday and on Saturday at 11 AM EST
how far in proph are you?
I have an lowish level ele who got a desert tour a while back, could get max armor from kaineng to join you guys, depending on how far you are
We're at Lion's Arch and haven't gone much further, aside from sidequests and discovering Beetletun, not quite at max armor stage yet.
We're all around levels 10-12, wearing the Ascalon City drip. Feel free to join even if you're a little ahead or behind us. Drop your character name and we'll send a guild invite.
>discovering Beetletun
oh shit I've been too lazy to do this one yet
he's lvl12 and has LA, so that works fine
I got some sentimental attachment to my old guild, plus I'm an officer, can I just meet up and add you guys to friends or something?
Yeah, works for me. I bought a whole new account when it was on sale because I didn't want to leave my old guild from 2006, lol.
We'll be in LA at 11 am EST tomorrow, add Marcus of Rodgort (me), Spirits Illusion, Constantine Semi, or Talenel Stonesinew
I probably can't be on for more than 15m tomorrow (east coast+working then), but I just added and renamed you all so I remember, that char's kensuke ishizu, if you'll excuse the lack of rp-ing, should've planned my period-appropriate 2007-era gw wiki userpage biography about how he was nobility and also a descendant of balthazar who was cooler than all the ascalonians
No problem, we'll be on Saturday at the same time if that works better, and Sunday there's usually folks around for an hour here and there to do side content
>period-appropriate 2007-era gw wiki userpage biography about how he was nobility and also a descendant of balthazar who was cooler than all the ascalonians
I miss those days, I still sometimes fish around the wiki to find peoples' ancient profiles
Yeah no worries we do 11 AM because we have a eurogay, and we're all free at that time. We can talk later and see what time works best with you, most of us seem to not be very busy lol
Maybe, but probably not. We're a 4 man group at the moment, with a 1-2 other anons in the last week mentioned they were interested. Not much space for NPC's.
don't shift your schedule around me unless it suits you better, don't want to slow you down if I can't regularly make it, and outside of the desert for ascension and the 30 attribute points, infusion, and thk/ring of fire I can just have a friend on derv run me to whatever mission you're at
Nah it's all good we're still trying to find a time that works best for everyone (or at least 4/5ths of the group) so shifting it isn't a huge deal. And if you need to be run anywhere I can help
Currently this weekend we're going try to meet on Saturday at 11 AM, and Sunday at 2-6 PM (EST) and we'll see if we can't work out a better time on those days.
We might also meet on Monday at 11 AM for Wintersday starting to do some Wintersday PvP.
>not joining the oldest Official(TM) Ganker Guild Wars guild
When do you guys usually play? Is it
Usually weekends and between 11 AM and 6 PM,EST, lately we've been trying 2-6 PM games. For obvious reasons we won't be playing this weekend. But we might try to do story progress Friday. I'll post to here by Wednesday night or Thursday morning at latest if we're meeting on Friday or not, I update guild MOTD too.
Ah, one of those. That sucks. My work week starts on the weekend. Oh well.
When we get to Kaineng will anons turn their proph characters into merc heroes?
oh, mr fancy. in my day we were thankful for razah and zei rei was an urban myth
and we liked it that way
when playing through the campaigns solo it was like having a friend since I could bring my prof character along on my second adventure
I have real friends now but I might get too attached to leave my dude in Tyria
Doesn't that cost real money?
Yeah, it’s one of the few microtransactions in the game. Not required, but it can be fun.
Unless you want a party of all mesmer heroes, which is a popular way to play solo
>finally get to the last group of Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate HM
>NPC dies because the mobs rush her as soon as I step onto the island
>she's on the other side of me and the mobs
lol
lmao even
what a shit fricking waste of 40 minutes
I know exactly the part you are talking about in WoC and I remember failing at that exact same part twice lol WoC is going to be an experience and test of suffering and pain we are willing to endure.
2/4 if y'all wanna get going soon.
Broskis, eugay here. I can't make it tonight for the 11 EST session, unfortunately.
I am counting with tomorrow (Saturday), though.
Also if theres any will to maybe try change up the schedule, my prefered time (most days) would be from 5 to 8 american EST time, perhaps even later, if we're having lots of fun.
Same goes for tonight, if you'll be on at those times, I'll probably be able to pop in.
Oh shit, you're ok with later? Yeah playing at 5-8 PM EST works better with me.
If marucs logs on we'll do some side questing and unlocking outposts like ToA, otherwise we'll try for 5 PM EST for now (and maybe in the future too)
5-8 might be tricky for me on Fridays, but it's probably better for Saturdays, excepting this Saturday
>remembered they made skill pins while browsing the wiki
>just copped an esurge on eBay
>only AotL’s are replicas
sad
That looks dope, dude.
Oh I won the complete set of these back in the day from a radio contest.
Awesome. Post pictures if you still have them.
They're somewhere in storage anon.
If you find them somewhere in storage, post pics
not that anon and not badges, but this is my factions box i had tucked away. still have the manuscripts preserved.
nice,
is my collection. I got into GW pretty late in life, with Nightfall, then the platinum edition. Later bought Trilogy & EotN so my brother could play.
>eight man parties
I could’ve sworn this happened as soon as Crystal Desert
ANON HAS POSTED BOX!!!!
>tfw manuals still got that special paper smell
how much catching up will I need to do if i join right now?
You’ll need to get to Lion’s Arch to make it to where we are in the story. If you’re new to the game, here’s a breakdown of your options:
>See if anons want to do those missions again
I certainly don’t mind, but I can’t say for sure everyone will go for this
>Skip them
Story missions are all technically towns in the open world. You can always just run to the next one without completing it. Downside, you don’t learn any of the story.
How long will you be on, anon? If you’re going to be around a while, I can help get you through the early missions, if you need it.
Forgot the obvious third option of doing those missions yourself. Oops.
Are you the same anons or are we getting two new players? Rad.
> but I can’t say for sure everyone will go for this
Seems like people are happy to help catch up, Kryta will be more fun with 8 anyway
we are different anons but i (one who asked about catching up) might not join after all, life has caught up to me instead
>can skip any quest you want
that sounds absolutely cool, why don't other games do it like that too?
No problem if you can't make it every time, you hit max level / max gear pretty quick in this game so you don't have to worry about falling behind in stats, only in story progress
>skip any quest
There's even player-run services that can sprint you to later game areas to get powerful skills / gear / etc
I will literally log on right now and run you to the outpost we are at if you want to join us now lol it'd take maybe 30 minutes
Alternatively you do the story, and we are maybe 3 hours in
We'd love to have you! Goal is to have full player parties. We ride together we die together no henchies or heroes when possible go make a proph character
How can I force borderless windowed through a command line? Like -borderless or something? I have to manually change it every time I launch the game and it's frustrating.
The most immediate thing you two should do if you'd like to play with us is make a character in the Prophecies campaign and post your name here so we can get you a guild invite.
I think now/soon may be a good time for a Ganker thread since others are on and can help bump/discuss for a little while.
>I have to manually change it every time I launch the game and it's frustrating.
You can run this game in borderless windowed?
Options menu under graphics.
Jooo wish I’d seen this thread sooner. I’d love to play some GW again. I’m NEET-mode atm so I can play whenever.
Same anon as here . Unfortunately I found this thread right before the one major event I've got going on this winter, so I've been busy setting up for it and whatnot. Afterwards though, I'm going all in on catching up with you guys. I've played this game a shit ton, so I shouldn't need much, if any, help to get caught up - I'll just burn through the missions with henchmen over a couple days. Hopefully I can catch the end of Kryta or at least the Maguuma jungle missions since I probably remember those the least.
I'm totally into the way you're approaching this playthrough btw. I've always wanted to reexperience the magic of Prophecies/Factions before the addition of heroes in Nightfall and EOTN made grouping with actual players mostly unnecessary. I've also always wanted to simulate being a noob again, with access only to limited skills from quests/trainers before I caved and bought all the skill packs from the store. So I'll be mindful of which skills are core/prophecies and stick to those, even if it makes the builds a little scuffed.
Seeing what professions you've already got, I'll probably go with a mesmer. I generally like having class diversity as it just adds to the immersion for me to have everyone doing different stuff. Of course the beauty of GW is I could make a warrior or a ele and just run a less common build like axe/hammer war or water/earth ele and still be unique.
Anyway, I'll come back and post my char's name once I've made it. Probably tomorrow.
With Christmas coming up our schedule will probably be looking weird so no rush.
As far as skills the wiki is a fantastic resource. Each skill trainer has a list of what new skills they have. There is also a list of quests that give skills. And each skill on the wiki is listed for where it was added. Anything Core or Prophecies is open game right now.
same anone here
I will make a monk. whether it ends up dps or heal monk idk, but I will make a monk
Wait, I gotta leave my OG guild even on my new char to join the Ganker guild? Frick, that's rough...
Can one of you dudes just add me as a friend instead? My new monk's name is "Jimothy Staniels"
Got you added. If your guild was Luxon like us, I could invite you to an ALLIANCE.
Sent 😉
I really need to get off my ass and make a support ticket to see about updating my email address.
Joined, only 7 tho. Then again just started this character so.
Our backup Mo is around that. Leveling seems to go fairly quick. If you ever need/want help, don't hesitate to ask.
This is actually a great idea. If you don't want to leave your 10 year old inactive guild we can invite then to an alliance that way we have a shared chat. If you are Kurzick it's very easy to swap to Luxon.
We'll be playing at 2 PM EST (4 hours from now) if you are new try to log on a little earlier than that just to make sure everything is good. I highly recommend everyone pick up better armor at LA so you don't get obliterated by enemies.
Tired of horrible plant person screeches and earrape spell sounds? You can actually re-enable 3d audio that was bricked with the release of Windows Vista. I highly recommend it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/comments/nj6b30/announcing_dsoalgw1_3d_positional_audio_and_eax/
>r*ddit
Yeah, but it’s got all the useful links.
>better armor at LA
You’ll want to grab it from the Hot Springs or Beetletun. For some reasons LA armor is the same as Ascalon City, but those two outposts have the improved armor values.
The support people are surprisingly good, at least they were a year ago. I was able to save my old account with, I think, the activation code in my old box, the name of the email in question, and a character name. They were able to update it to a new email and reset my password.
You guys can just go to Kaineng from LA to get max stat armor or are you guys just going to do prophecies only for now.
Prophecies -> Factions -> Nightfall is the plan. We'll pick up max armor once we make it there story-wise.
Yeah the idea is prophecies only, armor, skills, heroes, etc
Nah I think it's boring to do that way. Sure we could pay someone to drok run but that just sucks the fun out of fighting level 15 enemies. Goal is to not invalidate the content
Also I'll be like 5 minutes -Spirit
Hehehehaiaosn
Bros I tried zooming into first person and I think it crashed my game
I wish I had woken up earlier to see this, but I am currently working on catching up to you guys
name: Fm Lord Roberts
We're stopping for now, but tomorrow between 2 and 6 PM EST we're going play some more, if possible be on early so we can help you out with whatever needs doing. If you want we can invite you to the guild
I might be interested in joining. I havent played this game in over a decade though so I don't remember exactly if you can bring professions from other expansions prior to cap or not, but this looks fun, especially if there's people to play with and it's not just a henchmen botfest.
I have experience in pretty much every profession except paragon, but my favorite is Assassin, and that's what i'd want to play tbh but I'm at work on break and saw this, thought i'd hit you up.
We're planning to work our way through each campaign but preferably with thematic characters, so no A/ or R/ until Factions and no D/ or P/ until Nightfall. Otherwise just drop a name sometime and we can add you to the guild or friend's list.
In general we are trying to progress through the game as it was released. So no derv, rit etc... till nightfall/factions. And in general I'm going to suggest people not use skills from future campaigns unless they are vitally important to your build being able to function.
I think its far more interesting having to adapt your builds as you get access to better skills, for that reason no using tomes and skills from future campaigns it'd be boring if you'd just instantly have an endgame build that you effortless flatten enemies with till they are level 24 lol.
If this means our nightfall or faction parties become 8 dervs or 8 ritualist I am down to see how we can make that work.
Considering you already have a W,N,Mo,E I'll play ranger I guess.
In other news I got gwen finally after checking my gifts on one of my old characters bros!
Play what you want. Like I said if our parties ended up being 8 eles we could find a way to make it work lol. You'll have a chance to try at least 3 of them
Well, I'd like to think a diverse party is more "fun", and since I have experience anyway, it's no big deal, really. Whatever is needed, I can do it.
Honest to god, a monk would be great I was playing as a mesmer. But then yesterday I had a sudden horrifying realization that we had 6-8 people interested in the group and none of them are a monk and I have a phobia of trying to fight smoke phantoms or hydra without any monks. Very specific phobia I know. So I made a monk yesterday to ensure that didn't happen. I'm still leveling it, but a bit sad I didn't get to keep playing mesmer it has some really great denial and anti caster skillset that our group lacks.
If no one wants to monk I'll gladly do it. But I would rather play monk for Factions. Our current party comp is pretty good otherwise.
Okay, I started playing ranger, but I can swap to monk no problemo! I'm just excited something like this exists to be honest.
Guild wars was all I played back in the day on my PC. I still remember playing with minimum graphics settings cause my moms' potato just couldn't handle it, now a days I got a relatively overkill pc and man it didn't age half bad tbh
im this anon
also my name is Dies Ruptor when any of the other anons has time to add me to the guild
I left the guild
I'll see how far I get tonight, I have another account so once I get out of pre-searing I can get my self to lions arch
You're already in a guild if you want an invite.
To anons who were in the Ganker thread before it got archived, we have been doing some late game stuff but the new friend(s) obviously can’t so we usually do it when not everyone can make it
>tfw havent been on in so long was promoted to guild leader somehow
I'm getting the urge to play this again, might join you guys
Why would you ever unslot Ebon Assassin?
To make room for other, more fun skills?
>15s rape machine
>30s if you're feeling particularly vengeful of Prince Rurik Prince Rurik!
>easy pull and tank
>extra character/summon
I now see why people say it's OP. What else is too strong?
In general most PvE only skills are badly balanced. I don't mind them in HM but in NM they can just solo carry a party lol
Pain Inverter is also an egregious offender. It just insta kills most enemies and bosses
Save Yourselves is also a bit bad but I'd be willing to overlook it. +100 armor basically gives entire party double HP
I need to grind my Luxon so I can have a whopping 6s of uptime instead of 5 but I can't muster the effort. I haven't tried Pain Inverter yet but good to know.
Fridays the community gets together for AB and on Saturdays the community gets together to play FA. Next Saturday if we aren't doing campaign I highly recommend it Fort Aspenwood is great
My go-to build on my assassin was A/W with way of the assassin, critical eye, into spamming death blossom -> moebius strike -> death blossom -> etc. I'd also throw in Save Yourselves, which I could maintain pretty much permanently from all the adrenaline gained from double striking.
>way of the assassin
Should've been critical agility, mb.
The jagged strike > fox fang > death blossom with like max attack speed is the most broken combo for pve. Everything abuses it from W/A, D/A, R/A.
that was the exact build I used lmao, but I didn't look it up anywhere - just arrived at it naturally. so fun, and so good. especially with a mark of pain necro hero and a splinter weapon rit.
I’m going to be around pretty much all day tomorrow until 6:30 EST. It sounds like we’re planning for 2-6 EST to run Kryta missions. Any newcomers who want to try to catch up around before 2?
Three of us are online and chillin', about to do a skill quest if anybody isn't being social and wants to mingle.
Lads I reinstalled. May I have an invite.
>see thread
>nostalgia hits hard
>rummage through the deepest part of my attic and dust off my old boxes
>reminisce on all the good times I had with the game
>become sad
I can't even play the game anymore if I wanted to, iirc I closed the email linked to my og account in rage when said email got "hacked." But I still like hearing stories of the game I love.
/lurker mode on
Based physical copy saver. I only kept the eotn box like an idiot.
I sent them photos of my physical CD keys and named several of my characters, and they let me change my account's e-mail address.
AYO TEACH
ANON GOT A DAMAGE METER IN HIS JANSPORT
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Armorer
Alright box chads we’re playing. The plan is to progress the story to get to 8 man parties since we’ve had ~9 anons join
About to embark on my journey to catch up with you dudes. There's still quite a few people in pre-searing!
Did you want a guild invite?
Don't think I could bear to leave this 🙁
Rip not guild leader if possible you swap your alliance to luxon we could have alliance chat with you
Every time I log in I've been guild leader due to actual GL's inactivity, but I always designate him back.
next time you get it, swap to luxon and join the alliance, then designate him back? Alliance chat would be nice if you're fine with doing that
Wow, when I was on, it was totally empty, and then again, it was at 5 am, haha. Wonder if they're just leveling or going for title?
at 11 AM EST the ingame dailies reset so the most people are online at that hour. I've seen kamadan have up to 6 districts with 100 trades at that hour.
Also possible you weren't in american district lol
Oh yeah, i used to play with a chinese friend so its just a habit
fricking knockdown immunity
>gypsie ettin
wtf, you old-school farming sup vigors?
Can't get the damn bees to cross the bridge AHHHH
>jungle troll
FISH MONSTER
I love jungle trolls. They're warriors rangers so they can use troll unguent lmao.
If anyone has a mini jungle troll I'll pay good money for it
>If anyone has a mini jungle troll
I probably have one I can give you. Let me check
Awesome. You want anything for it? I've got a Mini Wind Rider I don't mind swapping
>You want anything for it?
Nah, just happy to clear the inventory space and give to someone who might use it 🙂 where do u wanna meet? name is "omg its an assasinn" (misspelling intentional because some fricker sniped my name when I reset characters)
do you have quarrel falls? running to it rn
basado
Lookie lookie what I found 😉
the party is growing!
Its such a good feeling running around and questing in a non-LFG party, too. Its been years since I've had this much fun in a 'mmo'. I love the challenge and making a new meme build every time we set out.
Looking forward to next session! o7
you're all cute af
>4 out of 5 want to skip this cinematic
it was worth not skipping to see the necromancer moonwalk away from the NPC we were supposed to talk to
We stopped at Bloodstone Fen today for anyone hoping to catch up. Tomorrow at 11 AM EST we're going to do some Wintersday quests and Wintersday PvP right as holiday starts, all are welcome even if you aren't part of the prophecies group.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wintersday
how good is the support for gw?
i had an old account that i moronicly used my school email for at the time, no idea what it was now, just the @ part. i remember my main character pretty well though, and i'm pretty sure what content i had if that mattered, but not the cd or the key, lost those a few moves ago.
jw if there's even a slim chance i could possibly get it back.
Yeah they're pretty reasonable from what I hear. Knowing any of your character names goes far, even if you don't have access to an old email.
cool. i might pop back in again if i manage to get it, literally all i need is the email, and i remember the password, so it shouldn't be too tall of an order.
They're pretty good about recovering them. Give it a shot, and if it works post your character name and we can send a guild invite or a friend request if you'd rather stay in your guild
I forgot my password and they helped me just by remembering my account name and some of my character names.
What's the best way to make money on here in the current year? I used to make my gold selling greens and pets, but that doesn't seem like a viable option now. I need to start preparing for endgame armor, and iirc it's pretty pricey. Expansion doesn't matter. I just need something to farm. I've beaten everything years ago, so im open for anything.
Farming the weekly Gift of the Traveler. This week it's Mursaat Token's. You will always be albe to find someone buying them for 10 ectos each
Wintersday has started!
maximum comfy
Todays activities went pretty well. We got to play some snowball fight PvP, discovered a hidden bot farm and proceeded to farm it, and we worked on some wintersday quests.
We're going try to do more story progress on this coming friday. Not sure on the day yet, let me know if you are free. Obviously no game this coming weekend.
Which class has the sexiest armor designs and why is it Necromancer??
I see your necro scar pattern armor, and I raise you monk flowing armor.
Mm, flowing
>Necromancer
livia doesn't count for you guys
Add Kum Bubbles to the guild
Added check your guild invites
I’ll b on soon thanks
>suddenly remember that traveling between zones used to take my potato PC a minute or two
wow
Much less than I thought.
I think I have like 500 extra hours idling nine rings, wish there was a way to preserve your global stats from that
Since we’ve had a good amount of swapping runes and weapons and such, how do people feel about ironman?
Essentially, no buying from rune traders & no taking crafting materials / gold / etc. from other characters on your account. The idea being that drops are more important / exciting when you can’t buy all the runes you need for 100g
Would work even better with a full party, since you can swap runes to whoever needs them.
I can respect the dedication to the game's progression, but I think it'd probably get really tedious when it comes to materials. I'm no stranger to going out of my way to have Deldrimor Ingots crafted by specialty NPCs, but having to deal with salvaging bullshit for the materials you need for max armor or whatnot just seems annoying. I do like the rune idea, but I also more or less follow that same rule in my hardmode hero teams for the most part. I just load those frickers up with whatever I find and figure it out later.
One mechanic I think a lot of people forget is you can get max armor from collectors. During this proph playthrough I always made a habit of picking up monster trophies and usually I obtained 2-5 of each before we left the zone, and that was just me. Additionally we are a full party of players, which means drops aren't being stolen by NPC's.
One thing we're going to need to talk about at some point is how to keep organizing these in the future. Our original group picked those days and times because it was the 4 of us and they always worked out I am open to changing the days and times but would need to be on a day that worked for at least 75% of the group (so for a 8 man party, at least 6 of us need to be free). We now have about 8 people express interest in this idea over the span of 1-2 weeks, I'm always happy to have more people express interest (because we will never have all of those people on at the same time) but this many people makes it exceptionally hard to plan a time that works for everyone's schedules and its hard for me to keep track as well.
So I'd like to propose this, I can keep posting a tentative schedule for what days we are doing story progress. Every time we progress the story I will post what quest we end on. People who are unable the meet those days due to real life or other commitments can propose a day and time for a catchup session. This could be a great opportunity to retry a mission bonus, try to get some monster trophy drops for collector armor, maybe you were indecisive about what class you want to play so you can run a backup class that you experiment with or use for the main group every now and then or try out some other wacky build.
Try to at least give a 24 hour notice so people can notice the reply.
As far as the future we talked a bit about this last story progress I'd love to do a more ironman playthrough for when we start Factions.
Yes, you can solo the entirety of Winds of Change HM as a Paragon. The difficulty overall wasn't what I imagined: most struggle came from proper positioning, completing the proper exploit, or too many waves of enemies that clog you up, which ultimately becomes trivializes with, once again, proper positioning.
The story was poo. Most of the writing involves fighting the same factions back and forth, against an ultimately sociopathic leader purifying the land against anything which goes against the country (i.e., her ideals), advising a child figurehead who decides to maintain control over the Ministry and continue doing the same thing. Shoulda slaughtered that kid.
Which sick weapons do I buy? Where do I go from here? UW solo team?
I just started playing. Made a Ranger named Swole Jack.
What do you think you want your secondary to be?
no idea yet
As in you’ve never played it before? That’d be cool, since as far as I know we only have 1 other new guy.
Yep, still going. We just got to Bloodstone Fen, so about halfway through prophecies I think. We’re planning to play Factions once we finish Proph.
>steam version
Nope, thought it goes on steam sales pretty often if you ever wanted to buy an expansion / new account / etc
Sounds good. I appreciate all the organizing so far.
>As in you’ve never played it before?
I dabbled when it was new, but never got to max level so essentially yeah I'm new
Are you still playing ?
I am from EU and would be interested to come back a bit even more if it’s to play factions(my favorite by far).
Do I have to have the steam version ?
I can not play right now but would definitely be interested in like one weeks or two.
Definitely a noob but I have very good memory finishing all the pve campaign when I was young.
Yeah we still play every week, right now we are about halfway through prophecies we'll probably take a break this weekend though due to holidays. If you want a guild invite let me know a character name to invite.
Perfect
How many are we right now playing?
I will try to access my old account and post my pseudo tomorrow.
Currently in the guild, about 8.
People in guild + people not in guild who expressed interest, about 12.
People who showed up to last weekends story progress - 5 lol
its hard to gauge actual numbers since some people change their minds and don't say anything or others can't make the planned time. It'd be pretty sick though if we ended up with 2 groups going through same time. In the future we could do urgoz/deep with 12 people, or even an 8v8 casual GvG scrimmage.
Im one of the people in the guild but haven't been able to make the schedule (this week due to being inbetween moving to a new house) for the story, so I'm just working at my own pace and having fun. I do stay logged in, usually even if im not there, so it can be a little confusing if i am actually there. I do, however, want to participate eventually. It's just not been in the cards so far.
>Do I have to have the steam version ?
doesn't matter, steam just gives you the keys to redeem and boots the anet gw launcher
Here my account.
Don't judge me on the name I was quitte young at the time.
I will definitely try to join the campaign when you start faction.
It's alright, we all have names that predate 2010, gives the game that extra vintage feeling seeing names from a decade ago. Will invite you when I log on later.
Am I supposed to be cringing at the fact that it’s “X the Warrior” or the fact that it’s in French (?)
Both
Also that the french part is very wrong. Big spelling mistake.
Ironically one of my less worst name which say a lot.
Idk how often I can make the scheduled group stuff but if j stick with it pvp would be fun.
Well, throw out any times you could make it, otherwise there will be plenty of max level content once we hit the end of prophecies / factions / EoTN
ngl I don't really care about playing through pve content with people. I would make an effort to be there for pvp tho
woah youre hardcore
why are you being a gay about it? you can solo the entire game. can't solo guild pvp fights.
>snowball fight PvP, discovered a hidden bot farm and proceeded to farm it
I wasn't there for this, but HA is like 90% bots now, and thursday is the HA zcombat+double HA week, we could try getting a group together to either farm zcoins+faction (three and out) or try for halls
Sure, I'll be on for that.
And yeah I've heard about the HA bots, the great snowball fight is interesting because they were resign bots could sit there doing nothing and as long as it wasn't one of the win teams, the bots would resign after 5 minutes. Farmed them for a couple hours to work on my Gamer title.
I'll be on at mission reset time if you want to do this later let me know.
i used to love this game when i was younger used to play it with a good friend of mine... anyway would be anyone from the EU be interested in playing through this awesome game with me? drop your discord of whatever.
I think there are a couple eu players itt, just post a character name to join the guild
For tomorrow's game we're going try to play at around 1:30 PM EST ish
Cool
Probably won’t be back until late Sunday, so no story progress for me. I’m in Ventari’s refuge so I can catch up quick if y’all want to try to make it out of the jungle
i will be reporting in unless I get too drunk within the remaining time
sorry I was late for the guy doing halls, hope you guys made it and got a good fight
Wife and I just started up again in Prophecies. Running around comfy pre-searing. I’m an R/W and she’s a N/Me. Shits comfy as frick. Probably go post-searing later today if anyone wants to join.
Post names if you would like a guild invite, etc.
Mind inviting me to your guild. Would love to get back involved with GW. Loved this game so much.
A Day At The Fair
sent 😉
If we've got the people we'll play, anyone around?
It's only me
trilogy is $15 until the 5th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/29620/Guild_Wars_Trilogy/
busy with christmas prep, sorry
all good we expected that, and yeah great time to pick up Trilogy
hey guys, i bought the trilogy on steam and the download speeds seem to be super low like 40 kb/s.
is there any way to uncap it?
I don’t remember the download speed being that bad, but this is a 2005 game in maintenance mode
When you finally get in, let us know what you name your character. All the veteran players are really passionate about this game, so we’ll be happy to show you the ropes.
ive found out you can force the game to download all the maps at once so im doing that currently, the speed still doesn't rise higher than 70 kb/s so it'll take some time.
and thanks for the offer but im in asia so wouldn't really be able to play with you guys
>im in asia so wouldn't really be able to play with you guys
What time zone? Might be able to sort it out
You're still welcome to join the guild so you can have a social atmosphere to exist in. And if you need help at all, don't hesitate to ask. Some of us can hop on at random times to play with you.
Prophecies/Factions era PvP will never come back and it hurts so bad 🙁
People still do HA, FA, AB, and occasionally JQ quite frequently. Few days ago I was doing HA with 3 other anons and we narrowly lost HA to a 5 and 7 player team during relic run. Final score was 23 - 27 - 25 we were 25.
it finally arrived bros
oops, forgot phone pictures get rotated like that
Merry Christmas gw1bros! Who’ll be around this coming week for wintersday?
idgi
What's there to get?
"it"
tfw
Whats the last zone you haven't vanquished? Also do it you son of a b***h.
Sage Lands was my last zone. Just finished it. No reason for it being last really - I found the rest of the Maguuma zones to be better/easier to vanquish than most other regions. Far fewer map-spanning patrols of one/two mobs you have to search for at the end.
>cartographer
>vanquisher
could never do this shit
hm missions is fine, but running around looking for a patrol of enemies, or scraping maps for a random map blob is my idea of hell
what else is there to do for the past 17 years bro
gitting gud at speed clears or running or whatever, playing through the campaigns with friends, getting into high-end pvp if you really need to sate masochism, taking a break instead of trying to fill time so you still enjoy it
not trying to put you down at all if you're having fun, but you don't have to spend like 300 hours hugging walls or hoping the right prophecies boss spawns to cap a monk elite, just because the title's there. I feel like gwamm would kill the magic for me
Guardians and vanquishers are easy (tho vanquisher can be draining).
Cart of gophers is a pain in the ass.
Hope everyone had a good wintersday, i'm excited to get back on the grind myself
>he hasn't been grinding ww for wintersday stacks 24/7
Just bought the trilogy 😉
Never played GW aside from 10 minutes of the second one so this should be interesting
Although I'm currently in the crack addict stages of diablo 2 endgame so im not sure when I'll be on
Nice, awesome to have more people joining. Tell us your character names and we can invite you to the guild, which is usually the best way to coordinate.
Who all is going to be around this weekend?
Zom Based
i remember reading you guys needing a healer so im going /monk
We're going try to play on Friday at 11 AM - 2:30 PM EST
On Sunday we're going to play 2-5 PM EST,
Haven't decided if we'll do a Saturday game yet (New Years day and all) so people might have other plans. That said, we are Ganker users no one here actually has a life (right?) so we'll talk about a possible Saturday game on Friday, if it's happening I'll post in this thread too (and update guild MOTD)
In the future I'd love to get us to do some classic GW1 PvP I use to do JQ/FA a ton back in the day, doing a 12 man urgoz/deep would be neat too.
I have the ZQ for Kanaxai (The Deep) from within the past week, would be neat to do that ever at any point.
I’m free Friday at those times
Welcome to all the new anons
Anyone else around this morning?
Names Bonesy Wengleton, might be a necro
sent 😉
see you boys in a few hours
Some dude just randomly gave me 250e for free, can't tell if I should be excited or worried.
people have been playing for 17 years, with bots and dupes and so on along the way, some people just have a lot of money
there was a guy playing the ww quest as "saint nick the giver," running around dropping ectos, rubies, and the odd armbrace (~150e), bone dragon staff (4+ arms), etc.
and to add, I'm not even rich but if I'm talking to someone in kama or whatever who's new back, I'll usually give em 10 ecto or whatever and tell them to farm nick gifts to get themselves set up, 250e is probably like 50 plat to that guy
Am I new if I'm completed all campaign content but I only have 1e? Frick me I should have been loitering around on Christmas Day then again I don't even know what I would want to spend money on I think most Paragon gear looks bland and I like the pristine 'pure' look so I'm reluctant to dye it beyond the default White
>completed all campaign content but I only have 1e
it's not like you accidentally get ecto through anything outside of player trading, unless you pick up plains farming as a hobby
if you're on I'll front you the money to buy a nick set and sell the resulting gifts, if you search "wts nick set" and "wtb gott" on https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com you can make like 80-95e/week for no effort
You're right.
It isn't a big deal. I'm mostly just grumbling, perhaps at my own lack of initiative to pick up on easy money opportunities. I took a peak and wew lad 1e = 10p? WEW
*ahem*
Due to the growing rates of inflation across Tyria, I will now be charging a mere 50e/week for guild sponsorship. 🙂
i just rolled a propheices necro
Add me if you want, I sometimes play though mostly do JQ or zaishen dailies for fun
Ragna Fall
You are already in a guild.
I meant as friends, hetero. I'm not ready to leave just yet.
Fine, I'm ready now, just left.
Hello im down for a go. ign : Sierra Icepunch
God heroway dhuum will never not be stressful as I sit here dead on the ground for the last 25% of the dhuum's rest bar.
I haven't played this in ages and never got super into the endgame, but I remember the builds and pvp being really fun. Is it still possible to do the lv10 pre-searing arenas or is that dead? Also I want to roll a new class, i only really played ranger/war/monk before; whats the most fun, assassin, ritualist, or ele?
Not sure about pre-searing arenas, they're probably pretty dead but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a day of the week when people run them, like FA on Saturdays.
>assassin, ritualist, or ele
If you want to play with us I'd reccomend ele, since we're trying to play through Prophecies before Factions. If not, both Assassin and Rit are my favorites, but you can't go wrong with the classic nuker ele getting those big damage numbers
is air ele any good? also what should I prioritize/ignore/skip in prophecies
I actually think prophecies air or water ele are pretty underrated. They have some pretty strong skills and elites available to them here. You are welcome to skip everything up until the current mission we are on (Bloodstone Fen). That said, I highly recommend you side quest, and explore. Prophecies has a ton of valuable skills who are only found in tiny shitter outposts dotted throughout Tyria. If nothing else, make sure you grab Temple of Ages as well, since after proph we might try
Also after thinking on a possible Saturday game for a while I've decided maybe we'll try to set up a game and sequence break for elites (again) we're more people now, and a bit more powerful. For those unfamiliar, you get Signet of Capture early in proph (Lion's Arch) however, the first available elite is not until the Desert (at least 7 missions), the first decent elite not until after desert (at least 11-12 missions) but if we walk south from Beacon's Perch there is some high level boss enemies we can snipe skills from, it's only a few patrolling groups but its difficult due to level difference. A few times ago our warrior got Defy Pain which was a great grab. Some of the available elites are -
Necro - Offering of Blood (Blood energy management)
Mesmer - Crippling Anguish (Illusion CC)
Ele - Water Trident (Water spammable AoE)
Warrior - Defy Pain (Strength powerful early tank skill)
Monk - Life Barrier - (Protection massive damage reduction)
Pic related is the path we'd have to take. The red dot is where most of the bosses we need spawn.
So for anyone interested in getting early elites, we'll try on Saturday starting at 11 AM EST, till we get bored of dying horribly or something.
>Prophecies has a ton of valuable skills who are only found in tiny shitter outposts dotted throughout Tyria
>only
heh... nothing personnel firstwatch sergio...
>heh... nothing personnel firstwatch sergio...
kek
>pre-searing arenas
there's only one of these, and you have to have something like 8 people leave the starter area together to play it the one time
there's one level-gated one in the shiverpeaks and equivalents in the other campaigns, but they're extremely dead, all the other ones from prophecies got rolled into RA (rarely active partially because of bots that will report you if you try to play). team arenas and hero battles are also gone now
pvp happens in JQ all the time but with bots, FA and AB on certain player-organized days of the week, HA at the top level above a ladder of bots farming it, codex almost never, and gvg sometimes but I think they have rupt bot problems and are also buttholes with 16 years of skill to catch up to
with the number of people itt we could probably force codex matches (4v4, almost always empty)
Due to a series of misfortunate events, I won't be able to play tomorrow. I should still be good for Sunday, though. (car problems)
The amount of nuts I've busted to nika in my younger years unf
Damn guild is getting b i g surprised how many people are interested in GW1 still
Also log in bro's its time to discover the white mantle did nothing wrong.
I’m getting some coffee bro I’ll be on in a sec
Also, lord knows I will forget for the 4th week in a row so I am posting this here. Don't forget to pick up your book from this guy in LA, ask him to fill in the pages you've already done and carry the book around for rest of playthrough. You'll accumulate pages as we do more missions.
Saw the thread on Ganker and piqued my interest. I think I only ever played base game and maybe the first expansion but an arena net account I had for my current email is closed due to some security shit and that may have been for GW2 rather than 1.
Am I alright to just get trilogy on steam if I wanted to play?
Yes that's fine. Also ANet support is notoriously helpful and will usually swap your account to a new email if you remember any details at all, like even one character name.
Friends, I won't be coming on tonight. Family visit and all. I might be able to make it tomorrow, however. Have fun!
Today we reached Sanctum Cay, if you're looking to catch up to our group and need a run from LA to there just let me know.
Let us know if you can, we'll happily go through maguuma missions with you. Their bonuses are fun.
Saturday's game isn't a story prog but we'll start around 11 AM EST for anyone interested in getting early elites, or catching up on some missions together.
Sunday's game will be at 2 PM EST, make sure you are caught up to Sanctum Cay by then as we go into the desert.
I just booted up after not playing for about a year. Is there any particular class that's missing when you guys play or can we pick whatever? I usually play Warrior but I was thinking of making a fresh Monk character since I haven't played a caster in...15 years lol.
We have about 3 backup monks but I think only one has been committed to leveling. Just play whatever you have fun with. Right now our team is like
>hammer W
>E/Me going air
>N blood/curses
>Dom Mesmer
>bunnythumper R/W
Do you take any characters or just Proph mains?
Ideally, proph characters. We’re trying to play through all of the campaigns in order without getting heroes / skills / etc from future campaigns.
Either way, post your name for a guild invite.
also, the number of anons interested has grown beyond even the max party size. odds are we'll be able to make a solid party with whoever shows up on a given day regardless of what you pick
So feel free to do whatever is fun
proph only for now we're trying to play the game as it released, so no skills from future campaigns
What is your favourite profession and why? I'm back from a hiatus of a couple of years and am currently trying to decide on a new profession. Have one of every at max lvl but wanna go for some fun titles this time around.
Necromancer, it has soul reaping.
Ele is most fun to play with other players (especially when there is a tank to ball enemies)
Assassin or derv have some of the most satisfying melee in the game (assassin crit ASMR pls)
Ranger honestly feels like the best designed (not too OP but has all sorts of synergies)
Necro is probably the best rendition of a necromancer out if any game I've played. That said can be weird to play in some areas if you don't plan your build out.
I've actually come to enjoy Mesmer more than I expected, it really rewards you for playing smart and having quick reactions there's nothing as satisfying as killing a monk by interrupting all of their skills until death.
Warrior is about what you expect. Prot monk was ahead of its time in 2005 but now most games have some form of damage mitigation healer rather than raw heals.
Paragon is Rit are for psychopaths (of which I am one)
Yes I just listed like every class. I like them all for different reasons.
No skills or prof from later campaigns. We are playing the game as it released so no derv, para, rit, sin. That said if you have a factions ranger or something and you wanna join us. More than welcome.
>No skills or prof from later campaigns. We are playing the game as it released so no derv, para, rit, sin. That said if you have a factions ranger or something and you wanna join us. More than welcome.
Nta but I've been getting back into GW2 after firing it up so my kid could jump around on the candycane puzzles, and I find that I would rather be playing GW1. My whole account is full of 20s but I guess I could kill one of them or pay the man. I remember being a decent healer but I'd need to retool my skills since I mostly played factions. I also don't remember shit about the game so there's that. Where are you all at now?
how do i into necro
never played guild wars before so builds, meta and all that jazz is very new to me
minion master seems fun coming from diablo 2 but how do i go about attribute allocation, skills etc
any tips for just general play would be appreciated too
Necro, especially Minion Master, is rough early on, from what little I personally know.
You get skill points that you put toward attributes (for ex: you may spend 3 skill points to level Soul Reaping from 3 to 4.) I would buy ID and Salvage Kits and start IDing/salvaging everything you can for basic materials. Unlock your Xanlai chest asap and get the material storage component thing. If you need some platinum to get started, just holler.
Are you in prophecies and have you gone to the searing yet? These will affect skills available to you
As far as stats, Death Magic is the most important stat for minion masters, with Soul Reaping also being good for keeping your energy high
I would put points in the former every time you have enough points, with the rest in soul reaping. You can respec in any town, so play around with it
similar question as but for ele. I haven't played in at least a decade and don't remember anything. I made my first ele last night and played during work today when I had time, I logged out close to sanctum cay. I've just been using fire because I have the attunement and rodgorts available at the first skill trainer (somehow). Are the other elements viable or would I just be playing a nerfed version of fire? if so, what are some key skills for earth/air I should try to get asap? (aside from attunements) should I care about any crafting mats right now or just sell stuff, and where can I get the best bags possible?
>last night
>sanctum cay
Jesus Christ anon you really caught up. As far as skill trainers, I believe if one of your characters has learned a skill, any character can learn it at any trainer
oh I did not know that, thanks. I might use some really old chars to get access to different builds to try out on my ele
are the 5 slot bags the biggest I can get? I didn't want to drop a few hundred gold on something if I can find a better one later on. also there's no special/separate bank for mats is there?
From merchants there is an item called Rune of Holding I think, you can use it to increase your bags to 10 (ONLY BAGS, NOT YOUR BELT POUCH, ONLY BUY 2 OF THEM). There's ANOTHER +5 for belt pouch and bags (for total of 15 bag space) but its wicked expensive. There is also equipment bags but the 10-20 slot ones are expensive
>there's no special/separate bank for mats
xunlai chests have a shared inventory across all your characters, you can get access for like 100 gold at a xunlai agent
for another trivial amount, you get access to the materials tab (picrel) which can store up to 250, or one stack, of every material
>other elements
They’re viable, but fire is going to be your best bet for raw damage output against groups. Against single targets Air beats it out, while Earth and Cold are more for buffing and debuffing
>mats
It’s a bit of a pain, but I recommend just salvaging everything for mats.
>bag
Just buy bags from any merchant, then apply a rune of holding, also from merchants. Have you been using the Xunlai chest? Usually I rarely get items into my belt, let alone my bags
>should I care about any crafting mats right now or just sell stuff
always salvage the following: DUST IRON FEATHERS BONE
they're used for consets so the value will always be high at some point (bones may be low now, but they've been the most expensive mat of the 4 at times within the last couple months). or you can craft your own consets, which sell for something like 3e/ or help you through hard content
most armor and a lot of weapons will be cloth, tanned hide, granite slabs or wood planks which are not worth a ton, so focus on weapons which look like they have metal or a blade, wands, wings or other drops from birds, and mystical items (uncertain origin=dust)
>5 slot bags the biggest I can get
5 slot belt pouch, and two 10 slot bags with runes of holding is it for pure inventory space, there are also equipment pouches which only store weapons or armor
there's a 5 slot one for 2000 gold, or you can earn a currency from playing daily missions or boss bounties for larger ones (up to 20 slots), but it takes a while to accrue that much of it
Post one of those conjure w/e builds
can't find shit on PvX
Found this one by searching “conjure” on PvX. Requires a factions-only elite but I suspect it’s just for skill allocation
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:W/E_SWS_Conjuring_Sword
>https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:W/E_SWS_Conjuring_Sword
maybe I'm moronic, I even tried looking at all W/ builds, oh well. I suppose this should work for any weapon then, just substitute appropriate skills
I would go for sword or axe over hammer. Sword has the fastest swing speed of the 3 iirc, so more conjure procs. Axe has more AoE potential, so could have higher dps than sword if you ball enemies enough
What a lovely game, nice and slow perfect for an old frick such as myself, just me and my new bow chilling in the woods listening to Jeremy's calm tunes. I just bought it on steam, the trilogy is on sale now, never played it before and didn't read any guide or anything about it, so I am running completely blind. I rolled a ranger with monk secondary, thought some heals will be great to compliment my beast later on.
Ranger is a versatile class, you'll have fun with it.
You want a guild invite? No pressure to catch up
Sure, why not
should i be crafting the armor offered by new npcs whenever i find them or is that not the best use of mats/money
can i get one? ele is named Spicy Fingers
>whenever i find them
Double check to make sure the armor rating is actually better than what you’ve got. Very few outposts it’ll get better as you progress. There’s an argument for both crafting it and skipping it. On one hand, it’s fairly cheap and will help you survive. On the other, you can get max stat armor extremely quickly these days, so it’s up to you whether you want to skip ahead to grab it. The prophecies story gang (~5 anons have made it so far) is choosing not to skip ahead since it’s more fun that way, but many players do.
I’ll send you that invite if no one beats me to it.
Every few outposts*
It might be a bit annoying, but hold onto trophies from slain enemies. You can often trade them to collector npcs for weapon or armor upgrades, which can save you quite a bit vs. just making them outright at the vendor.
Aiden giving me tools of war and I found a dinosaur too
>anon found Aidan
Nice! I sometimes forget he’s back there way down at the fishing village
Cool Moa, it was my first pet and I used it for a long time. If you didn’t know, Gregory will still follow you even if you take Charm Animal off your skill bar - you only need Comfort Animal
I did not know that ,thanks for the tip! Maybe I can swap it to a more useful skill later
Seeing pre searing skill bars always makes such a wave of nostalgia flow through me
sent 😉
I've got a brand new Nightfall Monk and Elementalist because it's the only way my autism will allow me to play those without spending the next three weeks getting Legendary Defender of Ascalon. How long does it take to get from Nightfall to Prophecies and backtrack to catch up to where you guys are?
You just have to hit level 10 and get the travel to LA quest in Kamadan. After that I can run run to Sanctum Cay on my assassin. It's a rather short walk still which is why we stopped there on Friday.
Also we are playing today in like 45 minutes for anyone interested. No story prog but maybe we'll try elites again or redo some missions with other members.
I can join, send an invite to Mai Solkim.
only 845hp today with both buffs
Alesia you fricking bich
Time to bully the rangers into grabbing symbiosis
Run signet of stamina, and never attack. Just look intimidating.
Swap to W/Me and there’s an illusionary weaponry build there. You’d have to lose Defy Pain for it though
I want to make a really fun smiting build, so im not just healing or cleansing shit
Yeah I plan to do the same in factions (RoJ is available) but there are some neat smiting elites in Proph too. If you plan to go for a smiting build make sure you have high Divine favor so each of your smite skills do good party healing.
You'll have to be selective with when you cast your skills and wait for allies to be damaged first so you can heal them up.
don't want to frick the ironman-esque thing up, but I have a q10 smiting cc you can have if you get an equivalent drop
Nah its all good we're still in prophecies mid game, it'll probably be at least another 2~ months before we start our factions play.
Also speaking of things in the future, what does /vm/ think of this Me/Mo build? The basic premise behind is our party is sometimes very physical attack heavy (Ranger, Warrior, and in future Assassin, Derv, Para) so the idea is maintain Strength of Honor on every physical player (+20 damage to attacks, costs 1 regen pip per person I am maintaining). I'm using Mantra of Signets for self heal per signet and +15 armor, along with Artificer's insignia +15 more armor (3 per signet), and a fast casting shield I could have a +100 armor mesmer. If we end up having 6-7 physicals somehow maybe I swap Keystone for Lyssa's Aura. Obviously some things would have to be swapped out since they are Factions/Nightfall skills but not a huge deal.
Build ID OQNDA6gOP/A9MKJTXP7BSg5Bw
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SoH only works on melee attacks. Bows and spears do not benefit from its effects. Additionally, I believe there's a 25 point cap on bonus armor you can receive from skills. You'll be tanky, but also enemy aggro usually works at a baseline of attacking enemies with the least armor and health, so you wouldn't be the target much. Ultimately Keystone Signet is an extremely powerful skill so you would still be very helpful as Mesmers tend to be.
Damn doesn't work on spears/bows? That sucks missed that bit.
it'd be +15 armor from the mantra, and +15 armor from using an insignia, though honestly even an 85 armor mesmer would be pretty wild not counting the fast casting shield.
I believe armor and insignias work as intended, it's just a cap you get from skills. This matters more if you're working with stuff like Stand Your Ground and Watch Yourselves, cuz it would be overcapping then. Ultimately I think a Keystone Mesmer has a much higher potential than just a SoH slave, but you definitely accomplish what you set out to do with that build. I don't have any numbers in my head but I feel like there could be minmaxing to do with your signet cooldown reduction hooking up with Keystone in a rotation if you really wanted to get specific.
True that could be an interesting idea as well. I floated the idea for a bit of running something like Symbolic Celerity for more signet choices but decided current line up was good enough.
I only really plan to use this if we end up with me casting it on like 3-4 people.
There's also the matter of it being fairly shitty in areas with fat enchant hate like the Crystal Desert. SoH probably isn't going to get covered in time before something slaps it off of them, especially since it's going to be on frontline characters who're gonna get shattered first. I think it's a situational build by area, but you could absolutely pivot the Keystone gimmick into a lot of different directions. Full Mesmer Keystone is a more disruptive alternative to Esurge shenanigans. Assassin in Deadly Arts has a few signets you could use if your party is heavy in conditions. SoH can be swapped out from Smiting in favor of something like a relevant Scourge hex. I do think that it'd matter quite a bit in areas where you're not getting stripped every fight.
It's multiple skills to 25 or one skill can break the cap.
*laughs in Save Yourselves!*
NINETEEN (19!) homies online within the past week.
12-13 just today we really gotta unlock those 8 man parties
Also reminder we are playing tomorrow at 2-5 PM EST we are currently at Sanctum Cay which is rather close walk from LA.
Excited for 12 man dungeons
Never really played Monk before, what's a better Prophecies secondary profession? /Me or /E?
/Me is more popular for energy management
Gotcha, I'll grab that then. I probably won't have time to reach Sanctum Cay before tomorrow's game, but I'll try to level up what I can. Looking to fully focus on Prot/Heal and not Smite, hopefully there are enough skills before the desert to make it worth it. Might take some of the pressure off the "backup Monks" so they can play what they originally wanted.
Just rebought the trilogy on the steam sale and made a new account, god this game is so comfy
how do i get a guild invite
Post in-game name here and someone from the guild will send an invite.
ingame name is Accursed Diagrams
sent 😉
ass end of the night and 4 homies online
>no sleep team
>he doesn’t want to ring in the new year in Kamadan
>9 districts in Kamadan
>district 1 not even close to full
what is going on??
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wintersday/Finale
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dunes_of_Despair is today's ZQ mission. Two missions past Sanctum Cay. Easy coins?
Nice catch, I'm unsure if we'll do anything past Sanctum Cay today I mentioned throughout the week plan is probably going to be to unlock all 3 of the desert mission outposts (maybe tiny ones too for skills), maybe do the 15 attribute quest today too. And then on next story prog day do all 3 missions at once, then aurgery rock. That way we don't have any weird scenarios going into Aurgery rock like someone who wasn't here last week didn't do Dunes of Despair or something.
That said, everyone should grab that ZM free money.
I might be a bit late to today's game. But I expected that might happen so I jumped on earlier and unlocked Aurgery rock for my mesmer. Group up without me I'll probably be 30-60 min late.
I’ll probably be 15-20 minutes late as well, apologies.
Meet up in Sanctum Cay for the start of today's activities. We'll begin in 10 minutes.
>Vizier Khilbron: "There is a traitor in your midst, one of the Shining Blade's own Inner Council."
><Party Leader>: "What? Who?"
>Vizier Khilbron: "I believe you know him by the name Markis."
>Vizier Khilbron: "He masquerades as your friend and confidant, but he is instead a White Mantle infiltrator."
Hmmmmmmmm.
Knew something was funny with one of you frickers.
You can trust Kilbro, he's a good guy.
I liked the mini-lich walking around in the cutscenes with him
I really gotta rebind my screenshot key, lol
Anyone want any of these runes?
What mesmer insignia is that in top right?
in gif format and my laptop's shit resolution for period-authenticity
fukken saved
https://files.catbox.moe/erunl0.pdf
comics I mentioned
>only 60 something
you're like a baby, watch this
https://www51.zippyshare.com/v/twQtykGF/file.html
We made big progress today. Had a 6 man group go through all of the desert together in current year was really cool.
We've stopped at Dragon's Lair mission which is when we unlock 8 person parties! If you are interested and want to catch up post in thread and I'll gladly give you a desert tour so you can quickly unlock the outposts.
Next week we are playing on Friday starting at 6 PM EST that will be story prog continuing from Dragon's Lair. Saturday will be 11 AM -5 PM we'll try to snag some elites, get some people caught up, maybe story prog, or we'll explore south shiverpeaks and unlock some towns. Sunday will be 2-5~ PM EST, and that'll be another story prog.
Also worth mentioning tomorrow at 4 PM EST we'll try to get those Lonar Pass elites again for anyone interested.
We had up to 13 people online in guild at one point was real cool.
What?
bump
did our war need an icy hammer head for a conjure build?
I have a firey axe haft if one of our warriors wants that
If you gays are practically crafting me an elemental hammer then I'll try it out.
so im looking around and what does it mean under wep for pic related? like what is 40/40 dom, +5^50 energy
40/40 means two items (wand and focus) with “halves the casting time of (dom) spells (20% chance)” and “halves the recharge time of (dom) skills (20% chance)”, because 20 + 20 = 40. 20% is the max you can get for these
i see thanks and what about 20/20?
20/20 is the same, but instead of stacking 2 items it’s for staffs which take up both hands.
It’s got both so each one is a 20/20 both make it 40/40.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/40/40
?
People were discussing 40/40 and we’re confused about stuff so I linked the wiki article about them
But both the posts you replied to were discussing 20/20 staffs, not 40/40 sets
My bad, I was s p e e d reading at work.
Still, it’s useful to have the wiki article on hand. The gw1 wiki is a great resource.
Anyone here watch GWReborn’s videos? Never liked them as much as Doom Box or MozoGW, but he does upload a lot more often
Also, I might be mistaken but I think wands & focuses only reduce casting time / recharge time on one specific skill, while a staff will do all skills. Maybe a veteran itt can correct me if I’m wrong.
Oops, +5^50 is +5 energy while health is above 50%. This is just a shorthand that has developed over the years.
reborn is a shitter who bots
I usually check peter kadar for farming, or gwpvx for builds
That’s a cope. Reborn is the most generous person in all of guild wars and truly runs a great community. You can run as many accounts as you want. You’re clearly a poor gay.
>the most generous person in all of guild wars
>truly runs a great community
sincerely hoping you're him posting anonymously and not actually this dumb
not him just someone that has been graced with his generosity. Reborn is a truly genuine dude. I never understood why so many people have trashed talked him over the years.
Hmmm.
Not enough drama in the guild.
Wish granted lol. Doesn’t Reborn run LGiT or he’s part of it or something? See a lot those guys running around, cool that there’s an alive guild
The trilogy is on sale and I plan to buy, what is a functional class/subclass for someone new? I was thinking warrior/something else
Literally all of them are functional and have many builds that work in end-game.
Anon is right. They all have multiple fun, viable builds and are fairly easy to understand. I would just pick the one you like best.
If you’re interested in Warrior, you’ll have to pick the skills from your secondary more carefully. Warriors don’t have a lot of energy (but have adrenaline as an alternate resource) and can struggle to use many energy-intensive secondary skills. Just post in the thread if you have any build questions, people are happy to help
Can’t go wrong with warrior/monk
Why the frick are there 4 districts of Kaineng in Europe?
Oh right, bots. What are they boting?
/vm/ proph nostalgia world tour:
>southern shiverpeaks
>ring of fire
>topk
>titan quests
>sorrow's furnace
>fow
>uw
missing anything?
>>topk
Speaking of, anyone wanna do Tombs one of these days?
Just say when.
I want at least the last 15 attribute points and a real elite before getting rectally ravaged by dream riders and dryders and shit
Yeah we've talked about it before but I'm thinking our post proph plans are sorrows furnace, topk, and FoW. After that we'll do some classic GW1 casual GvG's using proph balance (with possibility for some rewards). And then we'll make a new thread for our factions playthrough.
As always I am surprised by how many people are interested in GW1
Also anon if you post your ingame name we can invite you to the guild if you'd like.
>As always I am surprised by how many people are interested in GW1
Because there's no substitute.
https://thatshaman.com/tools/gw1map
Just started playing this game a couple days ago for the first time, bought the trilogy on sale. I know I'm almost 20 years late to the party but I was never into this type of games when it was at its peak. So far I love it, even as a solo game with the henchmen.
Any tips for a beginner or things I should keep in mind?
salvage everything unless it's an upgrade, dont read too much into builds until you hit max level
>Any tips for a beginner or things I should keep in mind?
Think of your entire team composition, not just your build and you'll be much more effective. Even if playing solo with heroes you're not running 8 skills, you're running 64 skill on 8 different characters.
If you want to join the thread guild, post your character’s name and we’ll send you an invite. Doesn’t come with any obligations, but if you do want to play with your fellow anons Guild chat is a good way to coordinate
Can I remove upgrades I applied to a weapon? Or at least replace them with something else later on?
Yessir, that's what expert/superior/perfect salvage kits are for.
So will I be forced to salvage the item and risk breaking it if I just want to replace the upgrade with a more powerful one later on, even if I don't care about getting the old upgrade back?
you can eat the sacrifice of hte current mod and put the old mod over it as well, you dont need to take the mod out to replace it.
Keep in mind that anything but the perfect kit has a chance to break the item (though you’ll still get the upgrade component back)
also want to add that perfect salvage kits come in uses of 5, and are rather pricy, so use them wisely on runes worth it. i generally only use them when extracting out of good weapons or elite armor, any non elite i just expert salvage, its cheap enough to make another one need be.
>replace them with something else later on?
if you put a new mod on a weapon, or rune/insig on armor, you can't get whatever it replaced, but you'll preserve the weapon/armor
adding mod: destroys old mod but 100% preserves weapon
removing mod with expert salvage: 100% preserves the mod, but up to a 50% chance to destroy the thing it was on
I still have the Arbor Bay ZQ vanq from yesterday if anybody wants to vanquish this big-as-frick place with me perhaps today. From the time of this post, the quest can still be picked up for the next 45 minutes.
Sure just let me know when you want to I need to VQ that area anyway. And the 250 * 2 weekly bonus will be nice.
Can I get one of those guild invites ign Xezberzs Il (Capital i and lowercase L)
I don't know which profession to pick to bring the most joy
You cant go wrong with necromancer.
Today's ZQ Vanquish is.... ! DELDRIMOR BOWL !
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Deldrimor_Bowl
>tfw only have two small Silverpeaks zones vanq'd
also the zm, iron mines of moladune, is like 3 missions away
I need to finish this shit.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Ruine_Eternelle/Borderless_Cartography_Made_Easy
I know. Got it all. Just too lazy to finish this.
Have fun (you won't)
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Player-made_Modifications/Cartography_Index
Did fricking Iron Mines, forgot to pick up the zaishen mission.
Frick me.
The spirit of Lord Rob is with me today.
Reminder we're doing story prog tomorrow, Friday at 6 PM EST. We are currently at Dragon Lair mission. If you need a desert tour, or help catching up to the group please post in thread between now and then so I can help you catch up.
Three hours to go.
Let me know how far the progression gang gets, I’m going to miss tonight’s and tomorrow’s catch up session, but I’ll try to make it to where you all are by Sunday’s time
Considering I don't have SWS for this Conjuring build, any suggestions on what to replace it with? Even if I did have it, it would be too strong. For now I'll keep Defy Pain. I have Hundred Blades already but this build uses low Swordsmanship so I may as well pick a better skill. An AOE would be cool too.
reeeeeeeeeeeee i dont want to have to level Sunspear rank just to have a worthwhile AOE skill that isn't an Elite.
are you trying to set a character up in general or playing through prophecies with the guild?
people aren't even doing unlocked skills from late-game skill trainers, let alone bringing in broken shit from other campaigns
if you aren't, I have the thing to spawn the sws boss for you
I don't have it bought and I cannot allow myself to give another cent to Arenanet after GW2.
Understandable anon I don't blame you. Have you considered g2a if you really want to play you'd avoid giving anet money that way.
I suppose it's sound advice to use a known fraudulent website to deprive a hated company of it's money, but there are 2 issues I see:
1) g2a says their gw keys are sold out right now
2) Anet still owns the game, meaning that I'm running the risk of them stealing my money by either banning me on the offchance they find out where I got my key, because they have banned g2a gw2 players before, or by hearing me say frick and banning me.
>but anon, don't be ridiculous, it's a dead maintenance mode game kept up by 2 wagies, nobody's gonna ban you, that's just moronic paranoia!
Ye, that's what I thought about GW2 before recieving my ban for saying frick. I'm just too burned to risk my funds.
You have to weigh which is more important: your interest in GW or completely understandable nu-AN hate.
Aye, I suppose I'm gonna have to go with the latter unless those homosexuals go bankrupt and release the the sourcecode or someshit (which won't happen because they are a property of NCSoft). It's not like I don't have a backlog, so I might as well go with the safer options. Wish you luck on your journey through Prophecies, if it's half as good as supposed oldgays told me over in Lion's Arch then I'm sure you're having a grand ol' time.
At any time of day you can enter kamadan and find people spamming RMT into trade chat 24/7 and they don't even ban that guy. It's almost pure anarchy here, and general GW1 consensus is frick anet and GW2.
Shame about g2a being out though. Depending on how risky you are feeling can direct you to other websites which likely have it in stock if you don't feel like taking a risk, buying GW1 from steam means gaben takes a cut of the money going to anet.
You've given me some faith in the banning department, though to be honest with you I've heard this song and seen this dance before, so it's 100% reassuring. One way or another I won't even give up a gum stuck to my shoe for the A-troony-Net. I stuck with GW2 for a while until I liquified my assets and got back tripple the amount I spent on it through RMT and I still feel ripped off. Depending on how shady your alternatives are, I might be able to note them down for later.
Those same RMT websites that guy in kamadan is spamming LOL that guy been spamming the website for last 6 years out of curiosity went to website once and I remember they sell GW1 CD keys there. Dude's been spamming it for so many years and there are so many bots running around ingame that I'm like 50-50 on it being legit. That said, RMT website so just depends on how much you hate anet more than you hate the RMTer's.
Kinguin and cdkeys are viable alternatives.
Tryptophan Signet seems to be a very overlooked skill.
>For 20 seconds, target foe and all adjacent foes move and attack 40% slower.
With no way to remove the debuff because it's a signet. That's big.
Would be better if it was a PvP skill, in general its rare to come across PvE enemies with heavy anti hex skills that could effectively counter something like an illusion mesmer or water ele who has similar snares with shorter cooldowns.
All that said, it's a PvE only skill and those are almost always some degree of OP. If anet ever rebalanced some of the more absurd PvE skills it'd honestly be great, but with only 3 slots it's competing with stuff like ebon assassin, SV, summons, PI, those new elites etc...just not worth using a slot for.
As a follow up to this message* I actually think ebon vanguard sniper support is the most satisfying slept on PvE only skill. I use to run it on my ranger, only has a 10% chance of working but its pretty much a guaranteed insta kill. Great for quickly killing enemy monks, especially if theres multiple in one group. Also it just feels good watching enemy just fall over dead after being hit by it.
>Would be better if it was a PvP skill
So you'd never get to use it now?
lmao, pretty much. But the thought of using it in PvP is more than enough to appease me
>PvE only skill and those are almost always some degree of OP
Isn’t that the point? The devs wanted to leave in fun OP stuff for players to play around with, but made them PvE only so they didn’t massively unbalance PvP
Grrr
By the way, what's /vm/'s reply limit? We're approaching 500 posts, are we going to have to create a new thread soon or do you think we can hold out till Factions?
Yep, 500. We are autosaging now. We can discuss making a new thread once we finish today's progression since I doubt it would last for another week+.
Today's progression starts at Dragon's Lair in Prophecies. We have a variety of new players and veterans, and in between, so come join us either way. If you want to get in on our Factions run, that will probably begin within the month.
Thanks, I've just revived my 20 monk/mes and I have a slot free to start Factions fresh. I can't promise just yet that I will be very active, but if I do commit to something I will stick to it. It will be a while before I figure out what the hell I am doing, but if there's room in the guild and some other non-core people to play with from time to time, I would appreciate an invite. Ingame name is Winterlong Osteth.
Cant wait for progression tonight.
>not a single good cosplayer, not that I've seen any
Ehhh.....
not to be an butthole, but can you guys use prophecies professions and skills for the rest of the game?
it's moronic to have people getting collector weapons and passing runes around and doing skill quests to approximate the game's original power level, when you blow everyone else out with power-creeped stuff that makes the difficulty a joke. we got through lategame missions with overpulling, people afk, taking on mursaat uninfused, and never came close to wiping
when prophecies came out it used to be really hard to get past thunderhead keep, people would coordinate builds and strategize and fail time after time, a large percentage of the playerbase never beat it at all, but if we have the same group we had today, we'll beat it first try without a sweat
you can take broken meta shit and beat nm proph missions with heroes any time, you can literally bring an empty skill bar and just c-space the monks, it's much rarer to coordinate 8+ real people to play the game this way, and it's better to be underpowered and wipe a couple times than to beat the game without ever buildcrafting, gitting gud, having careful pulls and situational awareness and spikes we barely pull off, because that's the point and real joy of the game, not just grabbing the highest rated thing from pvxwiki and face-rolling through
Yeah agree, I tried to give people a friendly nudge when I saw something absurd. But in general people should try to stick in Prophecies/Core only skills and no PvE only skills for the time being. If you are bringing an existing non proph character the wiki is a fantastic resource as next to every skill says what campaign it got introduced with here's an example of one page. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Illusion_Magic
I won't hunt people down if they are lazy and accidently grab a NF skill or something but do try to limit the faction/nf and especially PvE only skills you use in our proph playthrough. We aren't a true ironman, but we more of the spirit of ironman. Always happy to have people over henchies but do try to get into the spirit of the game and do some wacky theory crafting. Having less skills available makes people more creative and there are some really fun builds you can make that you won't find on the PvX wiki.
I still don't know how I feel on PvE only skills in general. And that's probably going to have to be something we talk about pre factions. There are some very obvious ones we've talked about in thread that are just outright banned outside of HM content for being absurd. But I wonder if its just better to say no PvE only skills because even the non absurd ones are still pretty OP and you'd be a fool not to take them.
Above all else, we want to play this game the way the developers envisioned it as it released.
On Sunday I'll probably make a new thread, provided we don't wipe much I'm expecting us to finish proph on Sunday? Next week we're going to be doing some end game proph content (FoW, Sorrows Furnace, Tomb of Primeval). And the week after that we'll do casual GvG with each other with some prizes I'll talk about that more next thread too.
Happy to have you aboard anon! Invited.
>If you are bringing an existing non proph character the wiki is a fantastic resource as next to every skill says what campaign it got introduced with here's an example of one page
this is great for theorycrafting, and you can also see ones you already have in your skills and attributes menu (k) or skill traders
"sort by campaign" will block off skills into dropdowns for core, prophecies, etc.
Holy shit that is so cool I never even knew that existed!
Thanks for the invite re
. I've been hopping on late and not doing much but I'll try and be around while others are active.
did you all get to thk?
Yes. We'll be exploring today, gathering some outposts and elite skills, and doing the second 15 attrib quest. Tomorrow is when we will probably complete Prophecies.
henchman thk to catch up is going to be brutal, lol
don’t want to miss the ending though
honestly I found it easier than the crystal desert. I tried doing everything with henchman, wiped on every desert mission several times at least (thirsty river prob closer to 10) and had to completely respec my build a few times to get through. each mission in shiverpeaks was done first try though, they felt significantly easier
https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/thread/10525-announcing-dsoal-gw1-3d-positional-audio-and-eax-effects-for-everyone/
>When GW was released in 2005, the audio component of Microsoft’s DirectX API was something called DirectSound. DirectSound had a 3D audio component called DirectSound3D, or DS3D, that could pan and amplify/attenuate sound sources based on their position relative to the camera in the game’s 3D world. PC’s with a high-end Creative sound card also had access to EAX, an extension to DS3D with a suite of hardware DSP effects for occlusion, obstruction, reverb, echo, etc. Like most games of its era, GW’s audio system was designed around DirectSound and DS3D, and owners of high-end PCs could get the “definitive” audio experience with EAX.
>All that ended in 2007 with Windows Vista. Vista completely broke DS3D and EAX. Rather than fix it, Microsoft deprecated DirectSound and pushed developers to adopt its new XAudio2 API for future games. With DS3D and EAX broken, GW hasn’t sounded “right” in any version of Windows since XP.
this fixes the shit sound (e.g. waterfalls being loud as frick FWOSHHHHHH), highly rec
What time shall we ASSEMBLE today?
Now.
>wRPGgays be like, "Yo, this gameplay is fire!"
anyone tried playing this on a steam deck? seems like with a decent control map it'd be very comfy
…does it run on a steam deck?
I'd be surprised if it didn't.. ive run far more demanding games on mine with no issue
I was thinking more operating system requirements. Isn’t the deck some bake of Linux?
you can run it with wine
I've seen people do it before, and if I ever get a Steam Deck that will be a reason lol
I think southern shiverpeaks is a matter of patience, while the desert is just a question how competent are your builds and strategy. Southern Shiverpeaks can be brutal, but only if you try to rush and the missions often pressure you into rushing or overpulling obviously everything previously said about desert also applies.
>it hurts when I strike you!
if anyone is interested in leeching Z chest, wisp Braxton Surefoot in game to join. I got 20 something stacks left to go.
Does being in the isle of the nameless with someone opening the chest give everyone in the party progress towards the title???
he means come pick up the spare crap (id'd weaps, tomes, etc.)
r8/feedback?
I still had energy and overcast space after a long fight with no refunded energy from the mesmer skills so I feel like I should tailor to spike harder, but air magic doesn't seem to do anything else but pbaoe skills
honestly the source of cracked armor is huge along with KD. Overall looks pretty good, if you wanted a better AoE option, thunderclap is faster to spam. But lightning surge just has such utility
Is random arenas actually alive in modern GW1? I used to have so much fricking fun trying random builds in the arenas. The 4v4 gameplay of this game was fricking PEAK.
RA is botted during all but the most prime hours, and not just botted, but filled with bots that all report you if you make it in a game
with so many people in the guild, I'm sure we could take over at least one pvp zone (codex, ra if we have a ton of people, or get factions games against each other)
>pvp happens in JQ all the time but with bots, FA and AB on certain player-organized days of the week, HA at the top level above a ladder of bots farming it, codex almost never, and gvg sometimes but I think they have rupt bot problems at the top and are also buttholes with 16 years of skill to catch up to
>with the number of people itt we could probably force codex matches (4v4, almost always empty)
>RA is botted during all but the most prime hours, and not just botted, but filled with bots that all report you if you make it in a game
I just want to go home.....
Every now and then I see players organize to take over RA but can be rare. High level HA is usually mostly players surprisingly (especially during double week), a few weeks ago me and some anons got into relic run with 2 other play teams. Was super close.
New bread soon?
We're only on page 7 right now. The last thread on the board hasn't been bumped for 5 days so we have time.
After todays game I will make a new thread about our future PvP plans and post proph content along with discussing our team ironman factions playthrough.
Also we are continuing today in like 30 minutes log on peeps 😛
Rt/R with Great Dorf Weapon for the pet.
When is a good time to sell rare mats? How do I track that? I see a price history on Kamadan but that's for buying, not selling.
>on Kamadan
you mean the price charts on https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/ when you click an item's name?
sell price is a regular amount under the buy one, if you're trying to judge trends you can do it from that price (people will buy/sell in kamadan for the midpoint between the two)
a lot of rare mats sort of randomly fluctuate with player activity and botting, the basic patterns are ectos plummeting when people cash out (i.e. shing jea boardwalk is open), skyrocketing when they're the nick item for a week, and obby shards rising before a free fow week and falling after
unless you're farming them, it's sort of a moot point. one nick gift set=100-110 ectos~=1k plat if you hold and sell at a high point, pure profit if you farm it or about 80% if you buy a set. the 1 plat difference from the price fluctuation on your random monstrous eye drop sort of pales in comparison, just keep it in your chest's storage until it's randomly crazy high or you need it
hell yeah
what a ride it was
fricking centaur
https://workupload.com/file/pvChxEpPv8y
n e i g h
>make a 55 monk expecting to finally farm basic stuff like gold and trash items to sell for gold
>only 1 in 20 enemies drops anything even when running solo
I am sad.
I have created a new thread, use this one for GW1 since we are getting close to archiving.
Should we advertise the new thread on Ganker?
Are they ready for it?