The entirety of GW1 takes about as much as the chat server of GW2. The devs have said that GW1 will always be up as long as GW2 is running; GW1 costs so little that they don't even factor it into the budget. Their last update, in February, specifically mentioned six years of uninterrupted service--no downtime.
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I don't play GW2 but I hear crazy shit about seamless patches and no maintenance there either. How entire industry hasn't lifted that from Arena Net is beyond me.
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The same guy who coded Guild Wars was ex-Blizzard and also coded battle.net, dude is a wizard.
yeah the founders and OG ANet crowd had some real wizards and networking masters, I believe Mike O'Brien especially is considered an incredibly good programmer, doubt the studio currently has anyone living up to the original standards
It's crazy how good Shing Jea is compared to the rest of the campaign. I was playing guild wars in release order with a buddy who had only played gw2, and we dropped the game a couple of missions after making it to kaineng. We made it through all of prophecies without any hiccups. We also tried going through nightfall afterwards but we dropped that after a couple of play sessions too.
Kaineng is a dreary environment but personally I've always loved the zombie apocalypse meatgrinder missions and the sewers. 16-man Vizunah square is glorious carnage. It's all worth it for the Jade Sea anyway.
It might just be cause of him. Honestly I can't say I necessarily hated it when I played solo. I mainly had trouble with the afflicted condition that would just kill me if I wasn't paying attention to where I was standing.
For me, going to level 20 in pre-searing made it more enjoyable to experience the rest of the story. Would've kept my character as a perma-pre, but it was actually the one I made to play with my friend. I just had to wait for him for so long that I managed to hit 20 with some fairly casual play.
It might just be cause of him. Honestly I can't say I necessarily hated it when I played solo. I mainly had trouble with the afflicted condition that would just kill me if I wasn't paying attention to where I was standing.
For me, going to level 20 in pre-searing made it more enjoyable to experience the rest of the story. Would've kept my character as a perma-pre, but it was actually the one I made to play with my friend. I just had to wait for him for so long that I managed to hit 20 with some fairly casual play.
kaineng is supposed to be claustrophobic and ugly so you break out into the back half of the game and go from sewers and shantytowns to beautiful forests and seas
give it another shot
Kaineng has its moments
The worst places are the middle of the city on ground floor and the sewers
The whole zone around the docks by the market outpost is kino, the whole zone on the roofs of the city by senju's corner is kino, the whole "transitional zone" between the sewers and the city's gate is kino
Got the game. Any classes that have a high APM? I like to press the buttons. The only thing I've played was Monk in Nightfall and from what I remember it didn't really appeal to me.
monk with ai party members blows
elementalist has faceroll damage output, mesmer has that plus reaction time and anticipation, dervish or assassin if you want melee
Got the game. Any classes that have a high APM? I like to press the buttons. The only thing I've played was Monk in Nightfall and from what I remember it didn't really appeal to me.
No, I'm talking about how in GW2 Cantha suddenly everyone has Korean names and wear Korean clothes. It's bizarre. It's beyond obvious that the writers were just chasing the stupid Korea fad, consistency be damned.
Squid Games and BTS got some traction and the Korean government put a bunch of money on trying to export their pop culture. Worked on some women at least, as I know several who got addicted to K-dramas like it's fricking crack.
>that the writers were just chasing the stupid Korea fad
NCSoft is a asiatic company, anon.
Writers were just doing their job to jerk off their handlers. The fact that it was an utter shitshow is a different matter.
NCsoft is Korean and most likely forced them to make it Korean or they wouldn't allow Cantha at all. The Canthan district in Divinity's Reach famously got scrapped before launch (hence the Great Collapse) because people (read: NCsoft) thought mixing East Asian cultures together like in the original Cantha was offensive. Nobody hates East Asians more than other East Asians.
Funny how Guild Wars 2 shilling has died out and I didn't even notice.
GW1, EotN excluded, gave me the comfiest MMO experience to date, but I can't go back anymore - player-world interaction is extremely dated, especially in terms of UI features like a complete lack of armor/weapon preview.
>Funny how Guild Wars 2 shilling has died out and I didn't even notice.
such a thing never existed, though. if anything guild wars 2 has had a VERY vocal minority shitting on it from the beta days. mainly because it wasn't guild wars 1.
probably safe, but why do it
hop on right now and I'll give you a nick set, you turn it in for 5 nick gifts, sell each for 10e in kamadan, sell each ecto to a mat trader for 5 plat, 250 plat in 15 mins
and that's long, because he's in a more awkward place than usual this week
has a regular and active Guild Wars thread AND guild. Right now, some guys are running through the Prophecies campaign again (the guild has played through all three campaigns before + gets together to run dungeons sometimes.)
If you're an old player or want to be a new player, come to the thread and post your IGN for a guild invite. Lots of people to do stuff with.
The Primeval armor for me. Even today, I still think its one of the coolest looking armor. I remember buying that pack for GW 2 at the first month of the game, but it was very underwhelming
By the way, how many of you guys have GWAMM and/or 50/50 HOM? I know I have both and proudly have GWAMM in both game, not that I still play GW 2. I still play GW1 from time to time, however.
>By the way, how many of you guys have GWAMM and/or 50/50 HOM?
reporting in. also, for me, and my female warrior it's marhan grotto(elite gladiator) all the way with a mix of different helms/stats for running. for some reason I remember using the charr helm.
I used to drape my girl in the elite charr hide full set from the grotto.
Stats probably. You do need multiple one for each attribute.
it's hazy but yeah there might have been a specific reason or it might have been a certain stat/rune. I kind of remember it NOT being max stat but was useful...
Vanquishing can be pretty fun and chill when you aren't wandering around looking for the last patrol on a map that takes ten minutes to walk across.
Cartography, though. Holy SHIT does that shit suck to do.
maybe I have adhd, even with ims I just can't bear running around an empty map alone looking for one last group, no matter how good the preceding gameplay is
I did it a couple times on some of the larger maps, and probably never will again
Vabbian armor for male necromancers is one of my most favourite fantasy outfits among entire vidya industry, despite it being released so many years ago.
it was an age before jumping puzzles or even any real vertical design beyond some ways to maneuver in certain dungeons as far as mmorpgs went. basically, jumping existed for players to absentmindedly mash the space bar as their characters ran from place to place. it didn't bother me just like it didn't in ff11.
My fondest memories of GW were Guild vs Guild battles. My guild was really good at it too, regularly top 10 in the 2005-2007 peak era. I remember facing War Machine (second global championship winners) and actually beat them one time.
Even in their own story he borderline seems like the good guy. The rest of the gods fricking bailed with Kormir staying behind an extra couple minutes to say "Yeah, you guys are fricked. No, we're not helping because... uh... we just won't, okay? Peace out, losers." Meanwhile Balthazar stays behind on this supposedly doomed world at least trying to fight the dragons. And he's fricking killed for it.
Frick GW2.
>"Yeah, you guys are fricked. No, we're not helping because... uh... we just won't, okay? Peace out, losers."
Wasn't it something worse, like in the vein of "Sure, we had our duty in regards to keeping humanity alive, but it feels like we have transcended silly and selfish things like this and therefore we don't need you anymore"?
>Dragons are ending the world but for some reason people aren't terribly concerned about it >You are a [insert race here] and do some [race] stuff but this doesn't matter >You join [one of three orders] and do some [order] stuff but this doesn't matter >You and vegetable man unite the orders to fight the undead dragon in Orr >Victory! >Manic pixie evil techno-genius vegetable lady awakens the vegetable dragon >The united orders go to fight the vegetable dragon, but the vegetable men were susceptible to the vegetable dragon's influence, go insane, and the battle is a disaster >Rally the survivors, enlist the aid of some locals, and defeat the vegetable dragon >Dead dragon's energy gets redirected to one of Glint's surviving eggs which hatches and bonds with (you) >Turns out killing dragons is destabilizing the world's magic btw >A mursaat shows up and says "I'm cool now, let's fight dragons" >The mursaat is actually Balthazar in disguise! We have to stop him because... We just have to, okay!?!!? >Rest of the gods say "Yeah, good luck with that, gays" and leave >Track Big B down, kill him before he can destroy the world (save it) by killing dragons >Go kill Palawa Joko because he was too based >Go kill the dragon Big B was trying to kill, feed it to our baby dragon so that there's no consequences >Charr civil war, no one cares >Lure ice dragon and fire dragon into killing each other in the most anticlimactic bullshit I've ever seen, frick >Go to Cantha(Kimchi flavored now) for reasons, find the last dragon, the momma dragon >She's super chill and helping the asiatics make super magitech >Also she created Tyria originally >But she's going to go crazy because of the evil Dragonvoid (I'm not making this term up) that was created by killing the other dragons >Have to tearfully mercy kill her >Your baby dragon is basically now the new mother goddess of the world and fricks off
Thanks, I hate it. >Lure ice dragon and fire dragon into killing each other in the most anticlimactic bullshit I've ever seen, frick
I can't believe they threw the destroyer dragon away like that after EOTN hyped him up so much.
Thanks, I hate it. >Lure ice dragon and fire dragon into killing each other in the most anticlimactic bullshit I've ever seen, frick
I can't believe they threw the destroyer dragon away like that after EOTN hyped him up so much.
pixie evil techno-genius vegetable lady awakens the vegetable dragon
That way too small. She and the entire LS1 set the stage in regards to how shitty everything gets.
He's Rytlock. He used to be a member of the Destiny's Edge guild before the human of the guild, Logan (descendant of Gwen), fricked up their chance to kill the crystal dragon by running off mid-battle to save his queen, who didn't even need his help because she's an ultra mesmer. Rytlock's mostly just a generic charr officer who carries around Prince Rurik's sword. He ends up falling into the mists and becoming sort of a spirit channeler (hence the blindfold) and incidentally frees Balthazar from the "Too based to be free" cage the other gods had put him in.
Unfortunately he gets a lot more lame when he meets some pussy druid charr bumpkins who have families and he starts feeling bad about not being a real family with his b***h and his son.
Missing the moronic asura but regardless, this is easily the worst supporting character in an RPG I ever seen. I hated every single one of them and I hate how they keep fricking up the story by merely existing.
Missing the moronic asura but regardless, this is easily the worst supporting character in an RPG I ever seen. I hated every single one of them and I hate how they keep fricking up the story by merely existing.
that shit is hilarious and perfectly encapsulates the sjw garbage at its height
>disabled asura genius >lesbian couple >OMGSOCUTE cat >race mixed mutt >broken old fan favorite character
How long is the game gonna be on sale? Been trying to buy the complete collection all day, it just gives an error saying my purchase has been prevented and support hasn't answered yet.
Haven't played this since like 2003, did they change anything since the original? Like adding the NPC party and stuff? I don't remember a single thing about it so I wouldn't know
What I meant is I tried playing it again today and I don't ever remember there being NPC parties in it, I figured it was added sometime in the last 20 years kek.
Only really an issue for prophicies since you should be max level with max armor by the time you get access to other campaigns in factions and nightfall.
not really a "100% stick with your main" kinda game. like half the fun is experimenting with your profession's skills and adjusting your build for an area
play through a campaign as a caster or a melee and you'll have very different experiences
in guild wars level 20 is max level, and you don't just keep perpetually leveling up and power creeping
factions and nightfall have tutorial islands that you start on, once you finish the island you move on to the main story. characters from other campaigns come over at the end of the island, they can go back and explore, do a couple missions, but they can't do quests there. the rest of the game expects you to be level 20 at that point, and for the rest of the game
prophecies levels you much more slowly by having lower xp rewards. it has a starter area you irreversibly leave, then you do 7 missions and some quests, then you hit the port of Lion's Arch, where characters from other campaigns come in. however, you aren't expected to be level 20 at this point, and can play like >50% of the game before hitting max level, compared to 20% for the other campaigns
if you want to be on-level, you can play a prophecies character first, and take them to the other continents after they max. you can also toggle on a hard-mode after you beat each campaign, that will make enemies in every zone difficult
>drop GW after Nightfall because of reasons >come back years after GW:EN comes out >get wrecked, cannot finish it, totally lost the rhythm of the game >never recapture the good times of the first three games >GW2 happens
Thanks for reading my blog.
>favorite gw waifu
Chiyo, beast of a build for being a henchie and carried my ass through Kaineng over 15 years ago. And she's cute. Honorary mention to Cynn for being the best class. >favorite enemy
If we count special enemies, Kanaxai because he's badass. For generic enemies probably Charr, just because they're so satisfying to slaughter. Afflicted too, because exploding zombies are fun. >favorite mini pet
Baby Black Moa
>Log into account >first time in years >no GW2 account >entering wrong password gives entirely different prompt than entering the right >contact support >"hey my account is locked, these are my characters, this is my first character, these are the holiday events and some specific items I like and this is the email and password for it" >"hmmmm seems you don't have an arenanet account associated with the game" >what >commence about a month of going back and forth >ended in no account access, may as well be deleted
Don't give them money. This used to be my favorite MMO. Used to.
>actually didn't have shadow steps >had shroud of silence instead of temple strike
Frick, it's been so long. Same thing though, having you on your healer was a death sentence for the party
10 dollars but that mean you're giving money to morons, hmmmm
I guess you can reationalize it as showing them that the game is still bringing in money and worth keeping around
>$10 for a dead game is worth keeping around
And people will dare say gw2 is dead and a waste of monetary resources
they've said GW1 takes practically no resources at all to keep running so even 10 bucks probably covers a noteworthy chunk of the operating costs
>a ten dollar profit margin
>to prove that the thing theyve already been keeping around is worth keeping around
Lol
Keeping GW1 alive apparently costs about as much as a single GW2 server.
The entirety of GW1 takes about as much as the chat server of GW2. The devs have said that GW1 will always be up as long as GW2 is running; GW1 costs so little that they don't even factor it into the budget. Their last update, in February, specifically mentioned six years of uninterrupted service--no downtime.
I don't play GW2 but I hear crazy shit about seamless patches and no maintenance there either. How entire industry hasn't lifted that from Arena Net is beyond me.
The same guy who coded Guild Wars was ex-Blizzard and also coded battle.net, dude is a wizard.
https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/scaling-guild-wars-for-massive-concurrency
yeah the founders and OG ANet crowd had some real wizards and networking masters, I believe Mike O'Brien especially is considered an incredibly good programmer, doubt the studio currently has anyone living up to the original standards
It's crazy how good Shing Jea is compared to the rest of the campaign. I was playing guild wars in release order with a buddy who had only played gw2, and we dropped the game a couple of missions after making it to kaineng. We made it through all of prophecies without any hiccups. We also tried going through nightfall afterwards but we dropped that after a couple of play sessions too.
Kaineng is a dreary environment but personally I've always loved the zombie apocalypse meatgrinder missions and the sewers. 16-man Vizunah square is glorious carnage. It's all worth it for the Jade Sea anyway.
It might just be cause of him. Honestly I can't say I necessarily hated it when I played solo. I mainly had trouble with the afflicted condition that would just kill me if I wasn't paying attention to where I was standing.
For me, going to level 20 in pre-searing made it more enjoyable to experience the rest of the story. Would've kept my character as a perma-pre, but it was actually the one I made to play with my friend. I just had to wait for him for so long that I managed to hit 20 with some fairly casual play.
kaineng is supposed to be claustrophobic and ugly so you break out into the back half of the game and go from sewers and shantytowns to beautiful forests and seas
give it another shot
Kaineng has its moments
The worst places are the middle of the city on ground floor and the sewers
The whole zone around the docks by the market outpost is kino, the whole zone on the roofs of the city by senju's corner is kino, the whole "transitional zone" between the sewers and the city's gate is kino
comfy
bump
Do you guys have a guild going on?
yeah, need the name of a character to invite you
Richard Nightwing
added
monk with ai party members blows
elementalist has faceroll damage output, mesmer has that plus reaction time and anticipation, dervish or assassin if you want melee
i'm not very active, if that's not an issue can I also get an invite? Korban Parisi
we're not gonna kick for inactivity or anything, it's pretty casual
and sent
Look at how long some of the longest offline members have been missing.
Got the game. Any classes that have a high APM? I like to press the buttons. The only thing I've played was Monk in Nightfall and from what I remember it didn't really appeal to me.
You are constantly pressing buttons with most classes.
In my experience dervish has the highest apm, at least with shredding enchantments to spam abilities
>mostly chinese theme expansion
>ancient evil is japanese
What did they mean by this?
>250 years later everything is Korean for some reason
>implying the jade technology isnt chinese-inspired
>all the way down to the machines actively trying to kill you
No, I'm talking about how in GW2 Cantha suddenly everyone has Korean names and wear Korean clothes. It's bizarre. It's beyond obvious that the writers were just chasing the stupid Korea fad, consistency be damned.
>Korea fad
there was a Korea fad?
Squid Games and BTS got some traction and the Korean government put a bunch of money on trying to export their pop culture. Worked on some women at least, as I know several who got addicted to K-dramas like it's fricking crack.
>that the writers were just chasing the stupid Korea fad
NCSoft is a asiatic company, anon.
Writers were just doing their job to jerk off their handlers. The fact that it was an utter shitshow is a different matter.
NCsoft is Korean and most likely forced them to make it Korean or they wouldn't allow Cantha at all. The Canthan district in Divinity's Reach famously got scrapped before launch (hence the Great Collapse) because people (read: NCsoft) thought mixing East Asian cultures together like in the original Cantha was offensive. Nobody hates East Asians more than other East Asians.
WAKARIMASEN
Funny how Guild Wars 2 shilling has died out and I didn't even notice.
GW1, EotN excluded, gave me the comfiest MMO experience to date, but I can't go back anymore - player-world interaction is extremely dated, especially in terms of UI features like a complete lack of armor/weapon preview.
>that thing is supposed to be a human god
gods in gw lore are basically powerful space travelers who dropped the humans off at tyria right? guess they picked up a tentacle alien along the way
yes, the gods are not native to Tyria
here is Da Lore
there's more crazy shit too but I can't find it
>whoa homie
/dance
>Funny how Guild Wars 2 shilling has died out and I didn't even notice.
such a thing never existed, though. if anything guild wars 2 has had a VERY vocal minority shitting on it from the beta days. mainly because it wasn't guild wars 1.
>gw 2 has been out longer than gw 1 had been when gw 2 released
why hasn't there been a gw3?
I 'member, and thanks to the last few threads I decided to pick it up again, just in time for the new anniversary
How safe is it to buy gold/ectos?
Has any one had any experience with this?
probably safe, but why do it
hop on right now and I'll give you a nick set, you turn it in for 5 nick gifts, sell each for 10e in kamadan, sell each ecto to a mat trader for 5 plat, 250 plat in 15 mins
and that's long, because he's in a more awkward place than usual this week
I understand, but is this a good deal? Because it does smell like a scam, but then again GW1 is dead.
>real world trading for materials in a dead game
I say do it, sounds like a very wise financial decision
What I don't understand is this. Is it that hard to sell ectos?
Reminder that
has a regular and active Guild Wars thread AND guild. Right now, some guys are running through the Prophecies campaign again (the guild has played through all three campaigns before + gets together to run dungeons sometimes.)
If you're an old player or want to be a new player, come to the thread and post your IGN for a guild invite. Lots of people to do stuff with.
im still mad at gw2 for turning the charr into dindus
we lived in ascalon before you chud
cry about it
They said Abaddon made them do that in GW1.
im still mad at gw2 for existing
Oh you guys are luxon, wish the guild was kurzick instead
I already bought long ago, but even I would say that they should give mercs a discount. They're pretty great QoL stuff to have in your game.
Post your dopest armor. For me it's everything Ranger. Interestingly enough only male characters got the cool trench coat designs.
The Primeval armor for me. Even today, I still think its one of the coolest looking armor. I remember buying that pack for GW 2 at the first month of the game, but it was very underwhelming
By the way, how many of you guys have GWAMM and/or 50/50 HOM? I know I have both and proudly have GWAMM in both game, not that I still play GW 2. I still play GW1 from time to time, however.
>By the way, how many of you guys have GWAMM and/or 50/50 HOM?
reporting in. also, for me, and my female warrior it's marhan grotto(elite gladiator) all the way with a mix of different helms/stats for running. for some reason I remember using the charr helm.
>for some reason I remember using the charr helm.
Good man.
I used to drape my girl in the elite charr hide full set from the grotto.
it's hazy but yeah there might have been a specific reason or it might have been a certain stat/rune. I kind of remember it NOT being max stat but was useful...
I remember hoarding Charr pelts in my storage from all the Pre-searing characters. Just as a memento, instead of any practical use as a fur salvage.
nice. I too did the LDOA before it was made easy.
Stats probably. You do need multiple one for each attribute.
>how many of you guys have GWAMM and/or 50/50 HOM
I could never be fricked to do vanquishing and cartography and all that shit
Vanquishing can be pretty fun and chill when you aren't wandering around looking for the last patrol on a map that takes ten minutes to walk across.
Cartography, though. Holy SHIT does that shit suck to do.
maybe I have adhd, even with ims I just can't bear running around an empty map alone looking for one last group, no matter how good the preceding gameplay is
I did it a couple times on some of the larger maps, and probably never will again
Vabbian armor for male necromancers is one of my most favourite fantasy outfits among entire vidya industry, despite it being released so many years ago.
Special mention to the Mesmer Primeval pant. They're essentially panties if you wear any Top that doesn't cover the bottom.
You know why they did this. They also never play GW 1 at all. Almost no one did in the GW 2 team.
>Special mention
oh my
trenchcoats stop being cool once you're past 13yo
I bet you don't even like katanas anymore. gay.
How did you deal with NO JUMPING?
because theyre fat, and fat people cant jump in the first place so theyre used to it
epic
it was an age before jumping puzzles or even any real vertical design beyond some ways to maneuver in certain dungeons as far as mmorpgs went. basically, jumping existed for players to absentmindedly mash the space bar as their characters ran from place to place. it didn't bother me just like it didn't in ff11.
GW is more like Diablo or cRPGs than an MMO or action game. There's no jumping in those games either.
>type /jump
>jump
don't see what all the fuss is about
for me, it's Elementalist Elite Canthan armor
My fondest memories of GW were Guild vs Guild battles. My guild was really good at it too, regularly top 10 in the 2005-2007 peak era. I remember facing War Machine (second global championship winners) and actually beat them one time.
I miss it so much bros.
qq does gvg scrims every weekend
discord dot gg/74tKzsE
I will never forgive them for what they did to based Balthazar.
I'll never get why they didn't make Menzies the villain. Anyone who played GW1 has probably wanted to see him since Dhuum.
You know why.
Even in their own story he borderline seems like the good guy. The rest of the gods fricking bailed with Kormir staying behind an extra couple minutes to say "Yeah, you guys are fricked. No, we're not helping because... uh... we just won't, okay? Peace out, losers." Meanwhile Balthazar stays behind on this supposedly doomed world at least trying to fight the dragons. And he's fricking killed for it.
Frick GW2.
>"Yeah, you guys are fricked. No, we're not helping because... uh... we just won't, okay? Peace out, losers."
Wasn't it something worse, like in the vein of "Sure, we had our duty in regards to keeping humanity alive, but it feels like we have transcended silly and selfish things like this and therefore we don't need you anymore"?
fluffy
What are your favorite myths that were actually true? (Excluding myths that were later implemented by A-Net like the Duum fight)
Can someone give me a short version of GW2s story? I played it only few hours at release, but remember them hyped up dragons at the end of GW1.
You kill the dragons and have a friendly dragon (Glint's offspring) absorb all their powers to become the ultimate rainbow dragon.
>Dragons are ending the world but for some reason people aren't terribly concerned about it
>You are a [insert race here] and do some [race] stuff but this doesn't matter
>You join [one of three orders] and do some [order] stuff but this doesn't matter
>You and vegetable man unite the orders to fight the undead dragon in Orr
>Victory!
>Manic pixie evil techno-genius vegetable lady awakens the vegetable dragon
>The united orders go to fight the vegetable dragon, but the vegetable men were susceptible to the vegetable dragon's influence, go insane, and the battle is a disaster
>Rally the survivors, enlist the aid of some locals, and defeat the vegetable dragon
>Dead dragon's energy gets redirected to one of Glint's surviving eggs which hatches and bonds with (you)
>Turns out killing dragons is destabilizing the world's magic btw
>A mursaat shows up and says "I'm cool now, let's fight dragons"
>The mursaat is actually Balthazar in disguise! We have to stop him because... We just have to, okay!?!!?
>Rest of the gods say "Yeah, good luck with that, gays" and leave
>Track Big B down, kill him before he can destroy the world (save it) by killing dragons
>Go kill Palawa Joko because he was too based
>Go kill the dragon Big B was trying to kill, feed it to our baby dragon so that there's no consequences
>Charr civil war, no one cares
>Lure ice dragon and fire dragon into killing each other in the most anticlimactic bullshit I've ever seen, frick
>Go to Cantha(Kimchi flavored now) for reasons, find the last dragon, the momma dragon
>She's super chill and helping the asiatics make super magitech
>Also she created Tyria originally
>But she's going to go crazy because of the evil Dragonvoid (I'm not making this term up) that was created by killing the other dragons
>Have to tearfully mercy kill her
>Your baby dragon is basically now the new mother goddess of the world and fricks off
Thanks, I hate it.
>Lure ice dragon and fire dragon into killing each other in the most anticlimactic bullshit I've ever seen, frick
I can't believe they threw the destroyer dragon away like that after EOTN hyped him up so much.
pixie evil techno-genius vegetable lady awakens the vegetable dragon
That way too small. She and the entire LS1 set the stage in regards to how shitty everything gets.
>a short version of GW2s story
hahaha
Biggest problem with GW2's story is either they kept rotating writers for every update OR they generally had no idea what to do with the story.
Who's the blindforld dude? Seems the only non-caricature.
He's Rytlock. He used to be a member of the Destiny's Edge guild before the human of the guild, Logan (descendant of Gwen), fricked up their chance to kill the crystal dragon by running off mid-battle to save his queen, who didn't even need his help because she's an ultra mesmer. Rytlock's mostly just a generic charr officer who carries around Prince Rurik's sword. He ends up falling into the mists and becoming sort of a spirit channeler (hence the blindfold) and incidentally frees Balthazar from the "Too based to be free" cage the other gods had put him in.
Unfortunately he gets a lot more lame when he meets some pussy druid charr bumpkins who have families and he starts feeling bad about not being a real family with his b***h and his son.
Missing the moronic asura but regardless, this is easily the worst supporting character in an RPG I ever seen. I hated every single one of them and I hate how they keep fricking up the story by merely existing.
that shit is hilarious and perfectly encapsulates the sjw garbage at its height
>disabled asura genius
>lesbian couple
>OMGSOCUTE cat
>race mixed mutt
>broken old fan favorite character
is Rox black-coded? i just realized she had dreads
How long is the game gonna be on sale? Been trying to buy the complete collection all day, it just gives an error saying my purchase has been prevented and support hasn't answered yet.
the Steam sale ends on thursday so probably until then
I have that error too
>Buy Nightfall for my brother on xmas at Gamestop
>Watch him open the box
>Two unripped CD key slips pop out
>Stunned as both keys work
Anyone else experience this? Maybe just got super lucky?
Haven't played this since like 2003, did they change anything since the original? Like adding the NPC party and stuff? I don't remember a single thing about it so I wouldn't know
yeah you can have a full party of fully customizable NPC allies now
yeah you can frick elementalist aziure now
>did they change anything since the original?
nah it never left beta
What I meant is I tried playing it again today and I don't ever remember there being NPC parties in it, I figured it was added sometime in the last 20 years kek.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Henchman
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Heroes <-- these are fully customizable (gear/skills/secondary profession)
So how exactly do campaigns work? Can I play all the content with one character or are there any restrictions?
You miss out the prologues from other campaigns but you can jump in to continue past it.
So "play the prologue on three different characters->play the rest of the campaign on the character I want"?
What about being overleveled?
Levels don't mean shit in GW1. Cap is 20 and you'll reach it REAL fast.
Only really an issue for prophicies since you should be max level with max armor by the time you get access to other campaigns in factions and nightfall.
>What about being overleveled?
Your mind will be blown.
not really a "100% stick with your main" kinda game. like half the fun is experimenting with your profession's skills and adjusting your build for an area
play through a campaign as a caster or a melee and you'll have very different experiences
You can do everything except the starter areas with any character. Once you get to the main city for each campaign you can go to the others.
in guild wars level 20 is max level, and you don't just keep perpetually leveling up and power creeping
factions and nightfall have tutorial islands that you start on, once you finish the island you move on to the main story. characters from other campaigns come over at the end of the island, they can go back and explore, do a couple missions, but they can't do quests there. the rest of the game expects you to be level 20 at that point, and for the rest of the game
prophecies levels you much more slowly by having lower xp rewards. it has a starter area you irreversibly leave, then you do 7 missions and some quests, then you hit the port of Lion's Arch, where characters from other campaigns come in. however, you aren't expected to be level 20 at this point, and can play like >50% of the game before hitting max level, compared to 20% for the other campaigns
if you want to be on-level, you can play a prophecies character first, and take them to the other continents after they max. you can also toggle on a hard-mode after you beat each campaign, that will make enemies in every zone difficult
Want to get into GW1 but the 800+ms ping in NA turns me off
ynr the kryta bomber
>drop GW after Nightfall because of reasons
>come back years after GW:EN comes out
>get wrecked, cannot finish it, totally lost the rhythm of the game
>never recapture the good times of the first three games
>GW2 happens
Thanks for reading my blog.
Last thread this was fun, so let's do another one
>favorite gw waifu
>favorite enemy
>favorite mini pet
For me it's
Cynn
Thorn wolf
Mini Hydra
>favorite gw waifu
For me it's Eve. I always had her in my party when she was available.
Eve was such a cutie. Really there's no bad answer except for kormir
> gw waifu
For me, it’s Livia.
Mmm.
For me, it's the punished australian tomboy. She interrupted so many important enemy skills
>favorite gw waifu
Chiyo, beast of a build for being a henchie and carried my ass through Kaineng over 15 years ago. And she's cute. Honorary mention to Cynn for being the best class.
>favorite enemy
If we count special enemies, Kanaxai because he's badass. For generic enemies probably Charr, just because they're so satisfying to slaughter. Afflicted too, because exploding zombies are fun.
>favorite mini pet
Baby Black Moa
>Log into account
>first time in years
>no GW2 account
>entering wrong password gives entirely different prompt than entering the right
>contact support
>"hey my account is locked, these are my characters, this is my first character, these are the holiday events and some specific items I like and this is the email and password for it"
>"hmmmm seems you don't have an arenanet account associated with the game"
>what
>commence about a month of going back and forth
>ended in no account access, may as well be deleted
Don't give them money. This used to be my favorite MMO. Used to.
>log into account
>I'm the guildmaster now
>no one else logged in 4 years
🙁
I wish the plant homies were in a better game, they're cool.
I'll be able to play tomorrow, maybe even tonight. Any anons want to start a fresh campaign with me? There seem to be alot of new people
there's a group on prophecies, only up to picrel
you can catch up by friday pretty easily
alright Ganker, post your favorite enemy design
Desert hydras were cuter
yeah that's true
I always liked the cool 3 name thing
>hidden spawn triggered by proximity
>shadow steps to your backline
>temple strikes your healer
These homosexuals were my favorite. Great design too
>actually didn't have shadow steps
>had shroud of silence instead of temple strike
Frick, it's been so long. Same thing though, having you on your healer was a death sentence for the party
bought this last night for 8$. It kinda feels like playing dragon age x wow. I rolled necromancer