Does anyone else have fond memories of this masterpiece? And if anyone's still playing, what's the state of the game right now? Is it worth getting back into?
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Does anyone else have fond memories of this masterpiece? And if anyone's still playing, what's the state of the game right now? Is it worth getting back into?
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Played it and it was complete garbage compared to wow peak. Wow is now garbage too so there's no reason to talk about either one. Next time make a city of heroes/villains thread.
>Played WoW
Yeah. Get the frick out of here. You and your spoiled brat opinions do not belong here.
Make sense or frick off, moron.
Not everyone's parents were willing to pay a monthly subscription to fuel their kids' gaming addiction. Therefore we resorted to playing Guild Wars instead.
Who says I was a child, moron?
You were an adult in 2005? Aight gramps time to take your antipsychotic pills.
I would but your generation seems to be eating all the pills. I wouldn't want you to cry and feel unsafe.
>Devs had to rebalance the PvP every week to nerf the meta, only for guilds to find the next meta build in under a day
>Flat levels meant the PvE playerbase became more and more spread out as new content was released.
>There were no good LFG tools or even official forums for random people to meet up.
>Heroes system later meant you don't even need other players.
It was great while it lasted but I don't really see how it was sustainable as an MMO, at least not under NCsoft.
"LFG tools" beyond hollering in shout chat killed the genre
>There were no good LFG tools
That's a good thing. Nowadays everyone pretty much just queues into random content, does it without saying anything and then fricks off again because all these shitty tools and automated processes completely ruined any social aspect of these games.
That said, GW1 was never an MMO to begin with and even the devs called it a CORPG, with the C being interchangeable for cooperative or competitive due to it's instance based nature and major pvp focus.
Remember it? My fondest gaming memories are in this game. Don't believe me idk, but I pretty much started the bunny thumper build and later on the AoE degen ranger.
God this game was so good. So much creativity. Hard as balls PvE end-game maps, excellent PvP.
The balance could be all over but it never stopped being fun. And winning the Hall of Heroes always made me feel like a fricking champ. No matter how many times I did it.
>There were no good LFG tools or even official forums for random people to meet up.
But this was in a time people hanged out in major cities, you could always easily pick up a few guys from there. Grab a hero/hench or two and get going if you can't get a full party.
This was never a struggle. You also had to look for a good, active guild/alliance. Sure, this all took some time but because of that you generally had more people around wanting to make succesful guilds and put in the necessairy time. I'd take that charm any day of the week over any modern matchmaking system that throws me in with every moron there is.
When you had to go look for party, you at least could filter out the trash yourself. This ain't an option nowadays.
Are you still playing?
Sometimes. Every few months I'll get the itch to play it for a night or two.
When Guild Wars 2 came around I helped a friend play through Gw1 because 2 was trash but he got curious about the original trilogy. It was fun to hold his hand a little bit and just point his nose in the right direction. Kinda amazed me how this game still manages to invoke a fairly intense emotional reaction from a brand new player who came into Gw almost a decade too late, but it still clicked.
I know there's a group on /vrpg/ that still plays too.
>I know there's a group on /vrpg/
They are on /vm/ actually
oh /vm/, right, my bad /vrpg/ is a shit board
there was update not long ago
Wait what?
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20240215
Brings a tear to my eye
Game was incredible before the expansions ruined it and players started the title grind.
I still remember the day I got my 15^50 flaming dragon sword and the moment I captured word of healing (back before you just did it on the corpse)
not a fan of having a squad of AI goons at all times
Guild Wars is not a MMO. It's a lobby coop game like e.g. Warframe, Destiny, Path of Exile, Diablo, Final Fantasy 14, Phantasy Star Online 2, etc.
Lumping FFXIV and Destiny in that list outs you as a moron. Scope is debatable but both of those games have you organically come across other players out in the world which is NOT a lobby game like GW or PoE.
Just got back into it recently;
>Kamadan American districts actually get full at peak hours
>Most pve content you're going to be doing solo unless it happens to fall on a zaishen embark daily mission
>There is a community of collectors that buy your old and rare items for mega inflated prices (I sold 100 jade wind orbs for 900 ectos, which funded my first obsidian armour)
>Organised PvP gets organised regularly through guild wars global discord
>Random Arenas is infested with wintrading bots that auto report you, you can bypass this by teaming up with someone so the bots don't get the majority vote, but then you'll just be farming bots
It's worth doing a campaign play through or two with heroes if you enjoy the gameplay (build crafting is still fun, if you are an uncontrollable meta prostitute it might get stale before the end)
Good game with the sequel being one of the worst games of all time
Guild Wars in the Factions era is probably my favourite vidya experience of all time.
Everything before was just leading up to it, and everything since was a slow decline from it.
It's still playable today, just in maintenance mode. I imagine it can be hard to find players to complete the more demanding content with if you don't have a full row of heroes to make your own party with.
wowtrannies really missed out on the only good mmo in it's prime. Too bad gw2 is troony game
>Yo! New Guy. Join My Gang or else...
>You Would Be Wise To Join My Gang
More like noobzicks, Luxon4lyf.
Noobzicks got the cooler armours, though.
Luxon armor had a lot of exposed midriff for girls so it's strictly superior
Same for the men, I loved male paragons!
Kurzicks got this, though.
Nnnngggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
>GW2 just had expansion this August
>they already about to announce another one
>there was 5 years gap between PoF and EoD
so Anet went full Blizz
I wouldn’t call finally getting your development pipeline in order and following a roadmap “going full blizz”. Unless you mean the quality is going to drop, but this is GW2 how much lower can it go
Theres loads of people that still play they're all in kaineng city.
They literally nerfed my years old builds and now its impossible to play the game cause builds just don't work anymore or if they do they're just watered down neutered versions of how they used to be
Checking if i'm banned cause apparently you're not allowed opinions or to give feedback
>ToS: don't say nono words
>says nono words
>banned
Who could have seen this coming? Just go to Ganker/banned. You're not a phoneposter, right?
It isn't even an MMO, it's just a hub with coop missions.
no jump = no buy
I missed the boat when it came out because I had a potato PC. This older guy adored at the SA spinoff I frequented shilled it pretty hard and I was in love with the visuals. He'd write little snippets about his 'adventures' to go along with the screencaps and made the game seem way bigger than it actually was.
Then I bought the Chink expansion and it turns out I could run the game just fine (lol) but by that time everybody had moved on. Still fun though. I mained a ritualist necro with a minion bomber build and some healing on the side. Years after I found Eye of the North at a bargain bin and bought that too but never got around trying it.
What classes are fun? I've heard that monk specifically is quite boring in solo play and am wondering if there are any others to avoid.
Some necromancer undead army combi since no other games have quite done the same.
Thanks to dual classing you can make anything fun tbh. Monk can be okay it's just been overtaken by other classes since the first iteration, you'd be better off going X/Mo if you want to do monk stuff.
Mesmer/X or Elementalist/X is quite fun for caster stuff
For Melee you have tons of choice of flavour, Warriors are actually fun in this game because you can create a complicated skillset for yourself, Assassin's and dervish can also have some funky builds
In full player parties (and full PvP) Monk is one of the best healer/protector classes ever designed, but pretty lackluster in bot parties for sure.
Unless there's some class fantasy you really want to play, good old Warrior is probably still the best to start out with. At least something frontline, because that's where the chads play.
Just looking at the classes available in Prophecies warrior and ranger seemed the most appealing, so I think I will go with warrior.
Ranger is also an extremely good starter class.
Very versatile and the most self contained class of GW1.
not an expert on the game by any means butin my experience a warrior/ranger can be played as a pure ranger. you get all the skills and stuff from your second class with the main difference being armor, which is locked to your class.
Rangers have expertise as a special class stat that reduces the energy cost of skills, and without it you can't really use Ranger skills effectively with a Warrior's low energy pool.
Besides, a Warrior should be up in homies' faces fricking shit up, not plinking at shit from the midline like some homosexual P*r*gon. Eww.
also you can respec your second class on the fly (or maybe there's a very minor cost, somebody correct me if I'm wrong).
I strongly recommend you make a character in NF or Factions. The progression in Proph is ridiculously slow, and getting the extra 30 skill points is a major hassle compared to the other starting areas.
Is this the consensus for someone starting from scratch? To just begin in Nightfall, then work your way around the other campaigns? Or do we start a different character for every different campaign?
I would start in Nightfall to collect the heroes, which are NPCs whose skills and equipment you can costumize, and account wide unlocks at that iirc.
There's ways to rush a new Prophecies character to the other expansions, but it's been a very long time and I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly how.
Any character can finish all the campaigns regardless of where you start. Nightfall levels up you much faster than Proph and gives you heroes like the other anon said.
Paragon became the best class in the game when they got heroic refrain. Most classes go assassin as their second class and just use good old Jagged Strike>Fox Fang>Death Blosson
was it really an mmo though?