How's Guild Wars?

Sirus · Jun 14, 2005

Lately I've been pretty fed up with WoW, because of general boringness and unbalanced sides in PvP. I've heard Guild Wars is good and I played in beta a bit, but not enough to give me a good idea of what it's like. I'm mainly a soloer(If only because getting a group together is a pain in the ass). And I want to know what you guys think of it.

Walks with the Snails · Jun 14, 2005

I like it a lot. You pretty much get a nice MMORPG without the monthly fees.

Soloing is no problem. I pretty much solo everything except the story missions with my warrior/monk. I could even get away with soloing most of those but it's nice for a change of pace and easy to find a group then. It's supposed to get harder, but I'm still soloing against fair-sized groups of 16-19th level enemies and doing fine. The only thing that gives me much trouble soloing is when I run into a group with a debuffer, poisoner, and healer, since they can bleed me off faster than I can kill them. There's also NPC henchmen with fairly effective AI (better than some of the players I've wound up with) if you don't feel like messing with finding a good group.

Sol Invictus · Jun 14, 2005

Let me put it this way: Guild Wars is the digital equivilent of sex, if you like PVP and low-grind gameplay.

Snuffles · Jun 14, 2005

So far I've been able to solo every mission/quest if that is what you want to do. I have co-op'd plenty as well but i'm just too impatient to wait for people and at the same time I quite like to stop mid mission/quest and grab a drink (totally do-able with henchmen). I'm basically taking three chars through the game, doing each mission/quest thrice. The story is quite nice to follow

I enjoyed WoW, although i'm getting sick of it now after four months so i'm sort of in the same boat, I would say it is worth a try.

SerpentKing · Jul 7, 2005

kill

Yeah, I've heard a lot about Guild Wars, and contemplated buying it the other day. The idea of free monthly gameplay is attractive, but how's the lag?

Sarvis · Jul 7, 2005

Re: kill

SerpentKing said:
Yeah, I've heard a lot about Guild Wars, and contemplated buying it the other day. The idea of free monthly gameplay is attractive, but how's the lag?

I haven't noticed any. Of course, I have broadband so ymmv...

Walks with the Snails · Jul 7, 2005

There's a little lag but it's not bad. It hardly ever ruins a fight, it's worst in populated cities and when switching maps.

Shagnak · Jul 7, 2005

Tama/Deathboy plays from NZ using a 56k modem. He was quite impressed with the low lag even in that situation.

Elwro · Jul 7, 2005

I have a 128kb connection and the game plays very well.

malhovic · Jul 12, 2005

Well so far, I have played this a bit and enjoyed it. One problem, you can not skip pre-searing to my knowledge as i would like the option to start out as a more powerful character from the beginning. I am not talking the ability to start at Level 20 right off the bat, i am talking about starting off as a level 8-10 character and working right into post-searing. That and I think they should unlock the PVP system so that we don't have to play the character all the way through first and then be able to use them in PVP.

Sarvis · Jul 12, 2005

malhovic said:
Well so far, I have played this a bit and enjoyed it. One problem, you can not skip pre-searing to my knowledge as i would like the option to start out as a more powerful character from the beginning.

Says the guy who never wants to leave pre-searing...

I am not talking the ability to start at Level 20 right off the bat, i am talking about starting off as a level 8-10 character and working right into post-searing. That and I think they should unlock the PVP system so that we don't have to play the character all the way through first and then be able to use them in PVP.

Actually you don't, one of the recent updates gives you points for PvP battles which can be redeemed to unlock skills for PvP only chars. Of course you get fairly few points in the early arenas, but you can still do it.

lilyve · Oct 1, 2005

Guild Wars does not require a monthly fee in order to play, making the title unique among high-profile MMORPGs.

mathboy · Oct 1, 2005

Good thing you dug up a two and a half months old thread where it's already been said then.

Screaming_life · Oct 1, 2005

guild wars is wank

Shagnak · Oct 1, 2005

lilyve said:
Guild Wars does not require a monthly fee in order to play, making the title unique among high-profile MMORPGs.

Neither does the vanilla version of Anarchy Online. Well, not at the moment, anyway - and I think the free access has been recently extended by another year (??).

Wow.
Old thread.

How's Guild Wars?

Sirus

Liturgist

Walks with the Snails

Erudite

Sol Invictus

Erudite

Snuffles

Novice

SerpentKing

Novice

Sarvis

Erudite

Walks with the Snails

Erudite

Shagnak

Shagadelic

Elwro

Arcane

malhovic

Novice

Sarvis

Erudite

lilyve

Novice

mathboy

Liturgist

Screaming_life

Liturgist

Shagnak

Shagadelic