Guild Wars

[Addled Platypus]

anyone waste time there ?

picked it up in a bargin bin...not to bad

lovin my warrior-necro combo character

I see plenty of other online gamers let their charaxters dance ???

[DrSpike]

Use / dance.

I spent well over a thousand hours on GW, across PvE characters for all the classes and PvP with Jamski and others. It's truly a great game, but is a bit stagnant for me now.

[Harovan]

It's a good game and probably the best for PvP out there (not much experience with that, though). For me, it's the ideal "filler" between other games, as playing costs nothing. The only bad side is the average player base, which is the worst bunch of mother****ing idiots I have ever seen in ANY game.

Originally posted by Addled Platypus
I see plenty of other online gamers let their charaxters dance ???

Exhibit A, although that's really harmless. You're going to see a lot more (and a lot worse).

[Jamski]

3600 hours played... holy crap. I needed to change to something less time-consuming like WoW.

[Main_Brain]

/deaths

[UnOrthOdOx]

I played tons. I still play when/if I have the time.

I've beat every one of them, some with multiple characters, have a toon of every class. I'm not much into the titles, though. But I do have one I'm slowly trying to get all the elites unlocked with.

As Ralph says, it's kind of a filler game, in between things, leave, come back, no problems.

Which chapter did you pick up?

You'll be able to completely avoid the idiots if you get either Eye of the North or Nightfall, and pick up the heros from there. All the missions are doable with heroes. (well, they're doable with henchmen, but much easier with heroes)

[Addled Platypus]

started with the very begining

currently lvl 5

[Harovan]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
You'll be able to completely avoid the idiots if you get either Eye of the North or Nightfall, and pick up the heros from there. All the missions are doable with heroes. (well, they're doable with henchmen, but much easier with heroes)

That's actually a good idea, I have seen people doing amazing things with heroes (I don't have any as I have only Prophecies).

Of course, like Spikey suggested, you can just join a good guild, but for my GW playstyle (very casual) that defeats the purpose as "filler game".

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jamski
3600 hours played... holy crap. I needed to change to something less time-consuming like WoW.

A lot of that was afk I guess.......I figure my /hours is about 50% higher than actual playtime.

I logged in a while back to see what was happening actually but no one was around and I guessed you were all playing WoW.

[DrSpike]

Edit: DP

[DrSpike]

Btw I disagree that GW is necessarily a filler game. Particularly on the PvP side there's more depth and replayability than any other RPG I've tried.

And early on, when it was revolutionary (and it really was) I spent many happy hours PvEing. I class myself at a pretty serious gamer and it was my main game for about 9 months on release, and I've come back to it for several long spells since then.

[Jamski]

I miss GW, I might fire it up for a bit again.

I was in Morocco last week, and it was sooo Nightfall. I got the itch.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Btw I disagree that GW is necessarily a filler game. Particularly on the PvP side there's more depth and replayability than any other RPG I've tried.

And early on, when it was revolutionary (and it really was) I spent many happy hours PvEing. I class myself at a pretty serious gamer and it was my main game for about 9 months on release, and I've come back to it for several long spells since then.

By all means, it was like that when I first walked into it.

NOW, though (every chapter beaten, all classes played, some PVP done, etc), it STILL remains a filler game rather than a dust collector. And I look forward to GW2 and hope I have a machine that will run it.

[self biased]

huh. my wife likes guild wars. i think it's mostly because of the pretty bells and whistles when compared to diablo ii.

[UnOrthOdOx]

2 completely differing styles of games there. Guild Wars does at least have a little strategic thought to it.