Curse

Krazy Kat · Oct 31, 2009, 09:33 PM // 21:33

Many of us remember the "glory days" that was Heroes' Ascent before Factions and the old Tomb of the Primeval Kings. I think the addition of this arena will bring back many players and encourage more participation in PvP.

Basically I want an arena that:

Brings back the old maps (Scarred Earth, Broken Tower, Sacred Temples)
Removes the maps Antechamber, Fetid River, and Forgotten Shrines
Reverts the old objectives
Disables Factions, Nightfall and EoTN skills

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 31, 2009, 10:02 PM // 22:02

Waste of developer time to bring back an old, shitty version of GW for the few people who like it.

A prophecies-only arena isn't going to encourage people to play PvP.

/notsigned

kupp · Oct 31, 2009, 10:05 PM // 22:05

The user above me summed it up pretty well.

Wuhy · Nov 01, 2009, 12:09 AM // 00:09

zahr: its not shitty, prophecies was perfect, then the campaigns started to f*ck over the entire game and many players left because of this... btw kat: you would also have to revert every proph skill to what they were.
even tho i said that^, /notsigned because it would be very awkward and.. meh.. what we need here is a huge, massive overhaul of the entire fokken skill/primary attribute/weapon system.. and this won't happen

AlsPals · Nov 01, 2009, 12:11 AM // 00:11

Shit, I would play it if it went back. Nothing tops Boon Prot meta. Nothing.

Shayne Hawke · Nov 01, 2009, 12:30 AM // 00:30

Those Prophecies and Core skills are balanced for formats that also contain Factions, Nightfall, and Expansion skills, and other elements of gameplay. This wouldn't work.

Wuhy · Nov 01, 2009, 12:37 AM // 00:37

^balanced? WHAT? xD

Eragon Zarroc · Nov 01, 2009, 12:37 AM // 00:37

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Originally Posted by Krazy Kat

the "glory days" that was Heroes' Ascent

lol, should we bring back IWAY? that's what i think of first when u talk about oldschool tombs/HA. It might be neat to do a weekend where u can only use certain skills from this or that campaign; but not an entirely seperate, permanent arena. no thanx.

Zahr Dalsk · Nov 01, 2009, 01:20 AM // 01:20

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Originally Posted by Wuhy

prophecies was perfect

Prophecies was and still is a terrible campaign.

Wuhy · Nov 01, 2009, 01:36 AM // 01:36

^you, sir, are a retard, WE ARE OBVIOUSLY TALKING ABOUT PVE HERE : DDDDDDDDDDDDD I seriously can't tell you how much I'm laughing at you now. It almost hurts.

Marzipan Marci · Nov 01, 2009, 01:43 AM // 01:43

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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

Those Prophecies and Core skills are balanced for formats that also contain Factions, Nightfall, and Expansion skills, and other elements of gameplay. This wouldn't work.

This.

Horrible idea.
/notsigned.

Zahr Dalsk · Nov 01, 2009, 01:46 AM // 01:46

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Originally Posted by Wuhy

^you, sir, are a retard, WE ARE OBVIOUSLY TALKING ABOUT PVE HERE : DDDDDDDDDDDDD I seriously can't tell you how much I'm laughing at you now. It almost hurts.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but Heroes Ascent is a PvP arena.

I'm assuming you're using sarcasm and are aware of this, however. Perhaps the confusion arises from my use of "Campaign" to describe Prophecies? Campaign refers to the entire set of content in Prophecies, not merely the "campaign" as other games refer to it; that's what each Guild Wars game/volume/campaign is called. Campaign. And yes, it sucked when Prophecies was the only one.

Wuhy · Nov 01, 2009, 01:55 AM // 01:55

it didn't, pvp was balanced, fully competitive and pve was a training area for pvp, missions were used to get you ready for pvp and you did fow because it was fun, a challenge(you couldn't faceroll it with random pve skills and broken hero bars that time) and balanced. not HEY I DEAL 300 DOMOGE WITH MY CRITSCYTHE BUILD, I R AWEZOEM!!4!4 I think World of Warcraft is a good game for you, try it! : )

ps.: sarcasm is really hard to notice : O

Martin Alvito · Nov 01, 2009, 02:26 AM // 02:26

The game was fine when Prophecies was the only campaign. But HA was terrible at that time. IWAY IWAY IWAY bloodspike bloodspike IWAY bloodspike bloodspike bloodspike IWAY bloodspike...

If you want to resurrect a meta for HA, the Factions meta is the way to go. Lots of stuff was viable, and all you need to do to make it eminently playable is kill two elites (Practiced/PD) or use modern Halls win mechanics.

With all of that said, you're asking for a lot of developer time for a niche project. Won't happen.

Divine Ashes · Nov 01, 2009, 02:41 AM // 02:41

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Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but Heroes Ascent is a PvP arena.

I'm assuming you're using sarcasm and are aware of this, however. Perhaps the confusion arises from my use of "Campaign" to describe Prophecies? Campaign refers to the entire set of content in Prophecies, not merely the "campaign" as other games refer to it; that's what each Guild Wars game/volume/campaign is called. Campaign. And yes, it sucked when Prophecies was the only one.

To say Guild Wars as a whole sucked when prophecies was the only campaign is pretty ignorant, considering GvG was at its height and was possibly the funnest aspect of ANY game ever. As for HA, it was pretty terrible at the time, but at least there was more motivation to do it...there was less rank discrimination and people were still impressed with the wolves and tigers.

As for your suggestion, it's not such a great idea. That would mean Anet basically admitting Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the north ruined the game.

AlsPals · Nov 01, 2009, 02:51 AM // 02:51

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