Which campaign should I be playing? - Page 2 - Guild Wars Forums

Prince Rogrs Nelson · Dec 30, 2010, 02:27 PM // 14:27

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Originally Posted by gremlin

Prophesies I have to say is old style gw and its dated badly.

Its the largest of the games and it has to be because so much of it is devoted to low level play.
Players do not reach full power and have full sized parties till its half finished, it has to have two start areas pre and post searing ascalon.

This has never been repeated in the following games because its a bad idea and divides the beginners into two mutually exclusive areas.
If there was a way to gain legendary defender of ascalon outside of presearing it would be deserted.

The modern game needs to give players an easy start with good access to other players for trade and party formation access to the hero system which like it or not is a mainstay of the current game.

I like to think anet learned something with each game the wrote and made improvements, prophesies is a great place to adventure but no longer a great place to start a new character.

Most of this seems fairly correct to me (disagree about LDoA being the only reason people stay in Pre).

Except that if you're really into the lore and storyline, as some have said, starting in Prophecies is an obvious choice.

Won't take long to try each one. Just dive right in!

Quaker · Dec 30, 2010, 03:15 PM // 15:15

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Originally Posted by Sima

I wanted to know if there's any point in playing the first two campaigns or if I should just disregard them and start playing the last campaign and/or the exp pack.

Depends upon what sort of "point" you require. The "point" to playing any of GW is to have "fun", so, yes there is a point to playing the earlier chapters.
However, that said, if you want to jump in and play the game in a manor closest to what is the current "meta", I'd suggest starting in Nightfall and going to EotN as soon as you get to level 20. This will get you into the basic gameplay, plus Heroes, plus more Heroes and dungeons (EotN), plus allow you to do War In Kryta content by completing EotN.
You may, of course, still want to finish Nightfall, Factions, and Prophecies [Vanilla] to get to the various other endgame content, but there is also the factor that GW2 will be coming out some day/year and you may want to migrate to that along with most GW players.

I Hate Chips · Dec 30, 2010, 10:44 PM // 22:44

I would play nightfall first, but thats my own decision. I just love the end of nigtfall

Dec 30, 2010, 10:44 PM // 22:44	#23
I Hate Chips Krytan Explorer Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Why do you want to know where I live? Pervert..... Guild: [TRL] Profession: Me/A	I would play nightfall first, but thats my own decision. I just love the end of nigtfall