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BladeDVD · May 01, 2007, 03:31 AM // 03:31

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Originally Posted by Stomphoof

Ok, lets say I do the starter stuff with my elementalist in Factions, could I move him to Prophecies and start at the newbie area in Prophecies?

Factions and Nightfall characters, once they can get access to the right quests ( Factions to Prophecies: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Chaos_in_Kryta ; Nightfall to Prophecies: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Terror_in_Tyria) can get to Lion's Arch.

That is also, by design, about where you can start doing Prophecies quests as a non-Proph. born character. (There are a few you can do before that, but not many). You can fight your way backwards to do the missions before Lion's Arch, but if I remember correctly, you will not get any experience points or skill points for completing those missions. Starting with D'Alessio Seaboard, you start getting exp. and skill points for completing missions.

One of the nice things about Prophecies vs. Factions/Nightfall is that there are a number of quests you can do that provide skills as a reward. That can save you quite a bit of money as buying skills can get expensive in terms of skill points and money if you aren't prudent in the beginning. Some also feel that the slower pace of the Proph. campaign promotes better learning of your characters skills.

As for changing professions, you have a couple choices, but I have to say that doing it through Proph. is a bit of a pain. You have to complete 3 challenging (for beginners) missions, then do the ascension mission and then you can change your secondary profession. But you aren't done yet. To change your profession, you have to unlock it first. To do that, you have to do a quest for each profession you wish to unlock. This is free, but a little time consuming when you just want to go /Mesmer because you want some good e-management skills. In Factions and Nightfall, once you do the appropriate mission or quest, you just have to pay 500 gp to change for the first time. After that, just use the Skill window to change.

Another alternative is to ascend however you wish, and then go to the Great Temple of Balthazar in the PVP area and there is a profession changer there. For 500gp (again, first time per prof. only), he'll change you to whatever secondary you want.

Finally, Prophecies, instead of a starter isle, has pre-searing. That is only accessible to Prophecies born characters, and even they can't go back once they leave.

The grim cesta with the -50 health can be bought from other players for about 5k. I like starting characters in Prophecies for the skill quests and the Cesta, though I now run them (with my own second account) to Factions to level up to 20 more quickly first, then go back and do the quests to get free skills.

Hope that's all clear and answers your questions. Have fun in the game.

Stomphoof · May 01, 2007, 02:48 PM // 14:48

Thanks for the all the help everyone!

So far I am getting my legs so to speak.

I decided to go Elementalist Monk. I hit level 10, got my second profession and all that good stuff.

Fire is a good damage tree/skill for Elementalists right? Its all about AOE stuff from what I can tell.

May 01, 2007, 02:48 PM // 14:48	#22
Stomphoof Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Orlando Fl	Thanks for the all the help everyone! So far I am getting my legs so to speak. I decided to go Elementalist Monk. I hit level 10, got my second profession and all that good stuff. Fire is a good damage tree/skill for Elementalists right? Its all about AOE stuff from what I can tell.