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d4nowar · Apr 11, 2006, 06:09 AM // 06:09

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Originally Posted by Phaern Majes

Play WoW for a month, you'll be crawling back begging for GW to take you in again

Thats what I do every time I get bored. Its actually a pretty good strategy. OMG grind. Oh hey... GW! I'm going to get to the top of the ladder. *Next day* Woo!

Chicken of the Seas · Apr 11, 2006, 07:06 AM // 07:06

To me personally now that I have finished the quests, missions and whatnot, GW is just basically an expensive, virtual chatroom.

However I am constantly trying out different builds, so it never really gets boring for me.

Akbur the great · Apr 11, 2006, 07:58 AM // 07:58

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Originally Posted by Sol_Vie

That's horribly misleading. Yes, soloing is fun and somewhat of a sign of skill, but as this game is based around teamwork soloing should be minimalized. That list should look like this:

1) Beaten the FoW, all quests and monsters therein, with a good group of players?
2) Beaten the UW, all quests and monsters therein, with a good group of players?
3) Cleared Perdition Rock, or at least know you can with a good group.
4) Consistently beaten THK, thanks to your knowledge of the area and skills as a player. With this, you can help out people who are new to the area.
5) Made friends along the way.

Learn to work as a team, make friends, and help strangers.

sorry i hate being sarcastic (actually i love it but not to just be an ass) but umm...did u come from pixie land? cause like...umm.. "make friends along the way", "help strangers"? who is caring in the world these days?

Akbur the great · Apr 11, 2006, 08:03 AM // 08:03

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Originally Posted by Chicken of the Seas

To me personally now that I have finished the quests, missions and whatnot, GW is just basically an expensive, virtual chatroom.

However I am constantly trying out different builds, so it never really gets boring for me.

more stupidity to devour mwhahahahaha! how is GW expensive?!?!? hmm?????

im sure the mods will ban me after all this flaming...ah well always can make new account with another e-mail

Edited by Ashleigh McMahon: Geesh, you think it's that simple?

xXa1 · Apr 11, 2006, 08:36 AM // 08:36

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Originally Posted by .killjoy

If I were to comment on this I would flame you.

The reason of guild wars is to have fun.. really in my opinion quests arent to fun.

Have you done these things?
1. soloed fow
2. soloed uw
3. soloed Perdition rock
4. soloed ThK
Do you do anything else other than quests like farming ? not easy spots the hard ones, can you run to almost every town? can you play all the profession and or link them together to make a workable build.

If not well then ask yourself why you havent done it....

i'm sorry, i fail to see the point in playing an online game just to go solo. if that was the case maybe i'll just fire up the old PS2 and zap a few baddies eh?

kaldak · Apr 11, 2006, 10:05 AM // 10:05

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Originally Posted by Akbur the great

sorry i hate being sarcastic (actually i love it but not to just be an ass) but umm...did u come from pixie land? cause like...umm.. "make friends along the way", "help strangers"? who is caring in the world these days?

Well, first of all your post was at no point sarcastic (look it up), so no need to appologize for being so.

Secondly, the game is far more fun when playing with friends. Thats sort of the whole point of it being cooperatively multiplayer. What do you prefer? Soloing the whole game? Yelling at teammates till they do things your way? Keeping the game as impersonal as possible by only speaking in abriviations and when absolutely necessary? No thank you.

As for mocking someone for helping strangers? That's, well, just being an ass...

LordMahal · Apr 11, 2006, 12:45 PM // 12:45

Ive been bored with GW for about 3 months. Even after the factions event, Im not looking forward to the new game. Nothing exciting there either. As one person posted, Im bored, so I should move on I guess. To the OP, if you havent made 4 characters yet, then you have no reason to complain. If you are like some of us, who have deleted lvl 20's dozens of times, then you could ask, whats the point in playing....

boxterduke · Apr 11, 2006, 01:57 PM // 13:57

Have not read the thread at all but there are tons of stuff to do in the game.

All bonuses.
Have you gotten perfect mods.
Have played with different builds.
Changed professions to try different builds.
Capped all skills for your characters.
PvP
Unlocked all skills and mods.

etc etc.

I've been playing since a couple of days after launch and still playing.

Parn · Apr 11, 2006, 02:22 PM // 14:22

heck GW isn't just about the quest and everything it's about the socializing...Or getting allies before factions comes out. Or maybe helping your fellow guildies.
Or yes you can grind that last cent out of the trolls/griffins/sand elementals and minos if ya want...
Personally I'm working towards FOW. I really wanna clear out that forest and that foggy area with the Wurms in it. Do that then tell me your still bored, it's crazy down there.

zulu123 · Apr 11, 2006, 02:32 PM // 14:32

I am very new to GW. My first character is just lvl 19. I am loving this game till now. But being a former WoW player I have to say some of the things said here are just ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

there are some that just like to grind and farm to the end of time. that's all they do.

This part I agree with... there are grinders in EVERY game I have ever played. Some people dont even bother with quests, they go straight to grinding.

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

They want unfair advantages to exploit. and the way to those unfair advantages is to grind a character till your level god knows what. last count this particular guy is lev 80 in WoW.

Now this is the ridiculous part. Lvl 80 in WoW? The cap is lvl 60, its gonna be lvl 70 in the expansion so pray tell how anyone could get to lvl 80?

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

waiting for a boss to kill several till he kills the boss and then loots the dead bodies... This is the lifestyle of a typical WoW player...

I understand you dont like WoW. Why do you have to go and generalize everybody who plays WoW?

So all we did is wait for our teammates to die and then killed the boss ourselves eh? Have you even played WoW before? The bosses at end game dungeons there take 20 or 40 people to kill them. It takes a hell of a lot of teamwork to kill them. You have no chance in hell of killing the boss yourselved if your teammates die.

Both GW and WoW are awesome games. There are positives and negatives for both. People like me just get tired of playing the same game over and over. Hence we try alternatives. There is nothing inherently evil about other games. If you really are tired of GW... give any other game a try. Either you will be hooked on or you will miss GW terribly and come back

Avarre · Apr 11, 2006, 02:37 PM // 14:37

Solo everything!
Group kill everything!
Invent some stuff, make yourself known!
Perfect items and mods on your character!
Gain rank, faction, PvP expertise!
Chill in presear!

So much to do, so little time...

Wildi · Apr 11, 2006, 03:16 PM // 15:16

- pvp is for kids, skill has nothing to to with pvp, live with it (searching for skill ? play quake 3)
- solofarm ettins or titans, sell runes and stuff to be able to buy anything you like in gw factions, wait it was nerved, say thx to arenanet and kiddy-bots
- learn to avoid antifarm bs, without kiddys bots
- learn how to affect droprate, ignore "its all about luck" kiddys (play around with your inventory)
- find new (farm)-places pvp kids never heard about
- make your char perfect to be able to kill monsters anywhere
- buy and play gw factions in ~2 weeks
- buy better items for your char in gw factions
- unlock new skills for your char in gw factions

Dj Tano · Apr 11, 2006, 03:23 PM // 15:23

Well just try to do 1 charr where you do all mission + bonus + quest, wich is not easy. And when you finished that: next char!

Kakumei · Apr 11, 2006, 03:57 PM // 15:57

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Originally Posted by Wildi

- pvp is for kids, skill has nothing to to with pvp, live with it (searching for skill ? play quake 3)
- solofarm ettins or titans, sell runes and stuff to be able to buy anything you like in gw factions, wait it was nerved, say thx to arenanet and kiddy-bots
- learn to avoid antifarm bs, without kiddys bots
- learn how to affect droprate, ignore "its all about luck" kiddys (play around with your inventory)
- find new (farm)-places pvp kids never heard about
- make your char perfect to be able to kill monsters anywhere
- buy and play gw factions in ~2 weeks
- buy better items for your char in gw factions
- unlock new skills for your char in gw factions

rooooooooofl

Sol_Vie · Apr 11, 2006, 04:03 PM // 16:03

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Originally Posted by Akbur the great

sorry i hate being sarcastic (actually i love it but not to just be an ass) but umm...did u come from pixie land? cause like...umm.. "make friends along the way", "help strangers"? who is caring in the world these days?

You're not being sarcastic. Just an ass.

If being nice to people, making friends, and helping strangers is a bad thing and means I 'came from pixieland' then so be it. It's a worthwhile activity. Once a week I give something of mine away, and not only to friends or guildies.

The only way to make the thread "Biggest Jerk You've Ever Met In-Game" go away is to be nice. While the thread is amusing, jerks really ruin a gaming experience for a lot of people.

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Originally Posted by Akbur the great

who is caring in the world these days?

Me.

Someone mentioned farming before. Farming can be a good idea but if done too much it can also really screw you over. The game isn't as fun when you farm a lot. My suggestion would be to get in a PvP guild and try to unlock all the skills.

quickmonty · Apr 11, 2006, 04:18 PM // 16:18

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Originally Posted by Akbur the great

sorry i hate being sarcastic (actually i love it but not to just be an ass) but umm...did u come from pixie land? cause like...umm.. "make friends along the way", "help strangers"? who is caring in the world these days?

I would rather be accused of coming from pixie land then be an ass.

Making friends and helping strangers is not just an idea for gaming in a fantasy world but a good strategy in real life too.

Apr 11, 2006, 03:16 PM // 15:16	#32
Wildi Krytan Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: PvE is the Metagame	- pvp is for kids, skill has nothing to to with pvp, live with it (searching for skill ? play quake 3) - solofarm ettins or titans, sell runes and stuff to be able to buy anything you like in gw factions, wait it was nerved, say thx to arenanet and kiddy-bots - learn to avoid antifarm bs, without kiddys bots - learn how to affect droprate, ignore "its all about luck" kiddys (play around with your inventory) - find new (farm)-places pvp kids never heard about - make your char perfect to be able to kill monsters anywhere - buy and play gw factions in ~2 weeks - buy better items for your char in gw factions - unlock new skills for your char in gw factions Last edited by Wildi; Apr 11, 2006 at 03:20 PM // 15:20..

Apr 11, 2006, 07:06 AM // 07:06	#22
Chicken of the Seas Jungle Guide Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: California, USA Guild: Vulpes Velox [Fox] Profession: Me/	To me personally now that I have finished the quests, missions and whatnot, GW is just basically an expensive, virtual chatroom. However I am constantly trying out different builds, so it never really gets boring for me.

Apr 11, 2006, 12:45 PM // 12:45	#27
LordMahal Krytan Explorer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Germany Profession: R/Mo	Ive been bored with GW for about 3 months. Even after the factions event, Im not looking forward to the new game. Nothing exciting there either. As one person posted, Im bored, so I should move on I guess. To the OP, if you havent made 4 characters yet, then you have no reason to complain. If you are like some of us, who have deleted lvl 20's dozens of times, then you could ask, whats the point in playing....

Apr 11, 2006, 01:57 PM // 13:57	#28
boxterduke Furnace Stoker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Walking the ruins of Ascalon Guild: DVDF Profession: Me/	Have not read the thread at all but there are tons of stuff to do in the game. All bonuses. Have you gotten perfect mods. Have played with different builds. Changed professions to try different builds. Capped all skills for your characters. PvP Unlocked all skills and mods. etc etc. I've been playing since a couple of days after launch and still playing.

Apr 11, 2006, 02:22 PM // 14:22	#29
Parn Academy Page Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dfw Texas Guild: [Cry] Cries of Frustration. Profession: Mo/	heck GW isn't just about the quest and everything it's about the socializing...Or getting allies before factions comes out. Or maybe helping your fellow guildies. Or yes you can grind that last cent out of the trolls/griffins/sand elementals and minos if ya want... Personally I'm working towards FOW. I really wanna clear out that forest and that foggy area with the Wurms in it. Do that then tell me your still bored, it's crazy down there.

Apr 11, 2006, 02:37 PM // 14:37	#31
Avarre Bubblegum Patrol Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore Armed Forces	Solo everything! Group kill everything! Invent some stuff, make yourself known! Perfect items and mods on your character! Gain rank, faction, PvP expertise! Chill in presear! So much to do, so little time...

Apr 11, 2006, 03:23 PM // 15:23	#33
Dj Tano Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Mar 2006	Well just try to do 1 charr where you do all mission + bonus + quest, wich is not easy. And when you finished that: next char!