Curse

Taurucis · Dec 31, 2007, 03:22 PM // 15:22

(Hi Xander!)

When I first started, I thought I was screwed because I was level 1 and couldn't kill the River Skale outside presearing Ascalon.

I thought presearing was all there was to the game

I wondered why my character (female warrior) couldn't breakdance like a male ranger so I tried putting "/breakdance" into the chat...

I wondered if everyone's armor was supposed to be shiny and colorless. That came from playing my first day of Guild Wars on a pentium 3 laptop that barely matched the minimum requirements for GW.

I asked "Where are the henchmen? The guide book said you could team with them" in presearing.

Zeek Aran · Dec 31, 2007, 03:35 PM // 15:35

I thought I could get the awesome armor NPCs had, and that rangers wielded shortswords/knives. I don't know where I saw the pic that gave me that idea.

Why is everyone saying Ascolon? It's ASCALON!

Balan Makki · Dec 31, 2007, 03:42 PM // 15:42

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Originally Posted by Zeek Aran

Why is everyone saying Ascolon? It's ASCALON!

The Arena Net has been spelling it wrong. You've been misled.

Dkraftwerk · Dec 31, 2007, 03:58 PM // 15:58

Only misconception I had about the game before I bought it was that it was a PvP only game. I was really skeptical about what PvE meant in this game.

I bought Prophecies and was sold the moment I made my Mesmer. Next day I went out to pick up Factions and Nightfall.

It's funny, I thought when I first started out that where I was, was only a tutorial of sorts, like a way to get acquainted with your character. I knew that there would be more...I just didn't expect the whole "Searing" event to happen. I was kinda sad because everything was so pretty and then poof it was all gone

Some misconceptions I had when I did start getting into playing it...I thought I could still solo after the Pre Searing area... I also didn't understand the concept of the missions and that there was a linear story line. At one point I spent nearly 7 hours trying to get through the Diessa Lowlands so I could get to Nolani Academy from Piken Square. At level 8 with Henchman. Yes I know...it was absolute hell.

Big_Daddy · Dec 31, 2007, 04:13 PM // 16:13

I remember before buying GW I thought it was going be more "Diabloesque", so when I started playing I clicked my mouse button like there was no tomorrow on pre searing (until I got the little message that said that it was not needed to click like crazy).

Bryant Again · Dec 31, 2007, 04:23 PM // 16:23

I pressed M to look at the map in post and thought that most of it was explorable.

Zeek Aran · Dec 31, 2007, 04:29 PM // 16:29

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Originally Posted by Bryant Again

I pressed M to look at the map in post and thought that most of it was explorable.

Same here. >-< Same for Factions too...

Blanche Neige · Dec 31, 2007, 04:32 PM // 16:32

I had some misconceptions:

- Fist of all i thought pre searing was ALL the game
- I thought that pre-seraing collector armor was the only armor i could get besides the starting one.
- Then when i got out of pre searing, i thought that i wouldn't get less loot by having henchmen, and i just learned that when i was in half of nightfall that a guildie explained to me.
Lol: ''omg in going IDS farming'' *with a bad build i grab henchies and go* then i wondered why did i got anything but lots of deaths.
- (even when i got out of pre searing) I thought i could solo the whole game, so then in old ascalon i wondered why i was always pwned by devourers and gargoyles.

CHannum · Dec 31, 2007, 04:58 PM // 16:58

I had pictured it being a LOT more Diabloesque, just in 3D, based on some early reviews I read when it launched. Since I'd played the bejesus out of D2, I didn't really want more of that.

More than two years after it's launch I picked it up on an impulse thinking, "I've seen this damn game in Target and Wal-Mart consistently since it's launch". I still wasn't sure exactly what it was but I figured two plus years of prominent retail exposure meant it had to be at least good. That, and I was fighting the urge to start up my WoW account again

So I was very pleased to discover a game that combined the best of WoW & Diablo with a kickass console action feel yet is still different than any one thing it's similar to or inspired by.

Darkobra · Dec 31, 2007, 05:01 PM // 17:01

I thought it'd be like WoW's version of soloing rather than "solo with hench".

RedStar · Dec 31, 2007, 08:24 PM // 20:24

Mine :
-I tought I could create a necro with Eve appearance T_T
-I thought I could get Eve armor, the biggest disappointment ever XD.
-I also tought that all the maps were explorable....

Terraban · Dec 31, 2007, 08:47 PM // 20:47

Mending is good.

lyra_song · Dec 31, 2007, 08:52 PM // 20:52

-I thought that mesmers sucked

Shadow Spirit · Dec 31, 2007, 08:53 PM // 20:53

Before I played it I thought GW was an MMO...

Absolute Destiny · Dec 31, 2007, 08:56 PM // 20:56

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Originally Posted by Shadow Spirit

Before I played it I thought GW was an MMO...

What WOULD you consider it, then?

Another misconception for me, now that I've played Nightfall for awhile...

...I thought I could fill in my whole party with heroes and never ever ever ever have to mess with other players in missions/quests again.

Nyktos · Dec 31, 2007, 08:56 PM // 20:56

When I heard that PvP and PvE were fully separated and that you could go solo or with other players, I assumed that there was a "Single Player Mode", a "Multiplayer Mode" and a "PvP Mode".

When I got to post, I didn't know you could transfer money between characters, so I ended up deleting my Wammo with like 8k (and this was in Ascalon, so that was a lot of money).

When I first saw an "Rt/E" I assumed that "Rt" was short for some kind of "subclass" for Rangers, and I PMed the person asking how you could become an "Rt". I never got a reply.

garethporlest18 · Dec 31, 2007, 08:58 PM // 20:58

I thought the community was better then the 95% crap it is.

Other than that I didn't really care about much of what was in the game and got it for kicks and giggles, like I do most games.

Redfeather1975 · Dec 31, 2007, 09:25 PM // 21:25

I remembered something.
I thought you'd only get skills when you leveled up and stopped getting skills at 20.
I heard you could pick a secondary profession, but didn't have to right away.
I thought that would be bad, because if someone waited to pick their secondary they would hardly get any skills from it before they reached 20.

Yeah, I really wasn't sure I wanted to buy it based on how I was picturing it. Maybe it was because of the other games I'd played before it that made me think all these things.

I Phoenix I · Dec 31, 2007, 09:50 PM // 21:50

I was confused as to why the Pre-Searing map was so small, and when I tried to explore all of it, it wouldn't let me.

Didn't know about Post until my cousin told me a few days later >.>

Stormlord Alex · Dec 31, 2007, 09:53 PM // 21:53

Go on, laugh at me.

I used to think Frenzy was bad